On my own biography

A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.

Illustrations and simple text offer a brief introduction to the life of Martha Washington.

Illustrations and simple text tell the story of Johnny Appleseed.

Describes the life and accomplishments of baseball star Jackie Robinson, who became the first African American in twentieth-century major-league baseball.

Focuses on the early life of a woman who is well known for overcoming her handicaps of being both blind and deaf.

Presents a short biography of Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers of America, and describes how he fought to establish better working conditions and wages for migrant workers in California.

Examines Laura Ingalls Wilder's life as a pioneer girl and her work as a writer describing that life for others.

Tells the life story of Viking explorer Leif Eriksson, describing his adventures in North America in the eleventh century.

Presents a short biography on former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth and chronicles her early life on a Dutch plantation in New York and her fight for emancipation and equal rights for all African Americans and women.

Illustrations and simple text help chronicle the life of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.