Milton Hershey failed at several businesses before finding success making caramels.

Some people seem destined to make a lasting impact on history. They might be pioneering adventurers like Mae Jemison or ordinary people, like Helen Keller, who do extraordinary things. But they share one thing in common-the desire to change the world for the better.

Key Features:

• A You Can. feature at the end of each book that tells the reader how he or she can emulate the subject
• Fast facts offering interesting, sometimes little-known facts about the subject
• A map with key indicating where the subject was born and other significant nearby areas
• A timeline that recaps important moments in the subject's life
• A poem about the subject
• G lossary with pictures
• www.factsfornow.scholastic.com See inside front cover for more information.