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We were there, too!

by Phillip M. Hoose Author

Short living narratives of more than 60 young people who experienced major events in US history from 12-year-old Diego Bermudez who sailed with Columbus to high school student Kory Johnson who worked to keep polluters out of poor neighborhoods in the 1990s. Covers a wide range of cultures and ethnicities within the United States and ends each narrative by telling what happened to that person after the event described. A fascinating way to review and expand on key historical moments in the nation.

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Resource Type: Book
ISBN: 0374382522
Print Status: Out of Print
Stories: 68
Pages: 264
Suggested Grades: 3rd - 12th
Geographical Setting: United States
Historical Setting: 1492 - 1998
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Copyright: 2001

Stories

1 Diego Bermudez: Sailing into the Unknown
2 The Tainos: Discovering Columbus
3 Pocahontas: Peacemaker, Cartwheeler, Princess
4 Tom Savage: Living Two Lives
5 Orphans and Tobacco Brides: Feeding England's Newest Habit
6 Saints and Strangers: Bound by Hope
7 Betty Parris and Abigail Williams: Bewitched or Bored?
8 Eunice Williams: Captive
9 Eliza Lucas: Indigo Planter
10 Olaudah Equiano: Kidnapped into Slavery
11 Phillis Wheatley: The Impossible Poet
12 Anna Green Winslow and Charity Clark: Spinning for Liberty
13 Christopher Seider and Samuel Maverick: Martyrs of the Revolution
14 Joseph Plumb Martin: And Now I Was a Soldier
15 John Quincy Adams: Translating for the Revolution
16 Sybil Ludington: Outdistancing Paul Revere
17 Mary Redmond, John Darragh, and Dicey Langston: Spies
18 James Forten: Saved by a Game of Marbles
19 Private Deborah Sampson: Alias Robert Shirtliffe
20 Smith Wilkinson: The Same Thing Over and Over
21 Rebecca and Abigail Bates: An Army of Two
22 Caroline Pickersgill: Stitching the Star-Spangled Banner
23 Lucy Larcom and Harriet Hanson: Voices of the Mills
24 Anyokah: Teaching Leaves to Talk
25 Manjiro: Bringing America to Japan
26 George Fred Hilton: Why, Whaling I Suppose
27 Frederick Douglass: Taking On a Tyrant
28 Allen Jay: Underground Railroad Conductor
29 Maria Weems: Escape to Canada
30 Elisha Stockwell: Such a Mess As I Was In
31 Johnny Clem: Poster Boy of the North
32 Billy Bates and Dick King: Escape from Andersonville
33 Susie King Taylor: At the Heart of the Sea Islands
34 Carrie Berry: They Came Burning Atlanta Today
35 Vinnie Ream: I ... Begged Mr. Lincoln Not to Allow Me to Disturb Him
36 Sacagawea: She Inspired Us All
37 Enrique Esparza: Inside the Alamo
38 Mary Goble: Walking to Zion
39 William Cody: Racing the Wind
40 Ng Poon Chew and Lee Chew: Gold Mountain Boys
41 Teddy Blue Abbott: Cowpuncher
42 Chuka: I Did Not Want My Shirt Taken from My Back
43 Gene Schermerhorn: A New City Every Day
44 Rose Cohen: First Day in a Sweatshop
45 Joseph Miliauskas: Breaker Boy
46 Jennie Curtis: Strike Leader
47 Kid Blink and the Newsies: Bringing Down Goliaths
48 John Thayer: Becoming a Man Aboard the Titanic
49 Edna Purtell: Suffragist
50 Charles Denby: Bound North
51 Jackie Cooper: Lights, Action, Cry!
52 Margaret Davidson: Wars on the Home Front
53 Harley Holliday: Black Sunday
54 Peggy Eaton: Ridin' the Rails
55 Calvin Graham: Too Young to Be a Hero?
56 Terry Grimmesey: What Had We Done?
57 Joe Nuxhall and Anna Meyer: A Wartime Chance to Play Ball
58 Claudette Colvin: The First to Keep Her Seat
59 Elizabeth Eckford: Facing a Mob on the First Day of School
60 Carolyn McKinstry: On the Firing Line
61 John Tinker: Tinker v. Des Moines
62 Jessica Govea: Education of a Union Organizer
63 Bill Gates: Another Revolution
64 Arn Chorn: Starting All Over
65 Judi Warren and the Warsaw Tigers: Taking Center Stage
66 Ryan White: Going to School with AIDS
67 Kory Johnson: An Environmentalist for Life
68 Linking Up in the Twenty-first Century

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