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When Ada Blackjack and the four other members of a Canadian team first stepped foot on Wrangel Island, north of Siberia, in 1921 to claim its craggy Arctic terrain for Great Britain, they had no idea how doomed their expedition was. Blackjack, an Inuit woman, was along to cook and sew in order to ma
On the eastern edge of Concord, Massachusetts, just off Virginia Road, there stands a simple white and red Georgian-style home surrounded by a quaint stone fence. It’s where Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817, and now, nearly two hundred years later, it’s where Henry David Thoreau for Kids aut…
Brandon Marie Miller has been a history buff essentially since birth. Her parents, both teachers, took her on frequent trips to museums and historical sites, she studied American history and art history at Purdue, and she’s written nine history books for children and young adults, including Benjam…
Kerrie Logan Hollihan’s sixth book with CRP is her second for YA readers. In the Fields and the Trenches traces the true experiences of 18 young adults who came of age during World War I—the Great War. The century-old tales convey surprisingly modern, universal themes of love, death, power, co…