Alexander Hamilton: The Outsider - Hardcover

An accessible profile of the founding father and first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury discusses the challenges he faced as a man from a different culture, his Revolutionary War contributions and his role in shaping a fledgling America.

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story inHomesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year,School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.
Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers,including What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, andShh! We're Writing the Constitution. She was honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York State Library Association, and won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature.