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Title:

Contemporary heroes and heroines. Book IV / Dana R. Barnes, editor ; Leigh Ann DeRemer, assistant editor.

Publisher:

Gale Research,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

xxii, 628 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Heroes--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Heroines in literature--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Women heroes--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Biography--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Biography.

Other Authors:

Barnes, Dana R.
DeRemer, Leigh Ann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Edward Abbey -- Muhammad Ali -- Salvador Allende -- Cleveland Amory -- Lance Armstrong -- Hanan Ashrawi -- Isaac Asimov -- Leo Hendrik Baekeland -- Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo -- Tim Bernes-Lee -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Niels Bohr -- Antonia Brico -- Carol M. Browner -- Richard E. Byrd -- Karel and Jozef Capek -- Thomas R. Cech -- Joe Clark -- Max Cleland -- Alice Coachman -- Jacqueline Cochran -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. -- Nat King Cole -- Michael DeBakey -- David Dellinger -- Dith Pran -- Henry Chee Dodge -- Elizabeth Dole -- James Doolittle -- Will and Ariel Durant -- Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Fang Lizhi -- James Farmer -- William Faulkner -- Ranulph Fiennes -- Ella Fitzgerald --Hiram L. Fong -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Robert Peter Gale -- Bill Gates -- Lillian M. Gilbreth -- Robert Goddard -- Henry B. Gonzalez -- Katherine Meyer Graham -- Reg and Maggie Green -- Mia Hamm -- Frances E.W. Harper -- LaDonna Harris -- Denis Hayes -- Theodore Hesburgh -- Edwin Hubble -- John Hume and David Trimble -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- Zora Neale Hurston -- King Hussein I -- Robert K. Jarvik -- Danny Kaye -- John Maynard Keynes -- Maximilian Kolbe -- Dorothea Lange -- Ursula K. Le Guin --Carl Lewis -- Rebecca Lobo -- Juliette Gordon Low -- Betty Mahmoody -- Camryn Manheim -- Vilma Martinez -- Carolyn McCarthy -- Patsy T. Mink -- Charles "Swede" Momsen -- Constance Baker Motley -- Bill Moyers -- Luis Munoz Marin -- Pablo Neruda -- Thich Nhat Hanh -- Ellen Ochoa -- Rosie O'Donnell -- Scott O'Grady -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Pele -- Leonard Peltier -- Giorgio Perlasca -- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones -- Jose Ramos-Horta -- Harold "Pee Wee" Reese -- Bill Richardson -- Cal Ripken Jr. -- Diego Rivera -- Mary Robinson -- Randall S. Robinson -- Charles M. Schulz -- Margaret Chase Smith -- Gene Stallings -- Clyde W. Tombaugh -- Walter J. Turnbull -- Barbara Walters -- Dan West -- Walter F. White -- L. Douglas Wilder -- Steve Wozniak.

Summary:

Brief profiles of more than 100 contemporary men and women from all walks of life whose activities reflect heroic traits.

ISBN:

9780787632625
0787632627

Locations:

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)