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  • Allan Pinkerton, Young Detective

    Kathryn Kilby Borland, Helen Ross Speicher, Nathan Goldstein

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, Jan. 1, 1962)
    Harper & Bros.,1950. First Edition. Hard Cover.

  • Betsy Ross and the Silver Thimble, Level 2

    Stephanie Greene, Diana Magnuson

    Library Binding (Aladdin Library, June 1, 2002)
    When she fails to build a table just like her brother, little Betsy Ross turns to her mother for reassurance and learns that she must always be true to herself in order to find happiness. Simultaneous.
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  • Myles Standish, adventurous boy

    Augusta Stevenson

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1962)
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  • James Monroe, good neighbor boy

    Mabel Cleland Widdemer

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, Feb. 6, 1959)
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  • Robert Fulton,: Boy craftsman

    Marguerite Henry

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, Jan. 1, 1962)
    Paperback book about childhood of famous Americans
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  • Zeb Pike, boy traveler

    Augusta Stevenson

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1963)
    A dramatized story of the childhood of one of the greatest explorers of the interior continent of North America, with moral lessons written smoothly into the tale.

  • John Deere, blacksmith boy

    Margaret Ann Bare

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1964)
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  • Louisa May Alcott: Young Novelists

    Beatrice Gormley, Meryl Henderson

    Paperback (Demco Media, April 1, 1999)
    Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels
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  • Kit Carson, boy trapper

    Augusta Stevenson

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1962)
    1962: by Augusta Stevenson- The thrilling life of the early days.

  • Daniel Boone: Young Hunter And Tracker

    Augusta Stevenson

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Oct. 31, 1986)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Recreates the early life of the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.
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  • Mary Todd Lincoln, girl of the Bluegrass

    Katharine Elliott Wilkie

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, Jan. 1, 1960)
    Little Mary Todd was all storm and sunshine. It was that she really meant to be naughty, but she was like Snowball, her pony -- she couldn't be led, but not driven. So when mammy told her to be a little lady, she didn't like it. She jumped on Snowball and rode to Ashland, the home of her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Clay. There nobody told her to be a lady; consequently, she charmed them by being one.

  • Ronald Reagan: Young Leader

    Montrew Dunham, Meryl Henderson

    Library Binding
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A title from the Childhood Of Famous Americans series.