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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Formats
Description
Batchelor offers an eye-opening look at the life of Stan Lee, the man who created (with talented artists) many of history's most legendary characters. Becoming the editor of Marvel Comics as a teenager, and toiling in the industry for decades, Lee threw caution to the wind and went for broke, co-creating the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, and others in a creative flurry that revolutionized comic books for generations...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--
7) Alan Turing
Author
Series
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early discoveries -- Universal Turing machine -- Unraveling the enigma -- Beyond Bletchley Park -- Building a brain -- Mathematical biology -- Poison apple -- Alan Turing's legacy.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In Bihac, Bosnia, in 1992, sixteen-year-old Amra and her family face starvation and the threat of brutal ethnic violence as Serbs and Bosnians clash, while a stray cat, Maci, provides solace.
Author
Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Graphic novel memoir of George Takei's childhood imprisoned in American concentration camps for people of Japanese descent during World War II.
A stunning graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps during World War II. Experience the forces that shaped an American icon -- and America itself -- in this gripping tale of courage, country, loyalty, and love. George Takei has...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Janusz Korczak was more than a good doctor. He was a hero. The Dr. Spock of his day, he established orphanages run on his principle of honoring children and shared his ideas with the public in books and on the radio. He famously said that "children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today." Korczak was a man ahead of his time, whose work ultimately became the basis for the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
Author
Publisher
Triangle Square books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jane Jacobs was born more than a hundred years ago, yet the ideas she popularized-about cities, about people, about making a better world-remain hugely relevant today. Now, in Jane Jacobs: Champion of Cities, Champion of People, we have the first biography for young people of the visionary activist, urbanist, and thinker. Debut author Rebecca Pitts draws on archives and Jacobs's own writings to paint a vivid picture of a headstrong and principled...
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, an American woman who pioneered codebreaking in WWI and WWII but was only recently recognized for her extraordinary contributions to the field.
