History & The Past: General Interest (Children's/Teenage)

Milestones of Flight takes readers soaring through the high points of American aviation: from the Wright brothers and their competitors to the mili...

The Donner Party expedition is one of the most notorious stories in all of American history. Its also a fascinating snapshot of the westward expans...

This brand-new series puts readers in the shoes of famous historical figures during their childhoods, with an emphasis on the gruesome and ghastly ...

You are the son of a Mayan soothsayer, living near the city of Copan in about AD 710. Becoming a soothsayer yourself means you could become an impo...

Bring the Stone Age back to life with DKfindout! Find out how early humans hunted a woolly mammoth, made fire, and created cave paintings in this f...

Ancient Rome was packed full of daring, clever and ruthless men and women. But who was the toughest nut of all? Bursting full of entertaining and ...

When a tiny orphaned bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II, little does anyone know that little Wojtek will become one of the ...

The media is full of images and stories about the people of Syria and the suffering they have undergone in recent years. This book looks in detail ...

The Girl from the Tar Paper School mixes biography, social history and archival images to tell the gripping story of sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose ...

Featuring historical figures from the Celtic warrior queen Boadicea to the brave firefighters of Chernobyl, and dramatic settings from the Roman Co...

Uncover some of the most chilling practices in ancient China. This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and si...

A pocket encyclopedia for kids bursting with facts about the mighty Roman Empire!Fit a world of information into your pocket with this essential re...

Do you think being a Roman gladiator seems glamorous? Think again! At gladiator school, you'll be taught to fight, kill, and die in a suitably spor...

You are an 18th-century convict faced with a fate potentially worse than death: to be sent to one of the new English colonies in Australia, where y...

Why do humans look like they do? What will we look like in the future? Why do some species of animals die out where others thrive? Our Hairy Past t...

When Prince Thutmose visits the Pyramids of Giza, he discovers the head of the Sphinx sticking out of the sand. To his surprise, the Sphinx tells h...

Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she...

Hava (Eva) Bromberg and Ephraim Sokal were Jewish teenagers in Poland when the Nazis invaded in 1939. Hiding in plain sight, Bromberg lived amon...

Growing up at the foot of Mount Everest, a Sherpa boy named Tenzing Norgay dreamed about one day being the first to climb the giant in his backyard...

They were Amazon and Walmart combined-the one place to shop for Americans who needed everything-clothes, furniture, tools, jewelry, musical instrum...

Your child can travel through time with Wild About British History and learn about everything from the earliest inhabitants to the present day. Thi...

Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogles first term in Year 7. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore second-hand clothes and were short of s...

Susan Wise Bauers narrative world history series is widely used in advanced high school history classes, as well as by home educating parents. The ...

Designed for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 3-7) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 3: Early Modern Times hist...

On August 18, 1920, women in the United States secured their right to vote with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Their ...

What will you learn about Ancient Egypt today? Travel back in time to learn all about the pharaohs of Egypt, decode Egyptian hieroglyphs, and see h...

Amy Chan Zhous searing memoir about growing up in rural Communist China features descriptions of pastoral beauty and tales of the simple joys of ra...

''Significantly more engaging and inspiring than the rival Rebel Girls'' GUARDIAN ''It''s hard to imagine any group of primary-aged children who w...

The First World War was the world's first 'total war'. Although large-scale wars like the Napoleonic wars had ranged across many territories, the s...