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"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Connie Roop
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387050372
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2018-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781945244469
Author : Herb Dunn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 1999-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0689831862
A biography emphasizing the childhood of the baseball legend.
Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 068986907X
This reader chronicles the life of John Adams, the second president of the newly formed United States. Full color.
Author : Steps To Literacy Staff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9781595644756
Author : Angus Burrell
Publisher : New York : Modern Library
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN :
Harding Davis / The bar sinister -- Ade / Effie Whittlesy -- Tarkington / "Little gentlemen" -- Norris / A deal in wheat -- Crane / The open boat -- Dreiser / The lost Phoebe -- O'Higgins / Big Dan Reilly -- Stein / The good Anna -- Cather / Paul's case -- London / To build a fire -- Anderson / I'm a fool -- I want to know why -- Johnson / The great pancake record -- Cabell / Porcelain cups -- Hergesheimer / Wild oranges -- Glaspell / A jury of her peers -- Ferber / The afternoon of a faun -- Lardner / Some like them cold -- The golden honeymoon -- Steele / The man who saw through heaven -- Beer / Tact -- Aiken / Silent snow, secret snow -- Parker / Big blonde -- Morley / The arrow -- Winslow / A cycle of Manhattan -- Porter / Maria Concepcion -- Thurber / The secret life of Walter Mitty -- Fitzgerald / The rich boy -- Dos Passos / The body of an American -- Faulkner / A rose for Emily -- Hemingway / The killers -- The gambler, the nun, and the radio -- Steinbeck / The red pony --
Author : Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 1999-04-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 006027767X
Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
Author : Jean Brown Wagoner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,56 MB
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 143910820X
Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Abigail Adams. Illustrated throughout.
Author : Louis Albert Banks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780332859088
Excerpt from Capital Stories About Famous Americans: A Budget of Tales of Love, Heroism and Adventure on Land and Sea It has been the purpose Of the author to gather in this volume such stories of love, heroism, and adventurous daring, together with lighter incident, as would make-the personalities Of the people discussed, alive and real to the reader. More than half of those Whose names are disclosed in this table of contents are yet living among us, and the rest still live in these stories Of a vital personal career which make them immortal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.