Episode 8: Saadia Recommends Biographies for Kids

Here are some of Saadia’s Recommendation for great biographies for kids:

  • Who Was Rosa Parks
  • Getting to know the World’s Greatest Composers
  • Malala, a Brave Girl from Pakistan/Iqbal, a Brave Boy from Pakistan: Two Stories of Bravery.
  • Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin
  • Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
  • She Persisted
  • She Persisted Around the World
  • Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
  • Galaxy Girls: 50 Amazing Stories of Women in Space
  • Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
  • Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
  • First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great
  • The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s Life with the Chimps
  • Me… Jane
  • Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau
  • Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
  • The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin
  • A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
  • Turning Pages: My Life Story
  • What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan
  • The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
  • Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars.
  • Kid Athletes: True Tales of Childhood from Sports Legends