Carter, Alden R

Living in the logging area of northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Jeremy helps his uncle carve a statue of a Chippewa maiden as a tribute to the vanishing culture of her people.

Photographs and text present a history of China with an overview of life in the 1990s and a look at its possible future, considering an increasingly young population which is dissatisfied with communism.

A young girl explains what diabetes is, how it affects her life, and how she manages to live a safe and happy life in spite of having the disease.

Describes cerebral palsy and focuses on the daily lives of three children with varying degrees of this condition.

A second-grader describes how she and other students learn to use a variety of equipment and methods to cope with their visual impairments.

Text and photographs examine the construction, battles, and technological and historical impact of the Civil War battleships, the Monitor and the Merrimac.

Pete and Jeff continue their friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade through high school in their small Wisconsin town.

Although neither fifteen-year-old Mark Severson nor his diabetic cousin Randy are looking forward to the canoe trip that is a family rite of passage, they begin to enjoy themselves as they make their way through Minnesota's lake country, until the trip becomes a fight for survival.

Examines how the once strong colony-mother-country relationship between America and Britain began to sour through the 1760s and 1770s, planting the roots for the once unthinkable idea of revolution.

Discusses the final campaigns of the Revolutionary War and the structuring of a new nation, from the formulation of the Articles of Confederation to the adoption of the Constitution.