Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Did you know that Swedish settlers in New Jersey built the first log cabin in the United States? Or that New Jersey is home to the tallest water tower in the world? Discover more exciting facts about the history, geography, and symbols of this state in New Jersey, part of the Explore the U.S.A. series. Each book in the series uses vibrant images and engaging text to take beginning readers on a journey across the nation.
A reference guide to the United States, covering its history, culture, geography, population, and government, and showing differences between the states.
Presents the history of the international Save the Children organization, discussing its origin, mission, goals, and achievements and providing some related human interest stories.
Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
Discover America explores each state, district, and territory in the United States of America. From Alabama to Wyoming, this series features vivid images, informative charts, and detailed maps to guide readers through their nation. Each book explores geography, history, culture, and economics to illustrate the diversity of this unique country.
t 500,000 earthquakes happen every year around the world. Most earthquakes are too small for people to notice. Discover more about this feature of the natural world in Earthquakes, a title in the Focus on Earth Science series.
There are more than 1,500 active volcanoes around the world. Most of Earth’s active volcanoes are found in a region called the Ring of Fire. Discover more about this feature of the natural world in Volcanoes, a title in the Focus on Earth Science series.
Jennifer Lawrence is one of the youngest Oscar nominees for Best Leading Actress in Academy history. This engaging volume examines Lawrences career from its beginnings on "The Bill Engvall Show to her landing the starring role in the much-anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy. Accessible text explores the drive that fuels this talented young actress to rise to new challenges.
Part memoir, part dance history and ethnography, this critical study explores ballet's power to inspire and to embody ideas about politics, race, women's agency, and spiritual experience. The author knows that dance relates to life in powerful individual and communal ways, reflecting culture and embodying new ideas. Although ballet can appear (and sometimes is) elite and exclusionary, it also has revolutionary potential.
Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].
New Jersey, the fifth-largest wine-producing state in the country, has been making wine since 1864. While perhaps not as well known as other wine-producing states, New Jersey is home to many premier varieties. Award-winning chardonnay, syrah, marechal foch, viognier, traminette, merlot, cabernet, and dozens of others are produced in the state. Particularly unique to New Jersey wineries is an array of fruit wines, such as raspberry, cherry, and blueberry, which are exported all over the world. Because of the climate and conditions of the state, New Jersey wines are most often compared by viticulturists and enologists to the wines of France and Italy. From Cape May County up to the northernmost tip of Sussex County, New Jersey wineries offer more than 200 varieties of wine.
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