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Text Sets (Swafford, 2015)
Book List: Making the Most of Me
from Multiple Perspectives
Animals
Pfister, Marcus & James, J. Alison. The Rainbow Fish.
Stevens, Janet. Tops and Bottoms.
Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.
Artists
Collier, Bryan. Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave.
Sweet, Melissa. A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin.
Winter, Jonah. Frida. (Story of Frida Kahlo)
Athletes
Freedman, Russell. Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion.
Gerstein, Mordicai. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers.
Jordan, Delores & Jordan, Roslyn M. Salt in His Shoes: Michael Jordan in Pursuit of a Dream
Krull, Kathleen, Wilma Unlimited. Illustrated by David Diaz.
Paul, Chris. Long Shot: Never Too Small to Dream Big
Robinson, Sharon. Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America
Authors
Silverman, Erica. Liberty’s Voice: The Story of Emma Lazarus. Illustrated by Stacy Shuett.
Walker, Alice. Langston Hughes: American Poet. Illustrated by Katherine Deeter.
Children
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy.
Draper, Sharon. Out of My Mind.
Lovell, Patty & Catrow, David. Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon.
Polacco, Patricia. Thank you Mr. Falker.
Turnage, Sheila. Three Times Lucky.
Wiesner, David. Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Woodson, Jacqueline. Locomotion.
Woodson, Jacqueline. The Other Side.
Civil Rights Activists
Hoose, Philip. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Krull, Kathleen. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
Levine, Ellen. Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad.
Rappaport, Doreen. Eleanor, Quiet No More: The Life of Eleanor Roosevelt. Illustrated by Gary
Kelley.
Rappaport, Doreen. Martin’s Big Words. Illustrated by Bryan Collier.
Educators
Asim, Jabari. Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington. Illustrated by Bryan
Collier.
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Text Sets (Swafford, 2015)
Environmentalists
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius.
Lasky, Kathryn. John Muir: America’s First Environmentalist. Illustrated by Stan Fellows.
Lawlor, Laurie. Rachel Carson and Her Book that Changed the World. Illustrated by Laura
Beingessner.
Winter, Jeanette. Wangari’s Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa.
Winter, Jeanette. The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps.
Explorers
Blumberg, Rhoda. York’s Adventures with Lewis and Clark: An African-American’s Part in the
Great Expedition,
Minor, Wendell. Buzz Aldrin: Reaching for the Moon. Illustrated by Wendell Minor.
Inventors
Drummond, Allan. The Flyers.
Freedman, Russell. Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane.
McCully, Emily Arnold. Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor.
Medical Doctors
Stone, Tanya Lee. Who Says Women Can’t be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell.
Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman.
Musicians
Christianson, Bonnie. Django. (story of classical guitarist)
Dillon, Leo & Diane. Jazz on a Saturday Night. (John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious
Monk, Ella Fitzgerald)
Freedman, Russell. The Voice that Challenged a Nation.
Pinkney, Andrea Davis. Duke Ellington. Illustrated by Brian Pinkney.
Ryan, Pam Munoz. When Marian Sang. Illustrated by Brian Selznick.
Politicians
Freedman, Russell. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Rappaport, Doreen & C. F. Payne. To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt.
Scientists
Delano, Maree Feguson. Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein.
Lasky, Kathryn & Nneka Bennett. Vision of Beauty: The Story of Sarah Breedlove Walker.
Stanley, Diane. Leonardo da Vinci.
Survivors
Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water.
Sullivan, George. Helen Keller: Her Life in Pictures.
Van der Zee, Rita. Erika. Illustrated by Roberto Innocenti.
Williams, Mary & Christie, R. Gregory. Brothers in Hope: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan.
Illustrated by Gregory Christie.