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Explore 24 books like Going Solo by Roald Dahl — a handpicked selection united by Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction, Historical, and Biography & Autobiography.

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Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

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Helen Keller From Tragedy to Triumph — Katharine E. Wilkie

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Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

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The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton A Biography — Connie Nordhielm Wooldridge

The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton A Biography

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Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her — Melanie Rehak

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Wilma Unlimited How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Woman — Kathleen Krull

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Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

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Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?

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Babe Didrikson Zaharias The Making of a Champion — Russell Freedman

Babe Didrikson Zaharias The Making of a Champion

Russell Freedman

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Who Was William Shakespeare? — Celeste Mannis

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Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Tomfoolery! Randolph Caldecott and the Rambunctious Coming-Of-Age of Children’s Books — Michelle Markel

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Michelle Markel

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Who Was Edgar Allan Poe? — Jim Gigliotti

Who Was Edgar Allan Poe?

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Capyboppy — Bill Peet

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

The Fabled Life of Aesop — Ian Lendler

The Fabled Life of Aesop

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Eleanor Roosevelt A Life of Discovery — Russell Freedman

Eleanor Roosevelt A Life of Discovery

Russell Freedman

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

March Forward, Girl From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine — Melba Beals

March Forward, Girl From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine

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Think Big, Little One — Vashti Harrison

Think Big, Little One

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Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World — Vashti Harrison

Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World

Vashti Harrison

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Michelle Obama An American Story — David Colbert

Michelle Obama An American Story

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse — Catherine Reef

Florence Nightingale The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White — Melissa Sweet

Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White

Themes: Literary • Juvenile Nonfiction • Historical

Fans of Going Solo by Roald Dahl will find 24 titles here, all united by Literary, Juvenile Nonfiction, Historical. Authors represented include Roald Dahl, Barbara Younger, Beatrice Gormley, Katharine E. Wilkie, and others.

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