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A Woman in the House (and Senate): How Women Came to the United States Congress, Broke Down Barriers, and Changed the Country
Gr 6–10—This volume begins with a profile of the first woman to serve in Congress, Representative Jeannette Rankin, elected in 1916...
Boundaries: How the Mason-Dixon Line Settled a Family Feud and Divided a Nation
Gr 9 Up—With her book title reflecting both theme and structure, Walker begins with the English religious boundaries that drove the Catholic Calvert family and Quaker William Penn to seek religious freedom in their respective New World colonies of Maryland and Pennsylvania...
The Story of Hip-Hop
Gr 6–9—Music fans will relish these overviews of the origins and histories of contemporary styles...
Technology in Ancient China
Gr 4–7—These attractive books open with brief introductions to each culture and its technological background, followed by spreads that discuss how it developed or adopted technology that improved farming, architecture, transportation, communications, science and medicine, and more...
Into the West: Causes and Effects of US Westward Expansion
Gr 4–6—These well-organized, clearly written books share a format with an introduction followed by a chapter that describes the causes of the topic in numbered sections...
Mount Everest
Gr 5–8—Both of these text-heavy volumes include information on the geology, ecology, and native cultures of their mountains, but Olympus emphasizes its storied history as the home of the Greek gods and mythical center of Greek culture...
Ancient Roman Culture
Gr 3–6—Large, full-color photos of Roman art, architecture, and artifacts are the strongest elements of these introductions...
The Challenger Explosion
Gr 5–8—These chronologically arranged accounts of major world disasters begin with background information followed by a summary of events and analysis of how each event resulted in technological or regulatory changes to prevent or mitigate the effects of similar happenings in the future...
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