David C. Knight (1925–1984)

Soon after Americans ousted inequitable British taxation, Secretary of Finance Alexander Hamilton, hatched a plan to put the new nation on steady financial footing by imposing the first American excise tax, on whiskey makers. The tax favored large distillers over small farmers with stills in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, and the farmers fomented their own new revolution—a challenge to the sovereignty of the new government and the power of the wealthy eastern show more seaboard.

I found this book to be fast paced and while the author takes a pretty harsh view of President Washington and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton he still presents a a clear view of American Culture in the Federalist Era. For a 'slice of life' in American History I think this book beats the text books I have mulled thru in the past show less

This book is wonderfully written and really very scary! As an adult, I thought it would be a little juvenile, since it is labeled for young adults. Not the case! The stories are good enough, and scary enough, for adults as well as youngsters. Each one is very detailed and several are quite long, with lots of descriptions and multiple hauntings per story. They also offer explanations for many of them, going into who the ghost probably is, and why they may be there. Truly, I got chills from show more several of these stories! Highly recommended if you like good ghost stories that will make you want to leave the lights on! show less

This book gives so much educational information about both crocodiles and alligators. It tells about each type of animal, then tells the many ways the animals are similar to one another.
I actually found this book at my mom's house on her bookshelf. She still keeps all of the old books we had when we were children. This book was one of my brother's favorite books! I also read this book to one of the boys that my mom babysits for, for my service learning project! He picked it out, of course- show more typical little boy!
I could use this book in my classroom to study reptiles. My students would learn a lot from this book. We could study alligators and crocodiles at the same time. I could read this book to the children then have them each recite ONE fact that they learned from me reading it to them. show less

This book is an early chapter book about space. The chapters are split into The Milky Way, Types of Galaxies, Groups/ Clusters/ Superclusters, The Age and Evolution of Galaxies, Galactic Centers/ Quasars/ Black Holes, and The Expanding Universe. There are several black and white photos along with diagrams that illustrate different things that the book is talking about.
This is a good informational book because it is under 100 pages, and has information split up into six sections/ chapters. show more However regarding the date that it was published and the lack of color photographs, I think it might be difficult to engage younger students.
Media: photographs and diagrams
Age Range: Intermediate show less