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"Louis, the Yard Teacher" (Grades 4-5)
A New World of Music (Grades 9-12)
A Sense of Place (Grades 3-4)
A Singing Pirate (Grades 3-4)
A Time Machine into the Past (Grades 4-5)
A Toy That Can Be Read (Grades 2-3)
A. A. Milne (Grades 4-6)
Aaron Burr (Grades 7-9)
Abebe Bikila (Grades 5-7)
Abigail Adams (Grades 6-7)
Abraham Lincoln (Grades 6-8)
Ada Lovelace (Grades 9-12)
Adam Smith (Grades 6-8)
Agatha Christie (Grades 4-6)
Agnes Moorehead (Grades 6-8)
Al Capone (Grades 7-8)
Alan Turing (Grades 4-6)
Albert Einstein (Grades 9-12)
Albrecht Dürer (Grades 9-12)
Aleksandr Karelin (Grades 3-4)
Alexander Calder (Grades 5-7)
Alexander Graham Bell (Grades 3-4)
Alfred Hitchcock (Grades 7-9)
Alfred Nobel (Grades 9-12)
Amelia Jenks Bloomer: Fashion Trend Setter (Grades 5-7)
Andre Agassi (Grades 5-7)
Andres Segovia (Grades 5-7)
Andy Griffith (Grades 5-6)
Andy Warhol (Grades 9-12)
Anna Pavlova (Grades 9-12)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Grades 4-6)
Ansel Adams (Grades 8-10)
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (Grades 9-12)
Antonio Vivaldi (Grades 8-9)
Arnold Lobel (Grades 5-7)
Arthur Fiedler (Grades 6-8)
Astrid Lindgren (Grades 4-6)
Augusta Savage (Grades 5-7)
Auguste Bartholdi (Grades 6-8)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Grades 5-7)
Bass Reeves: First Black U.S. Deputy (Grades 4-6)
Beatrix Potter (Grades 3-4)
Benjamin Harrison (Grades 9-12)
Benjamin Spock (Grades 4-6)
Big, Bad George - George Foreman (Grades 5-6)
Bill Bixby (Grades 7-9)
Bill Peet (Grades 5-7)
Blaise Pascal (Grades 4-6)
Bob "The Cooz" Cousy (Grades 5-7)
Bob Barker (Grades 7-8)
Bob Marley (Grades 5-7)
Booker T. Washington (Grades 7-8)
Broken Bone Champion - Evel Knievel (Grades 5-6)
Butch Cassidy (Grades 5-7)
Byron (Grades 8-10)
Calvin Klein (Grades 7-9)
Candace Cameron Bure (Grades 7-9)
Career in a Closet (Grades 5-6)
Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician (Grades 6-8)
Carl Sandburg: Champion of the Working Class (Grades 6-8)
Carol Moseley Braun (Grades 9-10)
Caroline Herschel (Grades 9-12)
Carroll O'Connor (Grades 5-7)
Cathy Freeman (Grades 5-7)
Chad Knaus (Grade 7)
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Grades 5-6)
Charles Henry Turner (Grades 6-8)
Charles Lindbergh (Grades 7-8)
Charles Schulz (Grades 4-5)
Charlie Chaplin (Grades 5-7)
Chester Nimitz (Grades 9-12)
Chief Joseph (Grades 4-6)
Chris Van Allsburg (Grades 5-7)
Chris Van Allsburg - He Does It All (Grades 4-6)
Christa McAuliffe (Grades 6-8)
Christian Dior (Grades 6-8)
Christopher Columbus (Grades 4-7)
Christopher Reeve (Grades 6-8)
Christopher Wren (Grades 6-8)
Clarence Birdseye (Grades 5-7)
Claude Monet (Grades 9-12)
Condoleezza Rice (Grades 9-12)
Crescent Dragonwagon (Grades 6-7)
