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Did you know that: Jean Paul Getty put pay phones in his guests'bedrooms to save money on phone bills? Leonardo da Vinci wrote backwards in his notebooks so that nobody could read them? Pele s first soccer ball was a grapefruit? Pablo Picasso never threw anything away, not even empty cereal boxes? Agatha Christie wrote a book that actually saved someone's 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: Marie Curie I.M. Pei Eva Per n Agatha Christie Muhammad Ali Bruce Lee Leonardo da Vinci William Shakespeare Cesar Chavez Pablo Picasso Maria Montessori Mother Teresa In addition to the biographical reading, each short, easy-tofollow unit includes: Pre-reading questionsand activities. Vocabulary exercises --definition and usage. Main-ideaand reading-skillsexercises. Questions on detail and inference. Discussion, comprehension,and writingactivities. Answers to exercises at the end of each book.Broukal, Milada is the author of 'What a Life! Stories of Amazing People', published 2000 under ISBN 9780201619973 and ISBN 0201619970.
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