History
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History
Changing Frontiers-Textbook
$71.99 Add to cartEarly settlers on America’s east coast encountered the frontier of a vast new land. Pioneers moved the frontier farther and farther west. Americans pushed into frontiers of exploration, invention, and technology. In this full color, hardcover, approximately 690-page text, students follow American history through the formation, growth, and struggle of the nation.
Sidebars and extra nuggets of fascinating information, along with “perspective boxes,” sharpen students’ understanding and view of history. Several study and discussion questions conclude each section in the textbook.
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Canadian Social Studies
Life in a Longhouse Village
$10.95 Add to cartThe people who lived in the northeastern woodlands belonged to many nations and spoke many languages ​​including Iroquoian and Algonkian. Life in a Longhouse Village was a way of life all of the nations shared. Children will learn about the fascinating lifestyle of these hunters and farmers and discover what life was like in a longhouse clan.
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Canadian Social Studies
The Canadians: Joseph Brant
$8.95 Add to cartJoseph Brant, the greatest Iroquois leader, was a powerful organizer of his own people and a loyal ally of the British colonial forces. Born in 1742, Brant gained his first battle experience at the age of thirteen, in the wars against the French. His loyalty to the British continued and by 1757 he had earned a commission as captain.
It was Brant who encouraged the Six Nations Confederacy to ally with the British against the French, and then against the rebelling American colonists. With the retreat of the British after the revolution, Brant and his people were forced to emigrate to a tract of land along the Grand River in Upper Canada. Here Brant began a new struggle against colonial domination and restrictive land regulations which was to continue until his death.
The biography presents Brant’s story as a focus for a broader issues of the time: the converging of two very different cultures, the expansion of settlement in the New World, and the violent struggles for colonial power.
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History
Iqbal
$10.95 Add to cartWhen young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused children there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master’s promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinitely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil … and is brave enough to show them how to get there.
This moving fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal’s courage. -
Canadian Social Studies
Discovering Canada: The Defenders
$14.95 Add to cartOn June 18, 1812, the Americans declared war on Britain and attacked the nearest British target, Canada. Although outnumbered ten to one, Canadian volunteers in the War of 1812 successfully defeated their homes and towns from the skilled American armies. Who were these defenders – the men and women who saved Canada? Where did they fight their battles? What weapons did they use?
Learn history and have fun!
- Learn how to tie knots
- Make a soldier’s hat
- Cook up a batch of 1812 chocolate fudge
- And much, much more
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Canadian Social Studies
I Am Canada: Brother’s in Arms
$14.95 Add to cartA riveting story of a pivotal battle in the Seven Years’ War that changed Canadian history forever.
Seventeen-year-old Sébastien de L’Espérance and his friend Guillaume have fought to keep the British from getting a foothold in ÃŽle Royale (now Cape Breton Island) ever since the young men came from France two years ago. Britain has blockaded Louisbourg, and supplies for the 4000 inhabitants are running short. Despite Louisbourg’s massive defences, if cut off from supplies provided by France, it cannot survive.
Both young men are members of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine. They are sent out on scouting missions that provide valuable information about the British troops — troops which outnumber the French three to one. When British warships arrive in force, Sébastien vows to defend the town, his friend Guillaume, and the woman he loves.
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History
Colonial Home
$10.95 Add to cartTake a nostalgic tour of the Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. Get a glimpse of the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber, and outbuildings. Tour a plantation and its slave quarters and find out how metal and bricks were made.
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History
Bartholomew’s Passage
$22.95 Add to cartBartholomew’s Passage® is an engaging story that guides families through the Advent season. Young Bartholomew’s adventures start when Roman soldiers destroy his village and disperse his family, continue through his enslavement to a tyrannical master and his escape with his new friend Nathan, and end with a reunion with his family in Bethlehem. Along the way Bartholomew makes a new friend, a young boy named Jotham! Paperback.
