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Author
Publisher
Enslow Elementary
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the beginning of the Revolutionary War, discussing the causes and leaders of the rebellion, and how the first shots fired at Lexington and Concord began America's long road to independence.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Elementary, an imprint of Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
YOU are a New Englander with a bad case of gold fever. Gold has been discovered in California, and you want to go claim some for yourself. Will you strike it rich? On January 24, 1848, a man working near Sutter's Mill in California spotted a few small gold nuggets in the American River. This discovery led thousands of people to move to the west. However, looking for gold proved to be dangerous work. Author Elaine Landau poses many other exciting questions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It is the early 1860s. Slavery is legal in the United States. Brave slaves try to escape to freedom along the secret "Underground Railroad," but they dont always make it. What would you do? Would you help and protect the slaves from the slave catchers or Would you follow the law?
5) The Shawnee
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, culture, religion, and traditions of the Shawnee Indians.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the history of race relations in the United States, focusing on the civil rights movement that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in public schools.
11) The Oregon Trail
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the pioneers who traveled westward on the Oregon Trail in the 1840s.