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Lyndon B. Johnson

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913979

This biography introduces readers to the life of Lyndon B. Johnson, including his military service, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including the Civil Rights Act, the Vietnam War, and the space race. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Andrew Jackson

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913948

This biography introduces readers to Andrew Jackson, including his military service, early political career, and key events from Jackson's administration including the Indian Removal Act and his opposition to the Bank of the United States. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Thomas Jefferson

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913955

This biography introduces readers to Thomas Jefferson, including his early political career and key events from Jefferson's administration including the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Andrew Johnson

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913962

This biography introduces readers to Andrew Johnson, including his career as a tailor, early political career, and key events from Johnson's administration including Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Johnson's impeachment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Herbert Hoover

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913931

This biography introduces readers to Herbert Hoover, including his early career as a geology engineer, his early political career, and key events from Hoover's administration including the Great Depression. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

William H. Harrison

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913917

This biography introduces readers to William H. Harrison, including his military service during the War of 1812; his early political career as governor of Indiana Territory, US congressman, and Ohio state senator; and Harrison's term that was the shortest presidency in US history. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Rutherford B. Hayes

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913924

This biography introduces readers to Rutherford B. Hayes, including his early political career and key events from Hayes's administration including civil service reforms, the end of Reconstruction, and the passage of the Bland-Allison Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Ulysses S. Grant

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913887

This biography introduces readers Ulysses S. Grant, including his military service and key events from Grant's administration including several scandals and the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Warren G. Harding

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913894

This biography introduces readers to Warren G. Harding, including his early political career and key events from Harding's administration including the Teapot Dome scandal. Information about his childhood, family and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Benjamin Harrison

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913900

This biography introduces readers to Benjamin Harrison, including his early political career and key events from Harrison's administration including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Gerald Ford

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913863

This biography introduces readers to Gerald Ford, including his early political career and key events from Ford's administration including the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

James A. Garfield

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913870

This biography introduces readers to James A. Garfield, including his early political career and key events from Garfield's administration including his surprise nomination, the Star Route Scandal, and his assassination by Charles Guiteau. Information about his childhood, family, and personal life is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Calvin Coolidge

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913832

This biography introduces readers to the life of Calvin Coolidge, including his early political career and key events from Coolidge's administration including the Kellogg-Briand Pact and Coolidge Prosperity. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tamara L. Britton (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913849

This biography introduces readers to Dwight D. Eisenhower, including his career in the US Army and key events from Eisenhower's administration including the Korean War, the struggle for civil rights, and the forming of NASA. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Millard Fillmore

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913856

This biography introduces readers to Millard Fillmore, including his early political career and key events from Fillmore's administration including the Compromise of 1850 and the Treaty of Kanagawa. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Grover Cleveland

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913818

This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland, including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Bill Clinton

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913825

This biography introduces readers to Bill Clinton, including his early political career and key events from Clinton's administration including the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 2000 Camp David Summit, and the Iraq Liberation Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

George H.W. Bush

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913788

This biography introduces readers to George H.W. Bush, including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the Persian Gulf War, and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

George W. Bush

BreAnn Rumsch (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913795

This biography introduces readers to George W. Bush, including his early political career and key events from Bush's administration including the Iraq War, the No Child Left Behind Act, and Hurricane Katrina. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Jimmy Carter

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913801

This biography introduces readers to Jimmy Carter, including his early political career and key events from Carter's administration including a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and the Emergency National Gas Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

John Quincy Adams

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913740

This biography introduces readers to John Quincy Adams, including his political career as a Massachusetts state senator, US senator, US secretary of state, minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, and US president. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Chester Arthur

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913757

This biography introduces readers to Chester Arthur, including his early political career and key events from Arthur's administration including improvements to the US Navy, and the Pendleton Civil Service Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

James Buchanan

Megan M. Gunderson (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913771

This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan, including his early political career and key events from Buchanan's administration including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states prior to the American Civil War. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

John Adams

Heidi Elston (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9798384913733

This biography introduces readers to John Adams, including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution and the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information.

Leopard Geckos in the Wild!

Grace Hansen (author)

Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9781098246433

This title looks into where leopard geckos live in the wild, how they survive, and why they are such popular pets! The title also touches on leopard gecko care, so readers can understand a little about what it takes to have a pet.