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  • SUSAN B. ANTHONY
    TERI KANEFIELD
    This biography for young readers examines the life of an American who advocated for women's rights and the abolishment of slavery. Susan B. Anthony was born into a world in which men ruled women. A man could beat his wife, take her earrings, have her committed to an asylum based on his word alone, and take her children away from her. While the young nation was ablaze with the r...

    $119.00

  • ABRAHAM LINCOLN
    TERI KANEFIELD
    This biography for young readers examines the life of the sixteenth U.S. president and the constitutional issues that arose during his administration. Praise by many as America's greatest president, Abraham Lincoln guided the country through the Civil War and was the Great Emancipator who freed the enslaved and paved the way for the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendme...

    $119.00

  • ANDREW JACKSON
    TERI KANEFIELD
    This biography for young readers explores the life of the controversial seventh U.S. president, as well as his successes, failures, and legacy.   Born in the Carolina backwoods, Andrew Jackson joined the American Revolutionary War at the age of thirteen. After a reckless youth of gunfights, gambling, and general mischief, he rose to national fame as the general who defeated the...

    $119.00

  • THE EXTRAORDINARY SUZY WRIGHT
    TERI KANEFIELD
    Children are taught much about the men who shaped early America, but history-shaping colonial women remain largely unknown and undiscussed. The Extraordinary Suzy Wright sets about to change that, telling the little-known story of Quaker Susanna (Suzy) Wright (1697–1784), a renowned poet and political activist. Suzy helped settle the Pennsylvania frontier, where she acted as le...

    $229.00

  • FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
    TERI KANEFIELD
    This biography for young readers explores the life of the thirty-second president, who lifted the United States from depression to global leadership. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was first elected president in 1933, America was in the throes of the Great Depression—the worst economic crisis in U.S. history—and the world was experiencing a menacing rise in Nazism and other dangero...

    $159.00

  • THURGOOD MARSHALL
    TERI KANEFIELD
    This biography for young readers examines the life of a brilliant lawyer who successfully argued the case that ended legal racial segregation in America. Thurgood Marshall, the great grandson of a slave, was born at a time when African Americans were denied equal rights in America. Segregation was legal. Lynching was common. In some places, African Americans were entirely exclu...

    $159.00