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Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2013-02-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0545537754 |
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When a 10-foot tall purported "petrified man" is unearthed from a backyard in upstate New York in 1869, the discovery immediately turns into a spectacle of epic proportions. News of the giant spreads like wildfire, and well over a thousand people come to view him in the first five days alone!Everyone has their own idea of his true origin: Is he an ancient member of the local Onandaga Indian tribe? Is he a biblical giant like Goliath? Soon the interests of world-renowned scientists and people from around the globe are piqued as arguments flare over who he is, where he came from, and if he is real--or just a hoax. In a riveting account of how the Cardiff Giant mystery snowballed into one of America’s biggest money-making spectacles--and scams--Jim Murphy masterfully explores the power of 19th-century media and the unexpected ripple effect that a single corrupt mastermind can produce when given a stage.
Author | : Candace Fleming |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1596437634 |
Download Presenting Buffalo Bill Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't do. Was he a Pony Express rider? Did he serve Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn? Did he scalp countless Native Americans, or did he defend their rights? This, the first significant biography of Buffalo Bill Cody for younger readers in many years, explains it all. With copious archival illustrations and a handsome design, Presenting Buffalo Bill makes the great showman come alive for new generations. Extensive back matter, bibliography, and source notes complete the package. This title has Common Core connections.
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2016-08-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1338113534 |
Download The Great Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history. Overnight, the flourshing city of Chicago was transformed into a smoldering wasteland. The damage was so profound that few people believed the city could ever rise again.By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, Jim Murphy constructs a riveting narrative that recreates the event with drama and immediacy. And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest dispair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again.
Author | : Bridget Heos |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547681267 |
Download Stronger Than Steel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An introduction to the field of genetics through the story of Randy Lewis and his work with golden orb weaver spiders and his subsequent creation of artificial spider silk that can be used to save and improve lives. Full color.
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780395559659 |
Download The Long Road to Gettysburg Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Describes the events of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 as seen through the eyes of two actual participants, nineteen-year-old Confederate lieutenant John Dooley and seventeen-year-old Union soldier Thomas Galway. Also discusses Lincoln's famous speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg.
Author | : Herbert George Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Download The New Machiavelli Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Jennifer Bromann-Bender |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2013-12-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0810888092 |
Download Booktalking Nonfiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described. Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that. Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.
Author | : Sally M. Walker |
Publisher | : Carolrhoda Books ® |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1467737291 |
Download Their Skeletons Speak Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton? Within weeks, scientific testing yielded astonishing news: the bones were more than 9,000 years old! The skeleton instantly escalated from interesting to extraordinary. He was an individual who could provide firsthand evidence about the arrival of humans in North America. The bones found scattered in the mud acquired a name: Kennewick Man. Authors Sally M. Walker and Douglas W. Owsley take you through the painstaking process of how scientists determined who Kennewick Man was and what his life was like. New research, never-before-seen photos of Kennewick Man's remains, and a lifelike facial reconstruction will introduce you to one of North America's earliest residents. But the story doesn't end there. Walker and Owsley also introduce you to a handful of other Paleoamerican skeletons, exploring their commonalities with Kennewick Man. Together, their voices form a chorus to tell the complex tale of how humans came to North America—if we will only listen.
Author | : Ernest J. Gaines |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2004-01-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400077702 |
Download A Lesson Before Dying Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting. "An instant classic." —Chicago Tribune A “majestic, moving novel...an instant classic, a book that will be read, discussed and taught beyond the rest of our lives" (Chicago Tribune), from the critically acclaimed author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. "A Lesson Before Dying reconfirms Ernest J. Gaines's position as an important American writer." —Boston Globe "Enormously moving.... Gaines unerringly evokes the place and time about which he writes." —Los Angeles Times “A quietly moving novel [that] takes us back to a place we've been before to impart a lesson for living.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Author | : Jim Murphy |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0545365279 |
Download Truce Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two-time Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy writes a stunning nonfiction masterpiece about a Christmas miracle on the Western Front during World War I. On July 29th 1914, the world's peace was shattered as the artillery of the Austria-Hungary Empire began shelling the troops of the country to its south. What followed was like a row of falling dominoes as one European country after another rushed into war. Soon most of Europe was fighting in this calamitous war that could have been avoided. This was, of course, the First World War. But who could have guessed that on December 25 the troops would openly defy their commanding officers by stopping the fighting and having a spontaneous celebration of Christmas with their "enemies"? In what can only be described as a Christmas Miracle, this beautiful and heartrending narrative will remind everyone how brotherhood and love for one another reaches far beyond war and politics.