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Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West
Candace Fleming - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Print book
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Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights?This, the first significant... |
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Who Was Christopher Columbus?
Bonnie Bader - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Hardcover
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Learn all about Christopher Columbus early life at sea, which led him to seek fortune by sailing west in hopes of creating new trade routes with the Indies. Kids will read about why he called himself the "Great Admirald of the Seas" and learn of his struggles to find financial... |
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Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe"
Peggy Caravantes - Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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In 1921, four men ventured into the Arctic for a top-secret expedition: an attempt to claim uninhabited Wrangel Island in northern Siberia for Great Britain. With the men was a young Inuit woman named Ada Blackjack, who had signed on as cook and seamstress to earn money to care for her sick... |
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Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Steve Sheinkin - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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"Sheinkin has made a career of finding extraordinary stories in American history." -- The New York Times Book ReviewUndefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team is an astonishing underdog sports story -- and more. It's an unflinching look... |
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
Candace Fleming - Schwartz & Wade
Format: Library Binding
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From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth... |
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Who Was Sitting Bull?
Stephanie Spinner - Grosset & Dunlap
Format: Paperback
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No one knew the boy they called ""Jumping Badger"" would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of the Lakota Sioux tribe in a time of fierce conflict with the United... |
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Who Was Juliette Gordon Low?
Dana Meachen Rau - Penguin Workshop
Format: Book
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?Born in 1860 in Savannah, Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low grew up having the finest clothes and education. She was expected to be a prim and proper lady, but "Crazy Daisy"--as she was nicknamed by her friends and family--preferred to climb trees, ride horses, and hike. She also... |
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Who Was Davy Crockett?
Gail Herman - Grosset & Dunlap, an Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Format: Print book
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"Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier, is a man of legend. He is said to have killed his first bear when he was three years old. His smile alone killed another, and he skinned a bear by forcing him to run between two trees. Fact or fiction Find out the real story of this folk... |
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