Aronson, Marc

Explores the history of racial prejudice in Western culture and argues that the idea of "race" didn't exist in the West until the 1600s but quickly led to lynchings in the American South and the Holocaust in Europe. Includes 100 illustrations.

Profiles the life and achievements of Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, discussing how he became such a success and his philanthropic activities.

Songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations help trace the history of sugar and the sugar trade.

Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World.

A series of short stories by such authors as Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Joseph Bruchac, interspersed with poems and photographs, provides different perspectives on a game of streetball played one steamy July day at the West 4th Street court in New York City known as The Cage.

Presents information for young people on what really happened in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, when a group of girls and young women accused certain people in the village of witchcraft, leading to the executions of innocent men and women.

A collection of essays, memoirs, letters, and fiction that present opposing viewpoints on the nature of war by such contributors as Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, and Ernie Pyle.

A collection of essays spanning the 1990s that dispels myths about teenage readers, arguing that they are much more intelligent and varied in their interests and concerns than the average school, library, or publishing house makes them out to be.

Presents a comprehensive biography of Senator Robert F. Kennedy that chronicles his personal life, political career, and assassination.

Traces the history of Israel from the start of the Zionist movement through the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 to the current political, social, and religious struggles that plague the region at the start of the twenty-first century.