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Sweet corn: poems
Par James Stevenson. 1995
Collection of twenty-eight poems on topics such as a tree house, old windows, a ladder, a screen door, a summer…
storm, a photo album, and an old dog. In "Roadside Stand," the author finds sweet corn (in season) a good reason to be happy. In "Bike Rental" he enjoys the experiences of a ride in the country and gets to keep his memories even though the rental bike must be returned. For grades 3-6Birds, beasts, and fishes: a selection of animal poems
Par Anne Carter. 1991
Fifty-one poems all have one thing in common: animals. There are poems about cats, bats, octopuses, fish, lizards, lions, and…
many other species. Poets include Robert Browning, Ted Hughes, D.H. Lawrence, Ogden Nash, and William Blake. For grades 3-6Been to yesterdays: poems of a life
Par Lee Hopkins. 1995
Collection of autobiographical poems about the author's thirteenth year, in which his parents divorce and his beloved grandmother dies. Hopkins…
uses poignant images and evokes emotions that give way to his desire to make the world a brighter place. For grades 4-7Bound for the promised land: the great black migration
Par Michael Cooper. 1995
Following the Civil War, most African Americans in the South became sharecroppers whose lives were essentially controlled by plantation owners.…
Cooper explains how, shortly after the outbreak of World War I and the reduction of European immigrants, a new job market opened in the North for black farmworkers. He discusses the effect the Great Migration between 1915 and 1930 had on the United States. For grades 5-8The West Indian-American experience (Coming to America)
Par Warren Halliburton. 1994
The term West Indian usually refers to people from the English-speaking Caribbean. This book explains West Indian history, recounting how…
European settlers wiped out the original Caribbean inhabitants and how modern West Indians descended from Africans brought over as slaves. Economic factors have caused many West Indians to emigrate to the United States even though they have been appalled by U.S. racism. For grades 5-8 and older readersIt happened in America: true stories from the fifty states
Par Lila Perl. 1992
Beginning with the Alabama bus boycott sparked by Rosa Parks and continuing state-by-state in alphabetical order, the author presents a…
selection of fifty true accounts from American history. A history that she describes as "crammed with tales of quiet courage and dashing bravado, feats of accomplishment, and magnificent failures." For grades 5-8 and older readersThe World in 1492
Par Jean Fritz. 1992
An introduction to the history, accomplishments, customs, and beliefs of people living in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Oceania, and the…
Americas at the time Columbus discovered the new world. Includes accounts of African doctors who routinely removed cataracts from the human eye and of an Italian artist and inventor who sketched his idea for a flying machine. For grades 5-8 and older readersTurn of the century: our nation one hundred years ago
Par Nancy Levinson. 1994
On New Year's Eve 1899, America celebrated not only a new year, but a new century. Levinson looks at the…
country as it was in 1900 and then shows ways in which people's lives began to change. Topics include the growth in the use of the railroad, automobile, and telephone and the evolution of large cities as America turned from an agricultural country into an urban one. For grades 4-7 and older readersA pioneer sampler: the daily life of a pioneer family in 1840
Par Barbara Greenwood. 1994
A year in the life of a fictional family, the Robertsons, shows how pioneers spent their days in the 1840s.…
Explains how to make maple sugar, what school was like, how the land was cleared and farmed, and much more. Provides projects to give modern-day children a chance to do things the way their ancestors did. For grades 3-6Who shrank my grandmother's house?: poems of discovery
Par Barbara Esbensen. 1992
More than twenty poems about the everyday discoveries of childhood. There are discoveries about the ordinary--"There is a long story…
living in the shortest pencil"--and about the unusual--sand dollars from which one can break "five white doves ready to fly to your hand. Sea change!" For grades 3-6 and older readersThe singing green: new and selected poems for all seasons
Par Eve Merriam. 1992
Barbara Frietchie
Par John Whittier. 1992
On September 10, 1862, the troops of the Confederate States of America marched through Maryland, a border state with citizens…
loyal to both the Union and the Confederacy. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote about an act of heroism in which ninety-five-year-old Barbara Frietchie waved the Union flag in General "Stonewall" Jackson's face. Includes background information and commentary. For grades 3-6 and older readersZoomrimes: poems about things that go
Par Sylvia Cassedy. 1993
Twenty-six poems about objects that move, each representing a different letter of the alphabet. There are feet that are free--"no…
need to drop lots of coins in a slot"--and a unicycle ridden by a unicorn in a uniform. For grades 3-6Black heroes of the American Revolution
Par Burke Davis. 1976
Although Revolutionary War history has traditionally focused on the courage of George Washington, Paul Revere, Ethan Allen, and other white…
Americans, black Americans also made heroic contributions to the War of Independence. This book tells the stories of Peter Salem, Oliver Cromwell, James Forten, and other African-Americans who fought, sacrificed, and performed valiantly in that effort. For grades 6-9 and older readersI, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
Par Christopher Columbus. 1990
Christopher Columbus was one of the most able and accomplished sailors of his day. His life's dream was to discover…
a new way to reach the East, fabled for its riches. Unlike those before him, he would sail west to reach the Indies. With the backing of Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain, he embarked in 1492. Here is the record of his voyage, in his very own words. For grades 6-9 and older readersNow it your time!: The African-American struggle for freedom
Par Walter Myers. 1991
Against the historical backdrop of the constant struggle of African-Americans for freedom and equality, Myers weaves the personal stories of…
influential and ordinary people--slaves, soldiers, inventors, artists, and political leaders. For grades 6-9 and older readers. Coretta Scott King AwardColumbus and the world around him
Par Milton Meltzer. 1990
Meltzer, in this meticulously researched account, moves beyond Columbus's skills as a navigator to paint a picture of an arrogant,…
obsessive dreamer. Driven by greed for wealth and power and by a dubious interest in converting "the heathens," Columbus, like his comtemporaries, saw non-Europeans as inferior being ripe for enslavement, and their lands ripe for European exploitation. For grades 6-9 and older readersSomething big has been here
Par Jack Prelutsky. 1990
A delightful collection of short, witty, zany poems including "The Turkey Shot out of the Oven" (it was stuffed with…
unpopped popcorn), "My Frog Is a Frog" (a hoarse frog with a frog in its throat), and "My Sister Ate an Orange" (and a yellow, a purple, and a blue--crayon). For grades 2-4 and older readersThe Alamo
Par Leonard Fisher. 1987
The Alamo, a national historic landmark, is known as "the shrine of Texas liberty." William B. Travis, Davy Crockett, James…
Bowie, and some 180 other Texans lost their lives during the battle that took place there in 1836. Originally built as a Franciscan mission, the Alamo has also been used as a supply depot and a general store. For grades 6-9 and older readersThe Brooklyn Bridge: they said it couldn't be built
Par Judith George. 1982
The remarkable story of a determined, nineteenth-century family who built the bridge they said couldn't be built--a suspension bridge connecting…
Brooklyn with New York City. For grades 5-8 and older readers