In the Great American Documents series, the teacher and graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and the renowned illustrator Ernie Colón tell the story of the United States through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.
The Great American Documents: Volume 1 introduces as series narrator none other than Uncle Sam, who walks us through twenty essential documents bookended by the Mayflower Compact in 1620 and the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Each document gets a chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains its key passages, its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter "The Maryland Toleration Act," we learn that this document was one of the first blueprints for modern religious tolerance. "Common Sense" depicts the Boston Tea Party and the British response as the prelude to Paine's stirring pamphlet. And "The Louisiana Purchase" closes with Lewis and Clark setting off to map Jefferson's "empire of liberty." 
As Ashby and Colón show, the creation of that empire resulted in immense prosperity but also meant the extension of slavery and the forcible removal of the Native Americans. Their balanced and teachable theme is that these twenty documents reveal our early struggles to live up to the principles of liberty and equality. This graphic primer is an indispensable resource for students and anyone else who wants the facts of American history close at hand.

The Great American Documents: Volume I: 1620-1830 (The Great American Documents, 1)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ashby, Ruth

Graphic Novels

Hill and Wang

The Great American Documents: Volume II: 1831-1900 (The Great American Documents, 2)

The essential primer on the most influential American documents between 1831 and 1900 The Great American Documents series, written by the graphic-book author Ruth Ashby and illustrated by the renowned Ernie Colón, tells the history of America through the major speeches, laws, proclamations, court decisions, and essays that shaped it.
The second volume begins where the first left off. Uncle Sam returns to take us through numerous major documents, ranging from the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico in 1836 to Jacob Riis’s seminal exposé of slum life in New York City, How the Other Half Lives, published in 1900. Each document gets its own chapter, in which Uncle Sam explains not only its key passages but its origins, how it came to be written, and its impact. In the chapter “The Compromise of 1850” we learn how westward expansion forced the federal government to confront the expansion of slavery. “The Emancipation Proclamation” places Abraham Lincoln’s famous decree within the context of the ongoing Civil War. And “The Chinese Exclusion Act” depicts the unique discrimination faced by Chinese immigrants and shows how that 1882 law presaged the restrictive policies and quotas established in the early twentieth century. 
As Ashby shows, the growth and expansion of the United States through the nineteenth century forced the nation to reckon with and confront many of its original injustices, plunging the country into the Civil War and emerging into new challenges as it rose to become a world power. A handy and elegantly concise guide, this masterfully illustrated volume is the perfect book for students of American history, young and old.

Explore the dense jungles of prehistory with young paleontologist Ally Hayden as she journeys to the time when pteradons soared through the skies and the Tyrannosaurus rex reigned over the land. Based on the record-breaking Imax movie, T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous combines history, adventure, and science. It's a book to spur the imagination with its incredible, lifelike photos from the Imax film. This deluxe paper-over-board book features an eye-catching lenticular picture of a T-Rex in awesome 3-D detail on the cover.Take part in the thrill of The Imax Experience "RM" !

T-rex: Back To The Cretaceous, An I Max Book

Children's Books

Animals

Scholastic. Inc.

Readers travel back in time in search of King Arthur and must make decisions that will either make the mission successful or leave the reader trapped in Britain's Dark Ages

Quest for King Arthur (Time Machine #23)

Literature & Fiction

Starfire

MY FAVORITE DINOSAURS presents a child's world of all the classic dinosaurs from Tyrannosaurus Rex to Hadrosaurs along with dramatic new finds in John Sibbick's world-famous style. Simple text and design make the ideal 'first' dinosaur book for readers ages 3-6.

My Favorite Dinosaurs

Milk & Cookies

An introduction to sea otters, aquatic mammals that live in the north Pacific and rarely come to land

Jane Goodall's Animal World: Sea Otters

Atheneum

An introduction to tigers, beautiful solitary creatures of the Asian continent.

Tigers (Jane Goodall's animal world)

Sea Otters (Jane Goodall's Animal World)

Aladdin Paperbacks

In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 1940, when the Germans invaded the Netherlands, the Frank family once again feared for their lives. Like tens of thousands of Dutch Jews, the Franks went into hiding. They lived in several hidden rooms -- known as the "Secret Annex" -- above Mr. Frank's office building. It was there that Anne wrote her now-famous diary. The Franks lived in hiding for two years before they were discovered and sent to Auschwitz, the most well-known and feared concentration camp. Anne Frank gave a human face to the victims of the Holocaust and a courageous voice to all those who were silenced. Though Anne Frank only lived to the age of fifteen, her inspirational childhood is perhaps the best known in history.

Anne Frank: Anne Frank (Childhood of World Figures)

Biographies

Aladdin

This appealing series presents historically important cultures from the past ranging from the well-known ancient Greeks to the lesser-known Kingdom of Kush. Each volume examines both the political and the cultural history of an ancient culture.

Elizabethan England (Cultures of the Past)

History

Cavendish Square Publishing

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