Presents a teacher study guide to the children's book "Flat Stanley," and provides reproducible pages for guided reading lessons, including story synopsis, vocabulary and comprehension exercises, and pre-reading activities.
Examines the 12 most amazing facts about the Cuban missile crisis. Provides information about the event’s critical moments, key players, and lasting effects.
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of Y. A. Tittle, discussing his childhood, years playing for various professional football teams, and related topics.
Portrait of England's longest-reigning queen during her Diamond Jubilee year, looking at changes and reforms in the monarchy, people she met, her children, the aftermath of Diana's death in 1997, and places she traveled.
William Foley presents an account of his experiences in 1945 as an eighteen-year-old soldier with Patton's 94th Infantry Division of the XX Corps in Germany, and includes a selection of drawings he did of battlefield scenes.
In 1953 Havana, tough war veteran Earl Swagger is conned into being the CIA's pawn, sent to assassinate the threatening young revolutionary Castro, while a Russian veteran of the same grit is sent to protect Swagger's target.
Chronicles the life of American novelist and story writer Richard Yates, discussing his childhood in Depression-era America, the influence his past had on his writing, his battles with alcohol and mental illness, and other related topics.
