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New England is ripe for revolution in the fall of 1773, and young Jeremy and Deliverance Winthrop are eager to play their part. The brother-and-sister duo join the conspiracy against the red-coated British "lobsterbacks," carrying messages from Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and other patriots to set the stage for the famous event in Boston Harbor.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1956 edition.

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In the summer of 1863, a sleepy little Pennsylvania town explodes with action as Confederate and Union troops converge for a decisive Civil War battle. Jonathan Blayne and his sister Mary take part in the three-day conflict with a dramatic series of adventures that feature appearances by Lee, Lincoln, and other historical figures.

The We Were There series brings history to life for young readers with engaging, action-packed entertainment. These illustrated tales combine fictional and real-life characters in settings of landmark events from the past. All of the books are reviewed for accuracy and approved by expert historical consultants.

Reprint of the Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1955 edition.

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Interactive Notebook: Earth & Space Science is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive science notebooks. The instructions given in the book lay out an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining an interactive notebook for earth and space science. The lessons cover units of study in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. This interactive approach to diagramming science concepts gives students many opportunities to create models and demonstrate their knowledge through artistic creation, labeling, and verbal explanation. This workbook:

• -Helps students record, store, and organize essential information
• -Serves as a resource for review and test prep
• -Involves both right-brain and left-brain activities for processing new information
• -Supports Next Generation Science Standards
• -Correlates to current national, state, and provincial standards

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From its origins as a sharpened stick in the days of cave dwellers, the sword developed over the centuries into one of mankind’s deadliest and most widely used weapons. This fascinating volume traces the development of the sword in 44 carefully researched, ready-to-color drawings. Authentically costumed depictions of sword-wielders both famous and obscure include Queen Boadicea, King Charlemagne, a twelfth-century Muslim warrior, a Puritan of the seventeenth century, and many others.

Detailed, informative captions accompany finely wrought illustrations of a Sumerian bronze sickle sword (3000 B.C.), an elaborate Babylonian iron sword (600 B.C.), a steel sword of the Chinese Han dynasty (200 B.C.), a Scottish “Claymore” sword (1500), a Spanish basket-hilt broad sword (1650), a pirate “buccaneer” cutlass (1700), a Confederate artillery officer’s saber of the American Civil War period (1864), and 37 more. Coloring book fans, students of weaponry, and armchair swashbucklers will all relish this rich pictorial history of the sword and its many variations.

Dover Original.

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Thirty full-page illustrations chronicle key events of one of the twentieth century's most important social movements. Informative captions accompany the dramatic scenes, from Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation through the movement’s struggles and achievements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Dover Original. Learn More

Kids will discover fascinating facts about Air Force One, one of the most famous symbols of presidential power, with these 30 detailed illustrations and informative captions. They'll enjoy coloring while learning about the history, functions, and unique features of the highly customized Boeing 747, which serves as transportation for the United States commander in chief. Dover Original. Learn More

Brush up on your American history trivia skills with this fun-filled puzzle book!

History buffs, trivia enthusiasts, and anyone who loves brain games will welcome this collection of word search puzzles. All of the 88 puzzles and their solutions offer an entertaining approach to American history, and every page contains clues to interesting tidbits about the life and times of Presidents and First Ladies, from George and Martha Washington to Donald and Melania Trump and everyone in between.

Discover which President had a pet alligator, which First Lady was the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, Dolley Madison's nickname for her husband, and scores of other fun facts. An alphabetized list appears above each puzzle grid, providing readers with clues. Solutions to all puzzles are featured at the end of the book.

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More than 40 activities make it fun to learn about the United States! Discover interesting facts about American history, geography, and landmarks when you tackle these mazes, crosswords, spot-the-difference scenes, word searches, secret codes, and other puzzles. You can check the solutions if you get stuck, and the pictures are fun to color, too. Dover Original. Learn More

For motorcycle fans, the names of Harley-Davidson, BMW, Norton, Indian, Honda, Kawasaki, and Suzuki conjure up a wealth of models and styles. Exciting symbols of popular culture, these powerful machines are featured here in a book sure to thrill motorcycle aficionados and colorists alike. Chronicling over 100 years of motorcycle history, 45 accurate, finely detailed illustrations depict a splendid line of motorized cycles, beginning with the Gottlieb Daimler Motor Bicycle (1885) and ending with the Honda ES21 Future Motorcycle Concept Prototype.

In addition, cycle devotees will find ready-to-color illustrations of these popular models:

• Excelsior Motor Bike (1902)
• Harley-Davidson Model J (1915)
• BMW R31 (1923)
• Triumph Speed Twin (1939)
• Matchless G9 (1951)
• Norton Commando 850 (1975)
• Ducatti MHR Mille (1984)
• Honda GL1500 “Gold Wing” (1991)
• Royal Enfield (1913)
• Zenith Gradua (1920)
• Brough Superior 680 (1933)
• Indian "Chief" (1947)
• BSA A65 Lightning (1966)
• Kawasaki Z1300 (1979)
• Moto Guzzi Le Mans 1000 (1984)
• Yamaha GTS1000A (1993)
• … and 27 other superb machines.

