Front Street, 2001
A collection of poems that combine to provide a portrait of the life of nineteenth-century African-American botanist and inventor, George Washington Carver.
Knopf , Distributed by Random House, c2003.
Introduces the life of Nellie Bly who, as a stunt reporter for the New York World newspaper in the late 1800s, championed women's rights and traveled around the world faster than anyone ever had.
Reading Level: 5.3; Accelerated Reader: 6.2
Harry N. Abrams, 2005
Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School
>A brief biography of the self-educated nineteenth-century Englishwoman who, after a secluded childhood and youth, traveled alone through unexplored West Africa in 1893 and 1894 and learned much about the area and its inhabitants. Reading Level: 3.4; Accelerated Reader: 4.6,
Scholastic, 2004
A biography of the American poet whose compassion led him to nurse soldiers during the Civil War, to give voice to the nation's grief at Lincoln's assassination, and to capture the true American spirit in verse. Reading Level: 6.6; Accelerated Reader: 5.4
