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Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
A childhood biography of a groundbreaking African-American athlete.
Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) was the first African American man to win a major tennis tournament.
He did not start out with a love of the game--his favorite sport was actually baseball--but growing up in the racist south, Arthur decided he would one day play sports on courts that did not allow black athletes. After proving himself a natural on the tennis court, and struggling with committing...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Aladdin Paperbacks edition.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1904, Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known under his pseudonym "Dr. Seuss") was probably the best-loved and best-selling children's book writer of all time. Returning from Europe by boat in 1936, Seuss amused himself by writing a...
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