Setting the stage for fluency

Presents a historical drama for children chronicling the efforts and experiences of influential women suffragists. Includes a glossary and a list of further resources.

Presents a dramatic script set in 1807, and describing how young Brenton Dixon got a job aboard Robert Fulton's new steamboat. His work with Fulton turned into a lifelong career on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

Presents a play about two slaves named Ellie and Sam who escape slavery by following the underground railroad with the help of the Drinking Gourd constellation and the North Star. Includes color illustrations, a glossary, and a list of additional resources.

Presents a Reader's Theater script in which a young girl named Kristy finds her great-great-great grandmother's diary and learns how her life at the end of the nineteenth century changed with the arrival of the bicycle.

Presents a play about the Mexican legend of "La Llorona," or "the Weeping Woman." Includes a glossary and a list of additional resources.

"A dramatization of two escaped slaves who share their brave story along the path to freedom called the Underground Railroad"--Provided by publisher.

A dramatization of the sad and haunting Mexican legend, the Crying Woman, about the Spanish conquistador Hern?n Cort?s and a native Mexican woman who served as his translator.

A steamboat pilot recalls the day in 1807 when he saw a steamboat designed by Robert Fulton, the first on the Hudson River, and the people around him thought it must be some kind of monster.

Presents a historical drama for children chronicling the efforts and experiences of influential women suffragists. Includes a glossary and a list of further resources.

In 1856, 15-year-old Bella Lee Dunkinson began hanging around the local railroad in western Tennessee. Engineer John Hardiman took a liking to the spirited girl and gave her a boy's responsibilities--helping with the engine. One stormy night, the engine was slipping dangerously on wet rails. While John was putting sand on the tracks, Bella found herself alone in the cab driving the train up a steep and dangerous mountainside. After her heroic and triumphant climb to the mountaintop, she was hailed by the miners who met her there as the "Belle of the Mines and Mountains.".