A Young People's History of the United States (For Young People Series) Children’s Books about Libraries & Reading

A Young People's History of the United States (For Young People Series) Children’s Books about Libraries & ReadingA Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a Peoples History of the United States. Beginning with

Through tell-it-like-it-is talk and vulnerable stories

José Victoriano Arteaga—the head of a thriving Mexico City family—vanishes on his way home from work

and it changed everything

New feature-"Did You Know" fact boxes

When Rolo offers her a job

From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century

and even Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate

Israeli-born Dalia Artzi

he feels her presence

10-year-olds Marco and Katerina are the best of friends

a remarkable narrative that ties modern Minnesotans to the trauma of the Dakota War

Riley knew she had to fulfill her mother’s wish to reveal these memories