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North America: A Fold-out Graphic History
by Sarah Albee (Author) and William Exley (Illustrator)

Booktalk: North American history unfolds in this graphic timeline that places the United States, Canadian and Mexican/Caribbean histories in the context of their continent. From healers in the Aleutian islands in 10,000 BCE to the first to cultivate corn in 3,000 BCE in Mexico to Canadian scientists studying butterfly migration in 1975. From the Aztecs of the city of Tenochtitlan to the Mississippians who built Cahokia to the Inuit of the arctic and the Taino of the Caribbean. Then there are Spanish, French, English, and other Europeans who invaded in the 1500s, the enslaved Africans forcibly brought to our shores, and millions more, from all around the world.

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America’s Outlaws and the Treasures They Left Behind
by WC Jameson (Author)

Booktalk: The stories in this new collection of over two-dozen outlaw tales for ages 9-13, feature an eccentric cast of misfits, bandits and adventurers like the infamous Frank and Jesse James, treacherous Dalton Gang, notorious Doolin Gang, Black Jack Ketchum, daring Texan Sam Bass, glamorous Belle Starr, bloodthirsty John J. Glanton, Mexican bandit Tiburcio Vasquez, the Apache warrior, Chief Victorio, legendary Montana outlaw Henry Plummer, Curly Bill Brocius, deadly Ella Watson, along with the pirate Jean Lafitte and more.

Snippet: Many Americans can’t tell you who their congressman is or who the fortieth president was, but they can name any number of prominent outlaws and recite their deeds. Who does not know of Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Dalton Gang and others? Their exploits and tales, the lives and times, of these colorful characters have been memorialized in thousands of books, articles and films.