An extensive caption accompanying each illustration identifies the manufacturer and provides details on horsepower, materials of construction, weight, speed, and other data.

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Step inside this inspiring gallery to color more than forty portraits of great heroes of American history. Realistic likenesses, including background scenes, portray images of Neil Armstrong, Sandra Day O'Connor, Bill Gates, Frederick Douglass, Chief Joseph, Sally Ride, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and dozens of other historic figures. Dover Original. Learn More

This educational coloring book details the Statue of Liberty's rich and stirring history and the immigration into America through Ellis Island. Thirty-eight illustrations feature complete captions and are based on historical paintings, wood engravings, and photographs taken from contemporary newspapers, magazines, and other sources. Free Teacher's Manual available. Grades: 1–2.

Boost: Seriously Fun Learning! Keeping children entertained and engaged is the key to learning, and the Boost series offers a wide range of fun-filled coloring and activity books that help teach a variety of basic skills. Each title is targeted to a specific grade range and carefully aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which are listed at the bottom of each page.

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Encourage students to create their own learning portfolios with the Mark Twain Interactive Notebook: Discovery and Exploration for grades 5–8. This 64-page interactive notebook includes 19 lessons that cover four units of study: Discovery, Europeans Seek New Trade Routes to Asia, Spanish Exploration, and French and English Exploration of the New World. Students are encouraged to be creative, use color, and work with interactive content to gain a greater understanding of the topics covered. This workbook helps students record, store, and organize essential information and serve as resources for review and test prep.

The Interactive Notebook series for grades 5 through 8 is designed to allow students to become active participants in their own learning by creating interactive notebooks. Each book provides an easy-to-follow plan for setting up, creating, and maintaining interactive notebooks for the social studies classroom.

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These colorful sticker images offer you a short, but exciting lesson in the history of flight. Sixteen peel-and-apply illustrations portray such heavier-then-air ships as early gliders, the Sopwith Camel, the Red Baron's Fokker DR-1 triplane, the A-10 Thunderbolt, the Boeing 767, and the F-14 Tomcat. Use these accurately drawn illustrations for classroom assignments or add a high-flying note to lunch boxes, notebooks, and other flat surfaces. Dover Original. Learn More

Return to the era of Mesozoic monsters with this fascinating coloring book collection of ancient reptiles. For this unique volume, the former staff artist of the American Museum of Natural History has rendered in accurate detail 37 different prehistoric creatures in their natural habitats — stalking prey along the shores of a tropical lake, circling the skies high above lush forests of exotic vegetation and grazing in primeval marshlands. Twenty dramatic double-page and five single-page illustrations arranged in chronological order vividly display the evolution of the dinosaurs from the early reptilian Euparkeria to such giants of the dinosaurs' last days as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

Young and old alike can share in the excitement of bringing color to such formidable specimens as Tyrannosaurus; the equally aggressive Allosaurus; the spike-thumbed Iguanodon, a large, plant-eating biped; the bony-plated Ankylosaurus; and, of course, the familiar Brontosaurus, also known as Apatosaurus, a plant-eating "lizard" that weighed up to 30 tons and grew to a length of 70 feet.

An excellent educational tool for teachers, this coloring book offers hours of absorbing entertainment to students, dinosaur buffs, natural-history enthusiasts and colorists of all ages. Informative captions for each illustration provide intriguing details about the ancient animals depicted in this reptilian review.

Dover Original.

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Horses take hold of our imaginations when they gallop across the plains whinnying into the wind. But most of all, horses capture our hearts. And it's said they've done more to change human history than any other domestic animal. John Green skillfully portrays the legendary grace and beauty of this animal in a collection of 30 illustrations. Handsome equines — from Clydesdales to show horses — are depicted in the wild and at work. Brief captions supplement an impressive panorama of one of the world's best-loved and most highly prized animals. Dover Original. Learn More

With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.

"A simple, attractive, informative book about a milestone in American history. The simplest and most accessible history of the Constitution to date."—School Library Journal

Supports the Common Core State Standards

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Elementary History Curriculum from Pandia Press

Grade level: appropriate for 1st – 4th grade as a read-aloud, 5th grade+ as an independent read

Book type: Narrative History book with many backline drawing illustrations and maps

Through an exciting and rich narrative, History Quest: Early Times takes you on a journey into the past to experience the rise and fall of ancient civilizations and empires. You’ll visit faraway places to meet and learn from everyday folks, famous world leaders, and even a few mythological characters. Designed as a read-aloud for elementary-age children, an independent read for older students, or a journey of exciting adventures for family storytime, the History Quest series presents an immersive study of history in an engaging and memorable format.  

