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| Title | Rank | Period | Level | Type |
 Few compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, and successful diplomat. [More] |  | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Biography |
 Still commonly read today, The Journal of George Fox is the autobiography of one of the founders of the Quaker movement. British preacher... [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
 First published in the early 1800s, this true-life account set the record straight on the mythic Daniel Boone and established him as an... [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Middle | Biography |
 Hendrickson Classic Biographies presents a one-volume abridgement of Wesley's multi-volume journals. The Heart of John Wesley's Journal... [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Secondary & Adult | Biography |
 Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have -- and the sooner the better.... [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Elem | Biography |
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 I thought that it was a good book because I like biographies. I especially liked the part when he went to the Latin School and he couldn't... [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Elem | Biography |
 Follows Washington from young boy to surveyor, to soldier in the French and Indian War where he became a war hero. Later Washington lead his troops through the dark and hungry days of the Revolution [More] | | Discovery/ Colonial | Elem | Biography |
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