dovrar Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Thanks in advance. ; ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 Favorite biographies here: 1st/2nd grade reading level: - Louis Braille (Davidson) - Wizard of Menlo Park (Davidson) - Helen Keller (Davidson) - Sacajawea (Milton) - Sitting Bull (Penner) - Archimedes Takes a Bath (Lexau) - Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) - Little Sure Shot: Story of Annie Oakley (Spinner) - Man O' War: The Best Race Horse Ever (McKerly) - Buddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore) - The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford) 2nd/3rd grade reading level: - Brendan the Navigator (Fritz) - The Wright Brothers (Reynolds) - Harry Houdini: Master of Magic (Kraske) - Squanto (Bulla)- Pocahontas (Bulla)- Tikta'liktak (Houston) - Jumbo: The Most Famous Elephant in the World (Worth) - Horse Heroes: True Stories of Amazing Horses (Perry) - Great Black Heroes: Five... (Brilliant Scientists; Brave Explorers; Famous Writers; Bold Freedom Fighters; Notable Inventors) (by Jones & Garnet; or Hudson & Garnet) 3rd grade reading level: - Sequoyah: Cherokee Hero (Oppenheim)- Osceola: Seminole Warrior (Oppenheim)- Black Hawk: Frontier Warrior (Oppenheim)- Tecumseh: Shawnee War Chief (Fleischer)- Sitting Bull: Warrior of the Sioux (Fleischer) - Sacajawea: Wilderness Guide (Jassem) - Squanto: The Pilgrim Adventure (Jassem) - Chief Joseph, Leader of Destiny (Jassem) - Pocahonta: Girl of Jamestown (Jassem) 3rd/4th grade reading level: - Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz) - What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz) - Archimedes and the Door of Science (Bendick) - Along Came Galileo (Bendick) - The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore) - Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman (Fulton) - Naya Nuki: The Shoshone Girl Who Ran (Thomasa) 4th grade reading level: - Lincoln: A Photobiography (Freedman) - Behind Rebel Lines (Reit) 5th grade reading level: - Land I Lost (Nhuong) 6th/7th grade reading level: - Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun (Blumberg) - Carry On Mr. Bowditch (Latham) - Little Britches (Moody) - The Terrible Wave (Dahlstedt) 8th grade/high school: - Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (Beals) - Kon Tiki (Heyerdahl) - The Hiding Place (tenBoom) - Bruchko (Olson) - God's Smuggler (Andrew) - Unshakeable Faith: George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington (Perry) - Black Like Me (Griffin) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merylvdm Posted October 5, 2013 Share Posted October 5, 2013 For missionary biographies suitable for elementary as read alouds and upper elementary and middle school as readers I love the Geoff and Janet Benge ones (the covers are boring so don't get put off by that). And my favorite of all those would be the one on Gladys Aylward. Even my husband read it! It reads like a thriller. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlcc Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 Childhood of Famous Americans is a great series. Also, check out HOD's recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dovrar Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 For missionary biographies suitable for elementary as read alouds and upper elementary and middle school as readers I love the Geoff and Janet Benge ones (the covers are boring so don't get put off by that). And my favorite of all those would be the one on Gladys Aylward. Even my husband read it! It reads like a thriller. We've been reading these as well and loving them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dovrar Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look into them. How about bios on scientists? We've read a couple of the Chicago Review Press books, and especially like the one about Thomas Edison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted October 7, 2013 Share Posted October 7, 2013 My daughters (6 and 9) love biographies. We read a lot from the "Who was" series. Their favorites have been Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Daniel Boone, and Leonardo da Vinci. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dovrar Posted October 7, 2013 Author Share Posted October 7, 2013 Has anyone read any of Roberta Baxter's Profiles in Science? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famof5redheads Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Some already mentioned and Diane Stanley bios http://dianestanley.com/category/books/biography-history/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daijobu Posted November 4, 2013 Share Posted November 4, 2013 Just finished Sonia Sotomayor's (First Latina Supreme Court Justice.) My Beloved World. West Side Story meets Yale Law School Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagira Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 I really like the Landmark biographies. Ds10 has recently finished reading about Abraham Lincoln. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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