Augustine The Farmer's Boy of Tagaste

Augustine was said; why was he beaten again today? He hated school even though he was always the first one to finish his lesson. Playing and fighting he loved very much. Would this boy ever become a bishop?

God King: A Story in the Days of King Hezekiah

"The Great God." he said, "has become one with his father. See the wand of succession. It has declared his choice." The priests, the warriors, the many wives and children, fell upon their knees. Taharka heard again the voice of the sun priest. "Taharka, child of the God, rise." Something cold and smooth was being pressed into his hands. It was the wand of the god. "Take possession of the land…

Abraham Lincoln

When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47 Abe Lincoln at Last! they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did United States fight the Civil War? It's time to be a Fact Tracker with Jack and Annie!

Weird but True! 300 Outrageous Facts From History

The creators of National Geographic kids, the nation's most popular kids' magazine, bring you 300 wacky facts about the olden days. Who knew that history could be so weird?

Hana's Suitcase

In March of 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in while paint, were these words:"Hana Brady" and "Waisenkind" - the German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Has Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, to find the answers.

Of Plymouth Plantation: Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement 1608-1650

Edition

Cet.12

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-9665233-3-1

Collation

353 hlm.; ilus. : 22 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

900 Bra p

Sergeant York and the Great War

There was a time that Sergeant Alvin C. York was a household name in America. Perhaps many of you recognize the name from the motion picture of Sergeant York as protrayed by Gary Cooper. Needless to say the movie won Cooper his first Oscar and gave Sergeant York even more notoriety, helping to retain his status as a true American hero.

The Boys and Girls Herodotus

Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus, 484 BC, and died at Thurium in Italy, about the year 425. As in the case of Plutarch, our knowledge of his personal history is very meagre, aside from the little we glean from his own writings. His parents, Lyxes and Rhoeo, appear to have been of high rank and consideration in Halicarnassus, and possessed of ample means; and his acquaintance both at home and…

Livy: The Early History of Rome

Livy dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early History of Rome. With stylistic brilliance, he chronicles nearly 400 years of history, from the founding of Rome to the Gallic invasion in 386 - an era that witnessed the reign of seven kings, the establishment of the Republic, civil strife and brutal conflict. Bringing compelling …

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh is the great epic of Mesopotamia, one of the oldest woks in Western literature, contemporary with the oldest parts of the Bible. It is the story of a legendary king who achieves heroic victories with the help of the wild man Enkidu; but when his friend dies, Gilgamesh goes in search of the way to escape death, a secret he can learn only from the one man who survived the Great Flood.