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Designed to make history come alive for students in grades 5-12, these engaging reading books develop language skills and increase social studies content knowledge. Valuable additions to any reading, ESL/ELD, or social studies curriculum

Features

  • Readable text and stunning visuals make history accessible to all students
  • Every chapter is filled with features that foster understanding and critical thinking
  • Primary source material transports readers into the historical period
  • Comprehension questions ensure students’ understanding of the content
  • Resources provide teachers with assessment, classroom, and family involvement activities
  • Time lines strengthen students’ ability to place people and events in history
  • New vocabulary words are introduced and defined
Choose from six individual titles or combine titles for quantity discounts—


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Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World
Celebrates the spirit of the Renaissance and the work of important artists from Italy — Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Sofonisba Anguissola.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-749
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)

 



 


 

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Women Who Ruled
Tells the exciting stories of women who played significant leadership roles and made a difference in the world — Cleopatra, Damia al-Kahina, Lady Kanal-Ikal, Empress Wu, Queen Sonduk, Queen Elizabeth I, and Queen Isabella I.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-750
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)
 



 

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Teacher’s Guide
Writers Who Inspired the World
Inspires readers with the lives and works of influential writers — Leo Africanus, Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Dante, Miguel Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Voltaire.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-751
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)
 



 

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Leaders Who Changed the World shares the lives of great political leaders who helped shape their world — Mansa Musa, Moctezuma II, Kublai Khan, Charlemagne, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Elizabeth I, and Marie Antoinette.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-752
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)
 



 

  Downloadable Activity Sheets
Teacher’s Guide

Daring Explorers Who Sailed the Oceans
Chronicles the ocean voyages of some of Europe’s famous explorers — Prince Henry the Navigator, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, and Jacques Cartier.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-753
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)
 

 

African American Writers Who Inspired Change
Reveals the triumphs and struggles of some of America’s most inspirational writers — Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Richard Wright.

Grade Level:

 

5-12
Catalog Number:
2-754
Price:
1-20 books
$15.49 each
21+ books
14.49 each
(price per book, any combination of titles)
 

 


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