Montrew Dunham - Böcker

This series of biographies, longtime favorites of young readers, now add the first new titles in over 20 years. Rich or poor, great American men and women lived out childhoods as vastly different as the adults they became. Here young readers will ...

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Traces the personal life and baseball career of the Puerto Rican baseball superstar, from his childhood love of the game through his professional career and untimely death to his election to the Hall of Fame in 1973.

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John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His activism helped to preserve Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which ...

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Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he was 12, he had most of it memorized and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967 he w...

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Ronald Reagan was America's 40th president, but even before he ran for officein his native California, he was known to millions as a movie star. Color andb&w illustrations throughout.

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Learn about the early years of the first person to step foot on the moon, a historic feat he described as "e;one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."e;

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Get to know the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years!The childhood of civil rights hero and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall comes to life in this engagi...

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John Muir was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His activism helped to preserve Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which ...

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Get to know the influential African American poet Langston Hughes in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years!An engaging biography of American poet, Langston Hughes, written for the elementary aged child. Langston Hughes used his...

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Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player. He played 18 seasons at right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a National League, Most Valuable Player once, All-Star twelve times (15 games), batting champion four t...

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Travel back in time to the boyhood of one of the most popular poets of the early twentieth century. Author of "e;Little Orphan Annie,"e; "e;The Old Swimmin' Hole,"e; and hundreds more poems, "e;Bud"e; Riley spent his childh...

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';Halie' Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting for alligators for food along the Mississippi River with her brother, Peter. But every Sunday young Mahalia sang proudly in the church choir, the youngest member at age five...

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On a May evening in 1832, a solitary 50-year-old man on horseback rode toward an oak grove that rose majestically from the quiet Illinois prairie. Stopping at this beautiful site, the man bent a sapling to mark his claim to the rich Illinois farml...

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