Authors: Aesop (Fables) Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) Hans Christian Anderson (The Ugly Duckling) K. A.

Applegate (Animorphs) Avi (Charlotte Doyle) Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting) Lynne Reid Banks (Indian in the Cupboard) J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) Holly Black (Spiderwick) Judy Bloom (Fudge) Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) Lewis Carroll (Alices Adventures in Wonderland) Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games) Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Bruce Coville (My Teacher is an Alien) Shannon Creech (Walk Two Moons) Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Paula Danziger (Amber Brown) Kate DiCamillo (Because of Winn-Dixie) Tony DiTerlizzi (Spiderwick) Sid Fleischman (The Whipping Boy) Anne Frank (Diary of a Young Girl) Cornelia Funke (Inkheart) Neil Gaiman (Coarline) Jean Craighead George (My Side of the Mountain) Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (Grimms Fairy Tales) Margaret Peterson Haddix (Shadow Children) Carl Hiaasen (Hoot) Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider) Erin Hunter (Warriors series) Washington Irving (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth) Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book) E. L. Konigsburg (Mixed Up Files) Madeleine LEngle (A Wrinkle in Time) C. S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) Jack London (Call of the Wild) Lois Lowry (The Giver) Garth Nix (Keys to the Kingdom) Mary Pope Osborne (Magic Tree House) Christopher Paolini (Eragon) Katherine Paterson (Bridge to Terabithia) Gary Paulsen (Hatchet) James Patterson (Maximum Ride) Christopher Pike (Spooksville) Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials) Wilson Rawlings (Where the Red Fern Grows) Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson) J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter) Pam Munoz Ryan (Esperanza Rising) Louis Sachar Michael Scott Maurice Sendak Dr. Seuss Shel Silverstein R. L. Stein J.R.R. Tolkien Mark Twain Chris Van Allsburg Jules Verne H. G. Wells E. B. White L. Frank Baum Jonathan Rand (Sideways Stories) (Immortal Nicholas Flamel) (Where the Wild Things Are) (Cat in the Hat) (Where the Sidewalk Ends) (Goosebumps) (Lord of the Rings) (Tom Sawyer) (Polar Express) (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) (The Time machine) (Charlottes Web) (The Wizard of Oz) (Michigan Chillers)

Poets: Langston Hughes (Dreams) Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken) William Carlos Williams (This Is Just To Say) e. e. cummings (somewhere i have never) Emily Dickenson (Because I Could Not Stop) William Shakespeare (Sonnets) Walt Whitman (O Captain! My Captain!) Maya Angelou (I know Why the Caged Brid) Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven) William Blake (The Tyger)

Painters: Vincent van Gogh Claude Monet Rembrant Raphael Johannes Vermeer Edvard Munch Pablo Picasso Salvador Dali Georgia OKeefe Andy Warhol Donatello Michelangelo Auguste Rodin

(Starry Night) (San Giorgio Maggiorie at Dusk) (The Night Watch) (The School of Athens) (Girl with a Pearl Earring) (The Scream) (La Reve) (The Persistence of Memory) (Flowers) (Campbells Soup Cans) (David) (Sistine Chapel) (The Thinker)

Presidents: George Washington (Elephant tusk teeth) John Adams (First to live in White House) Thomas Jefferson (Spoke 6 languages) James Madison (Smallest President at 54) James Monroe (Purchased Florida) John Quincy Adams (Built Erie Canal) Andrew Jackson (First to ride a train) Martin Van Buren (1st Pres. born American Citizen) William Henry Harrison (President for 31 Days) John Tyler (Had 15 children) James Polk (Ran country coast to coast) Zachary Taylor (Never voted for a President) Millard Fillmore (1st Pres. with Running Water) Franklin Pierce (Memorized entire speeches) James Buchanan (Never married) Abraham Lincoln (Tallest President) Andrew Johnson (Buried with Constitution) Ulysses S. Grant (Fined for speeding horse) Rutherford B. Hayes (His phone number was 1) James Garfield (Wrote in both hands at the same time in different languages) Chester A. Arthur (Owned 80 pair of pants) Grover Cleveland (Married at White House) Benjamin Harrison (1st Pres. with electric lights) Grover Cleveland (Two non-consecutive terms) William McKinley (1st to use campaign buttons) Theodore Roosevelt (Teddy Bear named after him) William Taft (Heaviest President) Woodrow Wilson (Dreamed of being an actor) Warren Harding (Gambled and lost W.H. china) Calvin Coolidge (Born on 4th of July) Herbert Hoover (Spoke Chinese) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Served 4 terms) Harry Truman (Read every book in library) Dwight Eisenhower (WWII Commander) John F. Kennedy (Youngest elected president) Lyndon B. Johnson (Was a teacher before Pres.) Richard Nixon (Only pres. to Resign) Gerald Ford (Played football for U of M) Jimmy Carter (1st Pres. born in hospital) Ronald Reagan (Oldest President) George H. W. Bush (Survived 4 plane crashes) William Clinton (Plays the saxophone) Barack Obama (1st African-American Pres.)

