Biographies Gr. 5-6
1. 
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.33 avg rating — 34,050 ratings 2. 
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Jacques Cartier: Exploring the St. Lawrence River (In the Footsteps of Explorers, 20) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by:
Kathleen Krull
4.03 avg rating — 281 ratings 13. 
Frederick Douglass: A Noble Life (Picture Book Biography)
by:
David A. Adler
3.91 avg rating — 43 ratings 
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas (Primates, 1)
by:
Jim Ottaviani
3.84 avg rating — 7,275 ratings 
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Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.07 avg rating — 3,934 ratings 
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The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams
by:
Tanya Lee Stone
4.31 avg rating — 1,233 ratings 
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Jane Goodall (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists) (Library Edition)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.91 avg rating — 34 ratings 26. 
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children
by:
Jan Pinborough
4.15 avg rating — 2,338 ratings 27. 
Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.22 avg rating — 1,254 ratings 
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The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever 4.20 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
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A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
by:
Jen Bryant
4.11 avg rating — 2,603 ratings 
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Benjamin Franklin: Electrified the World With New Ideas (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings 35. 
Peter Tchaikovsky (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.21 avg rating — 118 ratings 36. 
George Handel (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.21 avg rating — 97 ratings 37. 
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Stephen Hawking: Cosmologist Who Gets a Big Bang Out of the Universe (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings 41. 
The Wright Brothers: Inventors Whose Ideas Really Took Flight (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.17 avg rating — 30 ratings 42. 
Albert Einstein: Universal Genius (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings 43. 
Alexander Calder (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.02 avg rating — 41 ratings 44. 
Marie Curie (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Scientists & Inventors, #?)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.22 avg rating — 36 ratings 45. 
Henry Ford (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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Rachel Carson (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors & Scientists)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings 48. 
Johann Sebastian Bach (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Library Edition)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.20 avg rating — 138 ratings 49. 
Ludwig Van Beethoven (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.18 avg rating — 193 ratings 50. 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Revised Edition) (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers) (Library Edition)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.13 avg rating — 140 ratings 51. 
Making Contact!: Marconi Goes Wireless (Great Idea Series)
by:
Monica Kulling
4.14 avg rating — 21 ratings 
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The Secret World of Walter Anderson (Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children)
by:
Hester Bass
4.14 avg rating — 257 ratings 55. 
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Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
by:
Luetta Reimer
4.17 avg rating — 693 ratings 57. 
C.S. Lewis: Master Storyteller (Christian Heroes: Then & Now)
by:
Janet Benge
4.28 avg rating — 951 ratings 58. 
The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Philo Farnsworth
by:
Kathleen Krull
3.90 avg rating — 588 ratings 
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Thomas Jefferson: Third President 1801 - 1809 (Getting to Know the US Presidents)
by:
Mike Venezia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings 63. 
George Washington (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings 64. 
Abraham Lincoln: Sixteenth President 1861-1865 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
by:
Mike Venezia
4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings 
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John F. Kennedy: Thirty-fifth President, 1961-1963 (Getting to Know the U.S. Presidents)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings 
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George W. Bush: Forty-Third President (Getting to Know the US Presidents)
by:
Mike Venezia
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 69. 
How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark
by:
Rosalyn Schanzer
4.16 avg rating — 290 ratings 70. 
Leonardo da Vinci for Kids: His Life and Ideas, 21 Activities (Volume 10) (For Kids series)
by:
Janis Herbert
4.19 avg rating — 72 ratings 
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness (Christian Heroes: Then and Now)
by:
Janet Benge
4.35 avg rating — 914 ratings 
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Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board
by:
Bethany Hamilton
4.05 avg rating — 14,289 ratings 86. 
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
by:
Karen Blumenthal
3.95 avg rating — 6,412 ratings 87. 
Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure (Historical Notebooks)
by:
A.J. Wood
4.52 avg rating — 40 ratings 
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What Color Is My World?: The Lost History of African-American Inventors 4.21 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World
by:
Rachel Swaby
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,982 ratings