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Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briely introduces the life of Benjamin Franklin, touching on his inventions and his contributions to the city of Philadelphia as well as to the newly formed United States of America.
5) Clara Barton
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of George Washington, who became the first president of the United States after leading the American military in the Revolutionary War against England.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life and work of Harriet Tubman, who helped free slaves through the Underground Railroad and continued helping freed slaves after the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Language
English
Description
When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the first African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
9) John Muir
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of John Muir, the naturalist who formed the Sierra Club to help preserve the Sierra Mountains.
11) George W. Bush
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of George W. Bush, who became the forty-third president after the closest presidential race in United States history.
12) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
13) Laura Bush
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the former Texas librarian and teacher who, as the wife of the forty-third president, became first lady in 2001.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of the thirty-second president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose three terms in office spanned the years of the Depression and the Second World War.
16) Paul Revere
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
18) Betsy Ross
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
19) Oprah Winfrey
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
20) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A short biography of the famous civil rights figure and her work.
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