Augusta Stevenson

A biography focusing on the youth of the nurse who organized the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., in 1881.

The boyhood of the South Carolinian who fought against the British and the Indians and became seventh President of the United States.

One morning in August 1587 four English boys and girl walked down the street of a village. The street was only a path, for the village was very small. It was on Roanoke Island, off the coast of the land called Virginia.

Concentrates on the boyhood of the man who started life as a slave and grew to become a great Negro educational leader and organizer of Tuskegee Institute.

Presents a look at the life and times of Daniel Boone, describing how the frontier hero blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first settlers into Kentucky, providing information on his childhood, growing up a Quaker, and his encounters with Native Americans.

Describes the girlhood of one of the first battlefield nurses, who aided wounded soldiers in the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross.

A biography of the Revolutionary War general and first President of the United States.

The childhood of the famous scientist.

The boyhood of the Shawnee Indian who worked to unite the various tribes against invasion by the white man.