"Read and Learn" is our extensive collection that helps young readers discover and understand the world around them. These books are packed full of fascinating facts and intriguing, labelled photographs that will really grab their attention. Using questions to focus learning, each title will prompt discussion, encourage information gathering and truly involve children in the topics they are studying. "Material Detectives" encourages children to investigate an object using all of their senses. Each book takes a familiar item made from a single material and explores the different properties and uses of that material. A quiz at the end of each title tests comprehension and encourages research skills.
The memoir of a slave girl coming of age during the Civil War. Afion recalls her lover, her friends, the war and her losses as she talks about growing up in Granny Moses' cabin on the creek, seeing her best friend taken away by wagon. At the age of nine the wagon comes for her, and she becomes a kitchen servant. Using her talent and ingenuity, Afion becomes the personal servant to the master's daughter. Her lover promises they will jump the broom when freedom comes, but he runs away and joins the Union Army. Afion does not know what freedom is. Her best friend Cookie tastes forbidden love when she falls in love with the master's son. But when fighting draws near the farm, Master Halloway abandons the plantation taking his family, their valuables and favorite servants. Afion is left behind. She fears the loss of the meager food supply, and when the sugar house and the smoke house are broken into, the food is stolen but not by Union soldiers.The Gazebo, a Civil War Memoir is one of the best historical books to date about growing up black during the Civil War.
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