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Grade 5 Biographies

     "Louis, the Yard Teacher"
     A Time Machine into the Past
     A. A. Milne
     Abebe Bikila
     Agatha Christie
     Alan Turing
     Alexander Calder
     Amelia Jenks Bloomer: Fashion Trend Setter
     Andre Agassi
     Andres Segovia
     Andy Griffith
     Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
     Anne Morrow Lindbergh
     Arnold Lobel
     Astrid Lindgren
     Augusta Savage
     B.F. Skinner
     Babe Didrikson Zaharias
     Bass Reeves: First Black U.S. Deputy
     Benjamin Spock
     Big, Bad George - George Foreman
     Bill Peet
     Bill Wallace, Teacher Survivor
     Blaise Pascal
     Bob "The Cooz" Cousy
     Bob Marley
     Broken Bone Champion - Evel Knievel
     Butch Cassidy
     C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
     Career in a Closet
     Carroll O'Connor
     Catharine Beecher
     Cathy Freeman
     Charlayne Hunter-Gault
     Charles Schulz
     Charlie Chaplin
     Chief Joseph
     Chris Van Allsburg - He Does It All
     Chris Van Allsburg
     Christopher Columbus
     Clarence Birdseye
     Cynthia Rylant
     Dame Catherine Cookson
     Daniel Boone
     David Copperfield
     Desi Arnaz
     Dick Vitale
     Diego Velázquez
     Dorothy Hamill
     Dr. Sun Yat-sen
     Dreaming up Stories
     E.B. White
     Ed Yost, Father of Modern Hot Air Ballooning
     Edgar Allan Poe
     Edvard Grieg
     Edward Elgar
     Elaine Goodale Eastman and the Native American Schools
     Eli Whitney
     Elias Howe
     Ellen Lauri Ochoa: World's First Hispanic Astronaut
     Emily Bronte
     Enchanted
     Erik Erikson
     Esther Forbes: Love of the Past
     Etheridge Knight
     Ethnic Smorgasbord
     Eve Bunting
     Evelyn Ashford
     Everything Contains a Story
     Ferdinand Porsche
     Francis Scott Key
     Francisco Goya
     Frank Lloyd Wright
     Garret A. Morgan, Inventor of Safety Devices
     Gary Paulsen
     Gary Player
     Genghis Khan
     Gennifer Choldenko: Billboard For a Book
     George Washington Carver
     George Washington
     Gertrude Chandler Warner
     Gloria Steinem
     Grandma Moses
     Hans Christian Andersen
     Harriet Beecher Stowe
     Harriet Tubman
     Helen Keller
     Henry Adams: A Teacher Affects Eternity
     Henry David Thoreau
     Hergé
     Horace Mann, Father of American Public School Education
     Ivan Pavlov
     J.K. Rowling
     J.R.R. Tolkien
     Jacob Riis
     James Whitcomb Riley
     Jan Brett
     Jan Ernst Matzeliger
     Jane Austen
     Jane Goodall
     Jean Craighead George: The Wonders of Nature
     Jerry Spinelli: From Bat to Pencil
     Jesse Owens
     Jethro Tull
     Jim Henson
     Jodie Foster
     Johanna Spyri
     John Biggers
     John Glenn (Grades 5-7)
     John Glenn Orbits the Earth
     Johnny Appleseed
     Johnny Cash
     Johnny Unitas
     Johnny Weissmuller
     Jon Bon Jovi
     Juan Ponce de Leon
     Judy Blume
     Judy Garland
     Julia Richman
     Julie Krone - Female Jockey
     Juliette Gordon Low
     Kate DiCamillo: Writing Is Seeing
     King Abdullah II
     Langston Hughes
     Laura Ingalls Wilder
     Laura Towne
     Lemony Snicket's Handler
     Leo Lionni
     Lincoln (Part 1)
     Lincoln (Part 2)
     Linda Sue Park: Family History Uncovered
     Lois Lowry
     Lonely Traveler
     Louis Braille
     Louise Smith: The First Lady of Stock Car Racing
     Lucretia Mott
     Luis Walter Alvarez
     Mandy Moore
     Marc Chagall
     Marcel Proust
     Maria Montessori and Her Method
     Martin Luther King Jr.
     Mary Pope Osborne
     Mata Hari, Exotic Spy?
     Matt Christopher
     Matthew Henson
     Mel Blanc
     Meriwether Lewis
     Mia Hamm
     Moe Howard
     Mother Teresa
     Muddy Waters
     Muhammad Ali
     Nat King Cole
     Nathaniel Hawthorne
     Neil Armstrong (Grades 5-7)
     Noah Webster
     Nolan Ryan
     One's True Form
     P. T. Barnum
     Pam Munoz Ryan--Ethnic Smorgasbord
     Paul Robeson
     Pearl Bailey
     Peggy Fleming
     Pete Fountain
     Peyton Manning
     Phil McGraw
     Pocahontas and John Smith
     Polly Horvath--Everything on a Waffle?
     Queen Elizabeth II
     Rags to Riches
     Remember Your Writing Manners
     Rev. William Archibald Spooner
     Richard Jordan Gatling
     Richard Peck: First Chapter Is Last
     Robert Bateman
     Robert Frost
     Robert Munsch
     Sally Ride (Grades 5-7)
     Salvador Dali
     Samuel F. B. Morse
     Samuel Langhorne Clemens
     Sarah Vaughn
     School Matters
     Scott O'Dell-Stories From...
     Sean Connery
     Search for Sadako
     Shirley Temple
     Simon Bolivar
     Steffi Graf
     Stephen Hawking
     Steve Fossett: American Adventurer
     Stories with a Twist
     The Big Burn of 1910
     The Ends of the Earth: Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer
     The Life of Jean Piaget
     Tracy Austin
     Valery Brumel
     Vasco Nunez de Balboa
     Virginia Hamilton
     Vladimir Salnikov
     W.E.B. DuBois
     Washington Irving
     Who Is Joe Biden?
     Will Rogers
     Will Steger, Polar Adventurer
     William Penn
     Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley
     Woody Guthrie

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