Inspiring Books

Books that Inspire

• Angelou, Maya. I know why the caged bird sings. New York: Random House, 1970. Print.
• Johnson, Jack. Jack Johnson is a dandy; an autobiography. New York: Chelsea House, 1969. Print.
• Wishinsky, Frieda. Albert Einstein. London: DK Publishing, 2005. Print.
• Larsen, Kristine M. Stephen Hawking: a biography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005. Print.
• Knelman, Martin. The joker is wild: the trials and triumphs of Jim Carrey. Toronto: Viking, 1999. Print.
• Wiesel, Elie, and Marion Wiesel. Night. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. Print.
• Hamilton, Bethany, and Sheryl Berk. Soul surfer: a true story of faith, family, and fighting to get back on the board. New York: Pocket Books ; MTV Books, 2004. Print.
• Frith, Margaret, and John Brien. Who was Thomas Alva Edison?. New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, 2005. Print.
• Greenberg, Jan, and Sandra Jordan. Vincent Van Gogh: portrait of an artist. New York, N.Y.: De-lacorte Press, 2001. Print.
• Frith, Margaret, and John Brien. Who was Franklin Roosevelt? New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2010. Print.
• Carson, Ben, and Cecil Murphey. Gifted hands. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Books, 1990. Print.
• Sullivan, George. Helen Keller: her life in pictures. New York: Scholastic Nonfiction, 2007. Print.
• Oher, Michael, and Don Yaeger. I beat the odds: from homelessness, to the blind side, and beyond. New York: Gotham Books, 2011. Print.
• Kennedy, John F.. Profiles in courage. Memorial ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1964. Print.
• Mandela, Nelson. Long walk to freedom: the autobiography of Nelson Mandela.. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Print.
• Humphrey, Sandra McLeod. Dare to dream!: 25 extraordinary lives. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005. Print.
• Sandler, Michael. Bethany Hamilton: follow your dreams!. New York: Bearport Pub., 2007. Print.
• Woog, Adam. Oprah Winfrey. Farmington Hills, MI: Lucent Books, 2009. Print.
• Chippendale, Lisa A. Triumph of the imagination: the story of writer J.K. Rowling. Philadelphia: Chel-sea House Publishers, 2002. Print.