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9) Pocahontas
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English
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A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.
10) Clara Barton
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English
Description
Presents the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
12) Anne Frank
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English
Description
Traces the life of the young Jewish girl whose diary chronicles the years she and her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic.
16) Jesse Owens
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English
Description
A biography of one of America's greatest track and field athletes, the winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games.
17) Whoopi Goldberg
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English
Description
Profiles the life and career of the versatile Academy Award-winning actress and comedian.
18) Nelson Mandela
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English
Description
A biography of the Black South African leader, focusing on his struggle to overthrow the tyrannies of apartheid.