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This book recreates the early life of Daniel Boone, the frontier hero who blazed a trail through the Cumberland Gap and led the first white settlers into Kentucky.Sku: 9780020418306
Daniel Boone
By: Augusta Stevenson$10.99 -
A contemporary study of the early American nation and its evolving democracy, from a French aristocrat and sociologist.Sku: 9780140447606
Democracy in America and Two Essays on America
By: Alexis de Tocqueville, Translated by Gerald Bevan$22.00 -
Become an eyewitness to the terrifying global conflict that reshaped the world – from the Blitz to the atomic bomb.Sku: 9780744039047
DK Eyewitness: World War II
By: DK$12.99 -
Thirteen stripes- Fifty stars- And hundreds of AMAZING facts about the U.S.A.!Sku: 9780064462273
Don’t Know Much About the 50 States
By: Kenneth C. Davis$14.99 -
""Winter's story begins with a peg-leg sailor who aids slaves on their escape on the Underground Railroad. " - BooklistSku: 9780679819974
Follow the Drinking Gourd
By: Jeanette Winter$12.49 -
Book Two in the Seeds of America TrilogyBlistering winds. Bitter cold. And the hope of a new future. The Patriot Army was shaped and strengthened by the desperate circumstances of the Valley Forge winter. This is where Curzon the boy becomes Curzon the young man. In addition to the hardships of soldiering, he lives with the fear of discovery, for he is an escaped slave passing for free.Sku: 9781416961451
Forge
By: Laurie Halse Anderson$11.99 -
SaleGeography I: Middle East, Europe, and North Africa covers the area that constituted the ancient Roman Empire. Each region is explored in its historical context in “History’s Headlines,” as well as in the present in “Tour of Today.” Your student will learn countries and capitals of today and relate them to the ancient lands of the Greeks and Romans, deepening his understanding of both the past and the present.
Geography I: Middle East, North Africa, and Europe Set
By: HLS Faculty$121.35Original price was: $121.35.$115.29Current price is: $115.29.By: HLS Faculty$121.35Original price was: $121.35.$115.29Current price is: $115.29. Add to cart Quick View -
SaleU.S. Geography jumps off the page with this literature-based study. Follow a mountain-climbing grandmother, fruit-tree hauling pioneers, a homesick city boy in a desert and many more interesting characters as they lead you on journeys around the United States.
Geography Through Literature, K-3 Package
By: $221.58Original price was: $221.58.$199.43Current price is: $199.43.By: $221.58Original price was: $221.58.$199.43Current price is: $199.43. Select options Quick View -
From the Publisher:"When troops entered Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the South seemed to be winning the Civil War. But Gettysburg was a turning point. After three bloody days of fighting, the Union finally won the battle.Inspired by the valor of the many thousands of soldiers who died there, President Lincoln visited Gettysburg to give a brief but moving tribute. His Gettysburg Address is one of the most famous speeches in American history."Sku: 9780394891811
Gettysburg
By: MacKinlay Kantor$7.99 -
Emma Gatewood’s life was far from easy. In rural Ohio, she managed a household of 11 kids alongside a less-than-supportive husband. One day, at age 67, she decided to go for a nice long walk . . . and ended up completing the Appalachian Trail.Sku: 9781419728396
Grandma Gatewood Hikes the Appalachian Trail
By: Jennifer Thermes$22.99 -
From the publisher: Seymour Reit re-creates the true story of Will Knox, a nineteen-year-old boy who undertook the daring and dangerous task of transporting 183 cannons from New York’s Fort Ticonderoga to Boston–in the dead of winter–to help George Washington win an important battle.Sku: 9780152164355
Guns for General Washington
By: Seymour Reit$12.50 -
From the Publisher: A biography, focusing on the childhood years, of the blind and deaf woman who overcame her handicaps with the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan.Sku: 9780020419808
Helen Keller
By: Katharine Wilkie, Robert Doremus$10.99 -
Welcome to Centerburg! Where you can win a hundred dollars by eating all the doughnuts you want; where houses are built in a day; and where a boy named Homer Price can foil four slick bandits using nothing but his wits and pet skunk. The comic genius of Robert McCloskey and his wry look at small-town America has kept readers in stitches for generations!Sku: 9780142404157
Homer Price
By: Robert McCloskey$12.50 -
In this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenski reconstructs the real life story of Mary Jemison, who was captured in a raid as young girl and raised amongst the Seneca Indians. Meticulously researched and illustrated with many detailed drawings, this novel offers an exceptionally vivid and personal portrait of Native American life and customs.
Sku: 9780064461627Indian Captive
By: Lois Lenski$9.99 -
The great events of Revolutionary Boston as seen through the shrewd eyes of an observant fourteen-year-old boy.As compelling today as it was seventy years ago, to read this riveting novel is to live through the defining events leading up to the American Revolutionary War.Sku: 9780547614328
Johnny Tremain
By: Esther Forbes$12.50 -
From the Publisher: This biography of the author of the popular "Little House" books tells her family's real life on the American frontier, and of the events that surpassed the drama of her stories.Sku: 9780689839245
Laura Ingalls Wilder
By: Beatrice Gormley$10.99