Kids 9 - 12 Years

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she ma...

Learn more about Richard Nixon—one of America's most unpopular presidents and the only one to resign from the position.On August 8, 1974, million...

The man who saved the lives of his PT-109 crewmen during WWII and became the 35th president fought-and won-his first battle at the age of two-and...

Discover the life of Michelle Obama--a story about working for changeMichelle Obama is one of the most important women in American history. Before ...

Ulysses S. Grant certainly does not have the typical war hero “back story.” Although a graduate of West Point, he never wanted to be a soldier an...

Through this engaging Who Was? biography, kids will discover the woman behind the sunglasses.Private and bookish, Jackie Kennedy found herself th...

The latest addition to the Who HQ program: a biography of Barack Obama, created specifically for the preschool audience! The #1 New York Times Best...

Each picture book in this series is a biography of an American hero, told in a simple, conversational, vivacious way, and always focusing on a ch...

Children will want to read about our first president while discussing the presidential elections. This is the ninth book in the New York Times be...

A profile of the 44th President of the United States--his childhood in Hawaii, his college years at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, his...

How did a peanut farmer from a small town in Georgia become the 39th President of the United States? Find out in this addition to the #1 New York...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower shares a special inside look into the most famous home in America—and the lives of hard...

Who Is Hillary Clinton? Readers of our New York Times best-selling series can find out now!At age fourteen, Hillary Clinton thought it would be t...

He was only 42 years old when he was sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making TR the youngest president ever. But did you know...

For a long time, the main role of First Ladies was to act as hostesses of the White House...until Eleanor Roosevelt. Born in 1884, Eleanor was n...

Go behind the scenes at the Constitutional Convention, thanks to award-winning author Jean Fritz's words!This factual gem that's written with New...

Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations show how George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Barack Obama, and othe...

Born to a family of farmers, Lincoln stood out from an early age--literally (He was six feet four inches tall.) As sixteenth President of the Unit...

In 1789, George Washington became the first president of the United States. He has been called the father of our country for leading America throug...

This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new ill...

Updated for 2020, readers can easily relive the course of American history through a detailed timeline, more than 50 vivid photographs and illustra...

As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this ...

Did you know that John Adams had to coax Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence? It's true. The shy Virginia statesman refus...