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Biographies for Gifted Students

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Jerry Flack and Deirdre Lovecky

Anderson, W. (1987). Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer and Author. New York: Kipling Press.

Angelou, M. (1969).1 Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam. (Young Adult.)

Archer, J. (1968). The Unpopular Ones. New York: Crowell-Collier Press.

Asimov, 1. (1979). In Memory Yet Green. New York: Avon Books. (Young Adult.)

Baker, R. (1982). Growing Up. New York: New American Library. (Young Adult.)

Bateson, M. C. (1985). With a Daughter's Eye. New York: Washington Square Press. (Young Adult.) (Biography of Margaret Mead.)

Berry, M. (1988). Georgia O'KeeJj~e. New York: Chelsea House Publishers.

Blos, J. W. (1991). The Heroine of the Titanic. New York: Morrow Junior Books.

Boslough, J. (1985). Stephen Hawking's Universe. New York: William Morrow.

Brower, K. (1978). The Starship and the Canoe. New York: Harper & Row. (Young Adult.)

Carpenter, H. (1985). Tolkien: A Biography. New York: Ballantine Books. (Young Adult.)

Cleary, B. (1988). A Girlfrom Yamhill: A Memoir. New York: Dell.

Cohen, D. (1987). Carl Sagan: Superstar Scientist. New York: Dodd, Mead.

Cousins, M. (1965). The Story of Thomas Alva Edison. New York: Random House.

Cremaschi, G. ( 1982). Albert Schweitzer. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett.

Dash, J. (1991). Triumph of Discovery: Women Scientists Who Won the Nobel Prize. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Julian Messner.

Delisle, J. (1991). Kid Stories: Biographies of 20 Young People You'd Like to Know. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit.

Dillard, A. (1987). An American Childhood. New York: Harper & Row. (Young Adult.)

Durwood, P. ( 1988). Bealrix Potter: Creator of Peter Rabbit. New York: The Kipling Press.

Faber, D. (1985). EleanorRoosevelt: FirstLady to the World. New York: Viking Penguin.

Ferris, J. (1991). Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.

Fisher, A., & Rabe, O. (1968). We Alcotts. New York: Atheneum.

Fradin, D. (1987). Remarkable Children. Boston: Little, Brown.

Freedman, R. (1987). Lincoln: A Photobiography. New York: Clarion Books.

Fritz, J. (1982). Homesick: My Own Story. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Gies, M. (1987). Anne Frank Remembered. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Goertzel, V., & Goertzel, M. G. (1962). Cradles of Eminence. Boston: Little, Brown. (Young Adult.)

Graves, C. (1973). John Muir. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

Kerr, M. E. (1983). ME, ME, ME, ME, ME. New York: Harper & Row.

Kudlinski, K. (1988). Rachel Carson, Pioneer of Ecology. New York: Viking Kestrel.

Lepscky, I. (1982). Albert Einstein. New York: Barron's Educational Senes.

Little, J. (1987). Little by Little: A Writer's Education. New York: Vilcing Kestrel.

Little, J. (1990). Stars Come Out Within. New York: Viking.

Lomask, M. (1988). GreatLives: Exploration. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Markham, B. (1983). West with the Night. San Francisco: North Point Press. (Young Adult.)

McKissack, P. C. (1985). Mary McLeod Bethune: A Great American Educator. Chicago: Children's Press.

Meltzer, M. (1968). Langston Hughes. A Biography. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.

Meltzer, M. (1985). Dorothea Lange: Life Through the Camera. New York: Viking Penguin.

McPherson, S. S. (1990). Rooftop Astronomer: A Story of Maria Mitchell. Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books.

Michener, J. A. (1991). The World is My Home: A Memoir. New York: Random House. (Young Adult.)

Miller, M. (1974). Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley Books. (Young Adult.)

Milton, J. ( 1987). Marching to Freedom. The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Dell.

Neimark, A. E. (1986). One Man's Valor: Leo Baeck and the Holocaust. New York: Lodestar Books (E. P. Dutton).

North, S. (1956). Abe Lincoln. Log Cabin to White House. New York: Random House.

Peavy, L. S. & Smith, U. (1983). Women Who Changed Things. New York: Scribners.

Sandburg, C. (1956). Abe Lincoln Grows Up. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.

Sills, L. (1989). Inspirations: Stories about Women Artists. Niles, IL: Albert Whitman.

Sloat, S. (1990). Amelia Earhart: Challenging the Skies. New York: Ballantine.

Smith, S. (1985). Journey to the Soviet Union. Boston: Little, Brown.

Weidt, M. N. (1990). Presenting Judy Blume. New York: Laurel Leaf Books.

X., Malcolm. (1965). The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York: Grove Press. (Young Adult.)

Zhensun, Z. & Low, A. (1991). A Young Painter: The Life and Painlings of Wang YaniQChina's Extraordinary Young Painter. New York: Scholastic.

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