Joy Hakim: 14 books
A History of US: All the People
Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. A History of US is a 10-volume, award-winning series about the birth and development of the United States as related by master storyteller Joy Hakim. All the People, the last volume...
The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
Aristotle Leads the Way
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, and...
The Story of Science: Newton at the Center
Newton at the Center
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In volume two, students will watch as Copernicus's systematic observations place the sun at the center of our universe—to the dismay of establishment thinkers. After students follow the achievements and frustrations of Galileo, Kepler, and Descartes, they will appreciate the amazing Isaac Newton,...
The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Einstein Adds a New Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
In volume three, students will look over Albert Einstein's shoulder as he and his colleagues develop a new kind of physics. It leads in two directions: to knowledge of the vast universe and its future (insights build on Einstein's theories of relativity), and to an understanding of the astonishingly...
by Joy Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nation? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle...
A History of US: Liberty for All?
1820-1860
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Early nineteenth century America could just about be summed up by Henry David Thoreau's words when he said, "Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free." It was an exuberant...
A History of US: The New Nation
1789-1850
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the freshly formed...
by Joy Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what...
A History of US: War, Terrible War
1855-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Riveting, moving, and impossible to put down, War, Terrible War takes us into the heart of the Civil War, from the battle of Manassas to the battle of Gettysburg and on to the South's...
A History of US: The First Americans
Prehistory-1600
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Thousands of years--way before Christopher Columbus set sail--wandering tribes of hunters made their way from Asia across the Bering land bridge to North America. They didn't know...
A History of US: Reconstructing America
1865-1890
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. Covering a time of great hope and incredible change, Reconstruction and Reform is a dramatic look at life after the Civil War in the newly re United States. Railroad tycoons were...
A History of US: An Age of Extremes
1880-1917
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. For the captains of industry men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Ford the Gilded Age is a time of big money. Technology boomed with the invention...
by Joy Hakim
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. From woman's suffrage to Babe Ruth's home runs, from Louis Armstrong's jazz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four presidential terms, from the finale of one world war to the dramatic...
Reading Science Stories
Narrative Tales of Science Adventurers
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Reading Science Stories is a book meant to celebrate nonfiction reading, especially narrative nonfiction, as a vehicle for understanding the world around us. We live in what is the greatest scientific era in all of human history, it also happens to be an Information Age, and nonfiction is a great...