New Releases by Sterling North

The early life of George Washington in a new, illustrated edition of the classic biography by Sterling North. Before he became the first president of the United States, George Washington was a frontiersman. North fully captures the spirit of the man as he examines Washington''s childhood in colonial Virginia, his work as a teenage surveyor, his early experiences as a member of the Virginia militia, and his many adventures before the American Revolution. The fully rounded man who emerges from this captivating portrait is uncomfortable with words, shy around women, completely at home in the outdoors, and deeply in love with the country he helped found.

Abraham Lincoln was born to a poor family on the American frontier. He was a hard worker, but he wanted more than a farmer’s life. As he learned about the issues of his day, Abe longed to be a lawmaker himself, so he ran for the state legislature. Soon the farm boy would become the brilliant orator and admired president who finally proclaimed freedom for all Americans. Focusing on Lincoln’s childhood and early manhood, this book explores the people and events that shaped one of America’s greatest presidents.

Unable to hear, Thomas Edison seemed unlikely to become one of America?s greatest inventors, but as a hardworking young man, he wasn?t about to let a minor obstacle stop him. He invented the phonograph, the incandescent lightbulb, and motion pictures, to name but three of his many important inventions. Eventually he was named ?the greatest living American.? Follow Thomas Edison?s life from losing his sense of hearing to losing his hard-earned fortune, in this intriguing biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.

Tom Sawyer is among the best-known, most-loved characters in American fiction. As everyone remembers, he and Huck Finn camped on an island, got lost in a cave, and visited an old graveyard at midnight. These adventures were based upon the author''s real boyhood experiences along the Mississippi River. Trace Mark Twain''s life from 1835, when his birth was heralded by Halley''s Comet, to 1910, when the comet returned upon his death, in this fascinating biography by Newbery Honor author Sterling North.

Rascal is only a baby when young Sterling brings him home. He and the mischievous raccoon are best friends for a perfect year of adventure—until the spring day when everything suddenly changes. A Newbery Honor Book

This classic children''s story offers a memorable portrait of a friendship between a boy and a wild animal. Everyone should knock off work, sit beneath the nearest tree, and enjoy Rascal from cover to cover.--Chicago Tribune.

In the nineteenth-century midwest, a young boy adopts a wolf whelp and gains the attention and friendship of the Swedish-American naturalist Thure Kumlien.

From the moment the little black lamb is born, the life of a lonesome ten-year-old orphan centers around his struggle to keep and protect it, although God and proud, religious Granny Kinkaid seem to be against him.

A second book about raccoons by the author of Rascal that describes feeding and caring for raccoons as pets.

The adventures of young Sterling and his pets, especially the orphaned baby racoon Rascal.

Covers the construction of the "New Orleans," its historic voyage on the Mississippi River, and the life of inventor and engineer Nicholas Roosevelt who pioneered in steam navigation.

The life of a Wisconsin farmer in 1914.