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The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence  Cover Image Book Book

The signers : the fifty-six stories behind the Declaration of Independence / Dennis Brindell Fradin ; illustrations by Michael McCurdy.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0802788491
  • ISBN: 0802788505
  • Physical Description: x, 164 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Walker, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-158) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Massachusetts: Samuel Adams -- John Hancock -- John Adams -- Robert Treat Paine -- Elbridge Gerry -- Virginia: Richard Henry Lee -- Francis Lightfoot Lee -- George Wythe -- Thomas Jefferson -- Thomas Nelson -- Carter Braxton -- Benjamin Harrison -- Pennsylvania: Benjamin Franklin -- Robert Morris -- Benjamin Rush -- George Clymer -- James Wilson -- John Morton -- George Ross -- George Taylor -- James Smith -- New Jersey: Richard Stockton -- Francis Hopkinson -- John
Witherspoon -- John Hart -- Abraham Clark -- Delaware: Thomas McKean -- Caesar Rodney -- George Read -- Rhode Island: William Ellery -- Stephen Hopkins -- Connecticut: Oliver Wolcott -- Samuel Huntington -- William Williams -- Roger Sherman -- New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett -- William Whipple -- Matthew Thornton -- Maryland: Samuel Chase -- William Paca -- Thomas Stone -- Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- North Carolina: William Hooper -- John Penn -- Joseph Hewes --
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge -- Thomas Lynch, Jr.-- Thomas Heyward Jr.-- Arthur Middleton -- Georgia: Lyman Hall -- Button Gwinnett -- George Walton -- New York: Lewis Morris -- Philip Livingston -- Francis Lewis -- William Floyd -- Declaration of Independence.
Summary, etc.:
Profiles each of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, giving historical information about the colonies they represented. Includes the text of the Declaration and its history.
Target Audience Note:
5-8
8.7 Follett Library Resources
Subject: United States. Declaration of Independence > Signers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
United States. Declaration of Independence > Signers.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Statesmen.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.

Available copies

  • 37 of 39 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
  • 2 of 2 copies available at Janet Carlson Calvert Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 39 total copies.
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Franklin Elementary School 973.3 FRA (Text) 30206000113743 Juvenile Nonfiction Available -
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