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"Did they tell you stories about the saints of old,
stories about their faith?
Stories like that make a boy grow bold,
stories like that make a man walk straight..."
—Rich Mullins, Boy Like Me, Man Like You

Stories about people have a way of affecting us in ways other stories can't. The Bible is primarily stories about people, and it is through these multiple biographies that we understand human nature, the history of redemption, and even to a great extent God Himself. The purpose behind any other biography is largely the same—to help us understand what it means to be human from the examples (sometimes even the bad examples) of those who have preceded us.

The biographies we have chosen for this section represent those of great leaders in history, social and military heroes, and Christian saints past and present who struggled to conform their lives to Christ's perfect example. We have avoided for the most part biographies of history's villains and chronic immoralists, not because they aren't interesting but because they don't represent lives worthy of imitation. We've also decided not to focus on athletes, actors, and celebrities, unless they've made important contributions outside their fields. That's not to say everyone found here was above reproach or even a Christian, but they all demonstrated real human virtues for which they are remembered.

Biographies are also useful for better understanding of a given historical period. While history books can provide good overviews of a period or events, the intimate detail of a good biography can better illustrate a time period and what it was like to be alive then. This also serves to demonstrate the universality of human nature, that people will behave basically the same during any given period and in any given place. Sometimes we get the impression that people of the past, especially people like missionaries and ministers, were somehow more pious than we are—the personal view offered by a good biography dispels this myth and offers encouragement that not even the best men and women are any closer to perfection than we are.

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	Adventurous Life of Winston Churchill by Geoffrey Bocca from Julian Messner for 5th-8th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Charles A. Lindbergh A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin from Clarion Books Biography for 5th-8th grade 1998 NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $7.00 (1 in stock)
	Charles Lindbergh Hero Pilot A Discovery Book by David R. Collins from Garrard Publishing Company for 4th-6th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Combat Nurses of World War II Landmark #116 by Wyatt Blassingame, illustrated by Gil Walker from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney, illustrated by Brian Pinkney 1^st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press for 3rd-6th grade 1999 Caldecott Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $8.00 (1 in stock)
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	Hiding Place - A Graphic Novel by Corrie Ten Boom, adapted by Mario DeMatteo, illustrated by Ismael Castro from Chosen Books for 3rd-6th grade in Comic Books & Graphic Novels (Location: FIC-COMIC) $24.99
	How I Learned Geography by Uri Shulevitz 1^st edition from Farrar, Straus and Giroux for 2nd-5th grade Caldecott Honor Book in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $21.99
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	Medical Corps Heroes of World War II Landmark #120 by Wyatt Blassingame from Random House for 5th-9th grade in Vintage History & Biographies (Location: VIN-HIS)
	Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler World Landmark #47 by William L. Shirer, illustrated with photographs from Random House for 5th-9th grade in World Landmark Books (Location: VIN-LAN)
	Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret from Albert Whitman & Company for 4th-6th grade in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
	Story of Amelia Earhart Signature Books #33 by Adele de Leeuw, illustrated by Harry Beckhoff from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Dan Beard Founder of America's Boy Scouts Grosset & Dunlap Signature #43 by Robert N. Webb, illustrated by Everett Raymond Kinstler from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower Signature Books #38 by Arthur J. Beckhard, illustrated by Charles H. Geer from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Eleanor Roosevelt Grosset & Dunlap Signature #48 by Lorena A. Hickok, illustrated by William Barss from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Franklin D. Roosevelt Grosset & Dunlap Signature #39 by Lorena A. Hickok, illustrated by Leonard Vosburgh from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of George Washington Carver Signature Books #17 by Arna Bontemps, illustrated by Harper Johnson from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 4th-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Madame Curie Grosset & Dunlap Signature #46 by Alice Thorne, illustrated by Federico Castellon from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of President Kennedy Grosset & Dunlap Signature #50 by Iris Vinton, illustrated by Carl Cassler from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 5th-9th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
	Story of Winston Churchill Grosset & Dunlap Signature #40 by Alida Sims Malkus, illustrated by H. B. Vestal from Grosset & Dunlap Biography for 3rd-8th grade in Grosset & Dunlap Signature Books (Location: VIN-SIG)
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	War Boy A Wartime Childhood by Michael Foreman 1st U.S. edition from Arcade Publishing for 3rd-6th grade in World War II (1939-1945) (Location: HISA-20WW2) $8.50 (1 in stock)
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