Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers by Michelle Obama
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
What's important is our story, our whole story, including those moments when we feel a little vulnerable . . . Michelle Robinson started life sharing a bedroom with her older brother Craig, in their family's upstairs apartment in her great-aunt's house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love ...Show more
Charles Darwin (Scientists Who Changed the World) by Anita Croy
$16.95 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs | Series: Scientists Who Changed the World
"Animals that are better adapted to their environment tend to survive and have more offspring." He named this idea natural selection. This fascinating biography details the life and achievements of Charles Darwin, a scientist who made significant contributions to the field of natural history. Darwin's g ...Show more
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women by Rebel Girls
$46.00 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs | Series: Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
ONE OF OPRAH'S FAVORITE THINGS 2021!A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Oprah says on Oprah Daily, "Reading can inspire you to do great things--what a great gift for a preteen! This series features boundary-breaking women and includes stories about some who have moved me the most--like Toni Morrison. They eve ...Show more
Little Guides to Great Lives: Frida Kahlo by Isabel Thomas
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives
Frida Kahlo was a colourful Mexican artist who endured great pain and hardship, but used her bright, vivid brushstrokes to express her emotions and reveal her true personality. She created over 50 self-portraits, and is considered to be one of the most influential and inspirational artists of the twenti ...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, Autobiographies & Memoirs | 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
Meet Sidney Nolan by Yvonne Mes
$24.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books
A picture book series about the extraordinary men and women who have shaped Australia's history, including iconic painter Sidney Nolan. Sidney Nolan is one of Australia's most admired and recognised visual artists. This is the story of how he developed his iconic Ned Kelly series of paintings, brought m ...Show more
My Place for Younger Readers by Sally Morgan
$15.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
Since its publication in 1987, Sally Morgan's My Place has sold more than half a million copies in Australia, been translated and read all over the world, and been reprinted dozens of times. Sally's rich, zesty and moving work is perhaps the best loved biography of Aboriginal Australia ever written. My ...Show more
Questions I Am Asked about the Holocaust: Young Reader's Edition by Hedi Fried, Alice E Olsson (translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
A young readers edition of the bestselling book from Auschwitz survivor Hedi Fried that answers questions about the Holocaust.Hedi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis arrested her family and transported them to Auschwitz. While there, apart from enduring the daily horrors at the concentration camp, she an ...Show more
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
New York Times bestseller Boys can be anything they want to be! This timely book joins and expands the gender-role conversation and gives middle-grade boys a welcome alternative message: that masculinity can mean many things. You won't find any stories of slaying dragons or saving princesses here. In ...Show more
Susan B. Anthony: On A Woman's Right to Vote by Rebecca Sjonger
$16.95 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs | Series: Deconstructing Powerful Speeches Ser.
In an era when women worldwide had few rights and could not vote, Susan B. Anthony risked her freedom and reputation by advocating for women's suffrage in the United States. This engaging title analyzes her 1873 speech On Women's Right to Vote, and its simple, but powerful, assertion that women are "per ...Show more
The Incredible Yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt - The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Explorer-Scientist Who Ever Lived by Volker Mehnert; Claudia Lieb (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
Before Darwin . . . before Lewis and Clark . . . there was Alexander von Humboldt. Explorer. Naturalist. All-around genius. Lost hero of science. In his time, Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was world-famous. Why? He led one of the first major scientific expeditions into the South American rain fores ...Show more
You Don't Know What War Is: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine by Yeva Skalietska
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs
Everyone knows the word "war". But very few understand what it truly means - when you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. All of your plans are suddenly interrupted - Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. This is the gripping, urgent and movi ...Show more
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