Author
Jeanette Eaton
4 books here
A Daughter of the Seine: The Life of Madame Roland
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 850L · 1929
A serious, sympathetic portrait of a woman at the center of the French Revolution; the 1929 prose is formal and demands attention, but the historical stakes are genuine and the subject matter is genuinely instructive about political conviction.
Gandhi, Fighter Without a Sword
Middle grade · ages 8–12 · 780L · 1950
A 1950 biography that still holds—Eaton's prose is formal but vivid, and the narrative actually grapples with Gandhi's methods rather than sanitizing them into fable.
Leader By Destiny: George Washington, Man and Patriot
Nonfiction · ages 8–12 · 720L · 1938
A 1938 Newbery Honor book that reads as earnest and slightly dated, but offers vivid scenes of Washington's actual decisions and doubts—not hagiography, and genuinely narrative enough for strong 8-year-old readers to sustain attention.
Lone Journey: The Life of Roger Williams
Nonfiction · ages 8–12 · 750L · 1966
A rigorous, character-driven introduction to colonial religious and political conflict; Eaton makes Williams's lonely principled stands legible to kids without oversimplifying the stakes.