A biography, concentrating on the boyhood, of the nineteenth-century educator whose series of six Eclectic Readers taught many generations of Americans to read.
Four children tasked with searching Professor Barton's large house for a valuable book hidden in a secret room discover they are not the only ones sleuthing.
A biography of the newspaper editor who crusaded against corruption, established the Pulitzer Prize, and founded the School of Journalism at Columbia University.