Biography

Younger Readers (K-2nd) | Intermediate Readers (3rd-4th) | Older Readers (5th & Up)

Younger Readers (K-2nd)

Joe Louis: America’s Fighter	Adler, David
River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain	Anderson, William
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning	Anholt, Laurence
Snowflake Bentley	Briggs, Jacqueline
Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa	Brown, Don
George Washington’s Teeth	Chandra, Deborah
You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!	Corey, Shana
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman	Krull, Kathleen
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman	Lindbergh, Reeve
Meet My Grandmother: She’s a Supreme Court Justice	McElroy, Lisa Tucker
Anne Frank	Poole, Josephine
Joan of Arc	Poole, Josephine
Play, Mozart, Play	Sis, Peter
Starry Messenger	Sis, Peter
Picasso	Venezia, Mike
Laura Ingalls Wilder	Wallner, Alexandra
Beatrix: Various Episodes from the Life of Beatrix Potter	Winter, Jeanette

Intermediate Readers (3rd-4th)

Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder	Anderson, William
Through My Eyes	Bridges, Ruby
Maria de Sautuola	Fradin, Dennis
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille	Freedman, Russell
Jimmy Carter: Builder of Peace	George, Linda and Charles
Romare Bearden: Collage of Memories	Greenberg, Jan
The Young Hans Christian Andersen	Hesse, Karen
Theodore	Keating, Frank
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins	Kerley, Barbara
Sally Ride: A Space Biography	Kramer, Barbara
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez	Krull, Kathleen
A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull	Krull, Kathleen
Satchel Paige	Ransome, Lesa
Don’t Hold Me Back: My Life and Art	Rembert, Winifred
The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker	Sis, Peter
Venus and Serena Williams: Sisters in Arms	Stewart, Mark
It Came from Ohio! My Life as a Writer	Stine, R.L.
Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina	Tallchief, Maria
My Brothers’ Flying Machine: Wilbur Orville and Me	Yolen, Jane

Older Readers (5th and Up)

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World	Armstrong, Jennifer
Shakespeare (Eyewitness Books)	Chrisp, Peter
Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy	Cooper, Ilene
The Longitude Prize	Dash, Joan
Fight On: Mary Church Terrell’s Battle for Integration	Fradin, Dennis
Lincoln: A Photobiography	Freedman, Russell
The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights	Freedman, Russell
Good Brother/Bad Brother	Giblin, James Cross
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler	Giblin, James Cross
Heart and Soul: The Story of Florence Nightingale	Gorrell, Gena K.
Will Eisner	Greenberger, Robert
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio	Kehret, Peg
Theodore Roosevelt: Champion of the American Spirit	Kraft, Betsy Harvey
Hana’s Suitcase: A True Story	Levine, Karen
Poe: A Biography	Loewen, Nancy
Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady	O’Grady, Scott
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie	Partridge, Elizabeth
Tiger Woods	Uschan, Michael V.