Biography & Autobiography

Funny Bones tells the story of how the amusing calaveras-skeletons performing various ev...

Award-winning author Joyce Hansen gives voice to 13 amazing African American women who ha...

A singer-songerwriter, musician, and artist, Bob Dylan is an American icon. In the past f...

Winner of the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award, The Voice That Challenged a Nati...

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the t...

Blind since the age of three, young Louis Braille wanted to be able to read. He spent eve...

Get Up, Stand Up! for the king of reggae music!Bob Marley was a reggae superstar who is c...

Follow the bad boys of rock and roll from their beginnings in London to their unparallele...

As a child, Amalia always thought she would grow up to be a teacher-that is, until she sa...

A cool idea with a big splash You know the Super Soaker. It's one of top twenty toys of a...

Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had per...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied ...

Born the eighth of seventeen children in Philadelphia, Betsy Ross lived in a time when th...

Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President ...

Discover why Selena, the Queen of Tejano music, became one of the most celebrated Mexican...

Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues ...

Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no boun...

If you've ever picked up a hymn book, the chances are that you've sung a song wri...

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah's inspiring true story—which was turned into a film, Emmanuel...

Learn all about Florence Nightingale and her revolutionary nursing work in this children'...

A moving and powerful introduction to the life and art of renowned artist, Judith Scott, ...

Hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of basketballs all-time-greatest playersan innovative ...

The youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate, Pakistani women’s rights activist Malala Yo...

Laban Carrick Hill, the bestselling author of the National Book Award Finalist Harlem Sto...

Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton is a Maasai tribesman of Kenya. In this fascinating autobiograph...

On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling ...

How did a working-class girl from Cuba become a symbol of artistic freedom for Cuban Amer...

From Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, the #1 New York Times bestselling team behind ...

Learn all about Amelia Earhart - one of the world's most famous aviators - Jane Goodall a...

Learn more about the cartoonist who created Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the lo...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexand...

The New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, Joanna Ho, d...

How did a little girl who loved horses become the longest reigning monarch in England? Fi...

Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the fifteenth entry in the New ...

"We can all be heroes" is the message of this biography series from #1 New York Times Bes...

We can all be heroes. That’s the inspiring message of this New York Times best...

Gandhi's peaceful revolution is the focus of this audiobook, part of the inspiring N...

Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Hear about this amazi...

You want girl power? Meet Annie Oakley! Born in 1860, she became one of the best-loved an...

From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career ...

Leonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and in...

Ever since Howard Carter uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, the young phara...

Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for another addition to the Who Was…? s...

Your identity is defined—not by changing circumstances—but an unchanging God!...

The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th preside...

One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandes...

Frederick Douglass was a self-educated slave in the South who grew up to become an icon. ...

"Nelson plaits her narrative with Western lingo and homespun similes. . . . James' painte...

You've probably seen her on t-shirts, mugs, and even tattoos, well, now that famous face ...

NBA champion, sports analyst, and successful businessman Shaquille O'Neal is a lively and...