6 Top biography books like Gandhi: Young Nation Builder (Childhood of World Figures) by Kathleen V. Kudlinski

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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 …

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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
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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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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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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"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. Habibi

By: Naomi Shihab Nye

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An award-winning novel about identity, family, and friendship from renowned writer and editor Naomi… read more

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6. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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7. 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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8. 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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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. Rickshaw Girl

By: Mitali Perkins , Jamie Hogan

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naima excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to hel… read more

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11. A Girl of the Limberlost (Limberlost, #2)

By: Gene Stratton-Porter

3.80

Format: None pages,

Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observatio… read more

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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Shadow Spinner

By: Susan Fletcher

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

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16. I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade

By: Diane Lee Wilson

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

Born on the Mongolian steppes during the reign of Kublai Khan, Oyuna's future seems decided when, a… read more

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17. 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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18. 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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19. The Trojan War

By: Olivia E. Coolidge

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this retelling of the Trojan War, Olivia Coolidge crafts heroes and gods into real, multidimensi… read more

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20. Whatever Happened to Penny Candy?

By: Richard J. Maybury

5.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

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21. 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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22. Henry Reed, Inc.

By: Robert McCloskey , Keith Robertson

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Henry Reed has arrived in Grover's Corner--and the town will never be the same. While spending the … read more

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23. 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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24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. Starfish

By: Lisa Fipps

4.46

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this debut novel-in-verse. Eve… read more

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"I'm a starfish, taking p all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"DNA doesn't make you family. Love does. Actions do."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

"No matter what others say or do, embrace what makes you, you."

-Lisa Fipps, Starfish

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28. Ali and the Golden Eagle

By: Wayne Grover

3.78

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

When Wayne captures a baby golden eagle for his friend Ali, a young shepherd from the village of Ez… read more

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29. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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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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Margot Tomes , Jean Fritz

3.86

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4.07

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3.63

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3.64

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Colleen Coble

3.82

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4.12

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