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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: Saxton Freymann

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Read this biography to learn about author and illustrator Saxton Freymann. A link to a list of his books is 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.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: From Courage to Freedom:frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this 3-lesson unit, students will read Douglass's narrative. They will analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with romanticism...
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Other

Autobiography: e.l. Konigsburg

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Following this brief autobiographical sketch, there are is a biographical statement, a list of works written by the author, and a list of works about the author.
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Other

Michael Snow Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
Featured is Michael Snow's own autobiography. A Toronto born painter and sculptor, he is also an award winning musician, filmmaker, and photographer.
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Other

The League of Canadian Poets: Identity and Autobiography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explores Canadian poetry that reveals personal insights and reflections on the larger Canadian identity, and presents learning activities where students do research and write poems.
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American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Ernest J. Gaines

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of American author, Ernest Gaines, well-known for his novels and essays, including The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman and A Gathering of Old Men, both adapted for television.
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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