American History Smart Junior: Exploring America's Past (Smart Junior Series) - Softcover

Alouf, James L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679773576 ISBN 13: 9780679773573

Publisher: Princeton Review, 1996

Synopsis

Bridget, Babette, Barnaby, and Beauregard learn about American history while time traveling into the past

About this title

About the Author

Jim Alouf is an associate professor of education at Sweet Briar College in Virginia where he has worked for fifteen years.  Prior to completing his Ph.D. in social studies at the University of Virginia, Jim taught high school social studies at Middlesex High School, Middlesex, New Jersey for nine years.

From the Back Cover

how the United States began?  Or why the 1920s are described as "Roaring"?  Would you like to know what life was like when your grandparents were kids?  You'll learn about all these things and more when you join Bridget, Babette, Barnaby, and Beauregard on their time travels through America's past.  Along the way you'll:

fly a kite with Ben Franklin

meet the inventors of the telephone, the phonograph, the car, and the airplane

dance the Charleston in a New York City speakeasy

witness the hard-won victory of Rosa Parks

Travel through history, from the Revolution to Watertgate and beyond!

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Review
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679773576
• ISBN 13: 9780679773573
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Sponholz