Easy-to-read, large-type text, illustrations, and photographs make this series the perfect introduction to these influential people. “Will serve beginning readers well.”—SLJ
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Riley B. King grew up poor in the Jim Crow South, losing his mother young and working in the cotton fields as a boy, but music was always calling to him. Could the gift of music carry one determined boy all the way from Mississippi to the top of the world?
Thomas Jefferson was our nation's third president, but his contributions to the United States started years before. Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence-the document that is the foundation of country. Throughout his life he continued to work for the betterment of the nation. Fact-filled Rookie Read-About Biographies introduce the youngest readers to influential women and men, both past and present.