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Encounter
An old Taino man tells a story about his childhood, about the day the invaders came and his people welcomed them. At the end it is clear that he is talking about Columbus. The book ends with an author's note. This is a powerful book with superior illust
Author: Yolen, Jane |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Founders, The
Brief biographies of the people who signed the Constitution are accompanied by brief descriptions of the 13 colonies at the time of signing. The Constitution is printed at end of the book.
Author: Fradin, Dennis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Giants in the Land
Beautiful black and white scratchboard drawings illustrate how giant pine trees in New England were cut for lumber and masts for the King's navy during American Colonial times.
Author: Appelbaum, Diana |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Brief biographies of women who played key roles in the Revolutionary War. Makes the facts of Early American history come alive with lives of women who don't usually get mentioned in history books. Below each illustration is a time line of events.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution
Brief biographies of women who played key roles in the Revolutionary War. Makes the facts of Early American history come alive with lives of women who don't usually get mentioned in history books. Below each illustration is a time line of events.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Many Rides of Paul Revere, The
A biography of Paul Revere tha is not intended to refute history ( Longfellow's attempt to create an American hero). Rather this account contains some intriguing details of Revere's childhood, military career, family life and Revolutionary War leadership.
Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Roanoke
Based on extensive research, this book explores the political intrigue surrounding the disappearance of the first American colony at Roanoke, in what is now North Carolina. The suspenseful text is supplemented with archival photographs and paintings, a t
Author: Miller, Lee |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Signers, The
A companion to The Founders, this book tells short 2-3 page stories of the Declaration of Independence and the people who signed it. It is organized by state by state.
Author: Fradin, Dennis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > early American life
Ballet for Martha
This is the story of the collaboration between Martha Graham and Aaron Copeland that resulted in a famous work of music and a famous ballet. Reveals the work that happens behind the scenes by the choreographer, composer and set developer of a ballet.
Author: Greenberg, J. & Jordan, S. |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | language arts - writing
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Ben Franklin's Almanac
The "scrapbook" format of this biography, explores Ben Franklin's life thematically rather than chronologically, allowing the reader to grasp what a multi-talented person he was. The author includes extensive back matter for further research.
Author: Fleming, Candice |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Boy Who Saved Cleveland, The
During a malarial epidemic in the late 18th century Cleveland, Ohio, ten-year-old Seth Doan surprises his family, his neighbors, and himself by having the strength to carry and grind enough corn to feed everyone.
Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence
In 1991, New York's long-ignored African Burial Ground was rediscovered. The description of what scientists found there and how they pieced together information about life serves as a backdrop for stories of life for African Americans in Colonial New York
Author: Hansen, Joyce, & McGowan, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Building a New Land
Each of the short chapters in this well written picture book addresses the lives, rights, changing roles, and contributions of African Americans in a different area of Colonial America. The author includes a timeline and a bibliography.
Author: Haskins, James & Benson, Kathleen |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Cod's Tale, A
With charming illustrations and text, this book makes a case for ecology and conservation by presenting the history of cod. Also included are a timeline as a crawler at the bottom of the page and further suggestions for reading.
Author: Kurlansky, Mark |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | science
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Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak
Ethan, a printer's errand boy, is carrying a message from business to business in Boston It is to gather the Patriots at the Old South Meeting House on December 16, 1773. As he goes to each business,we find out about tha various occupations and the histo
Author: Winters, Kay |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak
Ethan, a printer's errand boy, is carrying a message from business to business in Boston It is to gather the Patriots at the Old South Meeting House on December 16, 1773. As he goes to each business,we find out about tha various occupations and the histo
Author: Winters, Kay |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620 - 1970
This book offers an interesting chronicle of what Americans wore, 1620 - 1970, and often why.
Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet
Each letter of this alphabet book introduces a quilt pattern that relates to an activity or person important in early American history.
Author: Paul, Ann Whitford |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Fever 1793
This is a very compelling fictionalization of life for one teenaged girl, her family, and her friends during the yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia in 1793.
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Ghost Towns
Color photographs and colorful text describe many ghost towns in the American West. The author includes a list of books for further reading.
