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WHO IS ELTON JOHN?
How does a little boy from the London suburbs named Reginald Kenneth Dwight grow up to become one of the biggest pop stars of all time? A lot of talent and a lot of personality! Elton John, as he would later call himself, started playing piano at the age of three. Although he was trained to play classical music, Elton's real love was rock and roll. He cut his first album in 1969 and has domina…
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- 978-0-448-48846-2
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 AND w c.1 201930304
WHO IS STEVIE WONDER?
Discover more about Stevie Wonder, the music prodigy whose awards include 25 Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stevie Wonder is one of the most successful singer-songwriter-musicians of our time. Signing his first record deal when he was only eleven, he had his first No.1 hit when he was thirteen. Since then he has had thirty US top ten hits, won a range of awards for his …
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- 978-0-448-48858-5
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- 108 p. ; ill. ; maps. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 GIG w c.1 201930303
WHO IS POPE FRANCIS?
Follow the amazing journey of Pope Francis, whose warmth and humility have made him beloved around the world. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, aka Pope Francis, from Argentina, is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Since being elected pope he has shown a humbler, less formal approach to his office than his predecessors: a warm style that has…
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- 978-0-451-53336-4
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- 107 p. ; ill. ; maps ; 20 cm.
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- 920 SPI w c.1 201930301
WHO WAS GANDHI?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the w…
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- 978-0-448-48235-4
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- 106 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 RAU w c.1 201930300
WHO IS HILLARY CLINTON?
At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be thrilling to become an astronaut, so she sent an application to NASA. The reply was a flat out rejection: the space program didn't take women. It was a critical moment for the young girl, one that made her realize the world she lived in needed changing and that she had better try to make those changes happen. Clinton's life has been a thrilli…
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- 978-0-448-49015-1
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- 106 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 ALE w c.1 201930299
WHO WAS JOAN OF ARC?
Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France. By the time she was a teenager, she was leading troops into battle in the name of her country. Though she was captured and executed for her be…
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- 978-0-448-48304-7
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 POL w c.1 201930298
WHO IS BILL GATES?
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanth…
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- 978-0-448-46332-2
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 DEM w c.1 201930296
WHO WAS CHARLIE CHAPLIN?
Charlie Chaplin sang on a London stage for the first time at the age of five. Performing proved to be his salvation, providing a way out of a life of hardship and poverty. Success came early and made Chaplin one of the best loved people in the United States until the McCarthy witch hunts drove Chaplin from his adopted country. This is a moving portrait of a multi-talented man—actor, director,…
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- 978-0-448-49016-8
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- 106 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 DEM w c.1 201930295
WHO WAS FERDINAND MAGELLAN?
When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn't know was that the treacherous voyage would take him three years and cost him his life. Black-and-white line drawings illustrate Magellan's life and voyage, with sidebars and a time line that enhance…
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- 978-0-448-43105-5
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- 105 p. ; ill. ; maps; 20 cm.
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- 920 KRA w c.1 201930294
WHO WAS MARIA TALLCHIEF?
Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of her art form to become America's first prima ballerina. Black-and-white illustrations provide visual sidebars to the history of ballet while taking readers through the life of this amazing dancer.
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- 978-0-448-42675-4
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- 103 p. ; ill. ; 20 cm.
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- 920 GOU w c.1 201930293
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