Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: champion, making, zaharias, didrikson, babe
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1999-08-23
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0395633672
ISBN-13: 9780395633670

When Babe Didrikson Zaharias was a child, her goal was to be the greatest athlete who ever lived. Few people come as close to their childhood goals as Babe did. She was an All-American basketball player, an Olympic gold medalist in track and field, and a championship golfer who won eighty-two amateur and professional tournaments. She also mastered tennis, played exhibition baseball, and was an accomplished diver and bowler. The Associated Press elected her Woman Athlete of the Year six times and in 1950 named her Woman Athlete of the Half Century. Babe accomplished all of this at a time when m

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: awards, kite, golden, depression, children
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-12-26
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0618446303
ISBN-13: 9780618446308

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popular Children of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcar kids, children whose families found themselves struggling for survival . . . all Depression-era young people faced challenges like unemployed and demoralized parents, inadequate food and shelter, schools they couldn’t attend because they had to go to work, schools that simply closed their doors. Even so, life had its brigh

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: roosevelt, delano, franklin
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1992-08-24
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0395629780
ISBN-13: 9780395629789

Traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Keywords: rule, golden, confucius
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0439139570
ISBN-13: 9780439139571

Born in China in 551 B.C., Confucius rose from poverty to the heights of his country’s ruling class. But then he quit his high post for the life of an itinerant philosopher. "The Analects" collects his teachings on education and government, the definition of nobility, the equality of man, and the right way and purpose of living - ideas that eventually spread to the West and influenced the great thinkers of the Enlightenment. And five centuries before Christ, Confucius set forth his own Golden Rule: "Do not impose on others what you do not wish for yourself."

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Clarion Books
Keywords: roosevelt, delano, franklin
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1990-10-22
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 089919379X
ISBN-13: 9780899193793

Traces the life of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from his birth in 1882 through his youth, early political career, and presidency to his death in Warm Springs, Georgia, in 1945.

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: west, wild, children
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1990-10-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0395547857
ISBN-13: 9780395547854

Historical photographs show what life was like for pioneer and Indian children growing up in the American West during the late nineteenth century.

Author: Russell Freedman
Publisher: Holiday House
Keywords: forge, valley, washington
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0823420698
ISBN-13: 9780823420698

Newbery Award-winning author Russell Freedman offers up this powerful account of the survival of American soldiers while camped at Valley Forge during a crucial period in the American Revolution. George Washington’s army almost perished during the winter of 1777-78. Camped at Valley Forge, about twenty miles from Philadelphia, the revolutionaries endured severe hardship because the army’s supply system had collapsed and they were without food, clothing, and blankets. The army was at its most vulnerable; but when the harsh winter drew to a close, the soldiers had survived, and ma