Item category 2: Book Box

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, she sh...

Subject: Teaching resource.

Subject: This is a colour illustrated book for young readers about Wilma Rudolph, an athlete who overcame incredible odds to become the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single Olympics

Subject: Relates a series of personal stories of the Windrush generation, documenting the coming to Britain and experiences here.

Subject: A literacy resource for KS2, on researching and celebrating the achievements of people in the past who came to live in Britain. Links the curriculum areas of history, citizenship and English. 27/3/12 - two copies are on the shelf, one is missing; citation marked as 'on the shelf'