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Wild on the Moors
The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne By Catherine Reef (Clarion, New York, 2012, $18.99) Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë led lives worthy of their fiction. All the...
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Mothers-in-Chief
First Mothers By Beverly Gherman Illustrated by Julie Downing (Clarion Books, 2012, New York, $17.99) Behind every great man is a great woman, the old saying goes. While the great woman is usually...
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The Man Behind Middle-Earth
Cover Illustration by Brad Weinman Mythmaker: The Life of J.R.R. Tolkien By Anne E. Neimark (Harcourt Children’s Books, 1996, 2nd edition 2012, New York, $12.99) For years, J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbit and...
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A Life Supreme
Spirit Seeker: John Coltrane’s Musical Journey By Gary Golio Illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez (Clarion, 2012, New York, $17.99) Behind John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme was supreme suffering. At twelve, the...
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Fielding for Fairness
Silent Star: The Story of Deaf Major Leaguer William Hoy By Bill Wise Illustrated by Adam Gustavson (Lee and Low Books, 2012, New York, $18.95) It is hard to imagine a silent baseball game: the crack...
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The Art of Persistence
Good Sports: Against All Odds By Glenn Stout (Sandpiper: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, Boston, $5.99) More than talent separates the best athletes from the merely good: perseverance has won many a...
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Secret Identities
Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman By Marc Tyler Nobleman Illustrated by Ty Templeton (Charlesbridge, 2012, Watertown, MA, $17.95) Although comic artists may create fantastic...
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Beneath the Waves
Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle Written and Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola (Frances Foster Books, 2012, New York, $17.99) To study the world’s oceans and their inhabitants,...
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20 Rulers
Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels, and What the Neighbors Thought By Kathleen Krull Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Sandpiper, 2000, New Paperback 2013, Boston, $12.99) So often historical...
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From Hard Times to Home Runs
Good Sports: From Hardships to Championships By Glenn Stout (Sandpiper, 2013, Boston, $5.99) Professional sports have long promised success to talented kids from humble backgrounds. For them, an...
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Scientists under the Microscope
Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought) By Kathleen Krull Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2013, Boston, $20.99) Lives of the...
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Behind the Statue
Philip Reid Saves the Statue of Freedom By Steven Lapham and Eugene Walton Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (Sleeping Bear Press, 2014, Ann Arbor, Michigan, $16.99) The Statue of Freedom that tops...
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Racing Scientists
Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa’s Fastest Cats By Sy Montgomery Photographed by Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, Boston, $18.99) Behind many of the great wildlife conservation...
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The Jolliest Rogers
Lives of the Pirates: Swashbucklers, Scoundrels (Neighbors Beware!) By Kathleen Krull Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010, Paperback edition 2013, Boston, $8.99) The most...
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Young Healer
Clara and Davie: The True Story of Young Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross Written and Illustrated by Patricia Polacco (Scholastic, 2014, $17.99, New York) Americans remember Clara Barton...
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The Scientist and the Promise
A Boy and a Jaguar By Alan Rabinowitz Illustrated by Cátia Chien (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, Boston, $16.99) People who don’t fit in with others often identify strongly with animals; sometimes,...
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A Naturalist’s Ramble
John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist By Kathryn Lasky Illustrated by Stan Fellows (Candlewick Press, 2006, Paperback Edition 2014, Somerville, Massachusetts, $4.99) Best known as the naturalist...
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Dancing for Freedom
Josephine By Patricia Hruby Powell Illustrated by Christian Robinson (Chronicle Books, 2014, San Francisco, $17.99) Famous for the bananas she wore, the Charleston she danced, and her comedic flair,...
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From Camel to Spaceship
Lives of the Explorers: Discoveries, Disasters (and What the Neighbors Thought) By Kathleen Krull Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014, Boston, $20.99) When Americans think of...
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A City’s Hero
Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be By Jane Sutcliffe Illustrated by John Shelley (Charlesbridge, 2014, Watertown, Massachusetts, $16.95) Although Michelangelo’s David is nearly...
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