Ordinary People Change the World: A Box of Heroes (5-Book Boxed Set) - Paperback

by Brad Meltzer (Author), Christopher Eliopoulos (Illustrator)

This specially priced box set of five paperbacks makes the perfect introduction to this New York Times bestselling series of hero biographies, for ages 5 to 9.

One great role model at a time, these books encourage kids to dream big. This friendly, fun biography series inspired the PBS Kids TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, and it will inspire your child as well.

In this set, readers will learn about the fascinating lives and important accomplishments of physicist Albert Einstein, abolitionist Harriet Tubman, disability rights advocate Helen Keller, explorer Sacagawea, and baseball player Jackie Robinson--all brave and groundbreaking heroes.

Included in each book are:

• A timeline of key events in the hero's history
• Photos that bring the story more fully to life
• Comic-book-style illustrations that are irresistibly adorable
• Childhood moments that influenced the heroes
• Facts that make great conversation-starters
• A virtue these heroes embody

Author Biography

Brad Meltzer is the New York Times bestselling author of Heroes for My Son, Heroes for My Daughter, The Nazi Conspiracy, and a number of suspense novels like The Lightning Rod. He also helped find the missing 9/11 flag with his History Channel television show Brad Meltzer's Lost History. He lives in Florida with his wife and their three children.

Christopher Eliopoulos has worked on thousands of comics, and is the author/illustrator of the picture books The Yawns Are Coming!, The Giggles Are Coming!, A Little Emotional, and The Imaginoodles and the graphic novels Cosmic Commandos and Monster Mayhem. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their college-graduate twin sons.