Author: Bial, Raymond |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land
This is a topical history of women in early America (1600s to beginning of American Revolution). Primary source material is used to the extent possible. Lives of White, Black and Native American women are featured. An index, bibliography, and a website b
Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Growing Up in Revolution and the New Nation
"Studying history is a way of snooping into the past." So begins this interesting book that focuses on childhood and adolescence in 1775--1800. Illustrated with paintings from the Revolutionary War period, the book describes education, work and leisure, d
Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Homemakers, The
The author presents American colonial history through descriptions of making candles, soap, cider, and brooms. Detailed black and white woodcuts illustrate these processes. The author includes a helpful index.
Author: Fisher, Leonard Everett |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Many Rides of Paul Revere, The
A biography of Paul Revere tha is not intended to refute history ( Longfellow's attempt to create an American hero). Rather this account contains some intriguing details of Revere's childhood, military career, family life and Revolutionary War leadership.
Author: Giblin, James Cross |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
|
Roanoke
Based on extensive research, this book explores the political intrigue surrounding the disappearance of the first American colony at Roanoke, in what is now North Carolina. The suspenseful text is supplemented with archival photographs and paintings, a t
Author: Miller, Lee |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Signers, The
A companion to The Founders, this book tells short 2-3 page stories of the Declaration of Independence and the people who signed it. It is organized by state by state.
Author: Fradin, Dennis |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
|
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626
This is the fictitious journal of a 13-year-old orphan stranded at Plimoth (sic) Plantation. Bowen constructed the 80-page journal from historical records and illustrated the words with marvelous woodcuts. The end pages too feature fascinating maps. Te
Author: Bowen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > Mayflower
N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
The author researched the first years of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to create a text to accompany murals painted by N.C. Wyeth. The text includes detailed descriptions, end papers from the Mayflower log, an author's note about his research, and a section a
Author: San Souci, Robert |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > pilgrims
Abe Lincoln Remembers
Written as if Lincoln were telling his life story, the book briefly traces his life from his boyhood in Kentucky to the night he and his wife went to see a play at the Ford Theater.
Author: Turner, Ann |
HSE Descriptors:
language arts - reading | social studies
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Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land
This is a topical history of women in early America (1600s to beginning of American Revolution). Primary source material is used to the extent possible. Lives of White, Black and Native American women are featured. An index, bibliography, and a website b
Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
The author researched the first years of the Pilgrims at Plymouth to create a text to accompany murals painted by N.C. Wyeth. The text includes detailed descriptions, end papers from the Mayflower log, an author's note about his research, and a section a
Author: San Souci, Robert |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | language arts - reading
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Places in Time
This story atlas describes on facing pages activities at a particular place and time in U.S. history, e.g. Fort Laramie during the westward expansion on the Oregon Trail in 1849. Included are community and building diagrams with numbered points of intere
Author: Leacock, Elspeth & Buckley, Susan |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Real Time
A gripping story told in real time (hence the title)from the viewpoints of several characters involved in the bombing of an Israeli bus.
Author: Kass, Pnina Moed |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626
This is the fictitious journal of a 13-year-old orphan stranded at Plimoth (sic) Plantation. Bowen constructed the 80-page journal from historical records and illustrated the words with marvelous woodcuts. The end pages too feature fascinating maps. Te
Author: Bowen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > puritans
Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land
This is a topical history of women in early America (1600s to beginning of American Revolution). Primary source material is used to the extent possible. Lives of White, Black and Native American women are featured. An index, bibliography, and a website b
Author: Miller, Brandon Marie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626
This is the fictitious journal of a 13-year-old orphan stranded at Plimoth (sic) Plantation. Bowen constructed the 80-page journal from historical records and illustrated the words with marvelous woodcuts. The end pages too feature fascinating maps. Te
Author: Bowen, Gary |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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History > region > U.S. history > founding of the country > well-known people History > region >U.S. history> founding of the country > well-known people > Columbus, Christopher
I, Columbus: My Journal, 1492-3
This handsome 57-page book, illustrated with watercolors, is taken directly from Columbus' diary. The book records his voyage and his adventures, and begins and ends with short accounts of historical information. It may not be appropriate for low level
Author: Roop, Peter & Roop, Connie |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies | math
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Who Was First? Discovering the Americas
This book is the story of the many groups of people who discovered America before Columbus. The book is thoroughly researched and documented showing the contributions of the many people who inhabited America well before Columbus. The book includes bibliog
Author: Freedman, Russel |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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Who Was First? Discovering the Americas
This book is the story of the many groups of people who discovered America before Columbus. The book is thoroughly researched and documented showing the contributions of the many people who inhabited America well before Columbus. The book includes bibliog
Author: Freedman, Russel |
HSE Descriptors:
social studies
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