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Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1988

Description

Traces the life and accomplishments of the printer, philosopher, scientist, inventor, and statesman.

2) Pocahontas: daughter of a chief

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1988

Description

A brief biography of the American Indian princess who as a young girl befriended John Smith, saving him from death at the hands of her father, and later was very helpful to the colonists at Jamestown.

3) Abraham Lincoln: president of a divided country

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1989

Description

A simple biography of the Civil War president.

4) Christopher Columbus: a great explorer

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Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1989

Description

A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

5) Ludwig van Beethoven: musical pioneer

Author

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

c1989

6) Martin Luther King, Jr: a man who changed things

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1989

Description

A simple biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights and who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

7) Robert E. Lee: leader in war and peace

Author

Series

Publisher

Children's Press

Pub. Date

1989

Description

A simple biography of the general who commanded the Southern Army during the Civil War.

8) Black Elk: (a man with a vision)

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1990

Description

A simple account of the life of Black Elk, the visionary and Oglala medicine man who had a vision of universal peace and felt that he saw his people's dream die at Wounded Knee.

9) Daniel Boone: man of the forests

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Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1990

Description

A biography of explorer and pioneer Daniel Boone.

10) Elizabeth the First: Queen of England

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1990

Description

Describes in simple terms the life of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

11) Jackie Robinson: baseball's first Black major leaguer

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1990

Description

Relates the life story of the first black man to play baseball in the major leagues.

12) Laura Ingalls Wilder: author of the Little house books

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1990

Description

A biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who actually lived in the little houses about which she wrote.

13) Elizabeth Blackwell, first woman doctor

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Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1991

Description

A biography of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in both America and England to open the field of medicine to women.

14) George Washington, first president of the United States

Author

Series

A Rookie biography

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1991

Description

A simple biography of the first president of the United States.

15) Hans Christian Andersen (prince of storytellers)

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1991

Description

A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Danish author known for his fairy tales.

16) John Chapman: (the man who was Johnny Appleseed)

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1991

Description

Relates how John Chapman's distribution of apple seeds and trees across America made him a legend.

17) John Muir: man of the wild places

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

1991

Description

A biography of the naturalist who was an early proponent of wilderness preservation and helped start the Sierra Club.

18) Thurgood Marshall: first African-American Supreme Court justice

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1991

Description

A biography of the first Afro-American to be appointed to the Supreme Court.

19) George Washington Carver: scientist and teacher

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Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1992

Description

Describes the life and accomplishments of the former slave who became a scientist and devoted his career to helping the South improve its agriculture.

20) Johann Sebastian Bach: great man of music

Author

Series

Publisher

Childrens Press

Pub. Date

c1992

Description