Best Biography Books for 4th Grade

Fourth graders, ages nine and ten, will find biographies here about people who pushed past barriers. Juliet Menéndez's Latinitas profiles forty Latina trailblazers through short chapters and portraits of each one as a girl, and Choosing Brave, a Coretta Scott King Award winner, tells how Mamie Till-Mobley turned her grief into a call for civil rights. Biographies of an aerospace engineer, a disability rights activist and a Mexican revolutionary complete the page.