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- Dr. Seuss, we love you, Patricia Stone Martin ; illustrated by Karen Park. --
- Mark Twain, boy of old Missouri, by Miriam E. Mason ; illustrated by Henry S. Gillette
- Best wishes, by Cynthia Rylant ; photographs by Carlo Ontal
- Bigmama's, Donald Crews
- Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize-winning author, Barbara Kramer
- Here we all are, written and illustrated by Tomie DePaola
- Judy Blume, by Elisa Ludwig
- The story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, pioneer girl, by Megan Stine ; illustrated by Marcy Dunn Ramsey
- Down to earth at Walden, written and illustrated by Marilynne K. Roach. --
- My life in dog years, Gary Paulsen
- Stephen King, by Anne Saidman
- Stephen King, Amy and Marjorie Keyishian
- King of the mild frontier, an ill-advised autobiography, by Chris Crutcher
- Bill Peet, an autobiography, Bill Peet
- Between two worlds, a story about Pearl Buck, by Barbara Mitchell ; illustrations by Karen Ritz
- Margaret Wise Brown, by Carol Greene
- A New England love story, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody, by LouAnn Gaeddert. --
- Walter Dean Myers, Karen Burshtein
- Ezra Jack Keats, a biography for young readers, Dean Engel and Florence B. Freedman
- Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little house books, by Carol Greene
- How Angel Peterson got his name, and other outrageous tales about extreme sports, Gary Paulsen
- Who was Ernest Hemingway?, by Jim Gigliotti ; illustrated by Gregory Copeland
- Tomie de Paola, written by Julie Berg
- What a year!, by Tomie dePaola
- American boy, the adventures of Mark Twain, written and illustrated by Don Brown
- R.L. Stine, by Jill C. Wheeler
- Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher preachers, Jean Fritz
- The boy on Fairfield Street, how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss, by Kathleen Krull ; paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher ; with decorative illustrations by Dr. Seuss
- Autumn in Venice, Ernest Hemingway and his last muse, Andrea Di Robilant
- The house of Hawthorne, Erika Robuck
- A girl from Yamhill, a memoir, Beverly Cleary
- Imagine that!, how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat, by Judy Sierra ; illustrated by Kevin Hawkes
- On my way, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- L. Frank Baum, royal historian of Oz, Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley
- A letter from Phoenix Farm, by Jane Yolen ; photographs by Jason Stemple
- Louis Sachar, Meg Greene
- Planting stories, the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpré, words by Anika Aldamuy Denise ; illustrations by Paola Escobar
- A voice for the people, the life and work of Harold Courlander, Nina Jaffe
- Purple Mountain majesties, the story of Katharine Lee Bates and America the beautiful, by Barbara Younger ; illustrated by Stacey Schuett
- Maya Angelou, Miles Shapiro ; [introductory essay by Coretta Scott King]
- John Steinbeck, by Catherine Reef
- Oh, the places he went, a story about Dr. Seuss--Theodore Seuss Geisel, by Maryann N. Weidt ; illustrations by Kerry Maguire
- Deliberate cruelty, Truman Capote, the millionaire's wife, and the murder of the century, Roseanne Montillo
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh, pilot and poet, Roxane Chadwick. --
- Dr. Seuss, best-loved author, Carin T. Ford
- The days before now, an autobiographical note, by Margaret Wise Brown ; adapted by John W. Blos ; illustrated by Thomas B. Allen
- H.A. Rey, Julie Berg
- Things will never be the same, written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola
- Prairie fires, the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser
- A prairie girl's faith, the spiritual legacy of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines
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