juvenile literature

Discusses the history, places of interest, and famous people of the second smallest state in the nation, which also was the first to ratify the Constitution.

Describes the geography, history, people, industry, agriculture, education, and daily life of the second largest country in Africa.

Examines the reasons for and process of English colonization of North America from the first attempt in Newfoundland to the founding of Georgia, the last colony.

Briefly introduces aspects of the moon such as its phases; eclipses; its seas, craters, and mountains; and explorations of it.

An account of what it was like to spend three years as a child in a Canadian internment camp because her parents were of Japanese origin.

Provides an account of the developing events in Revolutionary Boston as seen through the life of Paul Revere. Gives the reader a picture of day-to-day colonial life, the developing political controversy with England, and the dramatic confrontation with British troops at Lexington and Concord.

Depicts the hardships of the pioneers as they made their way westward from Missouri across the prairie and over the mountains to the Pacific coast.

A biography of the turn-of-the century Mexican outlaw who helped overthrow the Diaz government in the Revolution of 1910.