Before the Civil War 1830-1860

By Mary Alianson, Clubs Network Kids', Kids Club Network

Themes: Graphic Novels, Illustrated, History, Nonfiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these graphic U.S. history titles teach student about key historical events in American history from 1500 to the present. Dramatic and colorful graphics highlights the text with easy transitions, which avoids a choppy narrative. These history titles offer a variety of rich material to support teaching to the standards. Book features include: Four-color throughout; speech bubbles and illustrations allow struggling readers multiple access points to the text; speech bubbles (in yellow) are clearly separated from nonfiction (in blue). This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599053616
• ISBN13: 9781599053615
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc.
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 11 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 12

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

Fairly easy reading, interesting, excellent examples, enjoyable. I really liked this book. I defiantly recommend it!

an old text but excellent survey

too frugal to purchase a more current edition, i plunked down $4. this was a fine undergraduate introduction to the criminal justice system and psychological applications therein. a light read, often entertaining. an excellent survey of the field, although, the common complaint of survey texts that it doesn't "do justice" (bad pun) to enough topics could be argued here, too. it helped me to identify some topics about which...