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Michelangelo First Impressions

By Richard Mclanathan

Kids Book of Canadian Exploration

By Ann-Maureen Owens, Jane Yealland, Annmaureen Owens, John Mantha

Quentin Blake

By Chris Powling

The Life of Martin Luther King

By Emma Lynch

The Barefoot Book of Heroines: Great Women from Many Times and Places

By Rebecca Hazell

Sojourner Truth

By John Malam

Fantastic Mr Dahl

By Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake

Down to Earth: A Fighter Pilot Recounts His Experiences of Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain, Dieppe, D-Day and Beyond

By Kenneth Butterworth McGlashan, Owen Zupp

The Picture History of Great Explorers

By Gillian Clements

Chasing Lincoln's Killer: The Search for John Wilkes Booth

By James L Swanson

Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr's Final Hours (History (US))

By Ann Bausum, National Geographic Kids

The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

By Judith St. George

Henry VIII (a Wicked History): Royal Beheader

By Sean Price, Sean Stewart Price

Christopher Columbus

By Marion Dane Bauer, Liz Goulet DuBois

Idi Amin

By Ingram Scott

Richard the Lionheart: The Life of a King and Crusader

By David West, Jackie Gaff

Young Frederick Douglass: The Slave Who Learned to Read

By Linda Walvoord Girard, Colin Bootman

Voice Of Freedom: A Story About Frederick Douglass

By Maryann N Weidt

The Who's Who Of: World War II

By Clive Gifford

Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great

By Dominic Sandbrook

Union Generals

By Tom Head, PhD

Trail Maker: The Story of David Livingstone

By Robert O. Latham

The Life of Helen Keller

By Emma Lynch

Reputations in History: Bonnie Prince Charlie Paper

By Brooman, Josh

My Bridges of Hope

By Livia Bitton-Jackson

Abraham Lincoln

By D Collins

Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Ladies of Literature

By Becca Anderson