Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples

Ever wonder what route would get you from coast to coast the fastest?

Ever wonder what the capital of Alaska is?

Have you ever wondered which countries have the most lakes?

Ever wonder what crops grow in North Carolina?

Ever wonder which states are the cloudiest?

Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was a man of contradictions.

Theodore Roosevelt was thrust into the presidency after William McKinley's assassination in 1901.

In 1829 Andrew Jackson became the seventh president of the United States, the first who did not come from a wealthy, east coast family.

Abraham Lincoln was born to poor parents, in a log cabin on the western frontier of a young nation.

As early as the 1500s, fur traders from Europe began to arrive in the Subarctic region of North America.

When Spanish explorers came to the Southwest region of the United States in the 1600s, they found over 20,000 American Indians already living in the region.

Who were the first people to call the southeastern United States home?

When explorers and traders moved west across the United States in the 1800s, they found many nations of American Indians already living in the Plateau region near the Columbia River.

A long time ago, before the Plains region of the United States was divided up into states such as Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, this land was home to American Indians.

A thin strip of land and islands makes up the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States and Canada.

Long before the United States existed as a nation, the Northeast region was home to more than thirty independent American Indian groups.

Long before Europeans came to the harsh landscape of the Great Basin, many nations of American Indians lived in the region.

Long before Europeans explored the lands and waters above the Arctic Circle, several Inuit groups lived in this harsh, snowy landscape.

California is a land of varied landscapes, climates, and cultures.

Baby horses are called foals.

Baby cows are skinny at birth.

What can be as yucky to look at as it is yummy to eat?

What can be as foul as it is fun to eat?

Which animal can help people who are stressed or lonely?

What do service dogs do?

What four-legged soldiers fight beside our troops?

What kind of dog works with the police?

Enter the world of one of the coolest cats in the rain forest.

Who's that swinging through the trees?

Pack your pajamas and sleeping bag, and get ready to learn all about sleepovers.

Do you like holidays?

Do you like holidays?

Easter is here!

Do you like holidays?

Do you like holidays?

Happy St.

Jessica loves spending Passover with her grandparents.

Rachel's uncle is terrible at hiding the afikomen.

Israeli kids and their aunt observe the holiday of Tisha B'Av, which commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, by visiting an archaeological dig at the Temple Mount and participating in their own hands-on dig, in this beautifully photographed book.

A grandma and her little grandson take a walk along a Tel-Aviv street and encounter the conductor and musicians of the Israel Philharmonic gathering for their first performance.

I am a fearless shogun, the military ruler of Japan.

I am a Roman emperor, and my empire stretches from the sunny Mediterranean to northern Europe.

I am a powerful medieval king.

I am the mighty pharaoh of Egypt.

Cici is ready for all her favorite camping activities!

Do you ever worry about the environment?

Have you ever been vaccinated against a particular disease?

Do you enjoy playing computer games or learning programming code?

Do you enjoy performing experiments or studying how the universe works?

Have you ever taken something apart to see how it works?