Meltzer, Milton

A biography of the poet who became known for his ability to speak to the common people, by shaping out of the plain English of ordinary Americans the voice of their vast experience.

A look at the life and times of the United States' seventh president in text and photographs.

A biography of Dorothea Lange, whose photographs of migrant workers and rural poverty helped bring important social reforms.

Focuses on the childhood and youth of the writer, thinker, and social activist Betty Friedan.

Offers tidbits from history, folklore, tradition, and other sources that help explain how people got their names and what they mean.

Discusses the social, political, economic, and gastronomic aspects of food in its many forms.

Presents a biography of the multi-talented and accomplished founding father.

Explores the life and achievements of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Einstein.

Examines the life of the reclusive nineteenth-century Massachusetts poet whose posthumously published poetry brought her the public attention she had carefully avoided during her lifetime.

In 1931 Worcester, Massachusetts, Joey Singer, the teenaged son of Jewish immigrants, suffers with his family through the early part of the Great Depression, trying to finish high school, working a milk delivery route, marching on Washington, and eventually even becoming a hobo, all the while trying to figure out how to go to college and realize his dream of becoming a writer.