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Biographies & History

Biographies & History

Antonia Rodgers is the Biographies & History curator. Check out her page to see what she's currently reading and learn more about her personal faves.

The Wire Zoo: How Elizabeth Berrien Learned to Turn Wire Into Amazing Art

Cicely Tyson

The Discovery of Chess (The Asian Hall of Fame)

Who Needs a Statue?

Noodles on a Bicycle

The Pharaoh vs. the Felines (Head-to-Head History)

Claudette Colvin: I Want Freedom Now!

Yasmeen Lari, Green Architect: The True Story of Pakistan's First Woman Architect

Mercedes Sosa: Voice of the People

Up Periscope!: How Engineer Raye Montague Revolutionized Shipbuilding

Biographies

The Wire Zoo: How Elizabeth Berrien Learned to Turn Wire Into Amazing Art

Marina Abramovic Turned Herself Into Art and Wasn't Sorry. (Not Sorry)

Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos

A Flash of Color and Light: A Biography of Dale Chihuly (Growing to Greatness)

Dr. Jonas Salk (Little Golden Book Biographies)

I Am Temple Grandin (Ordinary People Change the World)

Go, Wilma, Go!: Wilma Rudolph, from Athlete to Activist

Ping-Pong Shabbat: The True Story of Champion Estee Ackerman

The Story of Kamala Harris (The Story Of)

Ketanji Brown Jackson: A Justice for All

History

Noodles on a Bicycle

A Vote Is a Powerful Thing

The White House (Meet the Nation's Capitol)

Willow the White House Cat

Barrio Rising: The Protest That Built Chicano Park

We Are Golden: 27 Groundbreakers Who Changed the World

They Built Me for Freedom: The Story of Juneteenth and Houston's Emancipation Park

A Grand Idea: How William J. Wilgus Created Grand Central Terminal

Tenzing Norgay (Little People, Big Dreams)

Cactus Queen: Minerva Hoyt Establishes Joshua Tree National Park

Historical Fiction

A Stitch Through Time

Eiffel Tower Emergency (The Timekeepers)

Lola Out Loud: Inspired by the Childhood of Activist Dolores Huerta

Rivka's Presents

The Moon from Dehradun: A Story of Partition

Do You Know Them?: Families Lost and Found After the Civil War

These Olive Trees

Breaking to the Beat!