Author: Liza Schafer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Famous Americans
Author: Liza Schafer
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590494748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Ben Franklin...Harriet Tubman...Lewis and Clark.... Share their inspiring stories through these fact-based, original plays. Includes background information, discussion questions, extension activities, and literature links. For use with Grades 4-8.
Tales of Famous Americans
Author: Connie Roop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
"A perfect introduction to some of the people who built, changed, and challenged our nation. Tales of famous Americans is sure to delight young readers"--Page 4 of cover.
Lives
Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006027767X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006027767X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
Author: Edward Eggleston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113580
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113580
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's youngster is swept right into history.
Living Biographies of Famous Americans
Author: Henry Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, John Paul Jones, Paul Revere, Robert Fulton, John Jacob Astor, Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Stephen C. Foster, Robert E. Lee, Edwin Booth, Buffalo Bill, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, The Wright Brothers, William Jennings Bryan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, Henry Ford.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, John Paul Jones, Paul Revere, Robert Fulton, John Jacob Astor, Daniel Boone, Sam Houston, Stephen C. Foster, Robert E. Lee, Edwin Booth, Buffalo Bill, John D. Rockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, The Wright Brothers, William Jennings Bryan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Will Rogers, George M. Cohan, Henry Ford.
Thurgood Marshall
Author: Montrew Dunham
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113343
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Get to know the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years! The childhood of civil rights hero and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall comes to life in this engaging biography. Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the US Constitution. By the time he was twelve, he had most of it memorized, and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967, he was appointed to the US Supreme Court—the first African American to serve in that position. This book is laced with numerous illustrations, and the back of the book includes a timeline, questions, activities, and a glossary, making it the perfect addition to a classroom or home school setting. Perfect for emerging readers, the Childhood of Famous Americans series illustrates the incredible true stories of great Americans.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113343
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Get to know the first African American Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in this middle grade nonfiction biography of his early years! The childhood of civil rights hero and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall comes to life in this engaging biography. Whenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the US Constitution. By the time he was twelve, he had most of it memorized, and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967, he was appointed to the US Supreme Court—the first African American to serve in that position. This book is laced with numerous illustrations, and the back of the book includes a timeline, questions, activities, and a glossary, making it the perfect addition to a classroom or home school setting. Perfect for emerging readers, the Childhood of Famous Americans series illustrates the incredible true stories of great Americans.
Who's Bigger?
Author: Steven Skiena
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107041376
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In this fascinating book, Steve Skiena and Charles Ward bring quantitative analysis to bear on ranking and comparing historical reputations by aggregating the traces of millions of opinions, just as Google ranks webpages. They present rankings of more than one thousand of history's most significant people in science, politics, entertainment, and all areas of human endeavor.
Geronimo
Author: George E. Stanley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this illustrated biography, young Apache Goyahkla and his friend play games in their village that will prepare him for his role as a hunter and warrior—and the place he will hold in history as Geronimo, fighter for the rights of his people.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439113149
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this illustrated biography, young Apache Goyahkla and his friend play games in their village that will prepare him for his role as a hunter and warrior—and the place he will hold in history as Geronimo, fighter for the rights of his people.
Louisa May Alcott
Author: Beatrice Gormley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689820259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689820259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Traces the life of the author of the well-loved stories of the March sisters, "Little Women" and its sequels.