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Primary Source Detectives eBook Series

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  • Who Journeyed on the Mayflower?

    by Nicola Barber ...
    Illustrated by HL Studios ...
    Series series Primary Source Detectives
    How do we know about the people who journeyed on the Mayflower? Why did they cross the Atlantic, and what happened to them? This book shows how we know about the travelers and their ship from primary and other sources. It includes information on some historical detective work that has taken place, using documentary and archaeological evidence, that has enabled historians to piece together the ... Read more

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  • The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World

    Adapted from the New York Times bestseller Mayflower!After a dangerous journey across the Atlantic, the Mayflower?s passengers were saved from certain destruction with the help of the Natives of the Plymouth region. For fifty years a fragile peace was maintained as Pilgrims and Native Americans learned to work together. But when that trust was broken by the next generation of leaders, a conflict ... Read more

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  • Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving

    A Harvest Story from Colonial America of How One Native American's Friendship Saved the Pilgrims

    by Eric Metaxas ...
    Discover the amazing true story of how one Native American's suffering, generosity, and friendship led to the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims, by New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas.In 1608, traders came to Massachusetts, captured a Patuxet boy named Squanto, and sold him into slavery. He was later cared for by Christians, taught faith in God, and learned to speak English. Ten ... Read more

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  • Who Was Paul Revere?

    Illustrated by John O'Brien ...
    Series series Who Was?
    In 1775, Paul Revere of Boston made his now-famous horseback ride warning colonists of an impending attack by the British. This event went largely unnoticed in history until Longfellow celebrated it in a poem in 1861. So who was Paul Revere? In addition to being an American patriot, he was a skilled silversmith and made false teeth from hippo tusks! This biography, with black-and-white ... Read more

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  • Meet George Washington

    Series series Landmark Books
    This valiant story of how young George Washington was drawn into his country's struggle for independence gives readers a vivid perspective on a crucial era in American history--and on the life of a revolutionary hero. ... Read more

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  • What Was the Underground Railroad?

    Illustrated by Lauren Mortimer ...
    Series series What Was?
    No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a ... Read more

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  • A History of US: Making Thirteen Colonies

    1600-1740

    by Joy Hakim ...
    Series series A ^AHistory of US
    Recommended by the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy as an exemplary informational text. All kinds of people are coming to America. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each ... Read more

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  • King George: What Was His Problem?

    Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution

    Illustrated by Tim Robinson ...
    New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young readers an American history lesson they'll never forget in the fun and funny King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson.A Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the YearA New York Public Library 100 Titles ... Read more

    PHP524.59

  • Meet Thomas Jefferson

    Illustrated by Pat Fogarty ...
    Series series Landmark Books
    When Thomas Jefferson was young, Virginia was still a colony of England. Jefferson thought that many English laws and taxes were unfair, so he studied hard to become a lawyer and help make better laws. Soon he and others came to believe that the colonies should become a new country, and Jefferson was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence. As the third president of the United States, he ... Read more

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  • The Underground Railroad

    by Raymond Bial ...
    By ones, twos, and threes, in the years before the Civil War thousands of enslaved people slipped through the night on their way to freedom, riding the Underground Railroad. Hidden and hunted, the escape of southern slaves to the North remains a compelling event in American history. Within the pages of this book are documented, in prose and elegantly articulate photographs, examples of "stations" ... Read more

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  • The Double Life of Pocahontas

    by Jean Fritz ...
    A complex and fascinating historical figure illuminated by Newbery Honor-winning Jean Fritz.In a story that is as gripping as it is historical, Newbery Honor-winning author Jean Fritz reveals the true life of Pocahontas. Though at first permitted to move freely between the Indian and the white worlds, Pocahontas was eventually torn between her new life and the culture that shaped her."This book ... Read more

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  • Pilgrims and Puritans

    Series Book 1997 - The Drama of American History Series
    History is dramatic—and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and ... Read more

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