My Books

		GO FREE OR DIE (Harriet Tubman) ISBN #0-87614-317-6 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-504-7 paper For the first 28 years of her life, Harriet Tubman was a slave in the south. Then, with the help of the Quakers, she escaped to Philadelphia by way of the Underground Railroad. After her escape, she led more than 300 slaves to freedom and never lost one. This book will tell you how she did it.
		REMEMBER THE LADIES (Abigail Adams) ISBN #1-57505-292-X hardcover ISBN #1-57505-558-9 paper Abigail Adams was an unusual woman for Colonial America. She was always thinking about things that no one else was, and she told people what she thought. She wrote to her husband, John, when he was away working on the laws for our new country-to-be, and told him what she thought would work. She told him what was important to the ordinary people around her. Abigail Adams was more than the wife of one president and the mother of another. She was the bridge between the Founding Fathers and the people in the new country called the United States of America.
		THOMAS JEFFERSON: FATHER OF LIBERTY (Thomas Jefferson) ISBN #1-57505-692-5 paper It's easy to think that Thomas Jefferson led a charmed life. He wrote the Declaration of Independence. He was secretary of state, vice president, and president of the United States. He had six children and lived on a beautiful estate he had designed himself. But Jefferson was a real person with real problems, big problems. He hated slavery, but owned slaves. He loved privacy and solitude, yet lived a very public life. His beloved wife and all but one of his children died, too young. Read this book to go beyond the legend and meet the real man.
		NATIVE AMERICAN DOCTOR (Susan LaFlesche Picotte) ISBN #0-87614-443-1 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-548-9 paper When Susan LaFlesche was growing up on the Omaha reservation in Nebraska the Native American way of life had just been destroyed. She learned to ask herself the traditional Omaha question, How can I better myself? She spent the rest of her life trying to answer that question for herself and for her people. In 1889, she became the first Native American woman to graduate from medical school. When she returned to the reservation, she did much more than just practice medicine. This book tells how she fought for her people as she worked to bridge the gap between two very different worlds. Did she succeed? Read to find out.
		Walking the Road to Freedom (Sojourner Truth) ISBN #0-87614-318-4 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-505-5 paper Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York in 1797 or 1798. She never knew for sure which year, or even whether it was summer or winter. As she grew, she knew she could not live as a slave and, with the help of Quakers, she escaped to freedom. Walking the Road to Freedom is the moving story of a woman who fought not only to free other slaves but also for women's rights, and who helped thousands of people begin new lives.
		ARCTIC EXPLORER (Matthew Henson) Carolrhoda Books, Inc. ISBN #0-87614-370-2 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-507-1 paper Matthew Henson and Robert Peary raced against other explorers and death itself to be the first to reach the North Pole. But because Henson was a black man, his part in the discovery of the North Pole was overlooked and dismissed. This book tells the true story of Matthew Henson's role.
		DEMANDING JUSTICE (Mary Ann Shadd Cary) Carolrhoda Books, Inc. ISBN #1-57505-177-X hardcover ISBN #0-87614-928-X paper Mary Ann Shadd Cary spent her entire life fighting for justice and equality for black Americans. Born free and black in 1823, she started schools, wrote books and articles, became the first black woman to publish a weekly newspaper and to enter law school. She made a difference.... and she was forgotten, until now.
		WHAT ARE YOU FIGURING NOW? (Benjamin Banneker) Carolrhoda Books, Inc. ISBN #0-87614-331-1 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-521-7 paper Benjamin Banneker, a black man, was a contemporary of George Washington. He built the first wooden clock in America, studied astronomy, helped survey the new city of Washington, D.C., calculated almanacs, and figured out for himself the mysteries of the stars, the planets, and time itself.
		WHAT I HAD WAS SINGING (Marian Anderson) Carolrhoda Books, Inc. ISBN #0-87614-818-6 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-634-5 paper Marian Anderson, one of the greatest contraltos of the 20th century, had other gifts as well. At a time when fear and hatred divided our nation, Marian Anderson showed dignity and grace. She could not stay at hotels or eat at restaurants where whites were served because she was black. She refused to let discrimination bring down her spirit, however, and her 1939 Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial was one of the great civil rights events of the century. In 1955 she again made history when she became the first black singer to appear with the Metropolitan Opera.
		WITH OPEN HANDS (Biddy Mason) Carolrhoda Books, Inc. ISBN #1-57505-330-6 hardcover ISBN #0-87614-845-3 paper Biddy, born a slave in 1818, walked the Mormon Trail from Mississippi to Utah behind her master's wagons. Then, still a slave, she walked from Salt Lake City to Southern California. But California was a free state! This book tells the story of Biddy's adventures, how she got her freedom, how she became one of the richest women in Southern California..... and what she did then.