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Grade 5 Biographies

     "Louis, the Yard Teacher"
     A Time Machine into the Past
     A. A. Milne
     Abraham Lincoln
     Abraham Lincoln
     Aksel Lund Svindal
     Alan Turing
     Alexander Calder
     Alice Roosevelt Longworth
     Amelia Jenks Bloomer: Fashion Trend Setter
     Andre Agassi
     Andres Segovia
     Andrew Johnson
     Andy Griffith
     Anne Frank
     Anne Frank
     Anne Morrow Lindbergh
     Annie Edson Taylor
     Arnold Lobel
     Astrid Lindgren
     Augusta Savage
     B.F. Skinner
     Babe Didrikson Zaharias
     Barack Obama
     Barbara Bush
     Bass Reeves: First Black U.S. Deputy
     Benjamin Harrison
     Benjamin Spock
     Bess Truman
     Betty Ford
     Big, Bad George - George Foreman
     Bill Peet
     Bill Wallace, Teacher Survivor
     Blaine Kern
     Blaise Pascal
     Bob "The Cooz" Cousy
     Broken Bone Champion - Evel Knievel
     Butch Cassidy
     C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia
     Calvin Coolidge
     Career in a Closet
     Carroll O'Connor
     Catharine Beecher
     Cesar Chavez
     Cesar Chavez
     Cesar Chavez
     Charlayne Hunter-Gault
     Charles Schulz
     Charlie Chaplin
     Chester A. Arthur
     Chief Joseph
     Chris Hartwick
     Chris Van Allsburg - He Does It All
     Chris Van Allsburg
     Christopher Columbus
     Christopher Sholes
     Clarence Birdseye
     Claude Monet
     Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
     Cynthia Rylant
     Dame Catherine Cookson
     Daniel Boone
     Davy Crockett
     Dicey Langston
     Diego Vel�zquez
     Dorothy Hamill
     Dreaming up Stories
     Dwight Eisenhower
     E.B. White
     Ed Yost, Father of Modern Hot Air Ballooning
     Edgar Allan Poe
     Edith Roosevelt
     Edith WIlson
     Edvard Grieg
     Edward Elgar
     Edward Jenner
     Edward Jenner
     Elaine Goodale Eastman and the Native American Schools
     Eleanor Roosevelt
     Eli Whitney
     Elias Howe
     Ellen Lauri Ochoa: World's First Hispanic Woman Astronaut
     Enchanted
     Erik Erikson
     Esther Forbes: Love of the Past
     Ethel Merman
     Etheridge Knight
     Ethnic Smorgasbord
     Eve Bunting
     Evelyn Ashford
     Everything Contains a Story
     Florence Harding
     Francis Scott Key
     Francisco Goya
     Franklin D. Roosevelt
     Franklin Pierce
     G.W. Carver: Not Just Peanut Butter Cookies
     Garrett A. Morgan, Inventor of Safety Devices
     Gary Paulsen
     Gary Player
     Gene Autry
     Gennifer Choldenko: Billboard For a Book
     George H. W. Bush
     George W. Bush
     George Washington Carver
     George Washington
     George Washington
     George Washington
     Gerald Ford
     Gertrude Chandler Warner
     Grace Coolidge
     Grace Kelly
     Grandma Moses
     Greg Mortenson
     Greg Mortenson
     Grover Cleveland
     Hank Aaron
     Hans Christian Andersen
     Harriet Beecher Stowe
     Harriet Tubman
     Harry Truman
     Harry Truman
     Heather Moyse
     Helen Keller
     Helen Keller
     Helen Taft
     Henry Adams: A Teacher Affects Eternity
     Henry David Thoreau
     Herbert Hoover
     Herg�
     Hillary Clinton
     J.K. Rowling
     J.R.R. Tolkien
     Jacqueline Kennedy
     James Brown
     James Buchanan
     James Garfield
     James K. Polk
     James Monroe
     James Oglethorpe
     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
     Jimmy Carter
     Johanna Spyri
