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21) Abby Wambach
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Simple text and photographs describe the life of Abby Wambach and her career as a professional soccer player.
22) Maya Moore
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Simple text and photographs describe the life of Maya Moore and her career as a professional basketball player.
23) Candace Parker
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"Simple text and full-color photographs briefly describe the life of Candace Parker and her career as a professional basketball player"--
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A woman tells her young son the true story of how his great-great-grandfather, Captain Harry Colebourn, rescued and learned to love a bear cub in 1914 as he was on his way to take care of soldiers' horses during World War I, and the bear became the inspiration for A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh.
26) Barack Obama
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This biography introduces readers to Barack Obama including his early political career and key events from Obama's administration including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Affordable Care Act, and the Clean Power Plan. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included.
28) Barbara Park
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"Presents the life and career of Barbara Park, including her childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher.
29) Shel Silverstein
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"Presents the life and career of Shel Silverstein, including his childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher.
30) Jeff Kinney
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"Presents the life and career of Jeff Kinney, including his childhood, education, and milestones as a best selling children's author"--Provided by publisher.
32) Me-- Jane
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Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
34) Dizzy
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After arriving in New York, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was soon playing with the famous Cab Calloway Band, but his clowning around got him fired. Dizzy kept trying out his new music which took over the world of jazz. He had invented "bebop!"
35) Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
36) Rosa
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The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, gave equality to blacks throughout the nation, and forever changed the country in which we all live today. She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When...
37) Harry S. Truman
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A biography of the senator from Missouri who became the thirty-third president of the United States in 1945.
38) Zachary Taylor
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Presents a biography of "Old Rough and Ready," hero of the Mexican War, who became the twelfth president of the United States.
39) Susan B. Anthony
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An introductory biography of the early feminist who fought for women's right to vote.