Boys of Grit Series: 3-Volume Set

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:

1. An Irish Boy Who Became Canada’s Greatest Merchant: Timothy Eaton
2. Neither Lameness nor Misfortune could Crush His Spirit – Sir Walter Scott
3. A Homesick Boy Who Invented Telegraphy – Samuel Morse
4. He Turned the World’s Ridicule into Cheers – Robert Fulton
5. The Grandson of a Slave’s Singing Reaches All Hearts – Roland Hayes
6. A Lonely Man Whom Boys will Never Forget – Hans Andersen
7. His Difficulties Pave the Way to Success – Isaac Pitman
8. He Could Stand Anything Except Pity – Robert H. Babcock
9. A Blacksmith Who Blazed a Trail for World Peace – Elihu Burritt
10. A Peasant Boy Whose Fame is Immortal – Franz Joseph Haydn
11. A Negro Boy Who Fought His Way to Success – William Deberry
12. He Valued His Spare Moments – William Hesketh Lever
13. Brave and Cheerful Blind Historian – William Hickling Prescott
14. A Mill-Boy Who Became a Cabinet Minister – John Robert Clynes
15. A Delicate Man Whose Hymns will Never be Forgotten – Isaac Watts

Boys of Grit Who Became Men of Honor

1. The Blind Boy Who Became Poet, Preacher, and Author – George Matheson
2. How a Lame Boy Became the World’s Greatest Potter – Josiah Wedgewood
3. The Dutch Boy Who Became a Great Editor – Edward Bok
4. A Deaf Boy Who Became a Great Bible Scholar – John Kitto
5. The Slave Boy Who Became a Great Leader – Booker T. Washington
6. The Immigrant Lad Who Became a King of Industry – Andrew Carnegie
7. A Shoemaker’s Apprentice Who Became a Great Scholar – Henry Jones
8. From the Gipsy Tent to the Pulpit – Rodney Smith
9. A Blind Man Who Became Postmaster-General of England – Henry Fawcett
10. The Ploughboy Who Became a Famous Naturalist – John Muir
11. A Sick Man Who Never Gave Up – Francis Parkman
12. How a Poor Boy Became a Scientist – Jean Henri Fabre
13. What an Illiterate Boy Made of His Life – James Flanaghan
14. A Donkey Boy Who Became a Famous Sculptor – Francis Chantrey

Boys of Grit Who Never Gave Up 

1. Honest Abe – Abraham Lincoln
2. The Soldier’s Son Who Fought a Strange Foe – William Gorgas
3. The Slave Boy Who Became a Great Leader – Booker T. Washington
4. The Boy Whose Dreams Came True – Washington Irving
5. The Boy Who Wanted His Country a to Produce a Famous Poet – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. The Boy Who Became an Empire Builder – James Hill
7. The Little Highlander – Andrew Carnegie
8. The French Boy Who Thoughts Things Through – Louis Pasteur
9. The Boy Who Translated the Bible into Many Languages – William Carey
10. The Boy Who Asked Puzzling Questions – Thomas Edison
11. The Lad Whose Fame Grew in a Garden – Luther Burbank
12. The Lad Who was Conquered by Love – Dwight L. Moody
13. The Boy Who Discovered that Wire can Talk – Alexander Bell
14. The Boy Who did Things Differently – John Wanamaker
15. The Boy Who was Always Making Things – Henry Ford
16. Two Brothers Who Loved to Work Together – Wilbur & Orville Wright
17. The Boy Who Learned to use what Others Wasted – John Rockefeller
18. The Boy Who Loved Music – Ignace Paderewski