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1) Rosa Parks
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A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.
2) Tiger Woods
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Examines the talents, successful career, and ethnic background of the golfer Tiger Woods.
4) Henry Ford
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A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
5) Walt Disney
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A biography of the man who began his career as an animator and became the creator of Mickey Mouse and Disneyland, and the founder of Disney Studios.
10) Cesar Chavez
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English
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Traces the life and accomplishments of Mexican American labor leader Cesar Chavez, who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers.
11) Neil Armstrong
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A biography of the first man on the moon, covering his youth, his career as an astronaut, and his life after NASA.
12) Marie Curie
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Presents the life and accomplishments of the Polish-born chemist, discussing her discovery of radium and the development of the use of X rays in medicine.
13) Elvis Presley
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Follows the life, career, and music of the popular rock and roll singer, from his early years in Mississippi to his controversial death at age forty-two.
14) Albert Einstein
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Describes the life and work of the twentieth-century physicist whose theory of relativity revolutionized scientific thinking.
15) Roberto Clemente
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Profiles the first Latin American baseball player to be inducted into major league baseball's Hall of Fame.
16) Jonas Salk
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A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.
19) Anne Frank
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English
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A biography of Anne Frank, including the historical events which forced her to hide with her family in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.
20) Jackie Robinson
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English
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Presents the life and career of the baseball legend who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
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