history

Joe, Sam, and Fred travel to thirteenth-century China, where they disguise themselves as astrologers and meet Marco Polo.

In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.

The life and conquests of the Spanish explorer who joined an expedition to the New World in 1502 and subsequently claimed for Spain parts of Mexico, Central America, and South America including Peru.

Recreates the story of a single pebble and the formation of the Earth. Includes a geological timeline charting the main periods in Earth's history.

Charts the journey of those who followed the Oregon Trail in the first half of the nineteenth century, describes the obstacles and dangers they encountered, and discusses the Trail's eventual decline with the introduction of the cross-country railroad.

The life of the woman who became a Revolutionary heroine when she carried water to the soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.

Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

A brief biography of one of early America's greatest friends and defenders, Gilbert du Motier, better known through history as the Marquis de Lafayette.

A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

Junko's story, with photographic illustrations, of her childhood in Hiroshima, growing up in a society at war, witnessing the first nuclear attack when her known world was hideously destroyed by an atomic bomb, and finding solace in the survival of her family.