Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock
This book is now out of print, but available online from used booksellers like betterworldbooks.com. Alcatraz Island is one of the most infamous places in American history. The maximum-security prison on the “Rock,” once home to criminals like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and the Birdman of Alcatraz, has long since captured our country’s imagination. […]
Caribou Girl
Illustrated by Linda Russell and simultaneously published both in English and in Inupiaq translation. This book is now out of print. But copies can be bought at used booksellers online. Caribou Facts Read more facts about Caribou. Excerpt from Book: Long ago in the far north lived an Inuit girl who ran so swiftly, she […]
Gold Rush Winter – Excerpt
Chapter 1: North to Gold Country! Every night in Blacktail Gulch, South Dakota, I said my prayers and stared at Papa’s photograph on my nightstand. My papa was a miner. When I was a tiny baby, he set off to look for gold in the Far North. I didn’t know the sound of his voice. […]
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I Am Sacajawea, I Am York
Buy Now: at used booksellers online, such as betterworldbooks.com Illustrated by Higgins Bond Unlike others in the group, two key members did not choose to join the hazardous expedition. York, William Clark’s African American servant, was the only slave in the group. Sacajawea was considered to be the property of her husband, Charbonneau, the expedition’s […]