A Cave in the Clouds - A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS by Badeeah Hassan Ahmed; Susan Elizabeth McClelland
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human traffick ...Show more
Alicia Alonso Takes the Stage by Rebel Rebel Girls; Josefina Preumayr (Illustrator)
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: A\Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls Chapter Book Ser.
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Alicia Alonso, a world-renowned prima ballerina from Cuba. Alicia was born to dance. From the moment she slips on pointe shoes for the first time, she's determined to become a professional ballerina. A ...Show more
Madam C. J. Walker Builds a Business by Rebel Girls; Jestine Ware (Editor); Salini Perera (Illustrator); Giulia Flamini (Designed by)
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: Rebel Girls Chapter Bks.
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a story based on the life of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first female self-made millionaire.Sarah is the first person in her family who wasn’t born into slavery in Delta, Louisiana. But being free doesn’t mean that Sarah doesn’t have to work. S ...Show more
The Code Breaker Young Readers Edition by Walter Isaacson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
Walter Isaacson’s #1 New York Times bestselling history of our third scientific revolution: CRISPR, gene editing, and the quest to understand the code of life itself, is now adapted for young readers! When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and fo ...Show more
Vincent and Theo - The Van Gogh Brothers by Deborah Heiligman
$40.00 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
From the author of National Book Award finalist Charles and Emma comes an incredible story of brotherly love.The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh shaped both brothers' lives. Confidant, champion, sympathizer, friend--Theo supported Vincent as he struggled to find his path i ...Show more
Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest by Rebel Rebel Girls; Eugenia Mello (Illustrator)
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: Rebel Girls Chapter Bks.
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes a historical novel based on the life of Dr. Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist and environmentalist from Kenya. Wangari lives in the lush, green, land of rural Kenya where the soil is perfect for planting, the trees towe ...Show more
Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains by Rebel Rebel Girls
$18.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: Rebel Girls Chapter Bks.
From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest. Junko is bad at athletics. Really bad. Other students laugh because they think she is small and weak. Then her teacher takes the class o ...Show more
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition by William Kamkwamba
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
The bestselling story of the young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village, now in an accessible middle grade edition. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to s ...Show more
Stan Lee - The Man Behind Marvel Young Adult Edition by Bob Batchelor
$34.98 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
From the mean streets of Depression-era New York City to recipient of the National Medal of Arts, Lee's life has been almost as remarkable as the thrilling adventures he spun for decades. From millions of comic books fans of the 1960s through billions of moviegoers around the globe, Stan Lee has touched ...Show more
I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (The Graphic Novel) by Lauren Tarshis
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
"No-one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. They figure that the beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes–and always goes back to sleep. But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong—and his father, who ...Show more
Shoe Dog: Young Readers Edition by Phil Knight
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers | Series: new editon
"An eye-opening look into the story of Knight before his multibillion dollar company." --School Library Journal"A great story about how an ambition turned into a business...serves as a guide for accomplishing great things." --VOYAIn this young reader's edition of the New York Times bestseller, Nike foun ...Show more
The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess; Laura L. Sullivan
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs - Older Readers
The stunning memoir of a Muslim teen struggling to survive in the midst of the Bosnian genocide--and the stray cat who protected her family through it all. In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reas ...Show more