Ghost Walls: The Story of a 17th-Century Colonial Homestead Contributor(s): Walker, Sally M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761354085 ISBN-13: 9780761354086 Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - State & Local - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Science - Archaeology |
Dewey: 975.202 |
LCCN: 2013036606 |
Age Level: 10-14 |
Grade Level: 5-9 |
Lexile Measure: 1150(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 0.53" H x 7.4" W x 10.33" L (1.25 lbs) 136 pages |
Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Chronological Period - 18th Century |
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2014 Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 49 Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2015 Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2015 - Recommended, Satisfactory |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 168446 Reading Level: 7.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 1638, John Lewger made a home in the wilderness of the New World, in a place called Maryland. He named his house St. John's, and for nearly eighty years, it was the center of an ambitious English plan to build a new kind of community on American soil. Men and women lived and worked within its walls. Babies were born. Last breaths drawn. St. John's walls witnessed the first stirrings of the great struggles that would dominate the continent for the next three centuries: The unimaginable wealth of the New World's crops and natural resources. The promise of religious tolerance under a new model of government. The injustice of slavery. The betrayal of native peoples. The struggle for equality between men and women. If St. John's walls could have talked, they would have spoken volumes of American history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Sally M.: - Sally M. Walker has been a children's book writer for over 20 years. Most of her books are nonfiction and present various science topics to young readers. Fossil Fish Found Alive is the story of the hunt for the elusive fish called the coelacanth. Sally also enjoys combining science investigation with historical topics. Her book Secrets of a Civil War Submarine, which won the 2006 Robert F. Sibert Medal, tells about the history, loss, and re-discovery of the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in battle. Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland takes readers on archaeological expeditions, where the forensic analysis of colonial settlers' bones helps us to understand their lives. Sally especially enjoys writing narrative nonfiction that captures the reader's attention with a true story. She is also the author of 2019 Orbis Pictus Honor Book Champion: The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut. |
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