history

Cartoons and facts combine to explain what it was like to be an American colonist in the seventeenth century, discussing the realities of the voyage from England, dealing with Indians, and struggling for survival in the new world.

Presents a retelling of Homer's classic Greek epic of Helen, Queen of Sparta, who is taken by Paris, a Trojan prince, inaugurating the Trojan War and is written for the fifth through eighth-grade classroom.

Discusses colonial life in America, depicts a year in the life of a fictional colonial family, and presents projects and activities, such as butter churning, candle dipping, baking bread, and playing colonial games.

Jethro, who is nine years old when the first April blooms, must run the farm in southern Illinois almost alone during the Civil War. Dangers on the home front prove as exciting as those in battle.

Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.

Chronicles the history of the Colonial Wars, also called the French and Indian Wars, which gave the British control of North America.

Chronicles the frienship of Pink, a fifteen-year-old African-American Union soldier, and Say, his poor white comrade, as one nurses the other back to health from a battle wound and the two of them are imprisoned at Andersonville. Based on a true story.

A biography of John Adams with emphasis on his role in the American Revolution.

A boy in Illinois remembers the homefront years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his brother in the Air Force and his father--who fought in the previous war.

An illustrated look at the life of fashion designer Coco Chanel, discussing her youth in France, and the development of her own particular style which caught on around the world.