Emma Eileen Grove

Emma Eileen Grove
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439114501

It’s 1865 and the war is over, but the hardship and suffering have not ended for Emma, whose mother is dead and father is missing. With her brother and sister, Emma boards the Sultana, a paddle wheel steamboat, hoping to find refuge in St. Louis with relatives. After Yankee soldiers returning north from Confederate prisons are crowded aboard the boat, disaster shatters Emma’s hopes. Fighting for her life in the flooded Mississippi, Emma discovers courage she did not know she possessed.

Emma Eileen Grove

Emma Eileen Grove
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1439114501

It’s 1865 and the war is over, but the hardship and suffering have not ended for Emma, whose mother is dead and father is missing. With her brother and sister, Emma boards the Sultana, a paddle wheel steamboat, hoping to find refuge in St. Louis with relatives. After Yankee soldiers returning north from Confederate prisons are crowded aboard the boat, disaster shatters Emma’s hopes. Fighting for her life in the flooded Mississippi, Emma discovers courage she did not know she possessed.

Emma Eileen Grove

Emma Eileen Grove
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1996
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9780329036867

Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

Emma Eileen Grove

Emma Eileen Grove
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: PAPERBACK COLLECTION.
ISBN: 9780606089869

Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.

Oklahoma, Our Home

Oklahoma, Our Home
Author: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1586854305

Oklahoma, Our Home is a 4th grade Oklahoma history textbook. The outline for this book is based on the Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for social studies and teaches history, people in societies, geography, economics, government, citizenship rights and responsibilities, and social studies skills and methods. The book places the state's historical events in the context of our nation's history. The student edition has many features such as Words to Understand, timelines, Oklahoma Portraits, In-Text activities, Linking the Past to the Present, and What Do You Think? discussion questions deliver the content in an effective and inviting way, making history come to life. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 History Close to Home Chapter 2 The Land We Call Home Chapter 3 The First Oklahomans Chapter 4 The Great Encounter Chapter 5 Indian Territory Chapter 6 War and Peace in Indian Territory Chapter 7 From Open Range to Farmland Chapter 8 Green Pastures and Black Gold Chapter 9 Statehood! The First 40 Years Chapter 10 Modern Oklahoma Chapter 11 Government for All of Us Chapter 12 Making a Living in Oklahoma

Ellen's Story

Ellen's Story
Author: Susan Kirby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689809697

Ellen is growing up on an Illinois farm in 1830, and she doesn't realize how much her stepmother has come to mean to her until clashes between Ellen's father and stepbrother threaten to tear the new family apart.

Zellie Blake

Zellie Blake
Author: Kathleen Duey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2002-05
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0689844050

Zellie is unhappy working for Mrs. Gird. A happy turn of events lead her to employment and a new life with Miss O'Brien.

Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers

Terrific Connections with Authors, Illustrators, and Storytellers
Author: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313077959

Exciting, productive connections with authors, illustrators, and storytellers are at your fingertips with this resource. Unlike other author visit guides, this book goes beyond nuts-and-bolts planning to how to create the best possible encounters between students and authors. Successful visits in real space and in cyberspace are described, giving you specific ideas of the many ways to connect with and create meaningful links between bookpeople and children. Choosing the right guest, guidelines for successful visits, making curriculum connections, using e-mail to connect with bookpeople, live chats in virtual space, taking advantage of ITB and satellite technology, and using such props as realia and curriculum guides are some of the topics covered. Lists of author/illustrator web pages and managed Internet sites for author interaction are included.