What A Life!: Stories Of Amazing People( Series - High Beginning, Book 2 )

Did you know thatA
AJean Paul Getty put pay phones in his guestsA bedrooms to save money on phone bills?
ALeonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them?
APeleAs first soccer ball was a grapefruit?
APablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes?
AAgatha Christie wrote a book that actually saved someoneAs life?
These and other fascinating facts make up the biographies in "What A Life!"
This three-book series takes a fresh approach to making reading both pleasurable and motivating! High-interest biographies focus on less-known facts about famous figures, rather than the chronology of events typical of most biographies.
Each book in the "What A Life!" Series takes a multicultural approach, featuring 24 short biographies on inspirational figures from all over the world.
Subjects range from historical and political figures to athletes, artists, entertainers, and humanitarians, including:
A Marie Curie A I.M. Pei A Eva Peron A Agatha Christie A Muhammad Ali A Bruce Lee A Leonardo da Vinci A William Shakespeare A Cesar Chavez A Pablo Picasso A Maria Montessori A Mother Teresa
In addition to the biographical reading, each short, easy-tofollow unit includes: Pre-reading questions and activities. Vocabulary exercisesA definition and usage. Main-idea and reading-skills exercises. Questions on detail and inference. Discussion, comprehension, and writing activities. Answers to exercises at the end of each book.