America as Story

by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard and Rosemary K. Coffey

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.