Hook, Jason

Explores the culture of the American Plains Indians, a group of twelve tribes that lived on the central plains of North America east of the Rocky Mountains.

This is an introduction to athletes from many different sports and their stories that made history.

Presents a brief biography of the warrior and tribal chief of the Sioux Indians and surveys the history, culture, religion, and daily life of the Plains Indians, relations between Indians and white settlers, and the displacement of tribes onto reservations.

This book tells of the life of Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, to his carrying the torch into the 1996 Olympics.

Describes the voyages of exploration made by the renowned eighteenth-century navigator.

Describes ancient treasures on the ocean floor and mysteries such as the "green women" underwater near Greece, and examines several shipwrecks throughout history, such as King Henry VIII's "Mary Rose, " the "Girona" of the Spanish Armada, the crewless "Mary Celeste, " the "Titanic, " the "Lusitania, " and others.