Wilkie, Katharine Elliott

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Maria Mitchell, stargazer

William Penn, friend to all

The life of the English religious reformer and American colonialist who received a grant of land from Charles II in the new world. He laid the foundation for government, educational institutions, and the city of Philadelphia.

William Penn, friend to all

Helen Keller

from tragedy to triumph
1983
A biography, focusing on the childhood years, of the blind and deaf woman who overcame her handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.

Frontier nurse: Mary Breckinridge

1969
A biography of the woman who gave up the riches and comfort of her aristocratic birth to serve as a nurse in the Kentucky mountains where she established the Frontier Nursing Service.

George Rogers Clark

boy of the Northwest frontier
2004
Childhood of the explorer and soldier who won the Northwest Territory for the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Charles Dickens

the inimitable Boz
1970
A biography of the English author whose novels served to arouse public opinion against the social injustices they depicted.

Mary Todd Lincoln

girl of the Bluegrass
1992
A biography concentrating on the childhood of the Kentucky girl who grew up to marry Abraham Lincoln.

Pocahontas, Indian princess

1969
Brief biography of the Indian princess who saved the life of the leader of the Jamestown settlers and who later married an Englishman with whom she visited London.

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