7 Top biography books like Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk To Freedom by Barry Denenberg

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Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk To Freedom

By: Barry Denenberg

3.77

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Nelson Mandela, one of the most famous freedom fighters in the world, is a powerful symbol of hope …

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1. Listening to Crickets: A Story about Rachel Carson (Creative Minds Biographies)

By: Candice Ransom , Shelly O. Haas , Candice F. Ransom

3.75

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From the time she was a very young girl, Rachel Carson felt a bond with nature. Growing up in Penns… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam (Harper Trophy Book) by Huynh Quang Nhuong, Vo-Dinh Mai, Quang Nhuong Huynh

2. The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam (Harper Trophy Book)

By: Huynh Quang Nhuong , Vo-Dinh Mai , Quang Nhuong Huynh

3.77

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An ALA Notable Children’s Book and a Booklist Editors’ Choice, about one young man’s memories of th… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. A Girl Named Disaster

By: Nancy Farmer

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Nhamo is a virtual slave in her African village in 1981. Before her twelfth birthday, Nhamo runs aw… read more

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  • africa
"The high point of your life was when you knocked me down"

-Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster

"I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up riv…"

-Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster

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4. Red Sand Blue Sky

By: Cathy Applegate

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

At the center of Australia is a vast red desert known as the Outback. For twelve-year-old Amy from … read more

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5. Homesick: My Own Story

By: Margot Tomes , Jean Fritz

3.86

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

This is the twenty-fifth anniversary of Jean Fritz's award-winning account of her life in China, an… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

By: Barbara Cohen , None

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot--Buran will not--sit quiet… read more

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7. Call It Courage

By: Armstrong Sperry

3.60

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A boy tries to overcome his fear of the sea in this treasured classic and winner of the Newbery Med… read more

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8. Mara, Daughter of the Nile

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds her… read more

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9. A Moment Comes

By: Jennifer Bradbury

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

As the partition of India nears in 1947 bringing violence even to Jalandhar, Tariq, a Muslim, finds… read more

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10. Water Sky

By: Jean Craighead George

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

"Nukik! Lincoln gasped, his skin tingling. Could this be happening! Had he just seen a whale with a… read more

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11. Mother Teresa

By: Maya Gold

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with archival photographs and amazing fact boxes, this groundbreaking series introduces youn… read more

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12. Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story

By: Eric Velásquez , Beverley Naidoo

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

If only Mma was here, Naledi wished over and over. . . Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far fr… read more

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13. King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian

By: Marguerite Henry , Wesley Dennis

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

He was named "Sham" for the sun, this golden red stallion born in the Sultan of Morocco's stone sta… read more

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14. Shadow Spinner

By: Susan Fletcher

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

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15. A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

By: Linda Sue Park

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Long Walk to Waterbegins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about a girl in Sudan in 2… read more

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16. Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions

By: Leo Dillon , Diane Dillon , Margaret Musgrove

3.87

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of … read more

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17. Daughter of the Mountains

By: Kurt Wiese , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Momo has always wanted a Lhasa terrier--a dog like the ones the Buddhist priests hold sacred in the… read more

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18. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By: Richard J. Maybury

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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19. Fish in a Tree

By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The author of the beloved One for the Murphysgives readers an emotionally-charged, uplifting novel … read more

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20. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

By: Ronald Himler , Eleanor Coerr

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the d… read more

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21. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

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22. The Golden Goblet

By: Eloise Jarvis McGraw

3.82

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Ranofer struggles to thwart the plottings of his evil brother, Gebu, so he can become master goldsm… read more

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23. Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum

By: Ashley Bryan

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here are five Nigerian folktales, retold in language as rhythmic as the beat of the story-drum, and… read more

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24. The Shadows of Ghadames

By: Catherine Temerson , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story about a Muslim girl bound by traditional Islamic customs but who yearns for something mo… read more

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25. All the Small Poems and Fourteen More

By: Natalie Babbitt , Valerie Worth

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

All four Small Poemsbooks in one volume plus fourteen new poems "every bit as worthy as their prede… read more

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26. When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson

4.62

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Heartbreak and hope exist together in this remarkable graphic novel about growing up in a refugee c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Pass or fail—I’ve done my best. It’s in God’s hands now."

-Victoria Jamieson, When Stars Are Scattered

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27. All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World

By: Lori Alexander

4.07

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A full-color chapter book biography that shows how a self-taught scientist was the first to observe… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk To Freedom

By: Barry Denenberg

3.77

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Nelson Mandela, one of the most famous freedom fighters in the world, is a powerful symbol of hope … read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. How to Be Good at Science, Technology, and Engineering (DK How to Be Good at)

By: D.K. Publishing

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Science is sorted, technology is untangled, and engineering is explained with this incredible visua… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. The Usborne Book of Astronomy and Space

By: Lisa Miles

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Complete Book for Astronomy & Space read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gandhi: Young Nation Builder (Childhood of World Figures) by Kathleen V. Kudlinski

31. Gandhi: Young Nation Builder (Childhood of World Figures)

By: Kathleen V. Kudlinski

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Listening to Crickets: A Story about Rachel Carson (Creative Minds Biographies)

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3.77

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Homesick: My Own Story

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3.86

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4.62

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3.82

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Lois Lowry

4.39

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Daniel Nayeri

3.96

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