Author: Victoria Sherrow
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822501985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, author, and inventor.
Benjamin Franklin
Author: Victoria Sherrow
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822501985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, author, and inventor.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822501985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, author, and inventor.
Barack Obama
Author: Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761352058
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Presents the life, career, and accomplishments of the forty-fourth president of the United States.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761352058
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Presents the life, career, and accomplishments of the forty-fourth president of the United States.
George Washington
Author: Candice F. Ransom
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822503840
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the first president of the United States.
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822503840
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of the first president of the United States.
Nelson Mandela
Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 1467749923
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
True or False? Nelson Mandela spent almost three decades in jail before becoming president of South Africa. True! From the 1940s to the 1990s, Nelson Mandela led a movement to gain rights for black South Africans. The white South African government tried to stop him by putting him in jail. After twenty-seven years, he was freed, and black South Africans won the right to vote in their own country. They elected Mandela to be the first black president of South Africa.His parents named him Rolihlahla, but his English teacher called him Nelson when he started school. Before he went to jail, he worked as a lawyer representing black South Africans. He helped write the Freedom Charter, which became the blueprint for South Africa?s fight for equality.
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 1467749923
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
True or False? Nelson Mandela spent almost three decades in jail before becoming president of South Africa. True! From the 1940s to the 1990s, Nelson Mandela led a movement to gain rights for black South Africans. The white South African government tried to stop him by putting him in jail. After twenty-seven years, he was freed, and black South Africans won the right to vote in their own country. They elected Mandela to be the first black president of South Africa.His parents named him Rolihlahla, but his English teacher called him Nelson when he started school. Before he went to jail, he worked as a lawyer representing black South Africans. He helped write the Freedom Charter, which became the blueprint for South Africa?s fight for equality.
Thomas Edison
Author: Shannon Zemlicka
Publisher: Lerner Books [UK]
ISBN: 0761343806
Category : Electrical engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher: Lerner Books [UK]
ISBN: 0761343806
Category : Electrical engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Bill Clinton
Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0822579863
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An introduction to the life and career of former president Bill Clinton.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0822579863
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
An introduction to the life and career of former president Bill Clinton.
Marie Curie
Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822503002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A biography of the woman scientist from Poland who discovered the element radium which helps to cure some cancers.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822503002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A biography of the woman scientist from Poland who discovered the element radium which helps to cure some cancers.
Quanah Parker
Author: Shannon Zemlicka
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822507246
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822507246
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Eli Whitney
Author: Catherine A. Welch
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822585448
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
True or false? Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. False! Eli Whitney was the first person to build a wire-toothed cotton gin. But Eli's gin was not the first machine of its kind. He made nails to earn money when he was a boy. He went to court to protect his wire-toothed cotton gin when others tried to build similar machines. He started his own musket-making business.
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822585448
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
True or false? Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, a machine for removing seeds from cotton. False! Eli Whitney was the first person to build a wire-toothed cotton gin. But Eli's gin was not the first machine of its kind. He made nails to earn money when he was a boy. He went to court to protect his wire-toothed cotton gin when others tried to build similar machines. He started his own musket-making business.
Milton Hershey
Author: Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760739112
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A biography of the successful chocolate maker who built a town around his factory with unique housing for his workers and a school for disadvantaged students.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760739112
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A biography of the successful chocolate maker who built a town around his factory with unique housing for his workers and a school for disadvantaged students.