Cynthia Rylant (Grades 4-6)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Grades 6-8)
Dame Catherine Cookson (Grades 4-6)
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Grades 8-9)
Daniel Boone (Grades 5-6)
Daniel Webster (Grades 7-8)
Dara Torres (Grades 8-9)
David Copperfield (Grades 5-6)
Davy Crockett (Grades 6-8)
Desi Arnaz (Grades 5-7)
Dicey Langston (Grades 6-8)
Dick Van Dyke (Grades 6-7)
Dick Vitale (Grades 5-8)
Diego Velázquez (Grades 4-6)
Dorothy Hamill (Grades 5-7)
Dr. Antonia Novello (Grades 11-12)
Dr. Mae Jemison (Grades 10-11)
Dr. Seuss (Grades 6-7)
Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Grades 4-6)
Dreaming up Stories (Grades 3-5)
E.B. White (Grades 4-6)
Ed Yost, Father of Modern Hot Air Ballooning (Grades 5-6)
Edgar Allan Poe (Grades 5-7)
Edvard Grieg (Grades 4-6)
Edward Elgar (Grades 4-6)
Eldridge Cleaver (Grades 9-12)
Eli Whitney (Grades 4-6)
Eli Whitney (Grades 7-8)
Elias Howe (Grades 5-6)
Elie Wiesel (Grades 6-8)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Part 1 (Grades 8-10)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Part 2 (Grades 8-10)
Ellen Lauri Ochoa: World's First Hispanic Astronaut (Grades 5-7)
Emily Bronte (Grades 4-6)
Emily Dickenson (Grades 6-7)
Emily Post (Grade 9)
Emma Lazarus (Grades 6-8)
Emma Lazarus (Grades 6-8)
Emma Thompson (Grades 7-9)
Emperor Meiji (Grades 6-8)
Enya (Grades 6-7)
Etheridge Knight (Grade 5)
Eve Bunting (Grades 5-6)
Evelyn Ashford (Grades 5-6)
Farley Mowat (Grades 6-7)
Felix Mendelssohn (Grades 7-8)
Ferdinand Magellan (Grades 8-9)
Ferdinand Porsche (Grades 4-6)
Francis Marion (Grades 7-9)
Francis Scott Key (Grades 5-7)
Francisco Goya (Grades 5-7)
Frank Duryea (Grades 3-4)
Frank Lloyd Wright (Grades 5-7)
Franz Joseph Haydn (Grades 7-8)
Franz Schubert (Grades 9-12)
Fred Rogers (Grades 7-9)
Frederick E. Church (Grades 9-12)
Funny Lady (Grades 2-3)
Gandhi (Grades 6-8)
Garret A. Morgan, Inventor of Safety Devices (Grades 5-6)
Gary Paulsen (Grades 5-7)
Gary Player (Grades 5-7)
Gene Autry (Grades 6-8)
General Custer (Grades 6-8)
Genghis Khan (Grades 4-6)
George Frideric Handel (Grades 7-8)
George Orwell (Grades 8-10)
George W. G. Ferris (Grades 8-9)
George Washington (Grades 5-7)
George Washington Carver (Grades 5-7)
Georges Seurat (Grades 9-12)
Gertrude Chandler Warner (Grades 4-6)
Gloria Steinem (Grades 5-7)
Grace Kelly (Grades 7-8)
Grandma Moses (Grades 5-6)
Hank Aaron (Grades 6-7)
Hans Christian Andersen (Grades 4-6)
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Grades 4-5)
Harriet Tubman (Grades 4-6)
Hattie McDaniel (Grades 7-8)
Helen Keller (Grades 5-7)
Henry David Thoreau (Grades 4-6)
Henry Ford (Grades 7-9)
Henry W. Longfellow (Grades 8-10)
Hergé (Grades 5-7)
Hypatia of Alexandria (Grades 9-12)
