juvenile literature

Examines the life of the president who helped postpone the Civil War with the Compromise of 1850 and who was considered to have destroyed his political career in order to preserve the Union.

A biography of the chemist who, in recognition of her important discoveries and inventions, was the first woman inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1991.

A biography of the courageous aviatrix who became the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air.

Sketches the life of the "Wizard of Menlo Park," the man who patented more than one thousand inventions, the most important of which was the electric light bulb.

Relates how Charles Darwin began his career as an unpaid naturalist aboard the brig H.M.S. Beagle on a five-year voyage around South America, during which he began to formulate his revolutionary theory of evolution.

A brief biography of the popular author, focusing on how she became a writer. Incudes information on setting goals.

A biography of the legendary American trapper, scout, and Indian agent.

Children's author Donald Crews recalls a childhood visit to Bigmama's house in the country, where he finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.

A simple adaptation of excerpts in Columbus's diary, from his departure from Spain to his landing in the New World in 1492.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Alexander Graham Bell, from his early interest in communication and electric tone transmissions to his development of the telephone and his aid to the deaf.