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Creative Minds Biography Series

By Various Authors
Level 4
Review:

Packed with educational value, these books (around 60 pages long each) are nicely written for a fourth grade reading level. Black and white illustrations are included every 2-3 pages.

Books in this series that we recommend: A Pocketful of Goobers; A World of Knowing; Chocolate by Hershey; Fine Print; Frontier Surgeons; Germ Hunter; Go Free or Die; President of the Underground Railroad; Remember the Ladies; Revolutionary Poet; Shoes for Everyone; Sisters Against Slavery; Walking the Road to Freedom; What are You Figuring Now?; What Do You Mean? A Story of Noah Webster

Books in this series that did not make the book list: Discovering Nature’s Laws

Books in this series that we have not yet reviewed: A Fairy-Tale Life; A Head Full of Notions; A Hunger for Learning; Between Two Worlds; Beyond Little Women; Bold Composer; Civil Rights Pioneer; Click!; Dance of the Swan; Demanding Justice; Father of the Constitution; Farmland Innovator; Fighting for Equal Rights; First Son and President; Flying Against the Wind; Freedom Seeker; Germ Hunter; Healing Warrior; Her Piano Sang; I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight; Jazz Age Poet; Liberty or Death; Listening to Crickets; Living with the Senecas; Maker of Machines; Mark T-W-A-I-N!; Mr. Blue Jeans; Musical Genius; Natural Writer; Oh, The Places He Went; Pioneer Plowmaker; Raggin’; Revolutionary Poet; Rooftop Astronomer; Say It with Music; Science Fiction Pioneer; Seneca Chief; Sisters Against Slavery; Stateswoman to the World; Tales for Hard Times; The Back of Beyond; The Country Artist; The Play’s the Thing; The Road to Seneca Falls; The Wizard of Sound; The Workers’ Detective; To The Point; Voice of Freedom; Voice of the Paiutes; We’ll Race You, Henry; Words of Promise; Writing for Freedom

(Reviewed by Jenny Phillips)

Series Yes
Genre Biography
The Good and the Beautiful Library No
  • 3 Entertainment Value
  • 4.5 Moral Value
  • 5 Educational Value
  • 4 Literary Value
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