juvenile literature

Discusses the myth of the lost city of gold in northern South America, sought by Spanish explorers in the fifteenth century and by some modern treasure hunters.

Examines the life of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and established a vast European empire.

Describes the living conditions, plant and animal life, natural resources, exploration, and people of the North and South poles.

Discusses exploratory expeditions to the earth's polar regions in the twentieth century and the worlds thus opened to geologists, oceanographers, and other scientists.

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.

Traces the events leading to the 1917 Russian Revolution.

Briefly traces the history of the Pilgrims, a group of Puritans who fled England to escape religious persecution, sailed to Massachusetts on the Mayflower, and celebrated their first harvest there in 1621 with a great feast.

Presents the Constitution of the United States and includes a simple explanation of its contents.

Discusses the life and history of ancient Egypt from earliest times through the reign of Ramses II, as it has been pieced together from the work of archaeologists.

Traces the daily activities of a West African boy during two weeks when three important events change the course of his life.