Stanley, George Edward

Profiles the famous general of World War II who later became president of the U.S.A. from 1953-1961. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father.

Contains two stories in which third-grade sleuths Noelle and Todd set out to impress their new teacher by finding the author of an anonymous note and search for a trespasser who left a mysterious pink handkerchief in Todd's tree house.

Eight-year-old secret agent Adam Sharp travels to Australia where, with the assistance of Alice Springs and a washed-up TV star, he tracks down the evil mastermind behind a plan to block all television stations except his own--The Happy Channel.

The Third-Grade Detectives investigate when a fifteenth-century statue is stolen from an art museum and destroyed.

At first Katie Lynn is excited when people start buying the walnut chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies she is baking with her grandmother's secret recipe, but then things get terribly complicated.

Looks at the early life of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and describes his early life as a slave, his work as a civil rights leader, and his meetings with President Lincoln.

Chronicles the presidential years between 1929 and 1949 and the domestic and global events that marked their administration including Roosevelt's New Deal policies, how the European and Pacific wars were fought, the Cold War, and the development of atomic weapons.

Presents a brief biography of Crazy Horse, the Oglala Sioux chief who fought for the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876.