New Biographies for Children
Located at Livingston Lord Library,
Minnesota State University Moorhead

Collective Biographies

Hettinga, Donald.  The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy.  Clarion, 2001.  Curric. 920 H591b

Krull, Kathleen.  Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (And What the Neighbors Thought).  Harcourt, 2000.  Curric. 920 K94Le

Pinkney, Andrea.  Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters.  Harcourt, 2000.  Curric. 920 P6557L

Thimmesh, Catherine.  Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions By Women.  Houghton Mifflin, 2000.  Curric. 920 T4432g 

Individual Biographies

Adler, David.  America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle.  Harcourt, 2000.  Curric. 921 E223a

Aronson, Marc.  Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado.  Clarion, 2000.  Curric. 921 R163a

Bausum, Ann.  Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Roy Chapman Andrews.  National Geographic Society, 2000.  Curric. 921 A565b

Blumberg, Rhoda.  Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy.  HarperCollins, 2001.  Curric. 921 N1632b   

Brown, Don.  Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa.  Houghton Mifflin, 2000.  Curric. 921 K552b

Christensen, Bonnie.  Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People.  Knopf, 2001.  Curric. 921 G9841c

Cline-Ransome, Lesa.  Satchel Paige.  Simon & Schuster, 2000.  Curric. 921 P1427c  

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann.  Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 D3172c

Cohn, Amy.  Abraham Lincoln.  Scholastic, 2002.  Curric. 921 L736coh

Dash, Joan.  The Longitude Prize.  Farrar, 2000.  Curric. 921 H3181L

Dash, Joan.  The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller.  Scholastic, 2001.  Curric. 921 K29d

Demi.   Gandhi.  McElderry, 2001.  Curric. 921 G195d

Fradin, Dennis.  Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.  Clarion, 2000.  Curric. 921 W4531f

Gerstein, Mordicai.  What Charlie Heard.  Farrar, 2002.  Curric. 921 I951g

Gherman, Beverly.  Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush.  Atheneum, 2000.  Curric. 921 R6841g

Giblin, James.  The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin.  Scholastic, 2000.  Curric. 921 F831g  

Giblin, James.  The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler.  Clarion, 2002.  Curric. 921 H675g

Gilliland, Judith.  Steamboat: The Story of Captain Blanche Leathers.  DK Publishing, 2000.  Curric. 921 L4389s

Glover, Savion.  Savion!: My Life in Tap.  Morrow, 2000.  Curric. 921 G5667

Gold, Alison.  A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust.  Scholastic, 2000.  Curric. 921 S9477g

Greenberg, Jan.  Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist.  Delacorte, 2001.  Curric. 921 G613gr  

Grimes, Nikki.  Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman.  Scholastic, 2002.  Curric. 921 C692g

Haskins, James.  Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History.  Millbrook, 2000.  Curric. 921 W898h

Holub, Joan.  Vincent van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 G613h

Kelley, True.  Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 M7422k

Landau, Elaine.  Osama bin Laden: A War Against the West.  Twenty-First Century Books, 2002.  Curric. 921 B6121L

Lasky, Kathryn.  Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker.  Candlewick, 2000.  Curric. 921 W1772L

Lawlor, Laurie.  Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit.  Holiday House, 2001.  Curric. 921 K29L

Marrin, Albert.  Sitting Bull and His World.  Dutton, 2000.  Curric. 921 S623ma

Mays, Osceola.  Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter.  Hyperion, 2000.  Curric. 921 M4746  

Milton, Joyce.  Sacajawea: Her True Story.  Grosset, 2001.  Curric. 921 S119m

Murphy, Jim.  Pick & Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D’Angelo.  Clarion, 2000.  Curric. 921 D182m

Myers, Walter Dean.  The Greatest: Muhammad Ali.  Scholastic, 2001.  Curric. 921 A398m

Myers, Walter Dean.  Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly.  HarperCollins, 2000.  Curric. 921 M243ma

Pressler, Mirjam.  Anne Frank: A Hidden Life.  Dutton, 2000.  Curric. 921 F828p  

O'Connor, Jane.  Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2002.  Curric. 921 M4333o

Rappaport, Doreen.  Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Hyperion, 2001.  Curric. 921 K53r  

Robertson, James.  Standing Like a Stone Wall: The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson.  Atheneum, 2001.  Curric. 921 J14r

Rockwell, Anne.  Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth.  Knopf, 2000.  Curric. 921 T874r

Soto, Gary.  Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker.  Persea, 2000.  Curric. 921 D3312s

Stanley, Diane.  Michelangelo.  HarperCollins, 2000.  Curric. 921 M623s  

Sullivan, George.  Picturing Lincoln: Famous Photographs that Popularized the President.  Clarion, 2000.  Curric. 921 L736su

Uschan, Michael.  Jesse Ventura.  Lucent, 2001.  Curric. 921 V468u

Warren, Andrea.  Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.  HarperCollins, 2001.  Curric. 921 M2716w

 

Compiled by Carol H. Sibley, Curriculum Librarian, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN.  10/03.

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