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Readers and Leaders
Susan Steffensen Romaine
Book Code: LU5163
ISBN: 1-59158-516-3
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-516-9
160 pages, photos
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 9/30/2007
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Promoting a balance between fiction and nonfiction is more likely to boost literacy than is emphasizing narrative only. Thus, it is a welcome sight to find a book that promotes biographies.....Bottom line: Recommended.
    —Teacher Librarian     February 2008
Description: Readers and Leaders is a collection of ten reproducible short biographies, extension activities, and further reading and Web resource listings that explores the role that books and reading played in the lives of ten historical figures: Andrew Carnegie, Melvil Dewey, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Edison, Anne Frank, Benjamin Franklin, Helen Keller, Norman Rockwell, and Harry Truman. How old were they when they learned to read? Who taught them? What obstacles did they overcome in learning to read? What kinds of books did they most enjoy reading? To what extent did the books they read as children pave the way for their many accomplishments later in life? More to the point, what inspiring lessons about books and reading can we learn from these "readers and leaders"? Whatever the course followed, all of those profiled in Readers and Leaders have inspiring stories to tell as their childhood experiences with books were both powerful and lasting--in essence their seeds to later greatness. Indeed, some of the leaders credit just one book or just one author with turning their life around and setting them on a path to fame or fortune. At a time when many young teenagers are well-versed in the lives of sports heroes who often pursued their childhood dreams with a ball in hand, Readers and Leaders gives teens an opportunity to learn about other kinds of heroes who explored bigger and better worlds with a book in hand.
This book of biographies and interesting extension activities will encourage students to think about the value of reading and delve further into the lives of these interesting historical leaders. School and public librarians and teachers will value this collection as a starting point for building background knowledge and as a collection of inspirational models to use in reading promotional programs. Grades 5-9.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to Teachers
  • Introduction
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Frederick Douglass
  • Emily Dickinson
  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Thomas Alva Edison
  • Melvil Dewey
  • Helen Keller
  • Harry S Truman
  • Norman Rockwell
  • Anne Frank
  • Afterword
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2007009263
LCC Class: Z1039
Dewey Class: 028
PDF Catalogs:
LU School Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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