Children’s / Teenage general interest: Practical interests

Boys and girls will love the creepy monster recipes in this cookbook for kids!

With Kabobs for Kids, creative kids can go beyond traditional and put their imaginations to work threading all the makings for breakfast, sandwich, or dessert kabobs on a Popsicle stick, bamboo skewer, or a chopstick.

No more complex store-bought kits.

Simple beginner recipes that show girls how to make homemade treats just as sweet as they are!

From bestselling children's cookbook author Barbara Beery comes a delightful new cookbook created just for aspiring sprites, elves, gnomes and nymphs!

Easy Christmas Cut-Up Cakes for Kids proves that you dont have to spend lots of money to getsomething special!

Step-by-step instructions for creating papier-mache monstrosities and expanding the limits of your imagination, from the author of Paper Mache DragonsCelebrated monster-making master Dan Reeder is at it again helping others to let out their inner monsters!

Pamper yourself like a princess!

Little girls will love the ballet-themed recipes in this cookbook.

In early America, married women had no rights under law.

It was women who first picketed the White House for a political cause.

In the 1800s, women were second-class citizens.

It took decades, and a Constitutional amendment, for all American women to get the right to vote.

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In the United States, people of all different backgrounds live together.

By the year 2050, Latino Americans will number 80 million.

Each Mexican American has a story like no other.

What do a ghost story, a wise saying, and a holiday celebration all have in common?

In the United States, people of all different backgrounds live together.

In the United States, people from all different backgrounds live together.

Americans with darker skin colors have often faced discrimination in the United States.

In the United States, people from all different backgrounds live together.

In the United States today, Hispanics make up the largest minority group.

Abraham Rodriquez speaks for many Puerto Ricans when he writes, "e;Of course I'm Puerto Rican.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

The United States' boundaries have expanded over the centuriesand at the same time, Americans' ideas about their country have grown as well.

On November 4, 2008, Americans went to the polls and elected the first black president in the history of the United States.

Historically, theocracy has been a fairly rare form of government.

In an oligarchy, political power rests with a small privileged group.

Monarchy is a form of government in which a hereditary ruler serves as head of state, typically for life.

How did large, complex states develop from small clans and nomadic tribes?

In the turbulent years after World War I, a new type of governing philosophy took shape in a handful of countries.

Today, the basic ideas underpinning democracy--that government exists for the benefit of the people, and that it must have their consent to be legitimate--may seem obvious.

For several decades during the 20th century, communism was one of the world's dominant forms of government.

Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China has been a one-party state in which the Chinese Communist Party holds a monopoly of political power.

What would China's revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, think if he were alive today?

In 1976, at the death of its longtime leader Mao Zedong, China was in a state of economic stagnation and social chaos.

Although graced with picturesque beaches, lush rain forests, and abundant diamond mines, the tiny West African nation of Sierra Leone is a land haunted by tragedy.

Located on the westernmost point of Africa, Senegal is a land of stunning coastlines, semi-desert sands, fertile river valleys, grassland plains, and tropical rainforests.

With more than 170 million people, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country.

For centuries the Kingdom of Morocco, located in the northwest corner of Africa, has been a crossroads for trade between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

The early history of Liberia was promising.

The name of the Ivory Coast (also known as Cote d'Ivoire) comes from its history; at one time, Europeans came to the region to hunt elephants for their valuable ivory.

Ghana, located on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, was once known as the Gold Coast because of its vast deposits of this precious mineral.

The name Democratic Republic of the Congo is a misnomer: the country has never been truly democratic or a republic.

If Cameroon is "e;Africa in miniature,"e; then understanding this California-sized coastal nation takes one closer to capturing the story of this remarkable continent.

The combination of breathtaking scenic beauty, fabulous wildlife, and peace-loving citizens makes Botswana a favorite of tourists from all over the world.

The modern state of Angola was established in 1975, when it won its freedom from Portugal.

The vast North African country of Algeria became independent in 1962 after a brutal eight-year-long war against France.