Explores the life of the first private American citizen chosen to go on a spaceflight, Christa McAuliffe, who lost her life when the Challenger exploded just after liftoff.
A biography of the famous woman pilot who set many records before she was mysteriously lost over the Pacific Ocean in 1937, emphasizing her belief that women could and should do anything they set their minds to.
A brief biography of the forty-second president of the United States, highlighting his political life and his successful 1992 campaign against President Bush.
Traces the life of John James Audubon from his early childhood in France to his career in America and his eventual success as an artist and naturalist.
Discusses the life and work of the Brazilian rubber tapper whose efforts to secure fair treatment for other tappers and to preserve the Amazon rain forests resulted in his murder in 1988.
A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.
A biography of the businesswoman who was born in poverty on a Louisiana plantation, founded her own hair care business, and made more money than any woman, black or white, had ever made before in America.
Chronicles the life of the astronaut from her childhood in Oklahoma through her various space shuttle missions to her six months aboard the Mir space station.
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