Dorothy Hoobler

Lexile measure

740L

Language

English

Description

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan.

2) We are Americans: voices of the immigrant experience

Author

Pub. Date

2003

Lexile measure

950L

Physical Desc

194 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Language

English

Description

A history of immigration to America, from speculation about the earliest immigrants to the present day.

3) The Chinese American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1994

Lexile measure

1040L

Physical Desc

128 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.

Language

English

Description

Interviews, excerpts from diaries and letters, newspaper accounts, profiles of famous individuals, and pictures from family albums portray the heartache and joy of the Chinese American experience.

4) The Mexican American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1994

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Language

English

5) The Italian American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1994

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.

Language

English

6) The Scandinavian American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1997

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.

Language

English

7) The Japanese American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.

Language

English

8) The African American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1995

Lexile measure

1000L

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Language

English

9) The Cuban American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm.

Language

English

10) The Jewish American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1995

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Language

English

11) The German American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1996

Physical Desc

127 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Language

English

12) The Irish American family album

Author

Series

Pub. Date

1995

Physical Desc

128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Language

English

13) Captain John Smith: Jamestown and the birth of the American dream

Author

Pub. Date

2006

Physical Desc

xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

14) Joseph Stalin

Author

World leaders past and present

Series

Pub. Date

1985

Physical Desc

112 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Language

English

15) Photographing the frontier

Author

Pub. Date

1980

Physical Desc

192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

16) The monsters: Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein

Author

Pub. Date

2006

Edition

1st ed.

Physical Desc

375 pages ; 24 cm

Language

English

17) Where are the Great Pyramids?

Author

Series

Where is

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Pub. Date

[2015]

Lexile measure

820L

Physical Desc

108 pages : illustrations, folded color map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

In this informative account, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the story of the powerful pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids at Giza and offer a fascinating look at the culture of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, explaining exactly how mummies were made.

18) What was the San Francisco Earthquake?

Author

Series

What was ?

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House

Pub. Date

2016.

Lexile measure

720L

Physical Desc

108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description

"In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines sparked a fire that ravaged the city for days. More than...

19) Where is the Taj Mahal?

Author

Series

Where is

Publisher

Grosset & Dunlap

Pub. Date

[2017]

Lexile measure

850L

Physical Desc

108 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.

Language

English

Description