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Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Pub
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a student who explores this time in U.S. history with a research team for a documentary. Examines the country's beginnings to 1620, a period when the three worlds of Europe, North America, and Africa intersected. Details the major events that defined American history during this period, and features full-color photographs and illustrations, sidebars, activities, a glossary, and further reading sources.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of the Boston Tea Party as a political protest that sparked the American Revolution. Includes a graph, a diagram, a glossary, and resources for further information.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Explores the weapons and battle tactics of Native Americans and European colonists from America's colonial period and its several wars, including Bacon's Rebellion, the French and Indian War, and the Pequot War.
Author
Publication Date
1995
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An oppressed young man longing for a better life must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for true freedom—a “gripping” (Chicago Tribune) novel from the award-winning author of The Pillars of the Earth.
“An altogether entertaining reading experience.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of...
“An altogether entertaining reading experience.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Examines a number of gross and highly unsanitary jobs people had to do in colonial America, such as black slaves being forced to dye clothes with messy indigo and to work grueling hours picking cotton, to hatters using poisonous mercury to create their hats.
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Publication Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Takes readers on a journey in U.S. history from 1585-1763, the period of North America's colonization and settlement. Details the major events that defined American history during this period and features full-color photographs, illustrations, a glossary, and further reading sources.
12) Colonial cooking
Author
Publication Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discusses everyday life, family roles, cooking methods, most important foods, and celebrations of the colonial period in American history. Includes recipes and sidebars.
15) The vaster wilds
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
16) Jubal Sackett
Author
Publication Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of this great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Kindred spirits on a restless quest ... Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and its leader, Itchakomi. It...
Author
Publication Date
1927
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A new textbook edition of the classic, with an integrated study guide. Additional text includes a historical introduction, author biography and chronology, explanatory illustrations and notes, glossary, footnotes, and a plot analysis. Several sections of review questions are included throughout, as are marginal questions intended to help the student understand the work. Several writing and project suggestions are included in the end materials.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Publication Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
Explores what it meant to go to school or to work in colonial America, when elementary students learned ship navigation and doctors needed no college degree to practice medicine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
1993
Language
English
Description
"How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nation? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle for the freedom of the press. Or maybe the French and Indian War did it, when colonists were called "Americans" for the first time by the English, and the great English army proved itself not so formidable after all. But for sure when King George III started levying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"People are coming to America--all kinds of people. 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 with its own story. Meet Pocahontas and John Smith in Jamestown. Join William Penn and the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Sit with the judges at the Salem witch trials. Hike...