biography

Recounts the life of a socially aware and concerned man who became a doctor, in order to dedicate his life to serving the health needs of Africans.

Recounts the life story of the English girl who became a famous nurse and dedicated herself to the alleviation of suffering at home and abroad.

Traces the lives of the Wright brothers and describes how they showed the world how to fly.

Describes the life of the popular author of poems, essays, short stories for adults, and books for children.

A biography of our first President, illustrated with old prints, maps, and photographs.

Examines the life and work of the nineteenth-century French writer whose fantastic novels took his readers to all of the places he had dreamed about as a young boy.

A biography of the African-American woman best known for her work with the underground railroad, describing her childhood as a slave, her escape to the North, her work during the Civil War, and more.

Describes the vibrant and witty thirty-fifth president of the United States.

Follows the life of Walt Disney from his boyhood on a Missouri farm through his struggles as a young animator to his building of a motion picture and amusement park empire.

Traces the life of the Jewish girl who hid with seven other people in an attic for two years in Nazi-occupied Holland and chronicled her day-to-day life in a diary which was discovered after her death in a German concentration camp.