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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 FRIStein, R. Conrad.
Summary: A brief biography of the two famous bicycle makers from Dayton, Ohio, focusing on their efforts to build and fly an airplane, starting with kites and gliders.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Childrens Press 1981
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WRIGHT STEFriedman, 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 FRIMcNeese, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 975.502 BENBenoit, Peter
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: 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 Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.404 BENCopies 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 STEGregory, Josh.
Summary: Describes the history, battles, and major players of the first world war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2012