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Enrique Iglesias

2003
Discusses the life and career of the Hispanic American singing star.

Marion Jones

sprinting sensation
1999
A biography of the young woman who excelled at both basketball and track at the University of North Carolina, but has focused on running and long jump events since 1997.

Angelina Jolie

actress and activist
2011
This is a biography of Angelina Jolie, who won an Academy Award, along with a reputation for being an actress of uncommon commitment and bravery and who is also known as one of the world's best-known humanitarians, traveling the globe as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations.

Notes from my travels

visits with refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador
2003
Actress Angelina Jolie describes her visits to refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Ecuador.

Angelina Jolie

2009
A brief biography of humanitarian Angelina Jolie that describes her childhood, her introduction to acting, and highlights from her professional career; and also provides information on how to write a biography.

You can be a woman basketball player

1999
Discusses the life and basketball career of Tamecka Dixon, a player for the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA, and describes what it is like to be a woman basketball player.

The favored daughter

one woman's fight to lead Afghanistan into the future
2012
Afghanistan's first female parliament deputy speaker tells her dramatic life story and, through the letters she writes to her two daughters, shares her hopes for their future and the entire female population of Afghanistan.

Moose

a memoir of fat camp
2008
Stephanie Klein was an eighth grader with a weight problem. Teased by her classmates, reminded by her father that no one likes fat girls, and a witness to her thin mother's compulsive dissatisfaction with her own body, Stephanie's problem was not solved by being sent to "fat camp". She shares her thoughts and feelings of that time in her life with her readers, just as she reveals her mind-set now as a physically fit, and thin, wife and mother.

Arise Sir David Beckham

the biography of Britain's greatest footballer
2007
An examination of the life and achievements of David Beckham that covers his childhood, family, charitable contributions, wife, children, popularity in the media, and soccer career. Includes photographs.

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