Dial Books, September 2014. Hardcover. "We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this one highlighting Albert Einstein. Each picture book in this series is a biography of a significant historical figure, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious.....

Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover.

Puffin Books, January 2009. Trade Paperback. This young readers edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted for younger readers and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable story of humanitarianism up to date for the present. Includes new photos and illustrations, as well.....

Puffin Books, January 1988. Trade Paperback.

Penguin Workshop, December 2005. Trade Paperback. One day in 1882, Thomas Edison flipped a switch that lit up lower Manhattan with incandescent light and changed the way people live ever after. The electric light bulb was only one of thousands of Edison's inventions, which include the phonograph and the kinetoscope.....

Penguin Young Readers Group, July 2014. Trade Paperback. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian Era, a period of industrial, cultural, scientific, and political change that was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. But Victoria was raised under close supervision and.....

Puffin, June 1993. Trade Paperback. The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting? and frighteningly near-death? experiences including encounters with the enemy, battles with deadly snakes.....

Penguin Workshop, May 2014. Trade Paperback. Bruce Lee was a Chinese American action film star, martial arts instructor, filmmaker, and philosopher. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced films elevated the traditional martial arts film to a new level of popularity and acclaim. Through such films as Way of the Dragon and.....

Chronicle Books, September 2025. Hardcover. Everyone knows Oskar Schindler and his famous list, but few have heard of Aristides de Sousa Mendes?a Portuguese diplomat who saved the lives of thousands in World War II. This magnificently illustrated picture book biography tells a moving story that resonates profoundly today. "He who.....

Clarion Books, September 1998. Trade Paperback. Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers.

Dutton Juvenile, January 2003. Trade Paperback. Much more than a biography of Lincoln or a history of the Civil War, this portrait of Lincoln makes our sixteenth president accessible to young readers as a human being, rather than as a historic icon or paragon of virtue. The author, renowned for.....

Penguin Workshop, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, Frederick Douglass was determined to gain freedom--and once he realized that knowledge was power, he secretly learned to read and write to give himself an advantage. After escaping to the North in 1838, as a free man.....

Penguin Workshop, October 2014. Trade Paperback. Isaac Newton was always a loner, preferring to spend his time contemplating the mysteries of the universe. When the plague broke out in London in 1665 he was forced to return home from college. It was during this period of so much death, that.....