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Many of these titles are out of print ((OOP)), but Barnes & Noble often lists them used. Some are now being beautifully reprinted by Patria Press as the "Young Patriots" series. Some titles have changed subtitles. Titles in bold print are readily available.

Aird, Hazel B. & Ruddiman, Catherine
     Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
Anderson
     John Jacob Astor (OOP)
Bare
     John Deere (OOP)
Barton
     John Smith (OOP)
     Patrick Henry (OOP)
Bebenroth, Charlotta M.
     Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
Borland, Kathryn & Helen Ross Speicher
     Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective (OOP)
     Harry Houdini: Young Magician
     Eugene Field (OOP)?
Bryant, Bernice
     Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy (OOP)
     George Gershwin (OOP)
Burnett, Constance Buel
     Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket (OOP)
Burt, Olive W.
     Jed Smith: Young Western Explorer (OOP)
     John Alden: Young Puritan (OOP)
     John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant (OOP)
     Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard (OOP)
     The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys (OOP)
Clark, Electra
     Osceola Young Seminole Indian (OOP)
     Robert Peary: Boy of the North (OOP)
Cleven, Cathrine Seward
     Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior (OOP)
     John Hancock New England Boy (OOP)
Comfort
     Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer (OOP)
Corcoran
     Elias Howe Inventive Boy (OOP)
de Grummond & Delanne
     Babe Didrikson: Girl Athlete (OOP)
     Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy (OOP)
Dobler
     Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy (OOP)
     Lee DeForest (OOP)?
Dunham, Montrew
     Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer
     George Westinghouse: Young Inventor (OOP)
     Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (OOP)?
Frisbee, Lucy Post
     John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream (OOP)?
     John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest President
Govan, C.N.
     Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl (OOP)
Guthridge, Sue
     Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
Hammontree, Marie
     Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
     A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco (OOP)?
     Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors (OOP)
Henry, Joanne Landers
     Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker (OOP)
     Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor
     George Eastman: Young Photographer (OOP)
     Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman (OOP)
Higgins, Helen Boyd
     Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion (OOP)
     Juliette Low: Girl Scout-- Reprinted and available from Patria Press.
     Noah Webster: Boy of Words (OOP)
     Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel (OOP)
     Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know (OOP)
Howe, Jane Moore
     Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator, also available in a beautiful reprint from Patria Press.
Hudson, Wilma J.
     Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader (OOP)
     Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy (OOP)
Jordan, P. C.
     Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy (OOP)
Long, Laura
     David Farragut: Boy Midshipman (OOP)
     Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector (OOP)
     George Dewey: Vermont Boy (OOP)
     Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea (OOP)?
     John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a Free Press (OOP)
Mason, Miriam E.
     Dan Beard: Boy Scout (OOP)
     Frances Willard: Girl Crusader (OOP)
     Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little Schoolteacher (OOP)
     John Audubon: Boy Naturalist (OOP)
     Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri (OOP)
     Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl (OOP)
     William Penn: Friendly Boy (OOP)
Melin, G. H.
     Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer (OOP)
     Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer (OOP)
Millender, Dharathula H.
     Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots
     Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a Dream
Mitchell, Minnie Belle
     James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet (Beautifully reprinted from Patria Press)
Monsell, Helen Albee
     Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate
     Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl (OOP)
     Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator (OOP)
     John Marshall: Boy of Young America (OOP)
     Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's Rights
     Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall (OOP)
     Tom Jefferson: Third President of the United States
     Woodrow Wilson: Boy President (OOP)
Moore, Clyde B.
    J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy (OOP)
    Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy (OOP)
Myers, Elizabeth. P.
    F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy (OOP)
    George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder (OOP)
    Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet (OOP)
Myers, H.
    Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot (OOP)
    Cecil B. DeMille (OOP)
    Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic Explorer (OOP)
Newman, S. P.
    Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen (OOP)
Paradis, A.
    Gail Borden (OOP)
Parks, Aileen Wells
    Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback (OOP)
    Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman
    James Oglethorpe: Young Defender (OOP)
Parks, Edd Winfield
    Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider
Peckham, Howard Henry
    Nathaniel Greene (OOP)?
    Pontiac and the Indian Uprising (OOP)
    William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe (Beautifully reprinted from Patria Press)
Place, M.T.
    Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl (OOP)
Schaaf
    Lew Wallace (Beautifully reprinted from Patria Press)
Scharbach
    Matthew Calbraith Perry (OOP)
Seymour, Flora Warren
    Bird Girl: Sacagawea (OOP)
    Pocahontas: Brave Girl (OOP)
Smith, Bradford
    Dan Webster: Union Boy (OOP)
    Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy (OOP)
    William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy (OOP)
Snow, Dorothea J.
    Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic (OOP)
    John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy (OOP)
    Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy (OOP)
    Samuel Morse (OOP)
    Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide (OOP)
Steele, William O.
    Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox (OOP)
    John Sevier: Pioneer Boy (OOP)
Stevenson, Augusta
    Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy (OOP)
    Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier (OOP)
    Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy (OOP)
    Ben Franklin: Boy Printer (OOP)
    Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy (OOP)
    Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains
    Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
    Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker
    Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy (OOP)
    George Carver: Boy Scientist (OOP)
    George Custer: Boy of Action
    George Washington: Young Leader
    Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy (OOP)
    John Fitch: Steamboat Boy (OOP)
    Kit Carson: Boy Trapper (OOP)
    Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot
    Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy (OOP)
    Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl (OOP)
    Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy (OOP)
    Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston
    P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy (OOP)
    Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton (OOP)
    Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
    Squanto: Young Indian Hunter (OOP)
    Techumseh: Shawnee Boy (OOP)
    U. S. Grant: Young Horseman (OOP)
    Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl (OOP)
    Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings
     Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler (OOP)
Van Riper, Jr., Guernsey
    Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest
    Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
    Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
    Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest
    Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole (OOP)
    Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy (OOP)
Wagoner, Jean Brown
    Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days
    Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl (OOP)
    Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill (OOP)
    Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York (OOP)
    Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston (OOP)
    Martha Washington: America's First First Lady
Warner, Anne Spence
    Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl (OOP)
Weddle, E. H.
    Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller (OOP)
    Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist (OOP)
Weil, Ann
    Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
    Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social Justice
    Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four Freedoms (OOP)
    John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy (OOP)
    John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot (OOP)
Widdemer, Mabel Cleland
    Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy (OOP)
    DeWitt Clinton (OOP)
    Harriet Beecher Stowe: Connecticut Girl (OOP)
    James Monroe: Good Neighbor Boy (OOP)
    Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes (OOP)
    Washington Irving: Boy of Old New York (OOP)
Wilkie, Katharine Elliot
    Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer (OOP)
    George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old Northwest (OOP)
    Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph
    Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
    Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer (OOP)
    Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins (OOP)
    William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier (OOP)
    Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready (OOP)Wilson, E.
    Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home (OOP)
Winders, Gertrude Hecker
    Ethan Allen (OOP)
    James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking Boy (OOP)
    Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle (OOP)
    Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife (OOP)
    Jim Bridger (OOP)