By Russell Freedman Books
The Wright Brothers
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 schoo...
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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 scho...
Read MoreBecause They Marched
A thorough and impassioned account of the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights from Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman.1965. Selma, Alabama. The Edmund Pettus Bridge. This is the story o...
Read MoreBecause They Marched
A thorough and impassioned account of the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights from Newbery Medalist Russell Freedman.1965. Selma, Alabama. The Edmund Pettus Bridge. This is the story o...
Read MoreWashington at Valley Forge
Starvation, hypothermia, and the loss of all hope-- at Valley Forge, George Washington and his troops faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. In overcoming them, they became legends.In this compr...
Read MoreBecoming Ben Franklin
In 1723 Ben Franklin arrived in Philadelphia as a poor and friendless seventeen-year-old who had run away from his family and an apprenticeship in Boston. Sixty-two years later he stepped ashore in...
Read MoreLafayette and the American Revolution
When the Marquis de Lafayette ran off to join the American Revolution against the explicit orders of the king of France, he was a strong-willed nineteen-year-old who had never set foot on a battlef...
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