In every chapter of History Quest you will find a "History Hop!" that takes you on an imaginary journey back in time to meet historical characters and visit historical places such as a campfire breakfast with a Paleolithic family, tea time with Empress Leizu in Ancient China, a chat with Socrates at the Agora, and more! Blackline drawing illustrations and maps included.

516 pages. From Pandia Press

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Ranging from the bombardment of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the Civil War in 1861 to The Great Recession in 2007, this Timeline features 28 dated illustrations to help your student learn and visualize the incredible people and events of the last 150 years. Well-known figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Gladys Aylward, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., are interspersed with the seminal events of the World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Designed to aid students in understanding the chronology of historical events the Timeline will be a useful teaching tool as well as a fun project. With its dated illustrations of significant events and individuals, students cut and color the detailed drawings and paste them on three 6" x 34" card-stock strips which are scored and able to fold for convenient storage in the student notebook. Many students will mount their completed timelines on the wall. When assembled this timeline will stretch to nearly nine feet in length! Author: Josh Berg. From Beautiful Feet Books Learn More

Al Capone Does My Shirts By GENNIFER CHOLDENKO.

The Newbery Honor Book and New York Times Bestseller that is historical fiction with a hint of mystery about living at Alcatraz not as a prisoner, but as a kid meeting some of the most famous criminals in our history.

Al Capone Does My Shirts has become an instant classic for all kids to read!

Today I moved to Alcatraz, a twelve-acre rock covered with cement, topped with bird turd and surrounded by water. I’m not the only kid who lives here. There are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison, like my dad does. And then there are a ton of murderers, rapists, hit men, con men, stickup men, embezzlers, connivers, burglars, kidnappers and maybe even an innocent man or two, though I doubt it. The convicts we have are the kind other prisons don’t want. I never knew prisons could be picky, but I guess they can. You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you’re me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

Paperback | Published by Puffin Books Apr 20, 2006 | 288 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | Middle Grade (10 and up)

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The Railway Children By E. NESBIT Introduction by Jacqueline Wilson.

The Railway Children is the classic children’s story by E. Nesbit. When Father is taken away unexpectedly, Roberta, Peter, Phyllis and their mother have to leave their comfortable life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. The children seek solace in the nearby railway station, and make friends with Perks the Porter and the Station Master himself. Each day, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis run down the field to the railway track and wave at the passing London train, sending their love to Father. Little do they know that the kindly old gentleman passenger who waves back holds the key to their father’s disappearance.

One of the best-loved classics of all time, with a wonderful introduction by Jacqueline Wilson. Edith Nesbit was a mischievous child who grew up into an unconventional adult. With her husband, Hubert Bland, she was one of the founder members of the socialist Fabian Society; their household became a centre of the socialist and literary circles of the times. E. Nesbit turned late to children’s writing. Her first children’s book, The Treasure Seekers, was published in 1899 to great acclaim. Other books featuring the Bastable children followed, and a series of magical fantasy books, including Five Children and It also became very popular. The Railway Children was first published monthly in the London Magazine in 1905, and published as a book in 1906, which has been in print ever since. Other children’s books by E Nesbit: The Story of the Treasure Seekers; The Wouldbegoods; The New Treasure Seekers; Complete History of the Bastable Family; Five Children and It; The Phoenix and the Carpet; The Story of the Amulet; The House of Arden; Harding’s Luck; The Railway Children; The Enchanted Castle; The Magic City; The Wonderful Garden; Wet Magic; Five of Us and Madeline

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Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Australia! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Australia. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. This book aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards.

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Bring history to life for students in grades 5 and up using World Civilizations and Cultures! This 96-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Hands-on activities, research opportunities, and mapping exercises engage students in learning about the history and culture of civilizations around the world. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level. Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards. By Carson Dellosa/Mark Twain Media Learn More

Take students in grades 5–8 on a field trip without leaving the classroom using Exploring Africa! This 48-page book features reading selections and assessments that utilize a variety of questioning strategies, such as matching, true or false, critical thinking, and constructed response. Map projects and hands-on activities engage students in learning about the physical, political, and human geography of Africa. For struggling readers, the book includes a downloadable version of the reading selections at a fourth- to fifth-grade reading level.

Aligned to Common Core State Standards, NCSS standards and national and Canadian provincial standards.

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ABOUT HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND THE BEECHER PREACHERS

Harriet Beecher Stowe grew up in a family in which her seven brothers were expected to be successful preachers and the four girls were never to speak in public. But slavery made Harriet so angry she couldn’t keep quiet. Although she used a pen rather than her voice to convince people of the evils of slavery, she became more famous than any of her brothers. She firmly believed that words could make change, and by writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe hastened the Civil War and changed the course of America history. “Readable and engrossing.” — The Horn Bookn”Fritz writes with verve and wit….Many kids will be stimulated to go on from here to find out more.” — Booklist (boxed review)

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