When her father has to leave their mountain home to go to work in the city one cold winter, a ten-year-old girl sees a special sign as she waits for his return on Christmas.
This novel is based on the true story of Sarah Winnemucca, a gifted teacher, a passionate peacemaker, and a hero who learned the ways of the white people and yet loved the ways of her own village as well. When violence arises between her tribe and the white people, Sarah must find a way to use the knowledge she possesses--instead of bows and arrows or rifles--to help her people.
and other questions about the Jamestown settlement
Ransom, Candice F.
2011
Provides an overview of the Jamestown settlement, describing why the English settlers came to America, what they found when they arrived, and how they adapted to their new lives.
Tells the story of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, discussing their boyhoods and their experiences as leaders of an expedition to explore the western part of North America in an attempt to find a trade route to the Pacific Ocean.
Orry, a ten-year-old boy living in Kansas during the Great Depression, grows tired of having to stay inside because of the dust and takes his stepsister on an outing, only to become caught in the black blizzard that ravaged the drought-stricken area on April 14, 1935.
The teacher replaces Kobie, the class artist, with John, the nerdy new kid, to draw the mural for the school contest, but when the class loses, it blames Kobie.
When feisty twelve-year-old Rebel McKenzie, an aspiring paleontologist, goes to spend the summer taking care of her older sister's seven-year-old son at the mobile home park in Frog Level, Virginia, she never expects to enter a beauty pageant or meet a hand model.
George Washington acts as leader of the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and helps the delegates compose a new constitution to improve the United States government. Includes a readers' theater script and performance tips.
