We were there, too! young people in U.S. history
Phillip Hoose.
- 1st ed.
- New York, NY Farrar Straus Giroux 2001
- vii, 264 p. ill., maps ; 26 cm.
"Melanie Kroupa books." Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Tierra!" When two worlds met.-- Strangers in paradise: the British Colonies.-- Breaking away: the American Revolution.-- Learning to be a nation.-- One nation or two? The Civil War.-- Elbow room: the West.-- Shifting gears in a new century.-- Hard times: wars, depression, and dust.-- Times that kept a-changin'.-- Linking up in the twenty-first century.
Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.
950L 10 - 14 years
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Children Biography --Anecdotes--Juvenile literature--United States Youth Biography --United States Children--Biography Youth--Biography