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Olympic National Park, Washington State
This is a strictly secondary purchase for social studies programs where budgets are ample.
Mount Rainier
Gr 4 Up—While the factual content (flora and fauna, history) is hard to fault, the dry delivery is unlikely to appeal to younger students, and secondary students may well be able to come up with equally valid information online with less of a newsreel feel...
Cesar's Last Fast
Gr 9 Up—In the summer of 1988, Cesar Chavez, cofounder of the United Farm Workers union, undertook a water-only fast that would last for 36 days...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Gr 8 Up—Though slightly repetitious in a Dateline way (same photos shown multiple times), this thoughtful hour-long examination of the lives of Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known by their monikers Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is at once sad and cautionary...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Gr 9 Up—The tragic Romanovs, last imperial family of Russia, have long held tremendous fascination...
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Gr 9 Up—That the long and checkered history of racial injustice in the United States has produced a society in which racism is arguably ingrained, that the unconscious assumption of white privilege still exists, is not the main subject of this fine PBS series...
Castle
Gr 3–8—Macaulay's Cathedral (1973) and Castle (1977, both Houghton) were landmark titles for children, appealing to both those interested in history and architecture, as well as to some who found the pictures fascinating in and of themselves...
Drummer Boy of Company C: Coming of Age in the Civil War
Gr 6–9—In a book that is very much a labor of love, the author relates the experience of her grandfather, Almon Beneway, as a drummer boy and prisoner of war in the American Civil War...
Call of the Klondike: A True Gold Rush Adventure
Gr 8 Up—Stanley Pearce and Marshall Bond were adventurous young men in the summer of 1897 when they watched prospectors coming into Seattle from Canada's Northwest Territories...
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