Exceptional Social Studies Titles for Intermediate Grades
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Long ball: the legend and lore of the home run
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"No picture accurately resembled him in the minute traits of his person . . . there was an expression of his face that no painter had succeeded in taking."-London's New Monthly Magazine in 1790
George Washington's face has been painted, printed, and engraved more than a billion times since his birth in 1732. And yet even in his lifetime, no picture seemed to capture the likeness of the man who is now the most iconic of all our presidents. Worse...
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"'I remeber the day I lost my spirit.' So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Ša, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-Ša willingly left her home at age eight to go to boarding school in Indiana. But she soon found herself caught between two worlds--white and Native American. When Zitkala-Ša graduated, she became a music teacher, composer, and performer. As an...