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  • Walt Disney

    Jane Sutcliffe

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Feb. 1, 2009)
    Each book in this middle-grade series is illustrated with photographs and illustrations while sidebars, a timeline, and entertaining cartoons further illuminate each subject's personality.
    R

  • Thomas Edison

    Shannon Zemlicka

    Paperback (Lernerclassroom, Jan. 1, 2004)
    Book by Zemlicka, Shannon
    S

  • John Hancock

    Candice F. Ransom, Tim Parlin

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Sept. 1, 2004)
    Traces the life of John Hancock, including his childhood, election as the first governor of Massachusettes, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
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  • Milton Hershey

    Jane Sutcliffe, Tim Parlin

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Sept. 1, 2003)
    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.
    M

  • W. K. Kellogg

    Laura Hamilton Waxman

    Paperback (Lernerclassroom, Jan. 1, 2007)
    Book Details:Format: PaperbackPublication Date: 1/1/2007Pages: 48Reading Level: Age 7 and Up
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  • Anne Hutchinson

    Susan Bivin Aller

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Each book in this middle-grade series is illustrated with photographs and illustrations while sidebars, a timeline and entertaining cartoons further illuminate each subject's personality.
    T

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Laura Hamilton Waxman

    Paperback (Lerner Pub Group, June 1, 2004)
    Traces the life of the thirty-second president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose years in office led the country through the Depression and the Second World War.
    S

  • Clara Barton

    Candice F. Ransom

    Paperback (Lernerclassroom, Jan. 1, 2003)
    Book by Ransom, Candice F.
    S

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Arthur B. Alphin, Elaine Marie Alphin

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Sept. 1, 2004)
    Discusses the life, accomplishments, military career, and political beliefs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
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  • John Deere

    Jane Sutcliffe

    Paperback (Lernerclassroom, Jan. 1, 2007)
    Born in Rutland, Vermont, John Deere served a four-year apprenticeship to a blacksmith and worked in that trade until 1837. The implements being used by pioneer farmers of that day were cumbersome and ineffective for cutting and turning the prairie soil. To alleviate the problem, Deere and a partner, Major Leonard Andrus, designed three new plows in 1838. The plow was so successful that by 1846 Deere and his partner were selling a thousand a year. Deere then sold his interest to Andrus and organized a plow company in Moline, Illinois. After experimenting with imported English steel, he had a cast steel plow made for him in Pittsburgh. By 1855 he was selling more than 13,000 such plows a year. In 1868 his business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which is still in existence today.
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  • Eli Whitney

    Catherine A. Welch, Tad Butler

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2007)
    Introduces the life of Eli Witney, who became famous for inventing a cotton gin and manufacturing guns with interchangeable parts.
    R

  • Florence Nightingale

    Susan Bivin Aller

    Library Binding (Lerner Pub Group, Oct. 1, 2007)
    Examines the life and work of the woman who did much to reform hospitals and make nursing a respectable profession.
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