I Am Gandhi - Graphic Novel by Brad Meltzer; John Cassaday (Illustrator); Bryan Hitch (Illustrator); David Mack (Illustrator); Nate Powell (Illustrator)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Ordinary People Change the World Ser.
Twenty-five exceptional comic book creators join forces to share the heroic story of Gandhi in this inspiring graphic novel biography. As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back through q ...Show more
I Am Neil Armstrong by Brad Meltzer; Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Hardback Picture Books | Series: Ordinary People Change the World Ser.
Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the fifteenth entry in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes. This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. ...Show more
I Am a Secret Service Agent - My Life Spent Protecting the President by Dan Emmett; Charles Maynard
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Dan Emmett was just eight years old when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The events surrounding the President's death shaped the course of young Emmett's life as he set a goal of becoming a US Secret Service agent-one of a special group of people willing to trade their lives for that of the ...Show more
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Get to know celebrated Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the first picture book about her life as she proves that disagreeing does not make you disagreeable! Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent a lifetime disagreeing: disagreeing with inequality, arguing against unfair treatme ...Show more
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifirenka; Martin Ganda
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography
The true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a pen-pal letter. There were only ten ...Show more
In Her Footsteps: Where Trailblazing Women Changed the World by .
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Lonely Planet
Discover the lives and locations of trailblazing women who changed the course of history as you journey to the heart of women's activism, history and creativity through the ages. From the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt and Empress Dowager Cixi's summer palace in Beijing, to the homes and meeting si ...Show more
Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series by Hiba Noor Khan
$35.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Discover the stories of 20 extraordinary inventors, who are changing our future for the better. Learn about 20 inspiring inventors and innovators from 20 different countries, all working to make the world a better place, as well as the amazing people who paved their way. Physics teacher Hiba Khan goes a ...Show more
Inspiring Writers (Little People, Big Dreams) Box Set by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
Meet three inspirational people from the world of literature: Maya Angelou, Anne Frank, and Jane Austen! This boxed gift set of three hardcover books from the internationally best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series introduces little dreamers to the lives of these incredible authors who changed the ...Show more
Iris Apfel (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Iris Apfel, the vivacious (and accidental) fashion icon.Growing up in Queens, New York, little Iris was the only child at family events. Her grandmother would open a giant ba ...Show more
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Motion (Graphic Biography) by Jordi Bayarri (Illustrator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: Graphic Science Biographies Ser.
Isaac Newton's youth was marked by constant curiosity. As he began a life of research and experiments, he turned this curiosity into major insights about the workings of Earth and the universe. He even developed three laws to explain the motions of objects. This graphic biography moves from Newton's chi ...Show more
It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way by Kyo Maclear
$39.99 NZD
Category: Paperback Picture Books
From beloved team Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad (creators of Julia, Child and Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli) comes an elegant picture book biography that portrays the most moving moments in the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a groundbreaking Japanese American hero in the fight for racial d ...Show more
It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime - Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah
$23.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir. "A piercing reminder that every mad life-- ...Show more