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Biographies

 

   Read about important and not so important people from the past. Click on a title for more information about the book. The number in parentheses indicates the reading level of the book. Books marked with a clock     are part of our 15-minute series - books that take about 15 minutes to read so children can read an entire book during their 15 minutes of reading a day. A indicates that activity sheets are available for this book.

 

          Autobiographies

               Jack Thayer and the Wreck of the Titanic  (5.7)

                    James Williams Runaway Slave  An Illustrate-It-Yourself Book  (3.4)

               Rain-in-the-Face  Was he the man who killed Custer?  (4.9)

               Story of the Steward of the Carpathia  The steward of the ship that rescued Titanic Survivors tells his tale  (6.9)

               Geronimo, His Own Story  (7.2)

 

        Slave Autobiographies

              Ben Brown, Ex-Slave, 100 years old of Zanesville, OH  (6.4) 

              James Lucas, Ex-Slave of Jefferson Davis  (4.2)

              Hannah Davidson, Ex-Slave of Toledo, OH  (3.7)

              Clayton Holbert, Ex-Slave of Ottowa, KS  (5.5) 

              Bill Simms, Ex-Slave of Ottowa, Kansas  (6.2) 

              Charles H. Anderson, Ex-Slaves of Cincinnati, OH (5.1) 

 

           Biographies

               Attila the Hun   (6.1) 

               Dr. Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies Obituary of  Alexander Graham Bell, With Accounts of His Life 

                          and Works  (10.7) 

               Dr. B.T. Washington, Negro Leader, Dead Obituary of Booker T. Washington, With Accounts of His Life 

and Works  (9.0) 

              Dr. Sara Josephine Baker  The Woman who saved hundreds of thousands of babies. (4.0)

               Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at Her Home, Obituary of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, With Accounts of Her Life and Works  (9.3) 

               Matthew Alexander Henson The first man to reach the North Pole.  (3.5) 

               Queen Victoria of England Obituary of one of England's longest reigning queens  (11.0)

               The Story of Two Women Pirates  (4.9)

               Typhoid Mary The Story of Mary Mallon  (3.6)

               Tutankhamen The Boy King (4.2)

 

           Native American Biographies

               American Horse Sioux Chief   (8.0)

               Chief Joseph Nez Perce Leader   (7.8)

               Dull Knife Cheyenne Chief   (7.6) 

               Gall Sioux Chief  (7.6)

               Geronimo The Gentle Warrior  (3.8) 

               Little Wolf Cheyenne Chief   (3.9) 

               Rain-in-the-Face  Was he the man who killed Custer?  (4.9)

               Red Cloud Sioux Warrior Chief  (3.2) 

               Roman Nose (8.8) 

               Two Strike A Sioux Warrior (7.8)

 

 

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