Summary: A biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, who actually lived in the little houses about which she wrote.

Summary: A simple biography of the Civil War president.

This is a biography of the first woman doctor in the United States, who worked in both America and England to open the field of medicine to women.

A simple biography of the famous band leader and composer who was known as the March King.

Relates how John Chapman's distribution of apple seeds and trees across America made him a legend.

This is the biography of Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, and The Secret Garden.

This is the biography of Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Examines the life of the humanitarian who pursued medical missionary work in the jungles of Africa while developing his spiritual beliefs about the value of all life.