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On a sunny day in Dallas, Texas, at the end of a campaign trip, President John Fitzgerald...

Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on...

The Diary of Anne Frank is read and loved by children throughout the world. Yet few of th...

Marco Polo was seventeen when he set out for China . . . and forty-one when he came back!...

He came. He saw. He conquered. Julius Caesar was a force to be reckoned with as a savvy p...

The 21st book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about her...

The 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about her...

This New York Times Bestselling biography series by Brad Meltzer has an inspiring me...

"We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this biography series from #...

Over the course of history, famous people made mistakes that were so monumental they coul...

With more than 1.5 million copies sold, Killing Lincoln deftly recounts one of the most d...

Born into the Northern Paiute tribe of Nevada in 1844, Sarah Winnemucca straddled two cul...

Pocahontas was the special favorite of her father, the great chief Pawhatan. And when the...

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books, based on her own childhood and later life, are...

Blind since the age of three, young Louis Braille wanted to be able to read. He spent eve...

Learn all about Florence Nightingale and her revolutionary nursing work in this children'...

On the eve of World War II, African American boxer Joe Louis fought German Max Schmeling ...

This book is an in-depth biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, who was an important figure in th...

This thrilling account of Napoleon's rise to power-from his humble beginnings on the isla...

A short, red-headed and red-faced man with a bold personality, Myles Standish is remember...

The common view of the Romans is that they were only interested in watching gladiators ha...

Acclaimed author Judith St. George shares the joy of discovery in this delightful book ab...

Named Temujin at birth by his nomadic family in early Mongolia, the great Genghis Khan us...

The Victorian era was a time of great change and rapid progress. Britain was undergoing t...

Learn all about Ghandi and his struggle for his country's freedom in this children's biog...

Learn all about Anne Frank and her world-famous diary in this children's biography.In thi...

Learn all about Martin Luther King Jr. and his stand for equal rights in this children's ...

Booker dreamedof making friends with words,setting free the secretsthat lived in books. ...

'On his passport he was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The poet Rabindranath Tagore gave him...

Learn all about Leonardo da Vinci and his creative genius in this children's biography.Di...

Learn all about Albert Einstein and his famous scientific theories in this children's bio...

In this biography, young listeners will learn all about Elizebeth Friedman (1892-1980), a...

Almost anything scares young Eleanor: mice, the dark, and a host of imaginary dangers. Bu...

Leonardo da Vinci was born in a small Italian town in 1452. He trained to be a painter, b...

When Clara arrived in America, she couldn't speak English. She didn't know that young wo...

In the 1930s most girls were happy playing with dolls. But one girl, Betty Skelton, liked...

Lis Hartel became paralyzed after contracting polio in 1944. Her dreams of riding horses ...

The dirt and filth of Scutari Hospital creates the perfect home for Vlad the flea and Lox...

National Book Award finalist Elizabeth Partridge reveals the life and work of Frederick L...

Long before Amelia Earhart became a superstar, she was a girl who longed to touch the sta...

Moving, funny, and totally true childhood biographies of Bill Gates, Madam C. J. Walker, ...

An inspiring biography about the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery ...

They called her "Minty."When she grew up, she became Harriet Tubman, the courageous and h...

Called the "Great Pathfinder", Daniel Boone is most famous for opening up the West to set...

Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Grandd...

In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened t...

The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school year! Children are sure...

Follow the life of Luz, a Mexican-American war hero who fought for equality and created t...

Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father wont hear of it. The other t...

Anna Smith Strong (17901812) was a fearless woman who acted as a spy for George Washingto...