Why Not Lafayette? (Unforgettable Americans)

A young Frenchman of nineteen traveling across the sea to help a struggling nation fight for its independence? Why not? To Lafayette, anything was possible. A man who threw off the boundaries imposed on him to stand up for what he believed, the Marquis de Lafayette grew from an idealistic young man searching for honor and glory, into an idealistic statesman with rock-solid principles of liberty. Here, Jean Fritz brings to life the exciting story ...

By Jean Fritz
Age Range: 8 - 12 years
Grade Level: 3 - 7
Lexile Measure: 0900
Series: Unforgettable Americans
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (March 19, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0698118820
ISBN-13: 978-0698118829
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.2 x 7.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 1194101
Format: PDF ePub TXT book

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Do you remember who Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier was? He is very famous in American history, but you probably know him better as the Marquis de Lafayette, or, as he preferred to be called, just Lafayette, who was born Sept. 6, 1757.

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