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Ordinary People Change the World: A Box of Heroes (5-Book Boxed Set)
  • Published: 24 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9798217006489
  • Imprint: Rocky Pond Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $69.99

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

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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.

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
  • Published: 24 September 2025
  • ISBN: 9798217006489
  • Imprint: Rocky Pond Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 200
  • RRP: $69.99
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About the authors

Brad Meltzer

Brad Meltzer is the Emmy-nominated, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Ordinary People Change the World children’s book series, The Lightning Rod and twelve other thriller novels, nonfiction books such as The JFK Conspiracy, and comic books, for which he has won the prestigious Eisner Award. He is one of the only authors to have had books on the bestseller list in five different categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Advice, Children’s Books, and Graphic Books.
 
Brad is the host of Brad Meltzer’s Decoded on the History Channel and is responsible for helping find the missing 9/11 flag with his show Brad Meltzer’s Lost History. His children’s books are the inspiration for the PBS KIDS TV show Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum.  
 
His books have been read by multiple U.S. Presidents. The Hollywood Reporter put him on their list of the 25 Most Powerful Authors. And his recent commencement address at the University of Michigan has been called “one of the best of all time.”
portrait photo of Brad Meltzer

Christopher Eliopoulos

Christopher Eliopoulos began his illustration career as a letterer for Marvel and has worked on thousands of comics, including Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, Pet Avengers, and Cow Boy, all of which he wrote and illustrated. He is the illustrator of the New York Times–bestselling Ordinary People Change the World series of picture book biographies. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their identical twin sons.
portrait photo of Christopher Eliopoulos

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

New York Times Best Sellers
I am Abraham Lincoln, I am Amelia Earhart, I am Rosa Parks, I am Martin Luther King, Jr., I am George Washington, I am Jane Goodall, I am Jim Henson, I am Harriet Tubman, I am Neil Armstrong, I am Sonia Sotomayor, I am Walt Disney, I am Anne Frank, I am Dolly Parton, I am Ruth Bader Ginsburg