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Make Way For Sam Houston
[Paperback - 1998]
jean fritz
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Category: Children
Sub-category: Children History
Additional Category: Children Biography & Autobiography
Publisher: Puffin Books | ISBN: 9780698116467 | Pages: 112
Shipping Weight: .102 | Dimensions: 5 x .29 x 7.75 inches

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Colorful Sam Houston leaps to life in the pages of this fresh and funny biography, set against the story of Texas's fight for independence from Mexico.

"Lively, readable, and solidly researched, this is the kind of biography every child needs." —Booklist, starred review

"Jean Fritz has done it again. Her writing turns this larger-than-life character into a very real person." —School Library Journal, starred review

"Young readers will find the book fast-paced and fact-packed." — The New York Times Book Review

Jean Fritz lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York.

About the Author

Jean Guttery Fritz was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Children's Legacy Literature Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015 and died in May 2017 at the age of 101.

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