Biographies suitable for YA
Dates: 2/10/04,6:53 PM through 2/11/04,10:55 AM (3 postings)
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FROM: "Marika Zemke" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/10/04, 6:53 PM
Thanks, Marika
Marika Zemke
Adult Services Librarian
West Bloomfield Township Public Library
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
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FROM: "Andrew Parson" <[removed]@packer.edu>
REC'D: 2/11/04, 7:42 AM
All Shook Up (Elvis) by Barry Denenberg
American Hero: the true story of Charles A. Lindberg by Barry Denenberg
Anne Frank by Mirjam Pressler
Babe Didrikson Zaharias by Russell Freedman
Beyond the Myth (Joan of Arc) by Polly Schoyer Brooks
Clara Schumann by Susanna Reich
Duke Ellington by James Lincoln Collier
Einstein by John Severance
Eleanor Roosevelt by Russell Freedman
Gandhi by John B. Severance
George Washington by Albert Marrin
Heroine of the Titanic (Molly Brown) by Elaine Landau
Houdini by Clinton Cox
Jack London by Daniel Dyer
Jack: the early years of John F. Kennedy by Ilene Cooper
John Steinbeck by Catherine Reef
Joseph McCarthy by Daniel Cohen
Langston Hughes by Milton Meltzer
Life & Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman
Malcolm X by Walter Dean Myers
Many Lives of Andrew Carnegie by Milton Meltzer
Marian Wright Edelman by Beatrice Siegel
Mark Twain by Milton Meltzer
Mother Jones by Betsy Harvey Kraft
Myth Maker (bio of J.R.R. Tolkein) by Anne E. Neimark
Restless Spirit (Dorothea Lange) by Elizabeth Partridge
Sigmund Freud by Catherine Reef
Sitting Bull by Albert Marrin
Sojourner Truth by Patricia and Frederick McKissack
Sorrow’s Kitchen (Zora Neal Hurston) by Mary E. Lyons
The Greatest (Muhammad Ali) by Walter Dean Myers
The Ingenious Mr. Peale by Janet Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt and his America by Milton Meltzer
Tom Pain by Milton Meltzer
Young, Black and Deteremined (Lorraine Hansberry) by Patricia & Frederick
McKissack
There are also publishers like Chelsea House, Enslow and Lucent that have
crank out seemingly endless series of biographies. They are not the most
inspired writing, but the series do try to cover wide range people of
diverse backgrounds.
Andrew
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Andrew Parson
Upper School Librarian
Packer Collegiate Institute
Brooklyn, NY
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/11/04, 10:55 AM
>From: "Marika Zemke" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: Biographies suitable for YA
>Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 19:47:21 -0500
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>Help, does anyone have a listing of biographies that are aimed at Middle
>Schoolers? We are being inundated with classroom assignments (it would be
>so nice if the teachers informed us of this) They can't be autobiographies,
>only biographies. If there is no list I will be happy to compile and post.
>
First of all, what age are your middle-schoolers? If you can tell me that
and contact me offlist, I can probably compile a very long list from my
bibliographical project.
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