Best Biography Books for 3rd Grade

Third graders, usually eight and nine years old, will find biographies here that pair strong storytelling with striking art. Choosing Brave by Angela Joy, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, tells how Mamie Till-Mobley turned grief over the murder of her son, Emmett, into a call for civil rights, and Aida Salazar's Jovita Wore Pants follows a Mexican woman who took up arms during the Cristero War. Biographies of an engineer, an activist and a Supreme Court justice complete the page.