Exploring History through Simple Recipes       

Reading level: Gr 3 - 4 /Interest level: Grades 3 - 9

Bring history to life with this series of simple recipe books! By making foods from various times in U.S. history, readers will learn what those times were like and practice cooking at the same time. Simple text and interesting photographs present foods of the period, plus customs, family roles, everyday life, and important celebrations. Safety tips and food-handling techniques are also included.


Series Features:
Accelerated Reader, Activities, Bibliography, Full-color & Historical Photos, Glossary, Index, Internet Sites

Library binding, 32 pages, 10" x 8"
Capstone Press

Coming to America      

Reading level: Gr 3 - 4/Interest level: Gr 3 - 9

Explore the history of U.S. immigration in the Coming to America series. Readers will learn the reasons why people left their homelands to start a new life in America and will follow their journeys through time lines and maps. Recipes and activity sidebars also allow students to celebrate the rich heritage and cultural contributions each group has made to American society.

This series explores and supports the standards under “The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage,” as required by the National Standards for History.

Series Features:
Accelerated Reader, Table of contents, Bibliography, Full-color & historical photos and illustrations, Maps, Time line, Glossary, Index, Places to write and visit, Internet sites.
Also includes:
Craft, activity, game, or recipe sidebars, Quotations from diaries and other primary sources, List of famous immigrants and descendants of immigrants, Instructions for how to make a family tree

Reinforced library binding, 32 pages, 10" x 8"
Capstone Press