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Beatrice Gormley's Books
There are 10 books
1.
Barack Obama
Our 44th President
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: March 6, 2012
Ages: 8 - 12
Right on time for election season comes an updated biography of our 44th President—written just for kids!President Barack Obama’s election in 2008 energized the United States and the world. And though the last few...
2.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Friend of the Arts (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Beatrice Gormley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: eBook, 176 pages
Publication date: May 11, 2010
Ages: 8 - 12
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by...
3.
Marie Curie
Young Scientist (Part of Childhood of World Figures)
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publication date: May 22, 2007
Ages: 8 - 12
Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who made many important
discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but her
accomplishments didn't come easily.
Born Maria Sklodovska in 1867, Marie grew up in...
4.
Julius Caesar
Young Statesman (Part of Childhood of World Figures)
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publication date: May 23, 2006
Ages: 8 - 12
Julius Caesar was born in Rome in the year 100 b.c. to a well-known family that supposedly traced its ancestry to the Greek goddess Venus. Although Caesar grew up to be one of the world's most famous military and political...
5.
Diana, Princess of Wales
Young Royalty (Part of Childhood of World Figures)
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publication date: August 9, 2005
Ages: 8 - 12
Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a princess. When she was still quite young, her older sisters went off to boarding school and her parents...
Other Formats: eBook
6.
President George W. Bush
Our Forty-third President
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publication date: January 6, 2005
Ages: 10 - 14
President George W. Bush once said, "I never dreamed about becoming president. When I was growing up, I wanted to be Willie Mays."
George W. was born in 1946 and attended Yale University. As a young man he trained as a...
Other Formats: eBook
7.
Laura Bush
America's First Lady
By: Beatrice Gormley
This edition: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publication date: January 1, 2003
Ages: 8 - 12
Laura Bush has loved education and reading since she was a young child, and today she brings her experienced viewpoints, her love of children, and her interest in education to a much broader audience as the wife of the...
Other Formats: eBook
8.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Beatrice Gormley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: August 1, 2001
Ages: 8 - 12
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by...
9.
Amelia Earhart
Young Aviator (Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Beatrice Gormley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2000
Ages: 8 - 12
Using simple language that beginning readers can understand, this lively, inspiring, and believable biography looks at the childhood of Amelia Earhart. Illustrated throughout.
Other Formats: eBook
10.
Louisa May Alcott
(Part of Childhood of Famous Americans)
By: Beatrice Gormley
Illustrated by: Meryl Henderson
This edition: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publication date: May 1, 1999
Ages: 8 - 12
Dear Reader:
The Childhood of Famous Americans series, sixty-five years old in 1997, chronicles the early years of famous American men and women in an accessible manner. Each book is faithful in spirit to the values and...
