Most of these biographies are in your library! (If can't find them, you can order them by clicking the title links below.) They represent every genre! Check out two or three copies of each for your class. Let students choose their favorites and form literature groups. Give them copies of the unit to guide them to find the special treasure inside each book, to develop valuable skills, to problem-solve, and to help them work together as a group! Help children identify with true HEROES!

26 Fairmont Avenue, An Autobiography by Tomie dePaola
Black Elk's Vision A Lakota Story by S. D. Nelson
The Boy Who Invented TV (Philo Farnsworth) by Kathleen Krull
The Boy on Fairfield Street, Dr. Seuss by Kathleen Krull
The Buffalo Nickel by Taylor Morrison

Bull's Eye, The Biography of Annie Oakley
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley
The Extraordinary Mark Twain by Barbara Kerley
The Fantastic Undersea Life of Jacques Cousteau by Dan Yaccarino
George Washington's Teeth by Deborah Chandra
Harvesting Hope The Story of Cesar Chavez, by Kathleen Krull
Lady Liberty by Doreen Rappaport
Leonardo's Horse by Jean Fritz
Lewis and Clark and Me by Laurie Myers
Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man by David Adler Buy the trio of Heroes with Handicaps units including Wilma Unlimited, Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man, and Hero of Bremen. $5.95
Mary on Horseback by Rosemary Wells
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen
Phineas Gage, A Gruesome, but True Story of Brain Science by John Fleischman
The Riches of Oseola McCarty by Evelyn Coleman
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan (Charlotte Parkhurst)
Sea Clocks (longitude and latitude) by Louise Borden (John Harrison)
Shakespeare and the Globe by Aliki
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret Unit--$6.95
Sparrow Girl by Sara Pennypacker (historical fiction)
SPY! The Biography of Nathan Hale by Anna Myers
Stand Tall, Abraham Lincoln! by Judith St. George
Strong Right Arm, the Story of Mamie (Peanut) Johnson by Michelle Y. Green
The Tarantula in My Purse by Jean Craighead George
The Tarantula Scientist (Sam Marshall) by Sy Montgomery
That Book Woman--Pack Horse Librarians by Heather Henson
Thomas Edison, the Brilliant Inventor
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges
When Marian Sang, The Biography of Marian Anderson
Wilma Unlimited by Kathleen Krull  --The picture book biography of Wilma Rudolph who overcame polio to become the fastest woman in the world. Buy the trio of Heroes with Handicaps units including Wilma Unlimited, Lou Gehrig, the Luckiest Man, and Hero of Bremen. $5.95