Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was an important statesman, inventor, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. But did you know he started the first library in America for the public good?
Enjoy this gentle tribute to the Georgia island that this best-selling author called home.
"It was Opening Day, 1947. And every kid in Brooklyn knew this was our year. The Dodgers were going to go all the way!"
This compelling and evocative story immerses readers in the daily struggles of surviving World War II.
Meet the Scottish terrier who won the heart of a U.S. president and the hearts of the American people.
In this dramatic memoir of early-twentieth century immigration, the author shares her family's journey from rural China to a new life in California.
Storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy takes you on her journey from Havana to Decatur.
This book tells the true story of a courageous woman's famous journey in 1889 that took her all the way around the globe in record time.
This stunning picture book offers a riveting account of African-American explorer Matthew Henson’s 1909 journey to the North Pole with Admiral Peary.
Award-winning novelist Raymond Andrews recalls his childhood in the rural South of the 1930s and 40s.
Martha Berry started a revolution that has changed the lives of more young men and women than she ever dreamed possible—and her dreams were big ones.
The 26th president of the United States was a strong and clever man who could handle almost everything—except his eldest child, Alice.
"As a boy, my father learned to speak with his hands. As a man, he learned how to turn lead-type letters into words and sentences. My father loved being a printer."
A first-rate biography and true adventure story for young readers about one of modern America's greatest heroes and his contributions to our nation's fledgling space program.
Explore the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark and SeaMan the dog.
In With All My Might, his definitive autobiography, Caldwell tells about his work as a cotton picker, stagehand, professional football player, and war correspondent for Life magazine during World War II.
In 1831, young adventurer and nature enthusiast Charles Darwin set sail on a remarkable five-year voyage that changed the study of biology forever.
Journalist Ida B. Wells, a tireless crusader for justice and civil rights, faced her greatest challenge when she confronted the heinous practice of lynching.
Based on almost 200 previously unpublished letters and extensive interviews with their closest associates, Walker's biography of Margaret Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, offers a new look into a devoted marriage and fascinating partnership that ultimately created a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. This edition of Walker's biography celebrates the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gone With the Wind in 1936.