America as Story

By Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Rosemary K. Coffey

Book Overview

Through carefully selected tales, this text helps students identify with the struggles and triumphs of young people building a sod house on the Nebraska prairie, following the North Star with a bold band of escaped slaves, or travelling in steerage from rural Russia to urban America.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838907024
• ISBN13: 9780838907023
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A phenominal resource for teachers and YA librarians

I discovered this book quite by accident while weeding the reference collection of the public library in which I work. "Where do you keep the historical fiction?" and "Where can I find a historical fiction book about the [Civil War | Revolutionary War | French and Indian War | War of 1812 | Oregon Trail | original 13 colonies | etc. etc.]" are questions that come up nearly every day in my line of work. Until I found this book, I had to rely largely on memory from my own childhood or from classes I had taken in graduate school to make recommendations. This book is well organized, possessed of a useful index, and true to its task. Highly recommended for teachers, librarians, and parents alike.