Sarah Whitcher's Story


Book Description

Describes the search for and adventures of a young girl lost in a New Hampshire forest in the pioneer days. Based on a true incident.




American Pioneers and Patriots


Book Description

American Pioneers & Patriots will allow your 3rd and 4th grade students to explore America's past through the fictional accounts of typical pioneer families. Young patriots of today will gain an appreciation of the courage it took to build this great nation of ours!




The Bear That Heard Crying


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Retells the story of three-year-old Sarah Whitcher, who, in 1783, became lost in the woods and was protected by a bear until her rescue




Finding Providence


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The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's providence to see him to safety. Roger's only hope of survival lies with the Narragansett Indians. Will Mary ever see her father again?




Mountain Born


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A boy in a family of sheep farmers raises a black lamb to be the leader of the flock.




The Silver Pencil


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Janet uses the special pencil she received from her father to turn her life into stories.




Luna and the Moon Rabbit


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Winner of the inaugural Stratford-Salariya Picture Book Prize, a competition held by the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Salariya Book Company to find a picture book by an unpublished author deserving of publication. Inspired by Asian folklore and the films of Studio Ghibli, this is the magical tale of a young girl who befriends the giant rabbit who lives in the Moon and goes with it on a bedtime adventure through dreamy landscapes. Parents and children alike will be mesmerised by this soothing, dreamy story and the beautiful illustrations and want to read it over and over again.




Whale Song


Book Description

What if you can't remember the most horrible day of your life? A shocking tragedy leaves Sarah with partial amnesia. Torn by nightmares, she must face her fears...and remember.




If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days


Book Description

A different time... A different place... What if you were there? More than 200 years ago, two thousand people lived in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia. If you lived back then... What would your house look like? What games and sports would you play? Would you go to school? What happened when you were sick or hurt? This book tells you what it was like to grow up in colonial days, before there was a United States of America.




The Oxford Handbook of Zooarchaeology


Book Description

Animals have played a fundamental role in shaping human history, and the study of their remains from archaeological sites - zooarchaeology - has gradually been emerging as a powerful discipline and crucible for forging an understanding of our past. This Handbook offers a cutting-edge, global compendium of zooarchaeology that seeks to provide a holistic view of the role played by animals in past human cultures. Case studies from across five continents explore ahuge range of human-animal interactions from an array of geographical, historical, and cultural contexts, and also illuminate the many approaches and methods adopted by different schools and traditions instudying these relationships.