Ibn Battuta (Grades 8-9)
Iron Man of the NFL - Brett Favre (Grades 6-7)
Isaac Asimov (Grades 8-12)
Ivan Pavlov (Grades 4-6)
Ivan the Terrible (Grades 7-9)
J.K. Rowling (Grades 4-6)
J.R.R. Tolkien (Grades 5-7)
J.R.R. Tolkien (Grades 8-12)
Jack Kilby: Bringing in the Future (Grades 6-8)
Jackson Pollock (Grades 9-12)
Jacob Riis (Grades 5-7)
Jacques Cousteau (Grades 7-8)
James A. Michener (Grades 9-12)
James Herriot (Grades 8-9)
James Madison (Grades 6-8)
James Pierson Beckwourth (Grades 6-7)
James Thurber (Grades 6-7)
James Whitcomb Riley (Grades 4-6)
Jan Brett (Grades 4-6)
Jan Ernst Matzeliger (Grades 5-7)
Jane Austen (Grades 5-7)
Jane Goodall (Grades 5-7)
Jay Silverheels (Grades 7-9)
Jefferson Davis (Grades 7-9)
Jesse James - Part 1 (Grades 6-8)
Jesse James - Part 2 (Grades 6-8)
Jesse Owens (Grades 5-7)
Jethro Tull (Grades 5-6)
Jim Henson (Grades 4-6)
Jimmie Johnson (Grades 6-7)
Jodie Foster (Grades 4-6)
Johann Sebastian Bach (Grades 7-8)
Johanna Spyri (Grades 4-6)
Johannes Brahms (Grades 9-12)
John Biggers (Grades 5-7)
John Cabot (Grades 7-9)
John Coltrane (Grades 9-12)
John Glenn (Grades 5-7)
John Glenn (Grades 6-8)
John Glenn Orbits the Earth (Grades 5-7)
John Maynard Keynes (Grades 6-8)
Johnny Appleseed (Grades 3-4)
Johnny Appleseed (Grades 5-7)
Johnny Cash (Grades 5-6)
Johnny Unitas (Grades 4-6)
Johnny Weissmuller (Grades 5-7)
Jon Bon Jovi (Grades 5-7)
Joseph Pulitzer (Grade 7)
Josephine Baker (Grades 6-8)
Josiah Henson (Grades 6-7)
Juan Ponce de Leon (Grades 5-7)
Judith Jamison (Grades 9-10)
Judy Blume (Grades 4-6)
Judy Garland (Grades 5-6)
Julia Child (Grades 6-8)
Julie Krone - Female Jockey (Grades 4-5)
Juliette Gordon Low (Grades 5-7)
Kate DiCamillo: Writing Is Seeing (Grades 3-5)
Katharine Hepburn (Grades 6-8)
Katie Couric (Grades 6-8)
Kemal Atatürk (Grades 8-10)
King Abdullah II (Grades 4-6)
King Chulalongkorn (Grades 8-10)
King Mongkut (Grades 8-10)
Kofi Annan (Grades 7-9)
Kristi Yamaguchi (Grades 7-8)
Lance Armstrong (Grades 8-9)
Langston Hughes (Grades 4-6)
Laura Ingalls Wilder (Grades 4-6)
Leif Ericson (Grades 3-4)
Lemony Snicket's Handler (Grades 3-5)
Leo Lionni (Grades 4-6)
Leonardo da Vinci (Grades 9-12)
Levi Strauss (Grades 7-8)
Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, and Pomp (Grades 8-9)
Lincoln (Part 1) (Grades 5-7)
Lincoln (Part 2) (Grades 5-7)
Listen to the Old Ones (Grades 3-4)
Lizzie Borden (Grades 7-8)
Lois Lowry (Grades 4-6)
Lonely Traveler (Grades 3-5)
Louis Braille (Grades 4-6)
Louis Pasteur - Part 1 (Grades 9-11)
Louis Pasteur - Part 2 (Grades 9-11)
Louise Smith: The First Lady of Stock Car Racing (Grades 4-6)
Lucille Ball (Grades 7-8)
Lucretia Mott (Grades 5-7)
Ludwig II of Bavaria (Grades 7-9)
Luis Walter Alvarez (Grades 5-7)
Luther Burbank (Grades 3-4)
Mandy Moore (Grades 5-6)
