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Cornerstones of freedomBenoit, Peter
Summary: Describes the history of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space BenoitFriedman, Mel
Summary: Discusses how the United States gained ownership of the Oregon Territory, who discovered the best routes west, and the obstacles pioneers faced on their journeys along the Oregon Trail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 FRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.02 FRIFriedman, Mel
Summary: Traces the history of the Oregon Trail and describes the hardships faced by the settlers who followed it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 917.804 FRIGregory, Josh.
Summary: Presents an overview of the French Revolution, including the causes of the conflict, the battles fought and executions held during the war, and the war's effects on French politics and society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.04 GRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 944.04 GREMcNeese, Tim.
Summary: Recounts events surrounding the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the first shuttle to carry a civilian passenger, and discusses the impact of this disaster on the United States space program.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 MCNBenoit, Peter
Summary: Examines the history of nuclear fission and its role in weaponry and as an energy source.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.0217 BENBurgan, Michael.
Summary: Presents a brief history of African-Americans and of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.0496 BURMcDaniel, Melissa
Summary: Learn about the Great Depression, from its roots in the economic boom of the 1920s to its conclusion during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.916 MCDBenoit, Peter
Summary: Describes the rocky and often deadly beginnings of the English colony of Jamestown in the early 1600s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.502 BENCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5425 BENBenoit, Peter
Summary: This book will tell you why people wanted the Panama Canal to be built and what difficulties were faced in the construction of the canal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.875 BENJango-Cohen, Judith.
Summary: Follows the history of Ellis Island from when Congress chose it as the site for New York's federal immigration station till its closing in 1950 and eventual opening as a museum in 1990.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 325.73 JANJanuary, Brendan
Summary: Recounts the story of John Brown's failed rebellion in Harpers Ferry in 1859, intended to start a massive slave uprising in the South and the establishment of a state in the Allegheny Mountains for freed slaves.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 JANJanuary, Brendan
Summary: A history of Reconstruction, the period after the Civil War during which programs were implemented to bring the Confederate States back to the Union.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.8 JANBenoit, Peter
Summary: Discusses the details of the California Gold Rush, from the miner's daily lives to the methods they used to pan for gold.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.404 BENStein, R. Conrad.
Summary: An account of the early nineteenth-century construction of the 363-mile canal connecting Albany and Buffalo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 386.48 STEBenoit, Peter
Summary: Describes the rocky and often deadly beginnings of the English colony of Jamestown in the early 1600s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
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Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENCunningham, Kevin
Summary: Discusses this pivotal event in the lead-up to the American colonies' break with Great Britain and the tense atmosphere in Boston due to various new laws and impositions on the colonists by England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3115 CUNMcDaniel, Melissa
Summary: Learn about the Great Depression, from its roots in the economic boom of the 1920s to its conclusion during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.916 MCDBenoit, Peter
Summary: Read about the variety of governments that lead different countries and learn how they have shaped our world today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014