Livingston Lord Library
Curriculum Materials Center

New Biographies for Children
Located at Livingston Lord Library,
Minnesota State University Moorhead

Collective Biographies

Hettinga, Donald.  The Brothers Grimm: Two Lives, One Legacy.  Clarion, 2001.  Curric. 920 H591b

Krull, Kathleen.Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (And What the Neighbors Thought).Harcourt, 2000.Curric. 920 K94Le

Pinkney, Andrea.Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters.Harcourt, 2000.Curric. 920 P6557L

Thimmesh, Catherine.Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions By Women.Houghton Mifflin, 2000.Curric. 920 T4432g

Individual Biographies

Adler, David.America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle.Harcourt, 2000.Curric. 921 E223a

Aronson, Marc.Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado.Clarion, 2000.Curric. 921 R163a

Bausum, Ann.Dragon Bones and Dinosaur Eggs: A Photobiography of Roy Chapman Andrews.National Geographic Society, 2000.Curric. 921 A565b

Blumberg, Rhoda.Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy.HarperCollins, 2001.Curric. 921 N1632b

Brown, Don.Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa.Houghton Mifflin, 2000.Curric. 921 K552b

Christensen, Bonnie.Woody Guthrie: Poet of the People.Knopf, 2001.Curric. 921 G9841c

Cline-Ransome, Lesa.Satchel Paige.Simon & Schuster, 2000.Curric. 921 P1427c  

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann.  Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 D3172c

Cohn, Amy.  Abraham Lincoln.  Scholastic, 2002.  Curric. 921 L736coh

Dash, Joan.The Longitude Prize.Farrar, 2000.Curric. 921 H3181L

Dash, Joan.  The World at Her Fingertips: The Story of Helen Keller.  Scholastic, 2001.  Curric. 921 K29d

Demi.   Gandhi.  McElderry, 2001.  Curric. 921 G195d

Fradin, Dennis.Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement.Clarion, 2000.Curric. 921 W4531f

Gerstein, Mordicai.  What Charlie Heard.  Farrar, 2002.  Curric. 921 I951g

Gherman, Beverly.Norman Rockwell: Storyteller with a Brush.Atheneum, 2000.Curric. 921 R6841g

Giblin, James.The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin.Scholastic, 2000.Curric. 921 F831g  

Giblin, James.  The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler.  Clarion, 2002.  Curric. 921 H675g

Gilliland, Judith.Steamboat: The Story of Captain Blanche Leathers.DK Publishing, 2000.Curric. 921 L4389s

Glover, Savion.Savion!: My Life in Tap.Morrow, 2000.Curric. 921 G5667

Gold, Alison.A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara, Hero of the Holocaust.Scholastic, 2000.Curric. 921 S9477g

Greenberg, Jan.Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist.Delacorte, 2001.Curric. 921 G613gr  

Grimes, Nikki.  Talkin' About Bessie: The Story of Aviator Bessie Coleman.  Scholastic, 2002.  Curric. 921 C692g

Haskins, James.  Carter G. Woodson: The Man Who Put "Black" in American History.  Millbrook, 2000.  Curric. 921 W898h

Holub, Joan.  Vincent van Gogh: Sunflowers and Swirly Stars.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 G613h

Kelley, True.  Claude Monet: Sunshine and Waterlilies.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2001.  Curric. 921 M7422k

Landau, Elaine.Osama bin Laden: A War Against the West.Twenty-First Century Books, 2002.Curric. 921 B6121L

Lasky, Kathryn.  Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker.  Candlewick, 2000.  Curric. 921 W1772L

Lawlor, Laurie.  Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit.  Holiday House, 2001.  Curric. 921 K29L

Marrin, Albert.Sitting Bull and His World.Dutton, 2000.Curric. 921 S623ma

Mays, Osceola.Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter.Hyperion, 2000.Curric. 921 M4746  

Milton, Joyce.  Sacajawea: Her True Story.  Grosset, 2001.  Curric. 921 S119m

Murphy, Jim.Pick & Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D’Angelo.Clarion, 2000.Curric. 921 D182m

Myers, Walter Dean.The Greatest: Muhammad Ali.Scholastic, 2001.Curric. 921 A398m

Myers, Walter Dean.Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly.HarperCollins, 2000.Curric. 921 M243ma

Pressler, Mirjam.Anne Frank: A Hidden Life.Dutton, 2000.Curric. 921 F828p  

O'Connor, Jane.  Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors.  Grosset & Dunlap, 2002.  Curric. 921 M4333o

Rappaport, Doreen.Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.Hyperion, 2001.Curric. 921 K53r  

Robertson, James.  Standing Like a Stone Wall: The Life of General Thomas J. Jackson.  Atheneum, 2001.  Curric. 921 J14r

Rockwell, Anne.Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth.Knopf, 2000.Curric. 921 T874r

Soto, Gary.Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker.Persea, 2000.Curric. 921 D3312s

Stanley, Diane.Michelangelo.HarperCollins, 2000.Curric. 921 M623s  

Sullivan, George.  Picturing Lincoln: Famous Photographs that Popularized the President.  Clarion, 2000.  Curric. 921 L736su

Uschan, Michael.Jesse Ventura.Lucent, 2001.Curric. 921 V468u

Warren, Andrea.Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.HarperCollins, 2001.Curric. 921 M2716w

 

Compiled by Carol H. Sibley, Curriculum Librarian, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN.10/03.