Perspectives library

This book relays the factual details of the Japanese internment camps in the United States during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a child at an internment camp, a Japanese-American soldier, and a worker at the Manzanar War Relocation Center. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

This book relays the factual details of the dropping of the atomic bombs that took place during World War II. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Manhattan Project scientist, a witness in Hiroshima, and an aide to the US secretary of war. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

This book relays the factual details of the Battle of the Alamo that took place in 1836 during the Texas Revolution. The narrative provides multiple accounts of the event, and readers learn details through the point of view of a Texan army commander, a Mexican soldier, and a survivor at the Alamo. The text offers opportunities to compare and contrast various perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about a historical event.

This book relays the factual details of the Battle of Gettysburg that took place during the U.S. Civil War. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a Confederate soldier, a Union soldier, and a woman merchant near the battle.

This book relays the factual details of the Battle of Bunker Hill that took place during the American Revolutionary War. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a Minuteman, a British soldier, and a colonial woman running an inn.

This book relays the factual details of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a U.S. soldier at Pearl Harbor, a Japanese military commander, and a Hawaiian worker near the military base.

Discusses the building of the Hoover Dam during the Great Depression using the viewpoints of three people associated with it.

This book relays the factual details of the sinking of the luxury cruise ship Titanic. Readers learn about the key historical event from the perspectives of a crewmember, a first-class passenger, and a steerage passenger.

Explores the history of orphan trains, which took orphaned children from large cities to the American West for a chance at a new life, providing different points of view.