People And Places category: 11583 books
Amazing People: Volume 3
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of the greatest American biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents highlights...
Unusual People
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of unusual americans biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents highlights of various...
Amazing People: Volume 4
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of the greatest American biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents highlights...
George Eastman
Bringing Photography to the People
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
While history books consider George Eastman to be the father of photography, most people are unaware that his contributions to the world extended far beyond his multimillion-dollar company, Eastman Kodak. A banker by trade, his determination to improve and simplify his weekend hobby led to discovering...
Mohandas Gandhi
Spiritual Leader
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Gandhi's use of nonviolence to change his country inspired the world. His work to end 200 years of British rule in his home country of India changed the nation forever, but it also changed the way other people around the world fought for their freedom and human rights. Gandhi's ideas led great people...
Assignment
Rescue
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Marseilles, France…August, 1940 The Gestapo's blacklist was thousands of names long…How many people could he get out before Hitler sealed the frontiers? Varian Fry didn't know any more about being an undercover agent than what he'd seen in the movies. But, he was the one man who could get into Vichy...
by Monica Clark-Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration2019
I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids.
I couldn't go to their schools.
I couldn't drink from their water fountains.
There were so many things I couldn't do.
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American...
The Century for Young People
1936-1961: Defining America
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Experience the greatest moments of the 20th century with an accessible narrative that makes history come alive.
Adapted from the #1 national bestseller especially for young readers!
The twentieth century was a time of tremendous change, the most eventful hundred years in human history....
by Ellen Labrecque, Who HQ
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Learn how Lady Diana Spencer became the People's Princess as she takes her place in the ranks of the Who Was? series.
A shy twenty-year-old girl stepped out of a horse-drawn coach and into the world spotlight, capturing the imagination of millions as a real life fairytale princess. Although...
by Shana Corey
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Children who are ready to read on their own will want to get ready for President's Day with this leveled reader about the first African American president of the United States!
A Step 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader about our forty-fourth president, Barack Obama—revised to include an account...
American Patriots: A Young People's Edition
The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
They fought on Lexington Green the first morning of the Revolution and survived the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge. They stormed San Juan Hill with Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor. They are the black Americans who fought, often in foreign lands,...
Sing It!
A Biography of Pete Seeger
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
A tall, skinny man in blue jeans stands on a stage, one hand on his banjo, the other raised to the crowd of 15,000 people who have come to celebrate his ninetieth birthday. "Sing it!" he shouts, and everyone sings. How did a humble, banjo-playing Harvard University dropout become one of...
Buried Beneath Us
Discovering the Ancient Cities of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
A beautifully illustrated look at the forces that help cities grow—and eventually cause their destruction—told through the stories of the great civilizations of ancient America.
You may think you know all of the American cities. But did you know that long before New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,...
by Dissected Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Throughout history, there were women who dared to challenge the patriarch view of societies. These women left their marks as brilliant leaders who managed nations and their households. In this ebook, we’re going to learn about the stories of Cleopatra VII, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher. Let’s get started.