If your name were changed at Ellis Island--Would everyone in your family travel together?--How long would you stay at Ellis Island?--Would your name be changed? This book tells you what it was like if when Ellis Island was opened in 1892 as a center for immigrants coming to live in America.
If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King --When did the civil rights movement begin? --Were children involved in civil rights protests? --What was the March on Washington? This book tells you what it was like during the exciting era when Martin Luther King led the fight against segregation.
If you traveled on the Underground Railroad --Where was the safest place to go? --Would you wear a disguise? --What would you do when you were free? This book tells you what it was like to be a slave trying to escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
This book describes what life was like for the Iroquois hundreds of years ago. By putting the reader in the empathetic position of posing the information as questions, the reader is drawn into the subject matter in a realistic and exciting way. The reader discovers the rich culture of the Iroquois from their festivals, religion, education, work, and beliefs.
If you traveled west in a covered wagon would you ride in the wagon for the whole trip? How would you cross rivers when there were no bridges? Without road signs, how would you know where you were?
This book takes you to San Francisco, California, shortly before, during, and after April 18, 1906. What would you have done when the quake struck?
Drawing from interviews with survivors and from meticulous research, a stirring chronicle of the bravery and dedication of the Danish Resistance during World War II discusses how many of Denmark's Jews were saved from the Holocaust.
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist. Henry "Box" Brown doesn't know how old he is. Nobody keeps records of slaves' birthdays. All the time he dreams about freedom, but that dream seems farther away than ever when he is torn from his family and put to work in a warehouse. H…
When her family moves to New York from Hong Kong, Mei Mei finds it difficult to learn the alien sounds of English.