Manfred "The Red Baron" Von Richthofen (Grades 6-8)
Marc Chagall (Grades 5-6)
Marcel Proust (Grades 4-6)
Marco Polo (Grades 7-8)
Margaret E. Knight (Grades 6-7)
Margaret Mead (Grades 7-9)
Maria Mitchell (Grades 8-12)
Maria Tallchief (Grades 8-9)
Marie Curie (Grades 8-9)
Marlon Brando (Grades 6-8)
Marquis de Lafayette - Part 1 (Grades 7-9)
Marquis de Lafayette - Part 2 (Grades 7-9)
Martin Luther King Jr. (Grades 5-7)
Mary Anderson (Grades 7-8)
Mary Pope Osborne (Grades 4-6)
Mary Shelley (Grades 7-8)
Mary Stewart (Grades 8-9)
Mary, Queen of Scots, Part 1 - Baby Queen (Grades 6-7)
Mary, Queen of Scots, Part 2 - Queen of Sorrows (Grades 6-7)
Mata Hari, Exotic Spy? (Grades 4-6)
Matt Christopher (Grades 4-6)
Matthew Henson (Grades 4-6)
Matthew Henson (Grades 6-8)
Maya Angelou (Grade 6)
Mel Blanc (Grades 5-6)
Meriwether Lewis (Grades 4-6)
Mia Hamm (Grades 5-7)
Michael J. Fox (Grades 9-12)
Michelangelo (Grades 6-8)
Michelle Kwan (Grades 7-9)
Milton Hershey (Grades 7-9)
Mitsumasa Anno (Grades 3-4)
Moe Howard (Grades 4-6)
Mother Teresa (Grades 4-6)
Mound Bayou Angel (Grades 9-10)
Mozart (Grades 6-8)
Muddy Waters (Grades 5-7)
Muhammad Ali (Grades 5-7)
Narcissa Whitman (Grades 7-9)
Nat King Cole (Grades 5-7)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (Grades 4-7)
Neil Armstrong (Grades 5-7)
Neil Armstrong (Grades 7-8)
Nero (Grades 7-9)
Niccolo Machiavelli (Grades 9-12)
Nicholas Roerich (Grades 9-12)
Noah Webster (Grades 3-5)
Nolan Ryan (Grades 5-7)
Norman Rockwell (Grades 6-8)
Norman Schwarzkopf (Grades 6-8)
Nostradamus (Grades 7-9)
One's True Form (Grades 3-5)
Orson Welles (Grades 7-9)
Otto von Bismarck (Grades 9-11)
P. T. Barnum (Grades 4-6)
Pablo Picasso (Grades 9-12)
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso (Grades 7-8)
Pancho Villa (Grades 9-12)
Parents of Curious George (Grades 2-3)
Paul Hamm (Grade 6)
Paul Revere (Grades 7-8)
Paul Robeson (Grades 5-6)
Pearl Bailey (Grades 5-6)
Peggy Fleming (Grades 4-6)
Pete Fountain (Grades 4-6)
Peter Paul Rubens (Grades 9-12)
Peyton Manning (Grades 5-7)
Phil McGraw (Grades 5-7)
Phyllis Wheatley (Grades 6-7)
Pocahontas (Grades 2-3)
Pocahontas and John Smith (Grades 5-7)
Pol Pot (Grades 10-12)
Priscilla Mullins
Queen Elizabeth II (Grades 5-7)
Queen Victoria (Grades 7-8)
Raffaello Sanzio (Grades 9-12)
Raffi Cavoukian (Grades 2-3)
Rags to Riches (Grades 3-5)
Remember Your Writing Manners (Grades 3-5)
Rev. William Archibald Spooner (Grades 5-7)
Richard I (Grades 8-10)
Richard Jordan Gatling (Grades 5-7)
Richard Peck: First Chapter Is Last (Grades 4-5)
Roald Dahl (Grades 6-8)
Robert Ballard, Discoverer of the Wreck of the Titanic (Grades 8-9)
Robert Bateman (Grades 5-7)
Robert E. Lee (Grades 7-9)
Robert Frost (Grades 4-6)
Robert Louis Stevenson (Grades 7-8)
