Product Description: We're taking field trips to new heights with a hot air balloon ride to explore New York City. Join the class and drop into this exciting US city to learn about its history, architecture, sports teams, places to visit, and more.

The Civil Rights Movement was an organized protest by Black Americans against their government and the refusal to obey unjust laws during the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. This important book details the evidence in the decades before the movement that led up to the protests: black Americans were denied the right to vote, work, and become citizens. Readers will learn how prejudice and circumstances at the time of an event can influence people's interpretation of evidence.

Product Description: Introduces the history of Ellis Island as an American immigration port during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and describes how the island is used as a monument and museum today.Title: Ellis IslandAuthor: Staton, HilariePublisher: Facts on FilePublication Date: 2009/10/01Number of Pages: 48Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 200901206...read more

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Product Description: Provides an introduction to the Statue of Liberty, including the history of its creation and its importance as a national symbol.Title: The Statue of LibertyAuthor: Staton, HilariePublisher: Facts on FilePublication Date: 2009/09/01Number of Pages: 48Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 200900785...read more

Readers can follow the action as it unfolded in a series of narrated books that brings to life major events from history through first-hand accounts, quotes from participants, diagrams, photographs, and timelines.

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Product Description: "More than 80 illustrated activities develop the logical thinking skills students need to express themselves as they learn sequencing, observing, comparing, classifying, imagining, and evaluating."

Product Description: By Hilarie N. Staton. More than 80 classroom-tested activities strengthen vital thinking and writing skills through multiple exercises. Each lesson begins with the introduction of a concept and some brainstorming and/or prewriting, followed by a writing assignment...read more