Kelley, True.
Summary: "This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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Summary: A brief biography of the English girl whose discovery of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton in 1811 when she was twelve led to a life-long interest in fossils and other important discoveries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 1999
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Summary: "A beautifully illustrated children's biography of Beverly Cleary, from her roots in Portland to her years as a librarian and an eventual children's book writer. The debut book in Little Bigfoot's new Growing to Greatness series of notable people from the Pacific Northwest"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2019
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Summary: Chronicles the lives of New York intellectual Esther Murphy, celebrity ephemera collector Mercedes de Acosta, and British Vogue editor Madge Garland and their lifestyles, influence on fashion, and celebrity friendships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the famed chemist, from her education at the Sorbonne in Paris to her work in radioactivity and her scientific accolades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CURPoole, Josephine.
Summary: A biography of the fifteenth-century peasant girl who led a French army to victory against the English, witnessed the crowning of King Charles VII, and was later burned at the stake for witchcraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1998
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Summary: Documents the life of the fifteenth-century French teenage peasant who led an army into battle and became a saint.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOATallchief, Maria.
Summary: Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1999
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Summary: The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. She reported her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2018