Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin PDF Author: Victoria Sherrow
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822501985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, author, and inventor.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin PDF Author: Victoria Sherrow
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822501985
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Book Description
Describes the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin, the American statesman, author, and inventor.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama PDF Author: Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0761352058
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
Presents the life, career, and accomplishments of the forty-fourth president of the United States.

George Washington

George Washington PDF Author: Candice F. Ransom
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822503840
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Describes the life and accomplishments of the first president of the United States.

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela PDF Author: Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 1467749923
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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

Thomas Edison PDF Author: Shannon Zemlicka
Publisher: Lerner Books [UK]
ISBN: 0761343806
Category : Electrical engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton PDF Author: Stephanie Sammartino McPherson
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 0822579863
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
An introduction to the life and career of former president Bill Clinton.

Marie Curie

Marie Curie PDF Author: Laura Hamilton Waxman
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822503002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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A biography of the woman scientist from Poland who discovered the element radium which helps to cure some cancers.

Quanah Parker

Quanah Parker PDF Author: Shannon Zemlicka
Publisher: Lerner Publications
ISBN: 9780822507246
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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A biography of Quanah Parker, a spiritual and political leader of the Comanche people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Eli Whitney

Eli Whitney PDF Author: Catherine A. Welch
Publisher: LernerClassroom
ISBN: 0822585448
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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

Milton Hershey PDF Author: Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780760739112
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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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.