Marcia Amidon Lusted
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In The Great Depression: Experience the 1930s From the Dust Bowl to the New Deal, readers ages 12 to 15 investigate the causes, duration, and outcome of the Great Depression, the period of time when more than 20 percent of Americans were unemployed. They discover how people coped, what new inventions came about, and how the economics of the country affected the arts, sciences, and politics of the times. The decade saw the inauguration of
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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! You may know that the U.K. pop group One Direction broke records when it hit the U.S. music scene. The singers' album Up All Night debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard charts. But did you know that: the stars didn't know each other before getting their big break on The X Factor with Simon Cowell? the band needed ...
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An introduction to America's colonization and settlement, describing what it was like to be one of the first settlers in Smithtown or Jamestown, how the towns were governed, what trades were practiced, how people dressed, played, socialized, and prayed, and where the original settlers came from.
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This title examines an important historic event - the women's suffrage movement. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the history of women's rights and the League of Women Voters, the roles the antislavery movement, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and literature played in the movement, well-known figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul, and the effects of this event on society. Features include...
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Gluten-Free and Other Special Diets helps readers trace the history of special diets, explore the science and—sometimes— diseases behind them, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint. The title will engage readers on the topic and help them to weigh the pros and cons as they make their own food decisions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division...
8) Banned books
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Examines the history of book banning and explores why some people might want to censor certain books.
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"As the first fighters into battle, U.S. Army Rangers are skilled in outdoor survival, leading raids against the enemy, and defending key territory. With extensive training, Rangers learn to drop into combat zones by rappelling down cliffs and parachuting from planes and helicopters. Find out how Rangers surprise enemy forces, sacrificing their safety to lead the way for larger U.S. Army forces to enter battle."--Back cover.