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The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,708 ratings — published 2014
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,452 ratings — published 2011
Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,137 ratings — published 2019
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,536 ratings — published 2014
What to Do About Alice?: How Alice Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 2,484 ratings — published 2008
Before She was Harriet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,444 ratings — published 2017
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,298 ratings — published 2017
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 94,620 ratings — published 2014
On a Beam of Light: A Story of Albert Einstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as children-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,944 ratings — published 2013
Me... Jane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,752 ratings — published 2011
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,330 ratings — published 2009
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,263 ratings — published 2019
The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,742 ratings — published 2019
Dr. Jo: How Sara Josephine Baker Saved the Lives of America's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 184 ratings — published 2018
Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 925 ratings — published 2018
Danza!: Amalia Hernández and El Ballet Folklórico de México (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 721 ratings — published 2017
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,942 ratings — published 2017
Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,550 ratings — published 2017
Out of School and Into Nature: The Anna Comstock Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 417 ratings — published 2017
Caroline's Comets: A True Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 3.81 — 390 ratings — published 2017
Fancy Party Gowns: The Story of Ann Cole Lowe (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 466 ratings — published 2017
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,112 ratings — published 2016
Emmanuel's Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,305 ratings — published 2015
Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,899 ratings — published 2008
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,183 ratings — published 2013
The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,273 ratings — published 2013
Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U. S. Marshal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,549 ratings — published 2009
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,055 ratings — published 2012
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 771 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.44 — 13,023 ratings — published 1995
World More Beautiful: The Life and Art of Barbara Cooney (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 211 ratings — published
Hidden Figures: An Inspiring Picture Book True Story About Women Who Changed Space History, for Children (Ages 6–10)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.44 — 3,409 ratings — published 2018
Gifts from Georgia's Garden: How Georgia O'Keeffe Nourished Her Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 161 ratings — published
Fearless Mary: The True Adventures of Mary Fields, American Stagecoach Driver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 378 ratings — published 2019
Shaped By Her Hands: Potter Maria Martinez (She Made History)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 365 ratings — published 2021
The Cat Man of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,950 ratings — published 2020
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.60 — 3,755 ratings — published 2020
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,010 ratings — published 2019
The Boy Who Grew a Forest: The True Story of Jadav Payeng (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 731 ratings — published 2019
Who Was Alexander Hamilton? (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,752 ratings — published 2017
The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,258 ratings — published 2019
Spring After Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 380 ratings — published
Turning Pages: My Life Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 806 ratings — published 2018
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,615 ratings — published 2018
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 910 ratings — published 2018
Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,818 ratings — published 2018
One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia (Millbrook Picture Books)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,094 ratings — published 2015
A Boy, a Mouse, and a Spider: The Story of E. B. White (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 758 ratings — published 2017
The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,240 ratings — published 2017
The Shape of the World: A Portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as children-biography)
avg rating 3.81 — 305 ratings — published 2017