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Author
Series
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
'Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody--not really' When a scrawny, freckled girl with bright red hair arrives on Prince Edward Island, Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are taken by surprise; they'd asked the orphanage for a quiet boy to help with the farmwork at Green Gables. But how can you reject a child like an unwanted parcel, especially when she tells you her life so far has been...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations, color map
Language
English
Description
In T is for Territories: A Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut Alphabet, acclaimed storyteller Michael Kusugak gives an A-Z tour of Canada's three territories, the northern region of the country that is a giant in size, history, and culture. Young readers can kick up their heels at the Arctic Winter Games with sports such as the one-foot high-kick, listen to world-renowned storytellers at Whitehorse's International Storytelling Festival, or...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"In this newly revised edition of The Gristmill, young readers will discover that people would travel from far and wide to visit the gristmill for the essential service of having their grain ground. Find out how the miller produced flour, the staple of life, as well as what jobs the miller did, what made the grinding stones turn, and how wheat becomes bread."--
Author
Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Angus MacAskill was still just a boy, he began to grow...and grow...and grow! Known far and wide as the Cape Breton Giant, Angus was loved by his neighbours as much for his beautiful singing voice as for his renowned strength. But as much as Angus loved his little town of St. Ann's, Cape Breton, he decided to leave and seek fortune and adventure. With heartfelt text from critically acclaimed author Tom Ryan and meticulously researched and joyful...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"In this newly revised edition of Colonial Life, young readers will meet the hardworking people of a colonial community, learn about the importance of family members, and discover the roles that religion and education played in people's lives more than two hundred years ago. They will also learn about: how people traveled from place to place; how adults and children; how a plantation was run, and the impact of the slave trade."--
Author
Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"In this newly revised edition, John and his sister Emily live with their family in a farming community. After rising at sun-up to do their chores on the farm and in the household, John and Emily's day begins with a long walk to the one-room school. A Child's Day also describes: reading and ciphering, "making their manners," the different expectations boys and girls had for their future, children's books, toys, and games."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition describes how children in an early community were expected to help out with chores at home and had little time to play. But recess time at school gave children the opportunity to play Schoolyard Games. Colorful illustrations help explain early versions of: skipping, hopscotch, and clapping games; string and hoop games; group games, hiding games, and ball games; and marbles, tops, and other toys"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Second Skyhorse Publishing edition.
Physical Desc
xcv, 600 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Cherry-Garrard was a key member of the Terra Nova crew that, in addition to the desire to uncover scientific data, desperately sought to be the first Europeans to reach the South Pole. But the expedition was thwarted at every turn by punishing weather, extreme bad luck, and the intense physical and mental decline of the crew on the final stages of their journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that rival explorer Roald Amundsen had reached...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 406 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated out of US territory. Major Stephen H. Long, an officer in the US Army Topographical Engineers, was there on an expedition to explore the wooded borderlands...
10) The kitchen
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition describes how the kitchen was the center of family activity in the old days. Here families ate their meals, played games, and told stories with only the fireplace and a few candles for warmth and light. In The Kitchen, young readers will take a close look at the early fireplace and the tools and utensils surrounding it. Domestic chores carried out in the kitchen are described including: baking bread, making butter, preserving...
Author
Publisher
Goose Lane Editions
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 23cm.
Language
English
Description
"'My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law . . . came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long -- it was dark there all the time.' These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition of Visiting a Village is an ideal introduction to understanding the concept of community. Children will learn how the people in early communities worked together with a spirit of cooperation by trading their goods and services with each other. Knowing about what they might see on their first visit to an historic site will help spark a child's curiosity. In this book, they will meet such individuals as: the miller, the sawyer,...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
AD 760L
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The New Land is the story of a 19th-century European immigrant family's first year of homesteading on the prairie. Mother, Father, John and little Annie travel across the Atlantic by steamship and then the country by train and ox cart to the prairies where they build a sod house and prepare for their first winter. In the Spring, they plant their first fields and rejoice in the prairie flowers and the flight of geese and meadowlarks. Recommended reading...
14) Classroom games
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition describes how teachers in early schools often had limited supplies with which to teach the students. Classroom Games describes the fun and creative activities that teachers employed to teach students good behavior as well as the three R's. Explore games that made learning fun involving: spelling and creative writing; arithmetic; geography, history, and art; music; holidays; and scavenger hunts."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition describes how building a school was a priority once an early community became established. Students of all ages shared one teacher and the same four walls year after year. A One-Room School describes how the teacher, a respected member of the community, was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Children will enjoy seeing inside a one-room schoolhouse and discovering: what subjects...
16) Colonial home
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
[Newly revised edition].
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This newly revised edition takes readers into a Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. See inside the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber and the barn. Learn why immigrants from England, France, and Spain were drawn to North America, and how plantations in the South grew and prospered through the slave trade."--