Open Court

Grade 4

Changing America

305.2 Fre

Freedman, Russell. Children of the Wild West. New York :

Clarion Books, c1983. Historical photographs with

explanatory text present a picture of life in the American

West from 1840 to the early 1900s.

917.04 Mae

Maestro, Betsy. The discovery of the Americas. 1st Mulberry ed.

New York : Mulberry Paperback Book, 1992, c1991. Discusses

both hypothetical and historical voyages of discovery to

America by the Phoenicians, Saint Brendan of Ireland, the

Vikings, and such later European navigators as Columbus,

Cabot, and Magellan.

970.02 Mae

Maestro, Betsy. The new Americans : Colonial times, 1620-1689.

New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1996. Traces the

competition among the American Indians, French, English,

Spanish, and Dutch for land, furs, timber, and other

resources of North America.

973.4 Sak

Sakurai, Gail. The Louisiana Purchase. New York : Children's

Press, c1998. Chronicles the historical background and

political maneuvers that led to the Louisiana Purchase by

President Thomas Jefferson in 1803.

975.5 Fra

Fradin, Dennis B. The Virginia Colony. Chicago : Childrens

Press, c1986. Presents the history, economy, culture, and

people of the Virginia colony from the early Indian

settlements to the Revolution. Includes brief biographies of

prominent individuals in Virgina's history.

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Levine, Ellen. ..If you traveled West in a covered wagon. New

York : Scholastic, 1992, c1986. Explains what it was like

to travel and live in a covered wagon as a pioneer on the

way to Oregon.

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Fritz, Jean. What's the big idea, Ben Franklin? New York :

Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1976. A brief biography of the

eighteenth-century printer, inventor, and statesman who

played an influential role in the early history of the

United States.