Biographical Connections

Description:

Intended to inform and inspire young readers, these personal stories will make middle- and high-school students think about important influences in their own lives and about how they can use these influences to succeed. Each volume in this unique series reads like a trilogy, helping students understand that everyone has the tools to achieve success.

Key features include:

• Fascinating biographies demonstrating the lasting impact an individual can have on subsequent generations.

• Engaging photography throughout every 112-page volume.

• A timeline for the life of every central figure in the series.

• An index in every volume.

Titles include:

• Elizabeth Blackwell with profiles of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Susan La Flesche Picotte

• Cesar Chavez with profiles of Terence V. Powderly and Dolores Huerta

• Albert Einstein with profiles of Isaac Newton and J. Robert Oppenheimer

• Martin Luther King, Jr., with profiles of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Nelson Mandela

• Golda Meir with profiles of David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Rabin

• Elvis Presley with profiles of Muddy Waters and Mick Jagger

• Louis Riel with profiles of Gabriel Dumont and Poundmaker

• Jackie Robinson with profiles of Satchel Paige and Branch Rickey