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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Jean Marzollo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Jean Marzollo. Links to a list of her books, her website, and an author's visit kit are also available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Joyce Hansen

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Joyce Hansen. Links to an author visit kit and a list of her books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Kate Di Camillo

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Kate DiCamillo. Links to an interview and a list of her books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Michael Dorris

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Michael Dorris. Links to his website and a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Susan Kuklin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about photographer and author Susan Kuklin. Links to an author visit kit and a list of her books are also available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Suzy Kline

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Suzy Kline. A link to a list of his books is also available.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Burlesque Biography" by Mark Twain

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the short story "A Burlesque Biography" by Mark Twain, an autobiography which has no relationship to Twain's real life.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Tony Mitton

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about children and young adult author Ken Mochizuki. Links to a list of his books and a transcript of an interview with him are provided.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Nicholasa Mohr

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author and artist Nicholasa Mohr. A link to a list of her books is also available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Shana Corey

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Shana Corey. Links to her website, a downloadable PDF biography, an author's note to readers, and author visit kit, and a list of her books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Betsy Franco

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about author and illustrator Betsy Franco. Links to her website, an interview, and a list of her books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Bruce Coville

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Bruce Coville. Links to an interview and a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Caroline B. Cooney

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Caroline B. Cooney. Links to an interview and a list of her books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Dan Gutman

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Dan Gutman. Links to his website, an author visit kit, and a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: David A. Adler

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about author David A. Adler. Links to an interview and to a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: George Ancona

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about illustrator George Ancona. Links to an interview and to a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Jack Gantos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Jack Gantos. A link to a list of his books is available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: John Coy

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about award winning author John Coy. Links to his website, an author visit kit, and a list of his books are available.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Biography: Karen Cushman

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this autobiography to learn about author Karen Cushman. Links to an interview and a list of her books are available.
Primary
University of North Carolina

"Life and Times of Frederick Douglass": Text

For Students 9th - 10th
HTML full text of the "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," the autobiography of the 19th century African American abolitionist (1818-1895).
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Chase Young, PhD

Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A reader's theater script for Eleanor Coerr's book, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, a biography about Sadako Sasaki, is provided on these pages. Speaking parts for all students in a classroom are available in this activity.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Literary Nonfiction (English 7 Reading)

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn how to describe the structural and substantive differences between an autobiography or diary and a fictional adaptation of it.
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Other

Isaac Asimov Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource covers every aspect of Asimov's prolific writing career. Biographical information, movie connections, short story collections, lists of Asmiov's works are all here.
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Agnes Scott College

Agnes Scott College: Evelyn Boyd Granville Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This autobiography of Evelyn Boyd Granville gives an outline of the various jobs she held as a mathematician in the United States.

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