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A simple biography of the woman best known for her years studying chimpanzees in Africa.

Tomie celebrates his sixth birthday as he starts first grade and enjoys a variety of new experiences.

The author tells about her life after she and her parents were liberated from the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia in 1945 and emigrated to the United States.

Discusses the early life, education, and career of children's book artist and author Tomie de Paola.

A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.

Tells the story of Mary Griffith, who became a crusader for gay and lesbian youth after her homosexual son Bobby's suicide, and the discovery of his diaries, led her to make radical changes in her thinking about homosexuality.

In October 1993, nearly one hundred elite U.S. troops dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Somalia. Their mission was supposed to take an hour. Instead they were pinned down through the night, fighting thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.

A biography of the English zoologist, for beginning readers, describing her early experiences in Gombe, studying the wild chimpanzees.

A biography of the woman whose methods of studying chimpanzees became a model for wildlife observation.

A comprehensive biography of baseball great Henry Aaron describing his personal life from Jim Crow Alabama to his professional career with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.