childhood and youth

Explores early twentieth-century jazz pianist and virtuoso Art Tatum's passion and talent for playing the instrument, and includes illustrations and biographical information.

Tells the story of James Forten, a free African-American boy from Philadelphia who was taken prisoner aboard a British warship and later on a British prison ship until the end of the war.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the airplane inventors Wilbur and Orville Wright.

A biography of the writer whose pioneer life on the American prairie became the basis for her "Little House" books.

A biography concentrating on the childhood of the Revolutionary War leader and first President of the United States.

A fictionalized biography, with emphasis on the early life, of the Virginia farmer's son who would eventually become a Revolutionary War leader and first President of the United States.

A biography of Britain's controversial and conservative prime minister.

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

Focuses on the childhood and early musical training of the versatile eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

A childhood biography of the Indian nationalist leader who followed a doctrine of nonviolent civil disobedience.