A biography profiling the life and military career of Robert E. Lee, who after years of service in the U.S. Army, resigned to serve as general of the Confederate army during the U.S. Civil War. Includes source notes and timeline.

Robert E. Lee: Confederate Commander (Signature Lives)

Children's Books

Blizin Gillis, Jennifer

Biographies

Compass Point Books

Mercy Otis Warren: Author and Historian (Signature Lives: Revolutionary War Era)

Life in Colonial Boston (Picture the Past)

This book tells about life in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1760 to 1773. Boston was one of the largest cities in the thirteen colonies of Great Britain. At first, the people who live in Boston copied the way things were done in Britain. But as time passed, they grew unhappy with the fact that they did not make their own laws. By the 1760s, Bostonians felt they were paying too many taxes to Britain. They felt they had no say in how their colony was being run. People began to hold meetings to complain about the taxes and to talk about independence. The Bostonians wanted to be free from Great Britain. We have illustrated the book with paintings and drawings from colonial times and with artists’ ideas of how things looked then.

History

Heinemann

Life on the Lower East Side (Picture the Past)

This book tells about life on the Lower East Side of New York City from 1870 to 1913. People had been coming to New York City from other countries since the 1600s. But in the middle of the 1800s, millions of people from Italy and Eastern Europe came to the city to live and set up businesses. Most of them were Jewish. People who came from other countries wanted to be near people like them. On the Lower East Side, they found a place where other people spoke their language, worshiped the same way, and ate familiar foods. We have illustrated the book with photographs of people and places in New York City from this time period. We have also included artists’ ideas of how people lived in in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

George Eastman (Lives And Times)

Robert Fulton (Lives And Times)

John Adams (American Lives)

John Adams was the second president of the United States. This biography spanning his lifetime concentrates on the work he did to make life better for himself and other Americans. Can you imagine what his life must have been like? Find out how what role John played at the First Continental Congress, why John argued with Thomas Jefferson, and what important documents John helped write.

Patrick Henry (American Lives)

Heinemann/Raintree

Goldfish (Pets at My House)

Edwin Binney: The Founder of Crayola Crayons (Lives And Times)

Edwin Binney is best known for his colorful crayons. But why did he make crayons. What made him such a good boss? How can we learn more about him?

Edwin Binney (Lives and Times)

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