Biography & Autobiography

As a young working-class German immigrant, Levi Struass left his family's dry goods business in New York City to journey out west for the California Gold Rush. Only Levi wasn't looking for gold - he wanted to provide the miners with sturdy clothes to...

Learn all about important leaders who represent, empower, and support the LGBTQIA+ community in this engaging board book perfect for proud leaders-in-training!Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who are from or helped...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780152842864Author Peter GolenbockFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Voyager Books,U.S.Publisher Voyager Books,U.S.

Before Frank Sinatra became the international superstar that we remember him as today, he was just a young boy singing for spare change in his family's New Jersey tavern. Those small beginnings would be the start of an incredible career in which Frank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Golden Kite (Picture Bk Illustration) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781534410367Author Stephen CostanzaFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Atheneum Books for Young...

Miraculously my grandmother, my mother, and two aunts-four Jewish women of one family-managed to survive the Holocaust, each in their own way. Their stories are the ones I heard as a child sitting at the dinner table on Sunday afternoons.AwardsWinner of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601781512Author Simonetta CarrFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Reformation Heritage BooksPublisher Reformation Heritage Books

This fascinating addition to our best-selling Who Was...? Series presents young readers with a biography that covers what is known historically about Jesus and places his life in the context of his world when Jerusalem was part of the Roman Empire. In an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911373285Author Ali WinterFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Lantana PublishingPublisher Lantana PublishingWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977132048Author Ellen LabrecqueFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Pebble BooksPublisher Pebble BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 178mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140555837Author Barbara CooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint PuffinPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) (Gold) 2002. Commended for Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature (Picture Book) 2002.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786296603Author Jane HoggarFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This fascinating book introduces readers to the life and legacy of Nina Simone, a Black singer and activist whose artistic and cultural contributions expanded and illuminated the collective conversation on race. The book includes a table of contents, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780778782247Author Anita CroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crabtree Publishing Co,USPublisher Crabtree Publishing Co,US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524792787Author Corinne A. GrinapolFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338282801Author Sharon RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 142mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442473089Author Ellen BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

There weren't many women who tried to become doctors when Virginia Apgar went to medical school - but she didn't let that stop her. After a professor discouraged her from becoming a surgeon, she became an anesthesiologist instead and created the famous...

In the fourth installment in the Making of America series, Susan B. Anthony, Teri Kanefield examines the life of America's famous suffragette. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women: A man could beat his wife, take her earnings, have her...

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are...

Winner, Carter G. Woodson Book AwardWinner, New-York Historical Society Children's Book PrizeWinner, Social Justice Literature AwardHonor Title, Jane Addams Children's Book AwardFinalist, 2017 Cybils AwardsNominee, Georgia Children's Book AwardNominee,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512413090Author Douglas HustandFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lerner Publishing GroupPublisher Lerner Publishing Group

From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the inspiring minister and civil rights activist. Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a...

She's not called Queen B for nothing! What makes Beyonce a megastar? High-interest details and bold photos of her fascinating life will enthrall reluctant and struggling readers, while carefully levelled text will leave them feeling confident.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448479095Author Bonnie BaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint G P Putnam's SonsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 102gDimensions(mm) 194mm *...

He must make a speech to a joint session of Congress that will build support for America's entry to World War II, but to do that he needs an armored vehicle in which to make the short trip from the White House to the Capitol Building. According to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986118920Author Phyllis MatthewFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint ParadoxologeoPublisher ParadoxologeoWeight(grams) 122g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711246904Author Maria Isabel Sanchez VegaraFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint White Lion PublishingPublisher Quarto Publishing PLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book and School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.Book InformationISBN 9780142408209Author Kathleen KrullFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Gareth Southgate is a successful football manager of the English National Team. But he started as a player for Crystal Palace. Learn about his football history, his wins and his losses.About the AuthorBen Hubbard is an author of nonfiction for children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481470445Author Laurie CalkhovenFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Simon SpotlightPublisher Simon SpotlightWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780020419204Author Augusta StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781484624715Author Cath SenkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone Press

Presents the story of the great leader who succeeded in bringing about social and political change in India through nonviolent means.Book InformationISBN 9780689841491Author DemiFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon &...

A practical guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald's works for middle and secondary students F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American novelist, essayist, and writer best known for his glamourous novels that detailed life in America's Jazz Age-a term which he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Tayshas Reading 2015 and Colorado Book Award (Young Adult) 2015. Short-listed for Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award 2016.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award (Picture Book) 2014 and Louisiana Young Readers' Choice Award (Grades 3-5) 2015.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593379578Author Beth KephartFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984894595Author Patricia ValdezFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc