![]() Facts that make great conversation-starters Childhood moments that influenced the hero Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable Photos that bring the story more fully to life ![]() A timeline of key events in the hero's history One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum. By the time the expedition arrived at the west coast, Sacagawea had proved that she truly was a trailblazer. ![]() As a translator, she helped the team communicate with members of the Shoshone nation across the continent, carrying her child on her back the whole way. Sacagawea was the only girl, and the only Native American, to join Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery, which explored the United States from the Mississippi River all the way to the Pacific Ocean in the early 1800s. Sacagawea, the only Indigenous person included in Lewis and Clark's historic expedition, is the 13th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. ![]()
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Lin-Manuel Miranda was born in New York City to Luis Miranda Jr., a Democratic Party consultant, and Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() You must accept this to appreciate the novel, even if you sympathize with the women yelling "cad."Įditor Howard Cunnell explains how "Kerouac writes to be understood the road is the path of life and life is a journey." (25) One of the oldest tales, but the "heart-felt speech" (in Allen Ginsberg's phrase) rings true as his attempt to capture a more demotic, and also demonic, marriage of the rushed prose transports of Joyce, Celine, Melville and Dostoevsky with a raw, American vernacular. Yet, as the figure of Jack notes, Neal inspires the rest of his followers to imagine, and try if for a bit, the wayward life. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found his character tiresome as the journeys wore on until he turned thrice-married, thrice-divorced, living with his second wife, and with four children scattered. 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