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ISBN 0-8225-1275-0 96 pages, with illustrations, maps, bibliography, websites and further reading, and index.
ISBN 0-8225-0078-7
64 pages, with illustrations, maps, activities, source notes, bibliography, further reading, and index.
ISBN 0-8225-0078-7 activities, source notes, bibliography, further reading and websites, and index.
When the Mayflower landed in the New World after months at sea, many of its brave passengers were children. Some traveled with parents. Others were alone. All of them face a harsh life in the unfamiliar American wilderness.
How did it feel to cross an ocean in search of a new life? What was life like for native children when their tribes made friends - or clashed - with the newcomers? Journey back in time to discover how "dutiful" children worked, played, and learned during this dangerous and adventuresome time.
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 Declaring Independence illuminates the struggles of loyalists and patriots, men and women, African Americans and Native Americans during the tumultuous years 1763 to 1783.
 | | "Touching on both everyday life and important events before, during and after the | | | Revolutionary War, this well-written history provides general information, but more interesting are the quotes from King George, governors, and lay people who played pivotal roles" The Horn Book Guide, Jan-June 2005
|  | | "A revealing look at the ideas that pushed the revolution forward . . ." School Library | | | Journal Curriculum Connections, Spring 2006
|  | | Bank Street College Children's Book Committee Best Children's Book of the Year | | | List.
|  | | Named a NY Public Library Book for the Teen Age 2006.
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ISBN 0-8225-1275-0
112 pages, with illustrations, maps, bibliography, source notes, websites and further reading, places to visit, and index.
  In Dressed For the Occasion, author Brandon Marie Miller traces the often surprising and always revealing story of American fashion. Drawing on period diaries, letters, advertisements, and other sources, she takes you from fashion's beginnings in the New World to the 1960 retro look.
 | | "An excellent overview. . . .Interesting tidbits, such as what was under those hoop | | | skirts, enliven the presentation." -- School Library Journal starred review
|  | | "While Miller supplies a gold mine of intriguing trivia. . .still more impressive is her | | | ability to compact so broad a topic into so cogent and smoothly written a narrative." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
|  | | ". . . full of nifty facts. . .Entertaining, fascinating, and replete with captivating bits." -- | | | Booklist
|  | | Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the | | | Year
|  | | VOYA Nonfiction Honor List
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ISBN 0-8225-1738-8
96 pages, with illustrations, bibliography, and index.
Women of the Frontier [Ages 12 and up. 246 pages, 40 photographs. Bibliography, source notes, index. Chicago Review Press. ISBN: 978-1-883052-97-3]
Using journal entries and letters home, Miller lets the women speak for themselves in tales of courage, enduring spirit and adventure. Women of the Frontier also recounts the impact pioneers had on those who already lived in the west. As white settlers gobbled up the lands of Native Americans and people of Spanish descent, the clash of cultures brought pain to many. The heart-rending stories of cousins Rachel Plummer and Cynthia Ann Parker, captured by the Comanche, ended in very different ways . . . read more
Women of Colonial America,13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World [Ages 12 and up. 236 pages, Bibliography, source notes, index. Chicago Review Press. ISBN: 978-1556524875]
In colonial America, hard work proved a constant for most women - some ensured their family's survival through their skills, while others sold their labor or lived in bondage as indentured servants or slaves. Yet even in a world defined entirely by men, a world where few thought it important to record a female's thoughts, women found ways to step forth. Elizabeth Ashbridge survived an abusive indenture to become a Quaker preacher. Anne Bradstreet penned her poems while raising eight children in the wilderness. . . . read more
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