biography

The journal of a Jewish girl in her early teens describes both the joys and the torments of daily life, as well as typical adolescent thoughts, throughout the two years spent in hiding with her family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Follows the life of one of America's first black poets from her sale as a child slave on the Boston auction block to her death as an impoverished freedwoman in 1784.

A biography of the New York Yankees baseball star whose records include being the second player in World Series history to hit three home runs in a single game.

Brief profiles of twenty-five football "greats" playing on NFL teams in 1985.

...Share Jackie Robinson's struggle against poverty and prejudice as he becomes an American baseball hero who fights for the rights and freedom of all people.

Outlines the hockey careers of eight outstanding goalies: Billy Smith, Chico Resch, Tony Esposito, Mike Palmateer, Mike Liut, Andy Moog, Richard Brodeur, and Pete Peeters.

Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy.

Racism From the Eyes of a Child is a personal reflection on racism in America through a childhood lived through the country's most separate past. From the 1950's-70's, music mogul Mathew Knowles experienced one of many firsts--from integrating all-white schools in the south, up through his experiences in the corporate, and later music world. By adding photos and the childhood accounts of friends and family members, he offers up a rich All-American saga. Knowles examines the backdrop of discrimination by tracing his family's southern roots; post-slavery from the 1800's, up through the civil rights protests, on into the present racial climate. In this, he delivers a closer look at segregationist times--from school integration to cattle prodded protestors such as himself. Racism From the Eyes of a Child shows how the resistance grew over the years, and created generations of fighters and against-odds achievers.