Profiles of young people who helped shape the course of American history. Subjects include 12-year-old Diego Bermudez who sailed with Christopher Columbus, 16-year-old Deborah Sampson who disguised herself as a boy so she could fight in the Revolutionary War, and an African-American high school junior who refused to give up her bus seat to white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama--nine months before Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat set off the Montgomery bus boycotts. Illustrations accompany the text. Nominated for a 2001 National Book Award in the Young People's Literature category, this book was also named one of the Best Children's Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly.
