Follow My Leader
10 best books like Follow My Leader (James B. Garfield): The Year of Miss Agnes, Archaeologists Dig for Clues, Understood Betsy, The Apprentice, The Sword in the Tree, Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found, Usborne Time Traveler, The Usborne Book of World History, The Greek News, A Child's History of the World
Author | Kirkpatrick Hill |
ISBN | 0689851243 |
A year they'll never forget
Ten-year-old Frederika (Fred for short) doesn't have much faith that the new teacher in town will last very long. After all, they never do. Most teachers who come to their one-room schoolhouse in remote, Alaska leave at the first smell of fish, claiming that life there...
Author | Kate Duke |
ISBN | 0064451755 |
This book provides an engaging and informative look at how archaeologists work, as a few schoolchildren work with an archaeologist named Sofie to look for artifacts in the remains of an Archaic-era settlement.
I like how this book makes archaeology look exciting, but also focuses on the scientific...
Author | Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
ISBN | 1887840133 |
For all of her nine years, fragile Elizabeth Ann has heard her Aunt Frances refer in whispers to her "horrid Putney cousins." But when her aunt can no longer care for her, Elizabeth Ann must leave her sheltered life to live in the wilds of Vermont with those distant relatives.
In the beginning,...
Author | Pilar Molina Llorente |
ISBN | 0374404321 |
Given a challenge to read a book set in the Renaissance, I hit our school library card catalog hoping to find a few options for a quick read. I found one. One book set in the Renaissance. This book. So I read it. I'm sure it is one of those books that rarely gets checked out because the cover looks dated, and the...
Author | Clyde Robert Bulla |
ISBN | 0064421325 |
In the days of King Arthur there stood a mighty oak tree within the walls of a castle. Peace reigned in the castle until the fearsome night when Lionel, longlost brother of Lord Weldon, returned to cause trouble and unhappiness.
It was then that Shan, the son of Lord Weldon, took on the duties of...
Author | Judy Donnelly |
ISBN | 0394891899 |
• This book is a great choice for beginners, and tells the story of the death of Tutankhamen. This is a great step into getting children excited to read books that are nonfiction,
• Teachers may use this for History, English
• Grades K-3
• Individual students may read this during...
Author | Judy Hindley |
ISBN | 0746033656 |
A great value! This book includes Usborne's:
Knights & Castles
Viking Raiders
Rome & Romans
Pharaohs & Pyramids
The schtick is that you have a special helmut that allows you to time travel to different periods. This is why they are in reverse chronological order....
Author | Anne Millard |
ISBN | 0860209598 |
Great introductory text to build on for elementary age; good review for high school students or adults who want to reconnect with some dates or expand their horizons into cultures they haven't studied. Lots of cultures I was never introduced to in school, anyhow (although most of them were somewhat...
Author | Anton Powell |
ISBN | 0763603406 |
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly
Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
Author | V.M. Hillyer |
ISBN | 0899669387 |
A Child's History of the World is a classic. Written shortly after World War I by Calvert School's first Head Master, Virgil Hillyer, this history storybook combines charm with facts to stimulate young minds and leave them yearning for more information. This volume of A Child's History of the World...
Author | Ann Weil |
ISBN | 0140328580 |
The minute he saw the boat with the red sails moving into the harbor, Michele knew that something exciting was going to happen. It was the biggest and most beautiful ship fourteen-year-old Michele had ever seen. Sailing on the ship were three men who would come to stay at Michele's parents' inn. The men...
Author | Margaretha Shemin |
ISBN | 0688124992 |
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
Author | Mildred A. Martin |
ISBN | 0962764345 |
Sad to see this book end. While reading it to my 7yr old, my 10yr old daughter would always listen with one ear open while she was supposed to be reading her own school books. I can't rave enough about it! It engaged us in true stories of missionaries across the globe throughout many centuries of time. It demostrates...
Author | Richard Platt |
ISBN | 0763621641 |
"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)
What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...
Author | Leonard Everett Fisher |
ISBN | 0689801785 |
1. This book gives an historic account of why the Great wall of China was built. It gives fun fact and many pictures that show the hard work it took to build and just how big it is. We learn that China built the wall to keep the invading Mongols out of China.
2. For grades 2-4
3. I would use this with world...
Author | Philip Smith |
ISBN | 0486270890 |
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Author | Heather Amery |
ISBN | 0746037252 |
4 stars
One of very many children’s books on Greek mythology, I picked this one up mainly because it’s Usborne (I grew up on Usborne books and I have a certain amount of loyalty to them despite the fact that they keep putting out gendered shit like this) and because the pictures inside...
Author | Janet Benge |
ISBN | 1576581454 |
This series chronicles the exciting, challenging, and deeply touching true stories of ordinary men and women whose trust in God accomplished extraordinary exploits for His kingdom and glory. Each inspiring account of a man or woman who answered God s call is a testimony to a real-life adventure of...
Author | Wayne Grover |
ISBN | 0380732521 |
One thing I truly enjoy about being a homeschooling mom is access to books via the curriculum we've chosen; which, for us, has meant Sonlight. "Dolphin Adventure", like so many other books we've received through that route, did not disappoint!
If you've been following along with any of my reviews,...
Author | Eleanor Frances Lattimore |
ISBN | 0152055029 |
Little Pear is a young boy who lives in a small village in China. Although his story takes place long ago, he is much like any little boy today--always on the lookout for excitement and adventure!
Little Pear is just looking for fun, but he has a knack for finding trouble without even trying! Join...
Author | Diane Stanley |
ISBN | 0060521139 |
When he was born, Michelangelo Buonarroti was put into the care of a stonecutter's family. He often said it was from them that he got his love of sculpture. It certainly didn't come from his own father, a respectable magistrate who beat his son when he asked to become an artists apprentice.
But...
Author | Elizabeth Yates |
ISBN | 0890847061 |
Now while I have indeed quite enjoyed much (if not the majority) of Elizabeth Yates' 1943 Newbery Honour winning Mountain Born, I do have to admit that whenever I read this novel, I always have to wonder and ask myself why Biddy the sheep (the black ewe rescued by Peter and Peter's mother as a sickly, almost...
Author | Henry Winterfeld |
ISBN | 0152162801 |
In these two delightful history-mysteries, seven boys in Ancient Rome solve strange crimes . . . thanks to some help from their cranky teacher, a little bit of logic, and a lot of amusing misadventure.
Yes, Rufus wrote CAIUS IS A DUMBBELL on his tablet at school, but no, he did not break into the...
Author | Rutherford G. Montgomery |
ISBN | 0802773885 |
Newbery Honor Book, 1950
When Jerome Kildee built his little house against the giant redwood, he had fancied himself a philosopher. He was going to be a hermit—a lazy recluse who didn't have to work or think.
Now here he was facing a crisis that needed immediate attention. At least...