Description Product Details Reviews (0) Boys of Grit Three-Volume Set One of the best Lamplighter sets for boys, at a reduced price! The Boys of Grit series includes: * Boys of Grit Who Changed the World* Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honor* Boys of Grit Who Never Gave Up These three volumes include these lives: Boys of Grit Who Changed the World: An Irish Boy Who Became Canada’s Greatest Merchant: Timothy Eaton Neither Lameness nor Misfortune could Crush His Spirit – Sir Walter Scott A Homesick Boy Who Invented Telegraphy – Samuel Morse He Turned the World’s Ridicule into Cheers – Robert Fulton The Grandson of a Slave’s Singing Reaches All Hearts – Roland Hayes A Lonely Man Whom Boys will Never Forget – Hans Andersen His Difficulties Pave the Way to Success – Isaac Pitman He Could Stand Anything Except Pity – Robert H. Babcock A Blacksmith Who Blazed a Trail for World Peace – Elihu Burritt A Peasant Boy Whose Fame is Immortal – Franz Joseph Haydn A Negro Boy Who Fought His Way to Success – William Deberry He Valued His Spare Moments – William Hesketh Lever Brave and Cheerful Blind Historian – William Hickling Prescott A Mill-Boy Who Became a Cabinet Minister – John Robert Clynes A Delicate Man Whose Hymns will Never be Forgotten – Isaac Watts Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honor The Blind Boy Who Became Poet, Preacher, and Author – George Matheson How a Lame Boy Became the World’s Greatest Potter – Josiah Wedgewood The Dutch Boy Who Became a Great Editor – Edward Bok A Deaf Boy Who Became a Great Bible Scholar – John Kitto The Slave Boy Who Became a Great Leader – Booker T. Washington The Immigrant Lad Who Became a King of Industry – Andrew Carnegie A Shoemaker’s Apprentice Who Became a Great Scholar – Henry Jones From the Gipsy Tent to the Pulpit – Rodney Smith A Blind Man Who Became Postmaster-General of England – Henry Fawcett The Ploughboy Who Became a Famous Naturalist – John Muir A Sick Man Who Never Gave Up – Francis Parkman How a Poor Boy Became a Scientist – Jean Henri Fabre What an Illiterate Boy Made of His Life – James Flanaghan A Donkey Boy Who Became a Famous Sculptor – Francis Chantrey Boys of Grit Who Never Gave Up Honest Abe – Abraham Lincoln The Soldier’s Son Who Fought a Strange Foe – William Gorgas The Slave Boy Who Became a Great Leader – Booker T. Washington The Boy Whose Dreams Came True – Washington Irving The Boy Who Wanted His Country a to Produce a Famous Poet – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Boy Who Became an Empire Builder – James Hill The Little Highlander – Andrew Carnegie The French Boy Who Thoughts Things Through – Louis Pasteur The Boy Who Translated the Bible into Many Languages – William Carey The Boy Who Asked Puzzling Questions – Thomas Edison The Lad Whose Fame Grew in a Garden – Luther Burbank The Lad Who was Conquered by Love – Dwight L. Moody The Boy Who Discovered that Wire can Talk – Alexander Bell The Boy Who did Things Differently – John Wanamaker The Boy Who was Always Making Things – Henry Ford Two Brothers Who Loved to Work Together – Wilbur & Orville Wright The Boy Who Learned to use what Others Wasted – John Rockefeller The Boy Who Loved Music – Ignace Paderewski
