almanacs

Provides the history, growth, and achievements of African-Americans, with brief biographies of noted individuals in such areas as politics, sports, music, science, education, and religion.

Provides information on topics of particular interest to kids, such as animals, computers, health, movies, and books, and features fun facts, puzzles, games, activities, jokes, maps, flags, and photographs. Includes comparisons of popular movies, television shows, and stars from 1995 and 2005.

Presents a collection of facts, figures, information, and trivia on a wide range of topics, arranged by topic, including weather, gardening, pets, sports, and health. Includes illustrations.

A compilation of information for kids, featuring maps, charts, and facts on a variety of topics, such as animals, art, the body, health, books, buildings, landmarks, money, architecture, holidays, computers, communication, the environment, nutrition, geography, history, inventions, entertainment, presidents, religion, space, sports, volunteering, and the weather.

This book includes information on people in the news, countries of the world, holidays, science, music, art, the new millennium, and much more.

Describes and interprets the era of the Civil War with viewpoints, definitions, research and activity ideas, chronologies, sidebars, and statistics.

Provides in-depth background and interpretation of the American Revolution, with short biographies of people relevant to the topics discussed in each chapter.

Presents news stories and information from around the world, arranged alphabetically by topics such as animals, math, science, and weather, with maps, photographs, puzzles, quizzes, and trivia.

Presents thousands of facts and statistics about a wide variety of subjects. Includes the year in review, discussion of the new millennium, and a color section of world maps and flags.

Provides information on subjects of particular interest to children, from computers, inventions, health, and history to movies, television, books, and sports. Includes a color section of world maps and flags.