People And Places category: 11583 books
Voices from the Second World War
Stories of War as Told to Children of Today
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In an intergenerational keepsake volume, witnesses to World War II share their memories with young interviewers so that their experiences will never be forgotten.
The Second World War was the most devastating war in history. Up to eighty million people died, and the map of the world was redrawn....
Little Crow/Taoyateduta
Leader of the Dakota
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
The Plains Indian Wars of the nineteenth century garnered enduring fame for certain Indian leaders, their names echoing powerfully even today: Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud. Just as significant but less often mentioned is Taoyateduta, known to whites as Little Crow, the reluctant leader of...
Talking About Freedom
Celebrating Emancipation Day in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2012
Discover the main features of Emancipation Day celebrations, learn about the people of African ancestry’s struggle for freedom, and the victories achieved in the push for equality into the 21st century.
On August 1, 1834, 800,000 enslaved Africans in the British colonies, including Canada,...
Lives of the Musicians
Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought)
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? And—possibly most interesting...
About Time
A First Look at Time and Clocks
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
“[An] impressive history of timekeeping.”—Horn Book
Bruce Koscielniak, in this Common Core text exemplar, tells the intriguing story of the many years spent tinkering and inventing to perfect the art of telling time. When time itself was undefined, no one knew the difference between a...
The Many Faces of George Washington
Remaking a Presidential Icon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
"No picture accurately resembled him in the minute traits of his person . . . there was an expression of his face that no painter had succeeded in taking."—London's New Monthly Magazine in 1790
George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since...
by Bethanne Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Prior to becoming a "melting pot" of many languages, the continents of North and South America were already home to a variety of Native American tribes, each with its own language. What's more, subsets of tribes often had their own dialects, sometimes making communication between two people nearly...
The Plant Hunters
True Stories of Their Daring Adventures to the Far Corners of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Driven by an all-consuming passion, the plant hunters traveled around the world, facing challenges at every turn: tropical illnesses, extreme terrain, and dangerous animals. They battled piranhas, tigers, and vampire bats. Even the plants themselves could be lethal! But these intrepid eighteenth-...
The Underground Railroad
Navigate the Journey from Slavery to Freedom with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Imagine leaving everything you've ever known—your friends, family, and home—to travel along roads you've never seen before, getting help from people you've never met before, with the constant threat of capture hovering over your every move. Would you risk your life on the Underground Railroad...
Now Is Your Time!
The African-American Struggle for Freedo
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
History has made me an African American. It is an Africa that I have come from, and an America that I have helped to create.
Since they were first brought as captives to Virginia, the people who would become African Americans have struggled for freedom. Thousands fought for the rights of all...
Noah Webster
Man of Many Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
An “excellent” biography of the man behind Webster’s Dictionary and the role he played in American history (School Library Journal, starred review).
Noah Webster may be best remembered for the enormous and ambitious task of writing his famous dictionary, but there was much more to his accomplishments....
Pilgrim Voices
Our First Year in the New World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People and a C. S. Lewis Noteworthy book: A rich history of the pilgrim experience, as recorded in real diaries
Nearly four hundred years after the pilgrims left England in search of a better life, their stories still resonate with Americans today....
The Vordtriede Quiz
50 questions and answers about the emigrated Freiburg family
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The unique quiz informs playfully about the former Jewish family. They lived from 1926 to 1939 in Freiburg Haslach. Behind it there stand single mother Käthe and their children Fränze und Werner. Only because they were Jews, they were pursued and expelled. Through immediate escaping abroad, they...
by Rob Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rainbow Pride Flag with the very first picture book to tell its remarkable and inspiring history!
In this deeply moving and empowering true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey...