social life and customs

An unknown person has provided money for the education of Pip, a poor English boy, in nineteenth-century England.

Simple text and color images present various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration including red decorations, the exchange of poems, Festival of Lanterns, Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors.

Describes, in text and photographic illustrations, the duties, clothes, equipment, and day-to-day life of the cowboys who flourished in the west from the 1860's to the 1890's.

Presents, in graphic novel format, the life of a Colonial innkeeper.

A look back at events and the changing of the seasons at a one-room school in rural New York during the last year of the Second World War.

Describes the colonists of the original thirteen American colonies, some of which came from Sweden, Spain, or Africa, what life was like in the colonies, why the people came, and what it was like under British rule.

". . . images accompany information about South Korea. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher.

"Engaging images accompany information about El Salvador. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher.

Hairdresser Deborah Rodriguez details her experiences in post-Taliban Afghanistan, discussing the opening of her beauty school and recalls the personal stories of various women who overcame obstacles to obtain an education in cosmetology.

The author chronicles his life from age twelve to sixteen, living in the bizarre home of his mother's psychiatrist, where he was sexually abused by the doctor's thirty-three-year-old adopted son.