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Bright Minds eBook Series

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  • Madam C. J. Walker: The Beauty Boss (Bright Minds)

    by Janel Rodriguez ...
    Illustrated by Subi Bosa ...
    Series series Bright Minds
    Meet the inventors and scientists of color who changed the world!Born Sarah Breedlove near Delta, Louisiana, in 1867, Madam C. J. Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America. Among her many accomplishments, she invented a Black hair care method, known as the “Walker system,” as a treatment for ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • George Washington Carver: More Than "The Peanut Man" (Bright Minds)

    by Janel Rodriguez ...
    Illustrated by Subi Bosa ...
    Series series Bright Minds
    Meet the inventors and scientists of color who changed the world!Born enslaved during the Civil War in Diamond, Missouri, George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist and inventor. He promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Among his many accomplishments, he developed more than 300 industrial and commercial products from peanuts. It is time to remember ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Lewis Latimer: A Brilliant Inventor (Bright Minds)

    by Janel Rodriguez ...
    Illustrated by Subi Bosa ...
    Series series Bright Minds
    Meet the inventors and scientists of color who changed the world!Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1848, Lewis Latimer was an inventor, a leader, a teacher, and a creator. He knew how to draw, knew the law, wrote books and poetry, and spoke several languages. Among his many accomplishments, he contributed to the design of the light bulb, and brought the electric light to cities around the world. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • I am Martin Luther King, Jr.

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos ...
    Series series Ordinary People Change the World
    The eighth biography in this New York Times bestselling series features one of America's greatest civil rights heroes, Martin Luther King, Jr.As a child, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shocked by the terrible and unfair way African American people were treated. When he grew up, he decided to do something about it—peacefully, with powerful words. He helped gather people together for nonviolent ... Read more

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  • Let the Children March

    by Monica Clark-Robinson ...
    Illustrated by Frank Morrison ...
    This powerful picture book introduces young readers to a key event in the struggle for Civil Rights. Winner, Coretta Scott King Honor Award.In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

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  • I am George Washington

    by Brad Meltzer ...
    Illustrated by Christopher Eliopoulos ...
    Series series Ordinary People Change the World
    Children will want to read about our first president while discussing the presidential elections. This is the ninth book in the New York Times bestselling biography series that inspires while it informs and entertains.George Washington was never afraid to be the first to try something, from exploring the woods around his childhood home to founding a brand new nation, the United States of America. ... Read more

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  • Thomas Jefferson

    Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything

    by Maira Kalman ...
    Illustrated by Maira Kalman ...
    Renowned artist Maira Kalman sheds light on the fascinating life and interests of the Renaissance man who was our third president.Thomas Jefferson is perhaps best known for writing the Declaration of Independence—but there’s so much more to discover. This energetic man was interested in everything. He played violin, spoke seven languages and was a scientist, naturalist, botanist, mathematician and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Your Legacy

    A Bold Reclaiming of Our Enslaved History

    by Schele Williams ...
    Illustrated by Tonya Engel ...
    Your Legacy is a proud, empowering picture book introduction to African American history that celebrates and honors enslaved ancestors from author Schele Williams and illustrator Tonya Engel.Your story begins in Africa.Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you.Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy ... Read more

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  • Who Was Thomas Alva Edison?

    by Margaret Frith, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera. As a boy, observing a robin catch a worm and then take flight, he fed a playmate a mixture ... Read more

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  • Fifty Cents and a Dream

    Young Booker T. Washington

    by Jabari Asim, Bryan Collier ...
    Booker dreamedof making friends with words,setting free the secretsthat lived in books.Born into slavery, young Booker T. Washington could only dream of learning to read and write. After emancipation, Booker began a five-hundred-mile journey, mostly on foot, to Hampton Institute, taking his first of many steps towards a college degree. When he arrived, he had just fifty cents in his pocket and a ... Read more

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  • The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read

    by Rita Lorraine Hubbard ...
    Illustrated by Oge Mora ...
    **Imagine learning to read at the age of 116! Discover the true story of Mary Walker, the nation's oldest student who did just that, in this picture book from a Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator and a rising star author.One of Slate’s 25 Greatest Picture Books of the Past 25 Years**In 1848, Mary Walker was born into slavery. At age 15, she was freed, and by age 20, she was married and had her ... Read more

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  • Who Was George Washington Carver?

    by Jim Gigliotti, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Stephen Marchesi ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Born in 1860s Missouri, nobody expected George Washington Carver to succeed. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. After the Civil War, Carver enrolled in classes and proved to be a star student. He became the first black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and later its first black professor. He went on to the Tuskegee Institute where he specialized in botany (the study of plants) and ... Read more

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