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Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America -- of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and wigwams of New England's first settlers and the houses they learned to build against the cruel winters; the snug Dutch and Flemish farmhouses of Nieuw Amsterdam;... (more)

The New York Colony (Colonies)Bob Italia

The New York Colony (Colonies)

by Bob Italia

Grade 2-4-These books are identical in format, table of contents, and pagination, and similar in wording. They discuss early history, explorers, first settlements, government, life in general, statehood, etc. Half- and full-page color illustrations on the right face each page of text. The pictures appear to be reproductions from historical documents and possibly period artwork but are not identified. A map... (more)

The Journeyman

by Elizabeth Yates

The boy isn't much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin's odd ways. His father doesn't think he's good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him. But Jared isn't concerned; he has his own ideas about what is really important. One day a journeyman painter visits their quiet New Hampshire farm, and his... (more)

How Ben Franklin Stole The Lightning

by Rosalyn Schanzer

Ben Franklin was the most famous American in the entire world during colonial times. No wonder! After all, the man could do just about anything. Why, he was an author and an athlete and a patriot and a scientist and an inventor to boot. He even found a way to steal the lightning right out of the sky. Is such a thing possible? Is it. Take a look inside and find Ben busy at work on every spread. Then find out how... (more)

Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky

Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky

by Connie Lapallo

Few women and children sailed to Jamestown in 1609. But to Joan, prosperous Virginia sounded promising. Even when she was forced to leave a daughter behind. Even that Joan could bear. But the hurricane, the Starving Time, the Indian Wars.

The story of the Thirteen Colonies (Landmark books, 115)

The story of the Thirteen Colonies (Landmark books, 115)

by Clifford Lindsey Alderman

People of America: They came from many landsJ. Ralph Randolph

People of America: They came from many lands

by J. Ralph Randolph

King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution

King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution

by Steve Sheinkin

KING GEORGE NEVER DID UNDERSTAND AMERICANS “Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn’t one of them.” What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, hundreds of soldiers plunged into battle “naked as they were born”) close-up narrative filled with little-known details, lots of... (more)

De Overgave

by Arthur Japin

The Legacy of HeorotLarry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

The Legacy of Heorot

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

Life in the Age of Exploration (Journeys into the Past Series)Christopher Falkus

Life in the Age of Exploration (Journeys into the Past Series)

by Christopher Falkus

De Overgave

by Arthur Japin

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin's life from Boston to Philadelphia to London and Paris and back, Isaacson chronicles the... (more)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man." -- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history. David Hume hailed him as the first great philosopher and... (more)

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Beowulf's Children

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents first arrived on Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which drawf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon learn, monsters also... (more)

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the unfamiliar shores of colonial Connecticut in <1867>. Alone and desperate, she has been forced to leave her beloved home on the island of Barbados and join a family she has never met. Torn between her quest for belonging and her desire to be true to herself, Kit struggles to survive in a hostile place. Just when it seems she... (more)

This Country of Ours

by H. E. Marshall

This Country of Ours is a classic work featuring details of United States history from settlement through the Woodrow administration. Included among the ninety-nine chapters are accounts of exploration, pioneers, settlement in the new world and the founding of the constitution. This is an excellent timeless work which is great for students and scholars of all ages and available here in a paperback book edition.

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Colonial Living

by Edwin Tunis

The New York Colony (Colonies)

by Bob Italia

The Journeyman

by Elizabeth Yates

How Ben Franklin Stole The Lightning

by Rosalyn Schanzer

Dark Enough to See the Stars in a Jamestown Sky

by Connie Lapallo

The story of the Thirteen Colonies (Landmark books, 115)

by Clifford Lindsey Alderman

People of America: They came from many lands

by J. Ralph Randolph

King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution

by Steve Sheinkin

De Overgave

by Arthur Japin

The Legacy of Heorot

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

Life in the Age of Exploration (Journeys into the Past Series)

by Christopher Falkus

De Overgave

by Arthur Japin

Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

by Walter Isaacson

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

Beowulf's Children

by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

This Country of Ours

by H. E. Marshall