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Pathfinder for Library Research about
ADMIRABLE PEOPLE

6th Grade/Linguistics

I. An excellent place to start looking for information about a person to research is in collective biographies. Collective biographies are books that contain short articles about several people who have something in common. Here are some books from the Blackburne Library that may be useful to you:

Black Profiles in Courage
Contemporary Heroes and Heroines
Dare to Dream! 25 Extraordinary Lives
The Doubleday Book of Famous Americans
Extraordinary American Indians
Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans
Extraordinary Black Americans
Extraordinary Hispanic Americans
Great Lives: Human Rights
Great Lives: World Government
Herstory: Women Who Challenged the World
Holocaust Rescuers: Ten Stories of Courage
One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans
Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World
Remarkable Jewish Women
Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States
Ten Kings: And the Worlds They Ruled
Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power
Young Heroes in World History

II. Another source for finding information is in general encyclopedias. We have print and online versions of several sets:

A. Useful print encyclopedias are:
Academic American Encyclopedia
Compton's Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Americana
World Book Encyclopedia

B. Our online encyclopedias are: (you must first enter your First Class user name and password)
Encyclopedia Americana
Encyclopedia Britannica, Elementary and Student Edition
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia
The New Book of Knowledge
World Book Encyclopedia

III. If you cannot find enough information in these sources, I can help you use the Gale Biography Resource Center, an online database that contains thousands of biographical articles about all kinds of people.

IV. Don't forget to cite your sources in NoodleBib.