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- The Story of Harriet Tubman by Christine Platt. Before she became known for her fight to free people from enslavement, she was a little girl who was sad to see her family be separated.
- Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant and Boris Kulikov. This picture book biography tells the story of how Louis Braille lost his sight and invented an alphabet.
- Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne and Éric Puybaret. Once there was a boy named Jacques. He loved to explore the oceans. This whimsical and poetic biography of Jacques Cousteau will inspire kids to follow their explorer natures, as well as help them realize that every person who has made history started as a kid with curiosity.
- Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote by Tanya Lee Stone and Rebecca Gibbon. From a young age, Elizabeth understood that things weren’t equal in her life.
- Benefits of Reading Autobiographies
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Hope in A Ballet Shoe by Michaela Deprince
- The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
- A Long Way Home - Memoirs of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
- Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Red Scarf Girl by Ji - li Jiang
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodsoon
Looking for some books to keep your child occupied when they are at home? The onus of introducing the right books to your child always lies on you. Biographies by young adults are always a source of motivation for young readers. If you want your child to be worldly-wise, make biographies and autobiographies a part of the reading list for your child...
About the author:When many preteens may just be bothered about their looks and homework, Malala Yousafzai, in 2009, 11 years at that time wrote an anonymous blog for BBC Urdu about her life under Taliban rule. She was very vocal about human rights, especially education for the girl child which was sometimes denied during the Taliban rule in Pakista...
About the author: Often extraordinary circumstances give rise to extraordinary stories and Hope in a Ballet Shoeis one such extraordinary autobiography. Penned by Michaela DePrince, who today is an international ballet dancer with The Dutch National Ballet, and one of the few black ballet dancers. Michaela grows through many atrocities as a child g...
About the author:This autobiography needs no introduction. Written by then 13-year-old Jewish Anne Frank in Dutch language while she hid with her family from Nazi occupation in Netherlands. The book is written with surprising candour - about life in isolation, her random thoughts about growing up, war, discrimination, school girl musings about crus...
About the author: Another book from the Sierra Leone, from Ishmael Beah is a first person account of what it means to be a boy soldier in a war-torn African country. The writing is clear, the descriptions are gut wrenching and the memoirs gives a perspective that many children across the world are still being robbed of their childhood. Ishmael Beah...
About the author:This autobiography is the true story of Bethany Hamilton. The writer was a competitive surfer, and at 14, at the stage when life is beginning for many, thought her life was over, after she got attacked by a shark and lost her arm. She tracks her life, before and after the accident - and her story is awe-inspiring. About the book:Th...
About the author: A disability can become a superpower! El Deafois a beautiful graphic novel that deals with being different due to a physical ailment (hearing loss) - it is a loosely based on the author's life. In an interesting quirk - all the characters in the graphic novel are bunnies. Why bunnies? Because they have large ears and extraordinary...
About the author: How do you make sense of the changing political environment? How does one go for being a popular child in school to being betrayed by friends for having an affluent family background in a changing political environment in China. She was inspired by the Diary of Anne Frank and the book is her offering for the world to understand Ch...
About the author: Jacqueline Woodsoon grew up with her grandparents as her mother was working. The writer has many other books to her credit and is best known for Brown Girl Dreaming and Miracle's Boys. About the book:An autobiographical book written in verse about a black girl's experiences of growing up in America in the 1960s. It is a short read...
- STEM (Scientists, coders, engineers, and mathematicians) Dinosaur Lady: The Daring Discoveries of Mary Anning, the First Paleontologist by Linda Skeers, illustrated by Marta Alvarez Miguens.
- Activists. All the Way to the Top: How One Girl’s Fight for Americans with Disabilities Changed Everything by Annette Bay Pimentel, illustrated by Nabi H. Ali.
- Writers. O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War by Robert Burleigh, illustrated by Sterling Hundley. Fascinating and important!
- Famous Americans. Anna Strong: A Spy During the American Revolution by Sarah Glenn Marsh, illustrated by Sarah Green. It’s wonderful to see how every person can make a difference.
- Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl. (£6.99, Puffin) Roald Dahl's best-selling autobiography, which covers his childhood years, is packed with sad, idyllic, funny, unpleasant and incredibly vivid stories.
- Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician by Lesa Cline-Ransome. (£13, Simon & Schuster) An informative and inspiring picture book biography of the remarkable mathematician Katherine Johnson, one of the NASA "human computers" whose work was critical to the first US space launch in the 1960s.
- Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama. (£14.99, Puffin) Adapted for children aged 10+, with a special introduction. Michelle Obama's life story, "in all its messy glory", encourages readers to think about their own life and how they will become themselves as they grow up and keep growing and changing.
- Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant. (£13.99, Random House) When Louis Braille lost his sight as a child there were no books for him to read.
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Nov 14, 2022 · That’s why we’ve created this list of the best biographies for kids of all ages and reading levels, from preschool to middle school. Featuring stories of dreamers and doers from all walks of life, these books will have your reader thinking big about their boundless potential!
