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Juvenile Nonfiction
The Middle Grade Memoir of a Girl Boxer and Future
Olympian.
In this Lean-In style inspirational memoir, twelve-year-old Jesselyn Silva offers a ringside seat to girl power and what it takes to win in the ring and in life. punch by punch.
In this Lean-In style inspirational memoir, twelve-year-old Jesselyn Silva offers a ringside seat to girl power and what it takes to win in the ring and in life. punch by punch.
The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and
became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the
age of two-and-a-half, when he was stricken with scarlet fever.
Although his presidency was cut short, our nation's youngest
elected leader left an indelible mark on the American consciousness
and now is profiled in our Who Was.
A humorist, narrator, and social observer, Mark Twain is
unsurpassed in American literature. Best known as the author of
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, not unlike
his protagonist, Huck, has a restless spirit. He found adventure
prospecting for silver in Nevada, navigating steamboats down the
Mississippi, and making people laugh around the world.
The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet
the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a
mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in
London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and
wealthy man.
Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into
writing the Declaration of Independence. It's true. The shy
Virginia statesman refused at first, but then went on to author one
of our nation's most important and inspiring documents. The third
U.
For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as
hostesses of the White House...until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born
in 1884, Eleanor was not satisfied to just be a glorified hostess
for her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor
had a voice, and she used it to speak up against poverty and
racism.
The perfect biography to "bite into" at the start of a new school
year. Children are sure to be fascinated by the eccentric and
legendary Johnny Appleseed, a man who is best known for bringing
apple trees to the midwest. Over John Chapman’s lifetime, he
saw the country grow and start to spread westward.
From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in
Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way
to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America
and in what our country stood for. The oldest president ever, he
survived a near-fatal assassination attempt and lived to be 93.
Our bestselling series is fit for a queen.
The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous. cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five.
The life of Queen Elizabeth I was dramatic and dangerous. cast out of her father's court at the age of three and imprisoned at nineteen, Elizabeth was crowned queen in 1558, when she was only twenty-five.
One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower
Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live
ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of
Edison’s inventions, which include the phonograph and the
kinetoscope, an early precursor to the movie camera.
You want girl power. Meet Annie Oakley. Born in 1860, she became
one of the best-loved and most famous women of her generation. She
amazed audiences all over the world with her sharpshooting,
horse-riding, action-packed performances. In an age when most women
stayed home, she traveled the world and forged a new image for
American women.
If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might
never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored
Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and
saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans
neighborhood called Storyville.
