Michael, a young 21st century boy, travels back in time to the first settlement in Delaware, the first state. There he learns the story of Zwaanendael from a Dutch survivor of the massacre and from a young Lenape brave. It is a story of cultural misunderstanding that helped shape young America.

Zwaanendael: Valley of the Swans

Maxson, H. A.

Young, Claudia H.

Bay Oak Publishers LTD

<p>Lenapehoking: Land of the Delawares offers a glimpse of a day-in-the-life of a Lenni Lenape village at the beginning of the contact period--ca. 1631. A 21st century boy and girl--Michael and Emily--travel back in time to learn about the people who lived in North America for 12,000 years before the coming of the Europeans.</p>

Lenapehoking: Land of the Delawares

Lenapehoking: Resource Guide

21st Century children, Michael and Emily, time travel back to Delaware's Fort Christina. They meet another 21st century traveler, Samuel, and together the three encounter Antoni, the first African in Delaware, and learn the history of the first Swedish settlement established by famed adventurer/politician Peter Minuit.

Antoni: African at New Sweden

Meet the Kalmar Nyckel and her crew, the ship that made more passages between Sweden and America in the 17th century than any other ship. Learn the story of Fort Christina along with time travelers Michael and Emily. Delaware's history comes alive as young readers take a Magical History Tour of the early colony.

The Kalmar Nyckel and Fort Christina

Coordinated to The Kalmar Nyckel and Fort Christina, this Resource Guide offers comprehension and writing activities to assist teachers in integrating social studies across the curriculum. Skills targeted include reading comprehension, figurative language, expressive writing, and mapping. Extension activities as well as field trip and website information are also included.

The Kalmar Nyckel: Resource Guide

<p>Young readers can witness William Penn take possession of the "lower three counties" of Pennsylvania (Delaware) along with young time travelers Michael, Emily and Samuel. The year 1682 comes to life in this Magical History Tour of Delaware's important early days.</p>

William Penn and the Lower Three Counties

Coordinated to William Penn and the Lower Three Counties, this Resource Guide offers comprehension and writing activities to assist teachers in integrating social studies across the curriculum. Skills targeted include reading comprehension, expressive writing, researching, and synthesizing information. Extension activities as well as field trip and website information are also included.

William Penn: Resource Guide

The year 1816 in Delaware and surrounding states was known as the year without a summer” due to debris from the eruption of Mt. Tambora that tainted most of the Northern hemisphere with chill and darkness. This time of chill and darkness provides the setting for this ambitious tale of people divided by the institution of slavery, ignorance, greed and social isolation and the triumph of a few people of character over impossible odds. Historians H.A. Maxson and Claudia H. Young bring alive this little known time and place in America. Their collaboration results in a memorable tale of loyalty and betrayal, compassion and cruelty, and of dauntless courage and creativity. Comfort is a talented young seamstress who has worked to buy her freedom from slavery from her benevolent owner, an Irish immigrant and former indentured servant. Her husband Cuff is an unwise, irresponsible and weak man who sells his wife to pay his gambling debt. When Comfort falls into the hands of the reprehensible dealer of human flesh Joe Johnson, she is sold south to Virginia, to a cruel master and poor manager. Comfort’s stalwart friend Esther, is a slave whose skin is pale enough for her to pass as white. Esther possesses an extensive knowledge of Roots”, the native art of using plants for therapeutic and not-so-therapeutic purposes. Esther pairs with Pompey, a mute freed slave who is clever and resourceful, to escape her sadistic owner, travel south to find Comfort and help her find her way back to freedom and her baby girl. Comfort tells the story of how shared morality and character can lead to unlikely partnerships in intrepid heroism. This extraordinary work by veteran authors sets a new standard for interpretation of the reverse underground railroad.        

Comfort: A Novel of the Reverse Underground Railroad

Literature & Fiction

United States

Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc

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