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 Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers' Rights (Lerner Biographies)Best Price: $18.00 I read this book 2 chapters per night with my children, and they loved it! I did have to skip... |  Extraordinary Women of the American West (Extraordinary People)Best Price: $7.14 |  Anonymously Yours |  Lorraine Hansberry: Award-Winning Playwright and Civil Rights Activist (Barnard Biography Series (Berkeley, Calif.).)Best Price: $3.49 Lorraine Hansberry tells the fascinating story of the brave and talented woman who, almost... |  Thornton Wilder (Bloom's Major Dramatists)Best Price: $30.19 Thornton Wilder had a gift for framing random and ordinary moments of life, an effect he... |
 Tara Lipinski (Champion Sport Biographies)At only 16, American Tara Lipinski achieved the dream of every figure skater. She won the world... |  Dionicio Morales: A Life in Two CulturesBest Price: $6.98 This is the story of a boy growing up with little, but always yearning for more and eventually... |  Anne Frank: A Hidden LifeBest Price: $57.74 With so much that has been written about Anne Frank it can be difficult to find a new angle on a... |  First Impressions: Edgar Degas (First Impressions)Best Price: $69.06 |  Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama (Greenwood Introduces Literary Masterpieces)Best Price: $45.56 The book contains wonderfully clear and detailed discussions of the plays. I learned a lot very... |
 James Baldwin: Voice from Harlem (Impact Books)Best Price: $15.60 |  Walt WhitmanBest Price: $8.50 This young adult biography of Walt Whitman was wonderful. The nature of young adult biographies... |  Harald the Ruthless: The Saga of the Last Viking WarriorBest Price: $5.45 |  Bowman's Store: A Journey to MyselfBest Price: $4.29 Bruchac does a wonderful job of mixing Indian tales and legends with the stories of his life. I... |  We Survived the Holocaust (International Affairs) |
 Serial Killers (History Makers.)This fascinating book is part of the History Makers series, a series of books for young adults... |  Louisa May Alcott (Biography (a & E))Best Price: $22.34 |  Blood on the Forehead: What I Know About WritingBest Price: $8.56 I wish M.E. Kerr hadn't taken her own advice ("Cut! Cut! Cut!") and given us more... |  Uncovering Sadie's SecretsBest Price: $11.89 I bought this book for my 'tween niece who had just graduated from "Harriet the Spy." ... |  Pugnax the Gladiator (Roman Life and Times Series)Best Price: $20.00 |
 TV in America Reference Library Cumulative Index (UXL Television in American Society Reference Library)Best Price: $4.98 |  Alexander Fleming: Discoverer of Penicillin (Book Report Biographies)The true story of the discovery of the antibacterial effect is doscumented in K. Absolon's... |  Ariel Sharon (Biography)Best Price: $3.87 In this very good biography of Ariel Sharon his life comes alive in simple and concise language.... |  Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Filmmaker (People to Know)Best Price: $13.50 Bryce Willson 10/27/05 Per.3 Steven Spielberg In Steven Spielberg: Hollywood... |  Oliver Cromwell: Politics and Religion in the English Revolution 1640-1658 (Cambridge Topics in History)This is a good book if you're a historian interested in England's civil war, or Oliver Cromwell.... |
 Women Leaders of Nations (History Makers)This short but highly informative and expertly written book is an excellent overview of powerful... |  Amy Tan (Asian Americans of Achievement)Best Price: $29.89 |  Rock Your World: Meet the MoffattsBest Price: $5.46 I love the fact that there's unofficial merchandice on the Moffatts, but sadly these books tend... |  Mia Hamm (Champion Sport Biographies)Best Price: $44.22 |  J. D. Salinger (Bloom's Biocritiques)Best Price: $49.99 J.D. Salinger's ironic fiction and enigmatic persona captured the imagination of post-World War... |
 Italian Popular Tales: Italian Popular TalesBest Price: $19.95 You grew up with the tales collected by the Brothers Grimm as childhood... |  Freedom's Martyr: The Story of Jose Rizal, National Hero of the Phillipines (Avisson Young Adult Series)Best Price: $19.95 Jose Rizal was a hero's hero. Fighting with strength of character, determination, a burning... |  Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic RemembranceBest Price: $16.40 I love this book because it shows a lot of photos of Anne Frank and her family, yet plenty of... |  Albert Camus (Bloom's Biocritiques)Best Price: $26.95 Dying at the young age of 46, Albert Camus nevertheless seems to have completed a life's work.... |  The Girl With the White FlagBest Price: $5.00 Excellent moving tale of young girl's survival during battle of okinawa. An excellent book for... |
 Charlie Chaplin: The Beauty of Silence (Impact Biography)Best Price: $30.00 I think the book "Charlie Chaplin: The Beauty Of Silence," by Alan Schroeder, is a... |  Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat (Milton Meltzer Biographies)Planning a visit to Montecello, I wanted to read a general history about Jefferson. It has been... |  Writers and Their Tall Tales (Dead Famous)Best Price: $7.47 |  Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath (York Notes Advanced)Best Price: $10.10 |  Thanks to My MotherBest Price: $3.95 The story by Shoshana Rabinovici-Weksler about her family in Pre-WWII Vilnius(Vilna), and how... |
 Why Do They Hate Me?: Young Lives Caught In War And ConflictBest Price: $2.99 The first two sections of this book, concerning World War II's Holocaust and the... |  America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the PresentBest Price: $25.00 |  Queen Eleanor: Independent Spirit of the Medieval World; A Biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine |  Agatha Christie: Writer of Mystery (Lerner Biographies Series)The book is definitely for the young reader. I sent mine back aafter just a few pages and a... |  Geoffrey Chaucer (Bloom's Biocritiques)Best Price: $27.95 Though he lived in a violent age, Chaucer was an ironist of genius. In this volume critics... |
 George Goethals: Panama Canal Engineer (Discovery Biography)Best Price: $78.74 I read this book to my seven-year-old because I wanted him to gain some appreciation for... |  Cesar Chavez: Hope for the People (Great Lives Series)Best Price: $4.50 The son of poor Mexican Americans, Cesar Chavez grew up in grinding poverty. In 1962, he set out... |  Andrew Jackson: And His America (Milton Meltzer Biographies)Written by a distinquished popular historian, this critical biography of the seventh United... |  First Impressions: Hieronymus Bosch (First Impressions)Best Price: $7.98 I just love the paintings in this book. I found it in the library, and the front is very... |  Caribbean Women Writers (Women Writers of English and Their Works)Best Price: $27.50 |
 The Importance of Lorraine Hansberry (Importance of) |  Young People Speak: Surviving the Holocaust in HungaryBest Price: $15.00 |  Latino Writers in the U.S. (Literary Reader)Best Price: $0.01 |  Vincent van GoghBest Price: $15.50 After introducing my students to art with "The Oxford First Book of Art" by Gillian... |  My American AdventureBest Price: $0.96 Amy is my cousin and I must say her book is great. She is very creative and humorous, and her... |
 DNA Pioneer: James Watson and the Double HelixBest Price: $129.98 Name: James Dewey Watson Born: April 6,1928 Parents: James Dewey & Margaret Jean Watson... |  Bad Times, Good Friends: A Personal MemoirBest Price: $5.95 | |||
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