Explores countries through the features that make up their individuality and character. Looks a weather, food, schools and celebrations. Helps readers understand what it is like to be a child in another country. New edition features most up-to-date facts and statistics.
A Little Round Panda on the Big Blue Earth (Big Blue Earth)
by Tory Christie
Swept Away: The Story of the 2011 Japanese Tsunami (Tangled History)
by Rebecca Rissman
An introduction to the geography, history, economy, culture, and people of China, the third largest country in the world.
A middle-grade history of the "other Ellis Island" traces how Angel Island served as an entry point for one million Asian immigrants to the United States in the early 20th century, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters and "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it closed to describe the center's screening process, immigration policies and eventual renaissance as a historic site. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the "wall poems" discovered at the facility long after it clos...
South Asia (Modern World Cultures)
by John E. Benhart and George Pomeroy
This new series puts people in the world geographic landscape, showing students how people are affected by and respond to, economic, social, and political forces at the global and the local scale.
Thirty Minutes Over Oregon: A Japanese Pilot's World War II Story
by Marc Tyler Nobleman
The devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drew the United States into World War II in 1941. But few are aware that several months later, the Japanese pilot Nobuo Fujita dropped bombs in the woods outside a small town in coastal Oregon. This is the story of those bombings, and what came after, when Fujita returned to Oregon twenty years later, this time to apologise. This remarkable true story, beautifully illustrated in watercolour, is an important and moving account of reconciliation aft...
Photographs and text introduce the geography, history, government, society, and economy of this diverse nation.
