"Describes the social and political differences between the American North and South that lead to the secession of eleven states, the formation of the Confederate States of America, and the start of the American Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
A young girl who serves as letter writer for her blind stepmother is haunted by her unwitting role in Nat Turner's Rebellion, one of the bloodiest slave uprisings in the history of America.
Fourteen-year-old Hannah, an orphan indentured to the family of a British general in Boston in 1775, begins attending secret meetings diguised as a boy, then passing messages and warnings to the revolutionaries using her beloved horse, Promise.
A graphic novel adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel in which Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
Using end-of-chapter sidebars and marginal comments to prompt readers' critical thinking skills, this book will augment the social studies curriculum and engage readers with the complex story of leaders of the Civil War.
Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he became involved in Shays' Rebellion, begun by farmers in western Massachusetts against what they felt were unfair taxes levied on them by the Boston government.
After a day of picking cotton in late 1860, Ella May, a young slave, joins her friends Bobby and Sue at their second job of listening outside the windows of their master's house for useful information.
The Flashback Four are coerced by a secret government organization, NOYB, to travel to July 1804 Weehawken, New Jersey, to witness the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
