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acromegaly, 45 Grant, Ulysses S., 9 reform school, 18
American citizenship, 10–11 Rivera, Diego, 21–22
American Indian boarding Hepburn, Audrey, 7, 29–31 Roussimoff, André René.
schools, 10–11 Hogan, Hulk, 46 See André the Giant
André the Giant, 45–47 ichthyology, 25–26
Armstrong, Louis, 6, 17–19, Indian Citizenship Act, 11 segregation, 17, 19, 37–38
48 Swoboda, Maria, 38
Jaws, 25 Talmud, Max, 14
ballet, 29, 37–39
jazz, 6, 17–19
Clark, Eugenie, 25–27 Jeet Kune Do, 42 Wilkinson, Raven, 37–39
Clemente, Roberto, 33–35 Kahlo, Frida, 7, 21–23, 48 World War II, 29
conceptual thinking, 13–14 Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 37 Dutch Resistance, 30
Copeland, Misty, 39 Green Police, 30
kung fu, 41–42 Hitler, Adolf, 29–30
discrimination, 38 Hunger Winter, 31
Lee, Bruce, 7, 41–43
World Wide Wrestling
Einstein, Albert, 6, 13–15 Oliver, Joe “King,” 18 Federation (WWWF), 46
Enter the Dragon, 43 Wounded Knee Massacre, 11
painting, 21–23
Frank, Anne, 30–31 Pittsburgh Pirates, 34–35 Zitkála-Šá, 9–10
Funny Face, 29, 31
polio, 7, 21

AbouT the Author

Carlyn Beccia (pronounced Betcha) is an author, illustrator, and graphic
designer. Beccia’s children’s books, including Monstrous, The Raucous Royals,
I Feel Better with a Frog in My Throat, and They Lost Their Heads, have
won numerous awards including the Golden Kite Honor, the International
Reading Association’s Children’s and Young Adult Book Award, and the Cybils
Award. At the age of ten, Carlyn rode horses at breakneck speeds, sketched
monsters, and drove her parents up the wall. The sketching at least worked
out. To learn more about her, visit her at www.CarlynBeccia.com.

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