Youth Biography

George Washington Carver was born a slave. He grew up to become a world-famous scientist. He discovered how to make the soil better for cotton crops in the South, where he was born, by planting peanuts and sweet potatoes. Then he invented hundreds of new...

John Wesley was known for his love of children and young people, and they loved him in return. More than once, he was observed to enter a town surrounded by a crowd of children who had run out to meet him. Here is his story, the story of England's...

Product Description Miss Arabella Braithewaite of Switherby knows there is no future for the ten orphans--a remarkable mix of genteel and working class children--she has gathered together these years of England's grim factory growth in the early...

True Stories of Childhood, Adventure, Exploration These are tales about what it means to learn of life and death and trust and companionship, as seen through the eyes of two boys, who from the age of six to twelve roamed deep into the woods and...

A Newbery Honor-winning biography of the men whose experiments brought about the Age of Flight. This engaging narrative account of Orville and Wilbur Wright, two men with little formal schooling but a knack for solving problems, follows their interest...

In this collection of remarkable stories of young martyrs we read of courage and faith. In the midst of persecution they remained true to God and did not cease to witness for Him. In the face of death they not did quail but looked forward to seeing the...

Featuring eleven stories of navigation of the New Egland coast between the years 1524 and 1624, Valiant Navigators brings us on board multiple sailing vessels to witness firsthand what the explorers saw. Originally published in 1905, this volume includes...

Imagine having the opportunity to peek inside the windows of one of Virginia’s most prominent plantation homes in 1773. The diary and letters of Phillip Vickers Fithian do exactly that, taking readers on a 1-year tour through Nominy Hall, the home...

Nature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817–62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to "live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and ... learn what it...

FROM THE BOOK:"Faster, Jack, faster!" Wilfred Grenfell called to the lead dog in his sledge team. Jack needed no second reminder. He loved to go as fast as possible and he urged his team forward. Wilfred loved to go fast too, and felt a thrill as the...

Why would a crippled old man slide down a hillside and wait by the side of the road every day for twenty years? Why would a slave and a witch doctor walk for three days to find a man called Jesus? Why would a lame man purposely walk to a tribe where he...

In 1938, in the remote highlands of a mountainous island, explorers discovered thousands upon thousands of tribal people. Missionaries began to come, to bring the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Little did they know that many of the people of...