Amazon.com description: Product Description: Life in colonial America was very different from life today. Readers will gain insight to past daily life as they learn about a colonial schoolteacher, printer, wigmaker, blacksmith, innkeeper, and soldier. The main character in each volume is a real person who worked at the given trade in the colonial period of Americas history. The graphic format will help readers visualize what colonial trades and industries were like and what some of the details of daily living were. An introduction, brief biographies of the main characters, and a timeline are all features that will build reader understanding of colonial American history.