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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the great Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889, when a dam failed and over two thousand people died, making this one of the worst peacetime disasters in the history of the United States.
63) The Erie Canal
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the importance of the Erie Canal, describing what transportation and shipment of goods was like before and after it was built and explaining how it was engineered and constructed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
200 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and made friends with Wampanoag people who gave them corn. RIGHT? WRONG! It was months before the Pilgrims met any Wampanoag people, and nobody gave anybody corn that day. Did you know that the pilgrims didn't go straight from England to Plymouth? No, they made a stop along the way--and almost stayed forever! Did you know there was a second ship, called the Speedwell, that was too leaky to make the trip?...
67) The Great Wall
Author
Publisher
Mikaya
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., maps ; 24 x 26cm.
Language
English
Description
The history of the first steam locomotive in the United States, the Stourbridge Lion. It was shipped from England and was used to connect the coalfields to a canal. It now is housed in the Wayne County Historical Society in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
170 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores how people's need to relieve themselves shaped human development from ancient times to the present and traces human civilization through changes in the technology, health effects, related occupations, and differing clothing.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
xii, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most notable players, teams, rivalries, and moments, from Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier to the home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Revised edition, American edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 x 36 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the development of one street from the Stone Age to the present day, from dirt track to the rebuilding of inns as wine bars, showing how people lived and what they did all day.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of firearms, from the invention of gunpowder to the development of cannons, muskets, rifles, and finally handguns and other modern firearms, and explains the different parts to a gun.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Go on a trip through the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art without ever leaving your home! Prepare to explore the treasures of the world's civilizations--from ancient Egyptian amulets, Mayan jewelry, and prehistoric tools--to Medieval tapestries, Renaissance suits of armor, and modern-day baseball cards. Each page brings you closer to the past as you learn about the people of different ages through the objects they left behind"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[1999 c1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unp col illus col maps
Language
English
Description
Provides an illustrated chronicle of the early nineteenth-century construction of the Erie Canal, a link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes that became crucial to America's development