Best Selling Books by James Lincoln Collier

Newbery-finalist James Lincoln Collier creates insightful character studies of our most well-known American figures. By blasting through the myths surrounding our heroes, we see them as they really were, with their conflicts, their fears, their shortcomings, and their ambitions. We come to know them and so to admire their achievements all the more.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that helped shape the life of the first president.

Newbery-finalist James Lincoln Collier creates insightful character studies of our most well-known American figures. By blasting through the myths surrounding our heroes, we see them as they really were, with their conflicts, their fears, their shortcomings, and their ambitions. We come to know them and so to admire their achievements all the more.

Christopher Quincy was an American boy whose father admired everything British. As a result of this trait, Chris found himself trapped at St. Basket's, an ancient London school founded—and built—in the time of Henry VIII and, Chris thought, it looked it. The corridors were dim and drafty, and the rooms of the boarding pupils, of whom Chris was one of four, were gloomy and unpretentious. Still, Chris had good company in his two roommates, Leslie Plainfield, who was English, and David Choudhry, a Pakistani. The three were close friends, which made it all the more horrifying when Chris and Leslie saw Mr. Jaggers, the games master, deliberately, so it seemed, break David's leg with a hockey stick. Unaccountably, Mr. and Miss Grime, the school heads, refused to have a doctor for David. In the midst of apparent security and traditional British calm, a truly macabre and dangerous situation was building up. How Chris schemed desperately to get help from outside is told in the exciting and often hilarious story of a modern American boy's courage and ingenuity.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of this former slave who went on to become an abolitionist and advisor to Abraham Lincoln.

Describes with historic pictures, the life and times of a feminist and freedom-loving woman, Susan B. Anthony.

Explores the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life of the Civil War nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross.

An introduction to the life of the native american indian chief Tucumseh.

An interesting and photographic exploration of the life of a famous American author.

Discusses attitudes and events that led up to the Civil War, particularly the institution of slavery.

This series, designed for children who are just learning to read, provides a winning approach that supports the efforts of early literacy.

Two boys boarding at an English school begin to fear for their roommate's life when the school officials simply ignore the fact that he has a broken leg.