Sally M Walker: 35 books
Deadly Aim
The Civil War Story of Michigan's Anishinaabe Sharpshooters
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2019
"Hits the mark."—Kirkus
An engaging middle-grade nonfiction narrative of the American Indian soldiers who bravely fought in the Civil War from Sibert Award-winning author Sally M. Walker.
More than 20,000 American Indians served in the Civil War, yet their stories have often been left...
Their Skeletons Speak
Kennewick Man and the Paleoamerican World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton?
Within weeks,...
Written in Bone
Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Bright white teeth. Straight leg bones. Awkwardly contorted arm bones. On a hot summer day in 2005, Dr. Douglas Owsley of the Smithsonian Institution peered into an excavated grave, carefully examining the fragile skeleton that had been buried there for four hundred years. "He was about fifteen...
Frozen Secrets
Antarctica Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Studying Antarctica has never been for the fainthearted.
"Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard to try to save his comrades, beset by hardship."
—Inscription...
Champion
The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
American chestnut trees were once found far and wide in North America's eastern forests. They towered up to one hundred feet tall, providing food and shelter for people and animals alike. For many, life without the chestnut seemed unimaginable—until disaster struck in the early 1900s.
What...
Sinking the Sultana
A Civil War Story of Imprisonment, Greed, and a Doomed Journey Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The worst maritime disaster in American history wasn’t the Titanic. It was the steamboat Sultana on the Mississippi River — and it was completely preventable.
In 1865, the Civil War was winding down and the country was reeling from Lincoln’s assassination. Thousands of Union soldiers,...
Ghost Walls
The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland. He named his house St. John's, and for nearly eighty years, it was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil. Men and women lived and worked within its walls....
Boundaries
How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
The Mason-Dixon Line’s history, replete with property disputes, persecution, and ideological conflicts, traverses our country’s history from its founding to today.
We live in a world of boundaries — geographic, scientific, cultural, and religious. One of America’s most enduring boundaries...
Blizzard of Glass
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both intended for wartorn Europe. The resulting blast flattened two towns, Halifax and Dartmouth, and killed nearly 2,000 people. As if that wasn't devastating...
by Sally M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Did witches always ride brooms? No! In fact, long, long ago, witches crept about on tiptoe. On Halloween, they would scare children and cast spells . . . but always from the ground. No witch ever thought of flying—no witch until Druscilla. Druscilla was an old witch with the loudest, creakiest knees...
by Roseann Feldmann, Sally M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
What do flagpoles and some window blinds have in common? They use pulleys to perform work! Pulleys are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But don't take our word for it. Put pulleys to the test with the fun experiments you'll find in this book. As part of the Searchlight Books™...
by Roseann Feldmann, Sally M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What do a doorstop, a butter knife, and the front of a boat have in common? All of them are wedges! Wedges are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But don't take our word...
by Roseann Feldmann, Sally M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What do bicycles, doorknobs, and screwdrivers have in common? All of them use wheels and axles to perform work! Wheels and axles are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But...
by Roseann Feldmann, Sally M. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What do flagpoles and some window blinds have in common? They use pulleys to perform work! Pulleys are simple machines. They help us to do jobs more easily. But don't take our word for it....