Robert Munsch (Grades 4-6)
Robert Peary (Grades 6-8)
Ronald Reagan (Grades 8-11)
Rosalind Franklin (Grades 7-9)
Rudyard Kipling (Grades 6-7)
Sacagawea (Grades 7-9)
Saddam Hussein (Grades 9-12)
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (Grades 9-12)
Saladin (Grades 8-10)
Sally Ride (Grades 5-7)
Salvador Dali (Grades 5-6)
Sam Walton (Grades 6-8)
Samuel F. B. Morse (Grades 5-7)
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Grades 5-7)
Sarah Vaughn (Grades 5-6)
Sarah Walker (Grades 7-9)
School Matters (Grades 3-5)
Scott Carpenter (Grades 9-12)
Sean Connery (Grades 5-7)
Search for Sadako (Grades 4-6)
Sequoyah (Grades 6-8)
Sergeant Molly (Grades 3-4)
Sergey Bubka (Grades 2-4)
Shah Jahan (Grades 6-8)
Shirley Temple (Grades 4-6)
Simon Bolivar (Grades 5-6)
Sir Alec Guinness (Grades 7-9)
Sir Alexander Fleming (Grades 6-8)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Grades 6-8)
Sir Edmund Hillary (Grades 8-9)
Sir Thomas More (Grades 9-12)
Slim Pickens (Grades 6-7)
Sojourner Truth (Grades 6-8)
Stanley and Livingstone (Grades 6-7)
Steffi Graf (Grades 5-7)
Stephen Hawking (Grades 5-7)
Steve Fossett: American Adventurer (Grades 5-6)
Stories with a Twist (Grades 3-5)
Sugar Ray Robinson (Grades 6-7)
Surrounded by Fame - Maria Shriver (Grades 7-9)
Susan B. Anthony (Grades 8-9)
T. S. Eliot (Grades 6-8)
Teenage Queen, Part 1 - Marie Antoinette (Grades 6-8)
Teenage Queen, Part 2 - Marie Antoinette (Grades 6-8)
Teenage Queen, Pt.1-Marie Antoinette (Grades 6-8)
Terry Fox (Grades 6-7)
The Brothers Grimm (Grades 6-8)
The Ends of the Earth: Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer (Grades 4-6)
Theodore Roosevelt (Grades 8-9)
Thomas Crapper (Grades 8-12)
Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park (Grades 7-8)
Thomas Nast (Grades 6-8)
Tiger Woods (Grades 9-12)
Timur (Grades 7-9)
Tiziano Vecellio (Grades 9-12)
Tom Brady (Grades 6-8)
Tracy Austin (Grades 5-6)
Ulysses S. Grant - Part 1 (Grades 6-8)
Ulysses S. Grant - Part 2 (Grades 6-8)
Vachel Lindsay (Grades 6-8)
Valery Brumel (Grades 3-5)
Vasco da Gama (Grades 7-8)
Vasco Nunez de Balboa (Grades 8-9)
Venus Williams (Grades 6-7)
Victor Hugo (Grades 8-10)
Vincent van Gogh (Grades 6-8)
Virginia Hamilton (Grades 5-6)
Vladimir Salnikov (Grades 4-5)
W.E.B. DuBois (Grades 5-7)
Walt Disney (Grades 6-7)
Washington Irving (Grades 4-6)
Will Rogers (Grades 4-6)
Will Steger, Polar Adventurer (Grades 4-6)
William Bradford (Grades 6-8)
William Penn (Grades 4-6)
William Shatner (Grades 9-12)
Wilt Chamberlain (Grades 6-8)
Winston Churchill - Part 1 (Grades 7-8)
Winston Churchill - Part 2 (Grades 7-8)
Wonderful, Delightful, Great, Very Good Author (Grades 2-3)
Woody Guthrie (Grades 5-7)
Written Story-Telling (Grades 2-3)
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