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There are a lot more genres of biographies than we have listed here, but they aren't included because we simply don't have titles to put in them. Again, these categories are in place to help you narrow the focus of your search, and to find the book you need with as little frustration as possible.

Autobiographies & Memoirs are books written by the person about whom they're about. Autobiographies are explicitly biographical, written in order to impart information about the author's life and context; memoirs, on the other hand, are often more creative, and are usually about something bigger than the details of the subject's life.

While we don't encourage getting all your history from fiction (or even most of it), a good Biographical Novel will combine the best elements of fiction and biography into a personal portrait that imparts both the essence of the subject's life, and the cultural context in which he or she lived. Plus, they're just more fun to read.

You won't find any of these for people who lived more than a couple hundred years ago, but Photobiographies can be especially useful for helping readers understand the person and era they're learning about. Often times these don't have as much outright information as a more traditional biography, but enough quality photographs are a good compensation.

For younger kids (though there are some great ones for older readers, too), Picture Book Biographies help us visualize who it is we're reading about....or simply keep us interested. The best ones do both, and the very best ones do both while still highlighting the artist's vision and interpretation of people and events.

Different genres will fill different needs; if you're working on a big project or unit study, it's a good idea to select titles from all of them. The goal of listing them here is to help narrow your search; as our collection expands, we'll likely be adding genres to the list, and shaping your search results in increasingly precise and illuminating ways.

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	A is for Abigail The Almanac of Amazing American Women by Lynne Cheney 1^st edition from Simon and Schuster for Kindergarten-4th grade in Biography Anthologies (Location: BIO-ANTH) $19.99 $10.00 (1 in stock)
	Abraham Lincoln (hardcover) by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire; edited by Rea Berg 75th Anniversary from Beautiful Feet Books Biography for 1st-6th grade 1940 Caldecott Medal winner in Biographies (Location: BIO) $21.95
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	Bach's Goldberg Variations by Anna Harwell Celenza & JoAnn E. Kitchel from Charlesbridge Biography for 3rd-6th grade in Music Appreciation (Location: ELE-MUSAP) $16.95
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	Boys in the Boat adapted for Young Readers Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown, adapted by Gregory Mone from Penguin Putnam for 6th-9th grade in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF) $17.99
	Choosing Brave How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy, illustrated by Janelle Washington from Roaring Brook Press for 1st-4th grade 2023 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $19.99
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	John Calvin Christian Biographies for Young Readers by Simonetta Carr 1^st edition from Reformation Heritage Books for 2nd-6th grade in Church History for Kids (Location: XCH-KID) $18.00
	John Ronald’s Dragons The Story of J. R. R. Tolkien by Caroline McAlister, Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler from Roaring Brook Press for Preschool-3rd grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $21.99
	Karl, Get Out of the Garden! by Anita Sanchez from Charlesbridge in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE) $17.99
	Laura Ingalls Wilder: Pioneer Girl The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Pamela Smith Hill from South Dakota State Historical Society Press for 7th-Adult in Little House Materials (Location: LIR-LHM) $39.99
	Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky from Little, Brown & Company Biography for 2nd-5th grade in Biographies (Location: BIO) $18.99 $12.00 (2 in stock)
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	Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford 1^st edition from Hyperion/Madison Press for Preschool-3rd grade 2007 Caldecott Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $18.99
	My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir from Gibbs M. Smith for 9th-Adult in 19th Century Literature (Location: LIT6-19) $16.95
	Ordinary Hazards A Memoir by Nikki Grimes from Wordsong for 10th-Adult 2020 Robert F. Siebert Honor Book in Biographies (Location: BIO) $19.99
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