Children's Literature: Biography

A biography of the civil rights activist who fought for African American voter registration.

A fascinating biography of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel prize but two - in physics and in chemistry.

Step inside the White House and meet the women who have played the roles of partners, confidantes, hostesses, and activists in the midst of American history. Read of fascinating lives led by the wives (and sometimes daughters, nieces, and friends) of our country's leaders.

Albert Einstein. His name has become a synonym for genius. His wild case of bedhead and playful sense of humor made him a media superstar'the first, maybe only, scientist-celebrity.

Today Sir Isaac Newton is recognized as one of the foremost scientific geniuses of all time. But it wasn't always that way. Find out about the unconventional scientist who invented calculus. Learn why many thought him to be a madman in the day.

Regarded as the world's first geneticist, Gregor Mendel overcame poverty and obscurity to discover one of the fundamental aspects of genetic science: how traits are inherited from one generation to the next.

Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of man#146;s contamination of the environment and ultimately led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Roy Campanella loved baseball. A professional player from the age of fifteen, he later became the first African-American catcher to integrate Major League Baseball.

For as long as she could remember, Jackie Mitchell's father had told Jackie she could be good at whatever she wanted, as long as she worked at it. Jackie worked at baseball. She worked hard. She had one pitch -- a wicked, dropping curve ball. But no seventeen-year-old girl could pitch against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It was unthinkable. Then on April 2, 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Tennessee for an exhibition game against the Chattanooga Lookouts. And on that day Jackie Mitchell made baseball history.

A dynamic author-illustrator team follows the threetime heavyweight champ through twelve rounds of a remarkable life.

Before the legend of Billie Holiday, there was a girl named Eleanora. The world, however, would know her as Billie Holiday, possibly the greatest jazz singer of all time.

Carole Boston Weatherford and Sean Qualls have composed an amazingly rich hymn to the childhood of jazz legend John Coltrane.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is perhaps one of the most brilliant writers of our time. He is a tremendous figure, enormously talented, and unabashedly admired. This is his story, lovingly told, for children to enjoy.

The woman who emerges most profoundly from this harmonious biography is a role model of courage, for even in the face of enormous obstacles Marian maintained her grace and dignity and fulfilled her dreams.