Jean Fritz

With her trademark humor and anecdotal style, the Newbery Honor Award-winner and preeminent biographer for young people turns her attention to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the lively, unconventional spokeswoman of the woman suffrage movement. Convinced from an early age that women should have the same rights as men, Lizzie embarked on a career that changed America

Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's life and exciting ride.

A brief biography of the eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

A brief biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter to statesman.

Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...

Ten-year-old Ann Hamilton finds herself to be the only girl and is lonesome but learns to appreciate her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.

A biography of George the Third, King of Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.

Traces the life of the soldier who led the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico, served as governor and senator, and opposed secession during the Civil War.

Story of Harriet Beecher Stowe, who opposed slavery so passionately, that she decided to write novels about it, and became the most famous of a renowned family.

Describes the English colony of Roanoke, which was founded in 1585, and discusses the mystery of its disappearance.