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Title:

Contemporary heroes and heroines. Book III / Terrie M. Rooney, editor ; Karen E. Lemerand, assistant editor.

Publisher:

Gale Research,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xxii, 699 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:

Straub, Deborah Gillan.
Browne, Ray Broadus.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

James G. Abourezk -- Gerry Adams -- Madeline Albright -- Susan B. Anthony -- Ben & Jerry -- Irving Berlin -- Joseph Bernardin -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Les Brown -- Susan Butcher -- Frances Xavier Cabrini -- Dale Carnegie -- Bessie Coleman -- Eileen Collins -- Francis S. Collins -- Kenneth H. Cooper -- Aaron Copland -- Jacques d'Amboise -- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -- Morris Dees -- Diana, Princess of Wales -- Dave Dravecky -- Charles R. Drew -- Katharine Dunham -- Marian Wright Edelman -- Zlata Filipovic -- Millard Fuller -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Althea Gibson -- Evelyn Glennie -- Veronica Guerin.
Clara Hale -- Alice Hamilton -- Armand Hammer -- Lorraine Hansberry -- Grant Hill -- John Hope -- Dolores Huerta -- Bo Jackson -- Mae Jemison -- Chief Joseph -- Frida Kahlo -- David Kessler -- Craig Kielburger -- Billie Jean King -- Helmut Kohl -- John Lennon -- Liliuokalani -- George Lucas -- Shannon Lucid - Spark M. Matsunaga -- Osceola McCarty -- Rigoberta Menchu -- Kweisi Mfume -- Dorie Miller -- Billy Mills -- Farley Mowat -- Kary Mullis -- Audie Murphy -- Paul Newman -- Harrison Ngau -- Julius K. Nyerere -- Edward James Olmos -- I.M. Pei -- Claude Pepper -- Pete Peterson -- Leontyne Price.
Yitzhak Rabin -- A. Philip Randolph -- Jeanette Rankin -- Christopher Reeve -- Pat Robertson -- Fred Rogers -- Theodore Roosevelt -- Salman Rushdie -- Albert Sabin -- Oskar Schindler -- Pat Schroeder -- Betty Shabazz -- Beverly Sills -- Standing Bear -- Maria Tallchief -- Dave Thomas -- Helen Thomas -- Harriet Tubman -- C. DeLores Tucker -- Ted Turner -- Mary Edwards Walker -- Wang Dan -- Annie Dodge Wauneka -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- Tiger Woods -- Carter G. Woodson -- Wilbur and Orville Wright -- Harry Wu -- Muhammad Yunus.

Summary:

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

ISBN:

9780787622152
078762215X

Locations:

LZSX115 -- Storm Lake Middle School (Storm Lake)