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Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Series
Publisher
2-Story Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous poem about the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the "birth certificate" of the United States. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind Francis Scott Key's poem that became the national anthem of the United States. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
California became a territory in the United States when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. That treaty ended the Mexican War. Several days before its signing, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in what is now Sacramento. The non-Native population of the territory was less than one thousand in 1848, but the gold rush increased that number to one hundred thousand by the end of 1849. The gold rush not only made many people wealthy,...
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book...
Author
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A primary source is a document or record that provides a firsthand account of an event, a time period, or a particular subject. Primary sources are created at the time an event occurs. Find out more in Primary Sources, one of the titles in the Social Studies Essential Skills series.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind Abraham Lincoln's famous speech. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the law that forced thousands of American Indians out of their ancestral homelands. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the document paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind the narratives formerly enslaved people wrote about their lives in captivity. Each spread provides information about the context, wording, and lasting effects of the documents paired with interesting sidebars, questions to consider, and historical images.
13) Primary sources
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Examines Native American beliefs, culture, and relationships with white men since colonial times through documents written by men and women of various tribes.
Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books, Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Declaration of Independence has represented American freedom since Thomas Jefferson wrote it more than 200 years ago. Using primary sources, young readers hear the story behind one of America's most important documents from the people who were there when it was signed. Engaging text, colorful images, sidebars, and a variety of primary sources introduce readers to the Declaration of Independence.
15) Primary sources
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
17) World War I
Author
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This striking narrative presents eyewitness accounts that provide primary source information about World War I, combined with fact boxes and an overview analysis to give a comprehensive look at the World War I.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Bent Melchior, a fourteen-year-old Danish Jew, was crammed into the hold of a fishing boat, but this was not a normal fishing trip. Surviving the crowded, filthy conditions on this trip meant reaching freedom. After many hours at sea, Melchior had reached safety in Sweden. The remarkable story of rescuing the Danish Jews has many heroic tales. In the midst of World War II and the slaughter of millions in the Holocaust, the Danes resisted Nazi brutality...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Those people fortunate enough to survive had their lives destroyed by the Nazis. Survivors had to rebuild their lives, often from nothing: no homes, no jobs, and no family. Author Betty N. Hoffman details stories of survival from the Holocaust and the liberation of Nazi Europe, from the Displaced Persons camps to the founding of the State of Israel.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Who will look after me...and why can't we all go together?" Kurt Fuchel asked his father these questions, as the young boy prepared to embark on a journey to England...alone. Fuchel was one of ten thousand children who made this journey shortly before World War II began. In 1938, Jews searched for a way out of Germany, but anti-Jewish laws and nations unwilling to accept fleeing refugees made escape difficult or impossible. England's effort to save...