Lazo, Caroline Evensen

A biography of the famous conductor and composer of Broadway musicals, including West Side Story and On the Town.

A biography of the shy dreamer from Toronto, Ontario who grew up to become the most innovative architect in the world.

A biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of the Cherokee Nation.

A girl imagines what her cat would tell her about its exotic travels to such places as the foggy English coast, Spanish bullfights, and an art gallery in Monmartre, France. Includes facts about the places mentioned.

Examines the life of the lawyer politician who became the eighth president of the United States.

Biography of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Mayan Indian woman whose efforts to bring peace to Guatemala won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.

Describes the plight of a variety of plants and animals threatened with extinction and what can be done to save them.

A biography of the Polish union organizer who became his country's first elected president in 1990.

A biography of the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, gained wide recognition for her work with the destitute and dying in Calcutta and elsewhere, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Includes black and white photographs.

A biography of the former first lady who was the first United States ambassador to the United Nations.