     John Biggers
     John F. Kennedy
     John Glenn Orbits the Earth
     John Harrison
     John Kennedy
     John Tyler
     Johnny Appleseed
     Johnny Appleseed
     Johnny Cash
     Johnny Clem
     Johnny Unitas
     Johnny Weissmuller
     Jon Bon Jovi
     Judy Blume
     Judy Garland
     Julia Richman
     Julie Krone - Female Jockey
     Juliette Gordon Low
     Kate DiCamillo: Writing Is Seeing
     Kim Yu-na
     King Abdullah II
     Langston Hughes
     Lara Gut
     Laura Bush
     Laura Ingalls Wilder
     Laura Ingalls Wilder
     Laura Towne
     Lemony Snicket's Handler
     Leo Lionni
     Linda Sue Park: Family History Uncovered
     Lois Lowry
     Lonely Traveler
     Lou Hoover
     Louis Braille
     Louise Smith: The First Lady of Stock Car Racing
     Luis Walter Alvarez
     Lyndon Johnson
     Mamie Eisenhower
     Mandy Moore
     Marc Chagall
     Marcel Proust
     Margaret Peterson Haddix: Only In My Dreams
     Maria Montessori and Her Method
     Martin Luther King, Jr.
     Martin Van Buren
     Mary Pope Osborne
     Mata Hari, Exotic Spy?
     Matt Christopher
     Matthew Henson
     Mel Blanc
     Michelle Obama
     Michelle Obama
     Millard Fillmore
     Moe Howard
     Mother Teresa
     Muddy Waters
     Muhammad Ali
     Nancy Reagan
     Nat King Cole
     Nathaniel Hawthorne
     Neil Armstrong (Grades 5-7)
     Noah McCullough
     Noah Webster
     Nolan Ryan
     Ole Einar Bjorndalen
     One's True Form
     Oprah Winfrey
     P. T. Barnum
     Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
     Pam Munoz Ryan--Ethnic Smorgasbord
     Pat Nixon
     Paul Robeson
     Pearl Bailey
     Peggy Fleming
     Pete Fountain
     Peyton Manning
     Phil McGraw
     Phillis Wheatley
     Picabo Street
     Pocahontas
     Polly Horvath--Everything on a Waffle?
     Queen Elizabeth II
     Rags to Riches
     Remember Your Writing Manners
     Reverend William Archibald Spooner
     Richard Jordan Gatling
     Richard Nixon
     Richard Nixon
     Richard Peck: First Chapter Is Last
     Robert Bateman
     Robert E. Lee
     Robert Frost
     Robert Munsch
     Roberto Luongo
     Ronald Reagan
     Rosa Parks
     Rosa Parks
     Rosa Parks
     Rosa Parks
     Rosalynn Carter
     Rutherford B. Hayes
     Ryan Hreljac
     Sally Ride
     Salvador Dali
     Sam Walton
     Samuel F. B. Morse
     Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
     Samuel Langhorne Clemens
     Sarah Hale
     Sarah Vaughn
     School Matters
     Scott O'Dell - Stories From...
     Sean Connery
     Shaun White
     Shirley Temple
     Simon Bolivar
     Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
     Stories with a Twist
     The Big Burn of 1910
     The Ends of the Earth: Ann Bancroft, Polar Explorer
     The Life of Jean Piaget
     Theodore Roosevelt
     Thomas Jefferson
     Tom Brady
     Tracy Austin
     Ulysses S. Grant
     Valery Brumel
     Velma Bronn Johnston
     Virginia Hamilton
     Vladimir Salnikov
     W.E.B. Du Bois
     Walt Disney
     Warren Harding
     Washington Irving
     Who Is Joe Biden?
     Will Rogers
     William Bradford
     William Clinton
     William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
     William Henry Harrison
     William Taft
     Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley
     Woodrow Wilson
     Woody Guthrie
     Yogi Berra
     Yuko Kavaguti
     Zachary Taylor


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