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Maria Mitchell, stargazer

Benjamin Franklin

Henry Clay; leader in Congress

Henry Clay; leader in Congress

An easy biography of the American statesman best remembered for his initiation and support of political compromise to keep the Union together during the first half of the nineteenth century.

Florence Nightingale, war nurse

A biography of the founder of modern nursing.

Amelia Earhart, pioneer in the sky

A biography of the pilot who became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross.

Kit Carson, pathfinder of the West

A biography of the frontiersman who became known as a trapper, hunter, guide, and soldier.

Booker T. Washington: leader of his people

A biography of the black educator and organizer of Tuskegee Institute who spent his life working for equality for the people of his race.

Eli Whitney, great inventor

A brief biography of the inventor of a gin to seed upland cotton and of a way to mass produce musket locks.

Robert E. Peary, North Pole conqueror

A biography of the Arctic explorer who discovered the North Pole in 1909.

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