Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Biography & Autobiography - General

"It was a wild ride... and this book does it justice. Well-chosen thrills, spills, and conflicts are spliced into a narrative that highlights the danger underlying this scientific mission... Handsomely designed text... large, full-color impressionistic paintings convey the action."
--School Library Journal

No European had ever taken boats down the Colorado river and come out alive. In May 1869, ten men boarded four rowboats in Green River City, Wyoming. Three months and 1,000 miles later, two battered boats carrying six exhausted and starving men emerged from the...

This book is an independently authored and published biography of the family that created the LEGO(R) construction toy and is not sponsored or...

John Trumbull's sweeping historical paintings of battle scenes of the American Revolution hang in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., for all to see. This patriot-artist painted lifelike portraits of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, and he traveled around the country to capture realistic likenesses of the other Founding Fathers who drafted the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

Pore over the landmark work left by this brilliant artist and become acquainted with a man who, despite great adversity, was determined to portray in lush detail the...

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Meet Joseph, a young man who suffers from a nerve condition that causes tremendous pain in his leg. One day, Joseph and his father go for a hike with Joseph's pet raccoon named Sly, which he raised from a baby.

Joseph's leg hurts but he presses on, encouraged by the curious furry friend who walks alongside him as he tramps through the Gila wilderness of New Mexico. Though Sly sustains cuts and scrapes on his paws, he stays by his human friend's side, keeping him company.

You also get to hear some of the things Joseph went through while raising Sly before their big...

Louis Riel is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary biography is ideal for English as a Second Language or adult basic education students.

Riel (1844-1885) was born into a French MEtis family. As English settlers began arriving to Red River, the home of the MEtis, Riel, acting as leader, fought for and won some rights for the MEtis, who were worried that they were going to lose their farmland to the...