childhood and youth

The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.

Young Harriet Tubman, whose childhood name was Minty, dreams of escaping slavery on the Brodas plantation in the late 1820s.

Presents the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, who married a president of the United States and became a great humanitarian.

The author recalls the summers he and his brother spent at their grandparents' house near the beach.

A biography of Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of forty-two, was the youngest man to become president of the United States.

Traces the career and early life of the Scottish-born sea captain who, after killing a mutineer, sailed to America, where he became a hero of the Revolution and founded the United States Navy.

The author describes her family life and daily activities from the ages of three to nine and celebrates the experience of growing up in a traditional African-American community in Washington, D.C.

Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.

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 biography of the aviation pioneer who was considered a tomboy in her childhood.