HYACINTHS AND BISCUITS by Kristine K. Lowder - A collection of 27 original poems reflecting themes of family, faith, loss, defeat, and hope. Titles include How Well, Peter Pan, Boys!, Mirage, Big Blue, Autumn Encore, Toto Too, Nathan's Nocturne, little one, Josiah's Psalm and Knuckle White. 80 pages - $6.49
BIRTH OF THE REPUBLIC by Alden Carter
Washington and the Continental Army won a decisive victory at Yorktown.Yet what would independence mean? Could so many people living in such a vast land really govern themselves? Many doubted, but the writing of the Constitution provided a resounding affirmation of “the Glorious Cause.”
COLONIES IN REVOLT by Alden Carter
Excerpt: “Many in the crowd on the Boston street were boys not yet in their teens. They shouted, cursed, and pitched rocks and snowballs against the house of the man accused of informing for the hated British customs service. Windows shattered, rocks splintered walls and furniture. Then a musket barrel flamed from a window, and the crowd fell back in panic as the sound of a gunshot echoed down the street.
AT THE FORGE OF LIBERTY by Alden Carter
The Continental Army suffered defeats, brutal marches, and cruel winters. Baron von Steuben told Washington that no European army could have survived. Yet, survive it did to triumph in one of the remarkable campaigns in history.
DARKEST HOURS by Alden Carter
For two terrible years, the American Revolution seemed doomed. Only the determination of Washington and the endurance of his soldiers kept the Cause alive. On Christmas 1776, they would gamble everything and win undying glory.
LAST STAND AT THE ALAMO by Alden Carter
The story of the Alamo has been told and retold in books and films so many times that the truth is often difficult to distinguish beneath the layers of dramatic license. Alden Carter’s Last Stand at the Alamo strips away the myth to recount the events as they really happened. At last a good explanation for young people of how and why 183 Texans and many times their number of Mexican soldiers died fighting over a tumbledown mission in a dusty corner of Texas.
THE CIVIL WAR: AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Alden Carter - Examines the war that cost more than 500,000 lives, from the Battle of First Bull Run to the final surrender of the Confederate Army in 1865.
THE SHOSHONI by Alden Carter - Come into the lives of these hardy desert people, whose exquisite adaptation to a rugged environment provides a lesson for us all.
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG by Alden Carter - For three days in early July 1863, the hills around the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg thundered with the sound of battle. The titanic Battle of Gettysburg would change the course of the Civil War and American history. Alden Carter's stirring account of the greatest battle ever fought on American soil--long been a standard in children's literature--is now available as an e-book on CD or download.
BATTLE OF THE IRONCLADS by Alden Carter - In the spring of 1862, two strange vessels battled on the waters of Hampton Roads, Virginia. On the shores spectators watched as the C.S.S. Virginia (known popularly as the Merrimack) slugged it out with the U.S.S. Monitor in the first battle of ironclad warships. Both ships would survive the fight, neither would be afloat a year later. Yet, the thunderous clash on this sunny March morning would change world history.
THE MEXICAN WAR: MANIFEST DESTINY by Alden Carter - Grade 4-8-- Carter clearly describes the various campaigns of The Mexican War . All of the books have decent maps that help readers to keep the places and events straight. Illustrations, mainly full-color reproductions of paintings, are plentiful, with one or two per double-page spread. Report writers will find plenty of well-organized, attractively presented information. Theodore Roosevelt's personality comes through well in The Spanish-American War. Carter's books help to fill gaps in many history collections. --Steven Engelfried, Alameda County Library, CA
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