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Biography

Online Resources

Note: If you are using the following Electronic Resources outside the Library, you will be asked to enter your St. Charles library card number and PIN number. Use the barcode on the back of your library card and the PIN used with your card.

Type the person’s name in the Search box.

• Biography in Context
More than 300,000 biographies from respected sources, for individuals from around the world, throughout history to the present. (Guided Tour)

• Encyclopedia Britannica For Kids
All the resources found in Encyclopedia Britannica, plus special online learning materials for students, in grades K-8.

• Facts on File Curriculum Resource Center
Grades 6-12: Science projects and printable maps, flags, timelines and science diagrams.
Click on the Additional Facts on File Databases link at the top on the right to search American History Online, Ancient and Medieval History Online or Modern World History Online - Type the person’s name in the Search box.

• New Book of Knowledge
Includes The American Heritage Children's Dictionary and The American Heritage Children's Thesaurus.
Choose The New Book of Knowledge from the list of choices on the left side of the screen.

• Something About the Author
This series covers individuals ranging from established award winners in children’s literature to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers in children’s literature.

• World Book Encyclopedia
Features include timelines, maps, and interactive indexes. Incluye Encicopedia Estudiantil Halazgos.

websites

Note: When in the Library, access to the Youth Services selected Internet sites is available only to students who are registered with a signed Internet Use Permission Form on file.

• Famous People By Category

• People from FactMonster

• Almanac: Biography

Library Catalog Subject Headings

To find books available for check out, type the person’s name into the Catalog Search Box. Remember to use the column on the right to refine your results, especially the Audience.

Try your own search using the Super Search to search the library catalog and other electronic resources.

Youth Services Reference Collection

The following books are part of our Reference Collection and remain in the Library available for use when the Library is open.

General Encyclopedias at the Homework Center

Compton’s by Encyclopedia Britannica
New Book of Knowledge
World Book Encyclopedia

Biography (General) J REFERENCE

305.4 KEE Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States
305.403 MAT American Women’s History
364.1092 MAC Outlaws, Mobsters & Crooks
364.10922 VIL Villains and Outlaws
509.22 BIO Biography Today: Scientists and Inventors Series
509.22 SCI Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World: Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors
629.4 SPA Space Exploration: Biographies
629.4500922 CAS Who’s Who in Space
700.922 CRE Creative and Performing Artists for Teens
700.922 LIV Lives and Works in the Arts: from the Renaissance to the 20th Century
796.0922 PAR Sports Stars
909.07 CRU The Crusades: Biographies
909.07 KNI Middle Ages: Biographies
909.81 OUT Industrial Revolution: Biographies
909.82 HAN Cold War: Biographies
910.922 EXP Explorers and Discoverers
910.922 EXP Explorers and Exploration
910.922 EXP Explorers: from Ancient Times to the Space Age
920 BIO Biography for Beginners
920 BIO Biography Today
920 COL Notable Illinois Women
920 GRO Grolier Library of North American Biography
920 KIN Kings and Queens
920 UXL Newsmakers
920.00904 CON Contemporary Heroes and Heroines
920.073 MOS Profiles in American History
920.077311 SAW Chicago Portraits
920.72 GRE Book of Black Heroes: Great Women in the Struggle
920.72 GRO Grolier Library of Women’s Biographies
920.922 EXP Explorers and Discoverers of the World
920.922 WOR World Explorers and Discoverers
928 SCI Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writers
930 KNI Ancient Civilizations: Biographies
940.21 SAA Renaissance and Reformation: Biographies
940.3 PEN World War I: Biographies
940.53 WOR World War II: Biographies
940.5318 PEO People of the Holocaust
940.5318 VOI Voices of the Holocaust
940.53180922 RES Rescue and Resistance: Portraits of the Holocaust
951.9042 BEN Korean War: Biographies
956.70442 HIL War in the Persian Gulf: Biographies
959.7043 HIL Vietnam War: Biographies
970.00497 WAL Who Was Who in Native American History
973.00992 QUI Roots of the Republic
973.0497 SIG Young Oxford History of Women in the United States. Vol. 11
973.0922 PRE The Presidents
973.099 MAT Complete American Presidents Sourcebook
973.099 WOR The World Book of America’s Presidents
973.0992 KAN Facts About the Presidents
973.0992 PAL The World Almanac of First Ladies
973.2 SAA Colonial America: Biographies
973.30922 SCH American Revolution: Biographies
973.7 HIL American Civil War: Biographies
973.91 HAN Great Depression and New Deal: Biographies
973.915 HOW Roaring Twenties: Biographies
978 PEN Westward Expansion: Biographies

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