Dear Mr President: Theodore Roosevelt

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Dear Mr President

BOOKS IN THIS SERIES:

Thomas Jefferson:
Letters from a Philadelphia Bookworm

John Quincy Adams:
Letters from a Southern Planter's Son

Abraham Lincoln:
Letters from a Slave Girl

Theodore Roosevelt:
Letters from a Young Coal Miner

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Letters from a Mill Town Girl

a book by Jennifer Armstrong

It is 1901. Imagine that a thirteen-year-old coal miner writes a letter to President Roosevelt. Imagine that the President writes back.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the industrial cities of the eastern United States ran on coal. Discover this wonderful collection of fictional letters between President Roosevelt and the young coal miner Frank Kovacs.

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Jennifer Armstrong is an award-winning author of more than 50 books for children including, In My Hands, The Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World and The Snowball. A lover of American history herself, Jennifer is a master at setting herself in another time and showing what it feels like to be there. She lives with her husband and their dogs in Saratoga Springs, New York.

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