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Publisher Annotation: Introduce young readers to the stakes, challenges, setbacks, and victories involved in the single most important event in our nation?s history, the American Revolution, with this approachable book from Kathleen Krull, a Children?s Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner. Find out what events led our young nation to go to war with Great Britain and how the Declaration of Independence, the document that continues to shape our civil...
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Publisher Annotation: With its rich historical text, fascinating sidebars about many immigrants throughout time, an extensive source list and timeline, as well as captivating photos, American Immigration will become a go-to resource for every child, teacher, and librarian discussing the complex history of immigration.
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Every U.S. president is the focus of public scrutiny, but how well do we know these men? What kind of fathers do presidents make? Husbands? Neighbors? Other books focus on the historical achievements of those who have occupied our country's highest office, Lives of the Presidents looks instead at their bad habits, silly nicknames, and strange pets. Every president-from George Washington to Barack Obama-is included, with an emphasis on those who have...
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Which 462 words are so important that they've changed the course of American history more than once? The Bill of Rights: the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the crucial document that spells out how the United States is to be governed. Newly revised and updated, packed with anecdotes, sidebars, case studies, suggestions for further reading, and humorous illustrations, Kathleen Krull's introduction to the Bill of Rights brings an important...
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