Biography

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A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return: Expanded Edition

This expanded edition of A Game for Swallows features a new, illustrated afterword, as Abirached reflects on the meaning of her memoir's title, the graffiti that inspired it, and the future… Read More →

  • Lexile: 610
  • Dewey: 741.5/95692
  • Copyright: 2022
Spring 2025 4 titles

Extraordinary Women in Psychology — Hardcover Set

From the Series Extraordinary Women in Psychology

These biographies of trailblazing women psychologists uncover ground-breaking research and tireless advocacy that has had great impact but remains relatively unknown. Loaded with backmatter… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
  • Hardcover
  • List Price: $69.96
  • Your Price: $52.47
  • 4 titles

Fall Grade 8 Take-Home Kit Read for a Better World ™

Help students start or build their home libraries! Strong literacy skills are an essential part of education. Read for a Better World Take-Home Book Packs are one tool families and… Read More →

Cover: Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year
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Little Fish: A Memoir from a Different Kind of Year

Told through real-life journals, collages, lists, and drawings, this coming-of-age story illustrates the transformation of an 18-year-old girl from a small-town teenager into an independent… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2013
Cover: Mamie Phipps Clark, Champion for Children
Starred Review & Award Count 1
Spring 2025

Mamie Phipps Clark, Champion for Children

From the Series Extraordinary Women in Psychology

This inspiring graphic novel tells the story of groundbreaking psychologist and civil rights activist Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD, and her research in the racial identity and development of self… Read More →

  • Copyright: 2024
Cover: Notes from a Sickbed
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Notes from a Sickbed

In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome). She spent much of the next eight years unwell, in a medical… Read More →

  • Lexile: 590
  • Dewey: 741.5/973 [B]
  • Copyright: 2022

Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir

McNeil Island in Washington state was the home of the last prison island in the US, accessible only by air or sea. It was also home to about fifty families, including Colleen Frakes' when she Read More →

  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito
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The American Dream?: A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito

As a child growing up in Malaysia, Shing Yin Khor had two very different ideas of what "America" meant. The first looked a lot like Hollywood, full of beautiful people, sunlight, and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 970
  • ATOS: 5.1
  • Dewey: 917.804/34
  • Copyright: 2019