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Books in Ready-To-Read Childhood of Famous Americans - Level 2 series

  • Jane Addams, little lame girl

    Jean Brown Wagoner

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1944)
    None
  • 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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  • 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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  • Childhood of Famous Americans: John F. Kennedy and the Stormy Sea

    Howard Goldsmith, Renne Benoit

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Jan. 1, 2006)
    When young Jack Kennedy's little sister gets tired of playing, Jack suggests a a sail. Within moments Jack is steering the small chip toward Osterville to say hello to Captain Manley. Under darkening clouds the two children head back home -- but they do not make it before a storm hits, threatening their lives. Is young Jack a good enough sailor to bring his sister home to safety?
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  • Myles Standish, adventurous boy

    Augusta Stevenson

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1962)
    None
  • Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig

    Stephen Krensky, Greshom Griffith

    Library Binding (Fitzgerald Books, Jan. 1, 2007)
    None
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  • James Monroe, good neighbor boy

    Mabel Cleland Widdemer

    Hardcover (Bobbs-Merrill, Feb. 6, 1959)
    None
  • 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)
    None
  • 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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