Who Was Rosa Parks?

A biography of the eighteenth-century printer, publisher, inventor, scientist, and statesman who ...

Black-and-white illustrations on every spread and a lower reading level than other biographies in...

Annie Oakley was the original power girl in an age when most women stayed home. During the late 1...

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail c...

Born in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. Wi...

Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts." In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo acro...

A biography of the ninteenth-century woman who escaped slavery and helped many other slaves get t...

At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and ...

When Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get t...

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...until...

As a young boy, Charles Darwin hated school and was often scolded forconducting “useless” experim...

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age—literally! (He was six feet four...

In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called th...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon and, to an audience of over 450 million peop...

Claude Monet is considered one of the most influential artists of all time. He is a founder of th...

As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. Wi...

Although polio left him wheelchair bound, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office during the Great ...

Ted Geisel loved to doodle from the time he was a kid. He had an offbeat, fun-loving personality....

Just in time for baseball season! Babe Ruth came from a poor Baltimore family and, as a kid, he ...

Everyone loves Harry Potter. Now kids can learn about Harry's creator! In 1995, on a four-hour-de...

A life in the wild! Jane Goodall, born in London, England, always loved animals and wanted to stu...

Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, phi...

A look at the life and accomplishments of the famous pioneer, Daniel Boone.

Put on your blue suede shoes and get ready for the latest title in the Who Wasa]? series! The Kin...

In her amazing diary, Anne Frank revealed the challenges and dreams common for any young girl. Bu...