america

This book, presenting history through the words of first-person narrators, discusses early European exploration of the New World and describes the fighting, epidemic diseases, and mistreatment that Europeans brought to the Native Americans.

Depicts the unlikely friendship between Olivier, an aristocratic survivor of the French Revolution, and Parrot, the motherless son of an itinerant English printer who meet when they come to America. Their shifting narratives describe their adventures apart and together and describes the newly founded American democracy.

On visits to the sandy Outer Banks islands off the coast of North Carolina, a sixteenth-century Paspatank girl named Gray Squirrel befriends a wild pony, and together they fulfill their destiny of helping the English colonists on Roanoke Island.

Chronicles the events of the discovery of the Americas, beginning with Christopher Columbus's 1492 expedition which led him to present-day Cuba, and discussing the subsequent journeys and conquests of Balboa, Cortes, Pizarro, and others, as well as the establishment of Spanish missions in California.

A young Indian witnesses the death and disease caused by the Spanish exploration of America during the sixteenth century.

Describes the life of explorer Christopher Columbus and discusses his voyages to the islands now known as the West Indies.