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Book

Tales of famous heroes

Call Number

  • J 920 ROOP (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Scholastic Reference, c2010.

Physical Description

106 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Paul Revere & Sybil Ludington
  • Sacagawea
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Florence Nightingale
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Winston Churchill
  • Rosa Parks
  • Jonas Salk --Nelson Mandela
  • Neil Armstrong
  • Jane Goodall
  • The Tuskegee Airmen
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Billie Jean King
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Barack Obama.

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