Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
7 best books like Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out (National Children's Book & Literacy Alliance): George Washington's Breakfast, The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery, You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights, Worst of Friends: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and the True Story of an American Feud, Stand Tall, Abe Lincoln, What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698300998 |
George Washington Allen, a boy who never gives up until he finds out what he wants to know, is determined to learn all there is to know about his namesake including what the first president ate for breakfast! "The sprightly, humorous story and likable colored illustrations bring history alive and make...
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
| Author | Steve Sheinkin |
| ISBN | 1596434864 |
Most people know that Benedict Arnold was America's first, most notorious traitor. Few know that he was also one of its greatest war heroes. This accessible biography introduces young readers to the real Arnold: reckless, heroic, and driven. Packed with first-person accounts, astonishing battle...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0606168486 |
I checked this out from the library thinking it would be one of Jean Fritz's picture books such as Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?--which I love! It actually ended up being a 76 page biography (with a few illustrations) but was still wonderfully lively, sensitive and humorous--not to mention...
A Lady Has the Floor: Belva Lockwood Speaks Out for Women's Rights
| Author | Kate Hannigan |
| ISBN | 1629794538 |
Unafraid to take to the floor and speak her mind, lawyer, activist, and presidential candidate Belva Lockwood devoted her life to overcoming obstacles and demanding equality for women.
Activist Belva Lockwood never stopped asking herself the question Are women not worth the same as men?...
| Author | Suzanne Tripp Jurmain |
| ISBN | 0525479031 |
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House....
| Author | Judith St. George |
| ISBN | 0399241744 |
Abraham Lincoln grew up poor and without schooling in a Kentucky wilderness and lost his mother before he was ten. It was sparkplug Sally Bush Johnston who married his father, brought a library of books to their log cabin home, and believed in Abe from the beginning. She was an inspiring turning point...
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free!
On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that...