First Ladies: Rosalynn Carter Dolley Madison Mary Todd Lincoln Lucy Webb Hayes Lou Henry Hoover Eleanor Roosevelt Claudia Johnson Betty Ford Nancy Reagan Hillary Clinton Michelle Obama Sarah Polk Abigail Fillmore Caroline Harrison Edith Wilson Jacqueline Kennedy (Mental Health) (Orphans) (Contraband Relief) (Womens Education) (Girl Scouts) (Equal Rights For All) (Beautification) (Equal Rights Amendment) (Just Say N0) (Historic Preservation) (Childhood Obesity) (Higher Education) (White House Library) (Womens Rights) (President for a Time?) (Fashion)

Inventors: Mary Anderson Archimedes John Atanasoff Roger Bacon Ralph H. Baer Alexander Graham Bell Tim Berners-Lee Laszlo Biro Louis Braille Christopher Cockerell Salvino DArmate Richard Drew George Eastman Thomas Alva Edison Alexander Fleming Benjamin Franklin Charles Goodyear Johann Gutenberg Whitcomb Judson Stephanie Kwolek Otto Lilienthal George William Manby Ransom Eli Olds Alexey Pajintnov Isaac Singer Lewis Urry John Venn Eli Whitney Orville Wright Wilbur Wright (windshield wiper blades) (Archimedes Screw) (modern digital computer) (magnifying glass) (video game console) (telephone) (word wide web) (ballpoint pen) (Braille writing system) (Hovercraft) (eyeglasses) (masking tape) (roll film) (light bulb) (penicillin) (bifocals) (vulcanization of rubber) (printing press) (zipper) (Kevlar) (hang glider) (fire extinguisher) (assembly line) (Tetris) (sewing machine) (alkaline battery) (Venn diagram) (Cotton Gin) (powered airplane) (powered airplane)

Scientists: Albert Einstein Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei Charles Darwin Marie Curie Stephen Hawking Louis Pasteur Johannes Kepler Nicolaus Copernicus Edwin Hubble Dmitri Mendeleev Euclid Gregor Mendel Nicolas Steno Mary Anning Rachel Carson (relativity) (gravity) (astronomy) (evolution) (radioactivity) (Brief History of Time) (pasteurization) (motion of planets) (heliocentric universe) (modern telescope) (periodic table) (mathematics) (genetics) (geology) (fossils) (environment)

Explorers: Human Rights Fighters: Edwin Buzz Aldrin (Moon) Neil Armstrong (Moon) Samuel Baker (Africa) John Cabot (North America) William Clarke (Western United States) Christopher Columbus (Caribbean) Frederick Cook (Arctic) Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (Mexico) Hernan Cortez (Mexico) Juan De La Cosa (South America) Bartolomeu Dias (Africa) Francis Drake (Caribbean) Leif Ericson (Newfoundland) Eric the Red (North America) Vasco de Gama (Sea Route to India) William Parry (Arctic) Juan Ponce de Leon (Florida) Sir Walter Raleigh (Virginia) Hernando de Soto (Central United States) Amerigo Vespucci (South America) Zheng He (Asia) Meriwether Lewis (Western United States) Sacagawea (Western United States) Amelia Earhart (Pilot Across Atlantic) Elisha Kane (Arctic rescue missions) Marco Polo (Asia) Rabban Bar Sauma (Asia) Sally Ride (Space) World Leaders: Napoleon Bonaparte Winston Churchill Julius Caesar Alexander the Great Margaret Thatcher Charles de Gaulle Eva Peron Fidel Castro Stephen Harper Vladimir Putin Tony Blaire Angela Merkel Ellen Johnson Cleopatra Abraham Lincoln Nelson Mandela Martin Luther King, Jr. Mikhail Gorbachev William Wilberforce Olaudah Equiano Rosa Parks Desmond Tutu Mary Wollstonecraft Susan B. Anthony Malala Yousafzai Mahatma Gandhi Aung San Suu Kyi Helen Keller Bartolome de las Casas Cesar Chaves Dolores Huerta Frederick Douglas Harriet Tubman Elie Wiesel Elizabeth Fry (Slavery) (Anti-Apartheid) (Civil Rights) (Democracy) (British Slavery) (Slavery) (Civil Rights) (Anti-Apartheid) (Womens Rights) (Womens Rights) (Human Rights) (Indian Independence) (Burmese Independence) (Deaf and Blind Rights) (Indian Rights) (Labor Rights) (Labor Rights) (Abolitionist) (Abolitionist) (Human Rights) (Prisoner Rights)

Other Famous: Bill Gates Steve Jobs Muhammad Ali Plato Socrates Aristotle Ludwig Beethoven Dali Lama Walt Disney Malcolm X Confucius (Computers) (Computers) (Boxing/Civil Rights) (Greek philosopher) (Greek philosopher) (Greek philosopher) (Composer) (Spiritual Leader) (Film Producer) (Black Nationalist Leader) (Philosopher)

(France) (United Kingdom) (Rome) (Greek) (United Kingdom) (France) (Argintina) (Cuba) (Canada) (Russia) (United Kingdom) (Germany) (Liberia) (Egypt)