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  • Amanda Gorman
    Little People Big Dreams

    Amanda Gorman

    $15.99

    Growing up with a speech impediment and an auditory processing disorder, Amanda had hills to climb. Through poetry, she found her voice, and became...

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  • Mae Jemison
    Little People Big Dreams

    Mae Jemison

    $15.99

    As a kid, Mae looked up at the stars and knew that she would go there one day. But she couldn't understand why there weren't any astronauts who loo...

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  • Martin Luther King Jr.
    Little People Big Dreams

    Martin Luther King, Jr

    $15.99

    Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher…so maybe he’d beco...

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  • Maya Angelou
    Little People Big Dreams

    Maya Angelou

    $15.99

    Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at the age of eight, she stopped speaking for five years. How...

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  • Little People Big Dreams

    Michelle Obama

    $15.99

    Little Michelle grew up on the South-Side of Chicago in a loving, connected family. After her father was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Michell...

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  • Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina
    HarperCollins Publishers

    Ready to Fly: Sylvia Townsend

    $18.99

    Ready to Fly is the true story of Sylvia Townsend, an African American girl who falls in love with ballet after seeing Swan Lake on TV.  Although t...

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  • Rosa Parks
    Little People Big Dreams

    Rosa Parks

    $15.99

    Rosa Parks grew up in Alabama, where she learned to stand up for herself at an early age. Rosa wont on to become a civil-rights activist whose cour...

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  • Trailblazers: Simone Biles
    Trailblazers

    Trailblazers: Simone Biles

    $7.99

    Meet History's trailblazers and get inspired by the true stories of people who changed the world. In August, 2016, American gymnast Simone Biles wo...

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  • What Is Black Lives Matter?
    Who Was...?

    What Is Black Lives Matter?

    $4.99

    When a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin was senselessly killed in 2012, the African American community called for his murderer to be held accoun...

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  • Who Is Barack Obama?
    Who Was...?

    Who is Barack Obama?

    $5.99

    As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this ...

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  • Who Is Kamala Harris?
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    Who Is Kamala Harris?

    $4.99

    On November 7, 2020, Kamala Harris, a senator from California, became the first woman and the first African-American and South Asian-American perso...

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  • Who Is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
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    Who Is Neil Degrasse Tyson?

    $5.99

    When he was nine years old, Neil deGrasse Tyson went on a trip that would change his life. While visiting the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of N...

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  • Who Is Oprah Winfrey?
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    Who is Oprah Winfrey?

    $5.99

    We all know Oprah Winfrey as a talk-show host, actress, producer, media mogul, and philanthropist, but the "Queen of Talk" wasn't always so fortuna...

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  • Who Was Frida Kahlo?
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    Who Was Frida Kahlo?

    $5.99

    You can always recognize a painting by Kahlo because she is in nearly all--with her black braided hair and colorful Mexican outfits. A brave woman ...

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  • Who Was Harriet Tubman?
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    Who Was Harriet Tubman?

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    Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an ...

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  • Who Was Ida B. Wells?
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    Who Was Ida B. Wells?

    $5.99

    The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in ninete...

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  • Who Was Jesse Owens?
    Penguin Random House

    Who Was Jesse Owens?

    $5.99

    At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, track and field star Jesse Owens ran himself straight into international glory by winning four gold medals. But...

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  • Who Was Kobe Bryant?
    Penguin Random House

    Who Was Kobe Bryant?

    $4.99

    Kobe Bryant was just an eighteen-year-old high-school basketball player when he decided to enter the National Basketball Association's draft. Thoug...

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  • Who Was Louis Armstrong?
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    Who Was Louis Armstrong?

    $5.99

    If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs Home who gave ...

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  • Who Was Maya Angelou?
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    Who Was Maya Angelou?

    $5.99

    Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unst...

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  • Who Was Nelson Mandela?
    Penguin Random House

    Who Was Nelson Mandela?

    $5.99

    As a child he dreamt of changing South Africa; as a man he changed the world.  Nelson Mandela spent his life battling apartheid and championing a p...

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