The Teddy Bear Habit (Lost Treasures, #3)

Teddy Bear Habit or How to Become a Winner

The Mark Twain You Never Knew

The Empty Mirror

The Winter Hero

The Abraham Lincoln You Never Knew

Me and Billy

Jazz: The American Theme Song

The Clock

With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War

The Clara Barton You Never Knew

Chipper

Louis Armstrong: An American Genius

My Brother Sam Is Dead

The George Washington You Never Knew

War Comes to Willy Freeman (Arabus Family Saga, #1)

The Alexander Hamilton You Never Knew

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

In this rousing coming-of-age story, readers return to the exciting frontier of an America that is moving west. Twelve-year old Jesse, having struck down his father in a fit of rage, has come to a major crossroads in his young life. No longer able to live with Pa, he runs away to the mountains where every day is a struggle to survive. Having to fend for himself, he hunts wild animals, builds a cabin, takes on a mad mountaineer, and even helps kill a bear. Though stubborn and ornery as ever, Jesse slowly gains confidence as well as much needed insight. I was watching me turn myself into a mountain man. What begins as a tale of self-imposed exile becomes an action-packed voyage of self discovery that will keep readers glued to the pages.

Wild Boy

This series meets National Curriculum Standards for: Social Studies: Culture Individuals, Groups, &amp; Institutions Time, Continuity, &amp; Change

The Frederick Douglass You Never Knew

In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

The Bloody Country

The final book of the three-part Arabus family saga, in which a spunky black kitchen slave learns the startling truth about her family when she eavesdrops on Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and President Washington.

Who Is Carrie? (The Arabus Family Saga, #3)

A free thirteen-year-old black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears.

War Comes to Willy Freeman

The Making Of Jazz: A Comprehensive History

Traces the life and career of the great jazz trumpeter and entertainer, and discusses his influence on modern music.

One thing we can be sure of is that jazz was invented in America. From the small sunlit barns that dotted the Louisiana countryside around the turn of the century to the booming nightspots in New York in the 1920s, America has always been the home of jazz. But how did jazz get started? Who were its first musicians? And what was it about America that made it the birthplace of this century's greatest music? Newbery Honor-winner and jazz critic James Lincoln Collier tackles these questions and others, tracing the history and evolution of jazz in America. Beginning with the African tribal music transported here by slaves, Collier reveals the roots of jazz in gospel and ragtime before launching into a discussion of Dixieland, swing, bebop, the cool school, free jazz, and fusion. Along the way, we meet the great personalities who shaped the music: giants like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, who brought jazz into the mainstream; mavericks like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who toyed with its sound and structure; and avant-gardists like Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane, who revolutionized and reinvented jazz. In this lively, sometimes controversial photo-filled account, Collier shows us how jazz became an international craze, all the while remaining as American as apple pie.

Jazz: An American Saga

- Award-winning author - Tells who key figures in American history really were - Blends stunning original art with archival reproductions - Map - Index Grades K-4 National Social Studies Standards - Time, Continuity, and Change: II - Accounts of past events, people, places, and situations contribute to our understanding of the past - Identify and use sources for reconstructing the past (diaries, pictures, maps) - Individual Development &amp; Identity: IV - Explore factors that contribute to one's personal identity such as interests, capabilities, and perceptions - Power, Authority &amp; Governance: VI - Recognize tensions between the wants and needs of individuals and groups, and concepts such as fairness, equity, and justice

The Louis Armstrong You Never Knew

Harold is sent to a psychiatrist for reporting that he had seen a medieval city. He later enters the city and travels back in time.

Why Does Everybody Think I'm Nutty?

"Jamestown's American Portraits," an American saga of families and friends, traces the fascinating history of America through many generations and cultures and through the eyes of adolescent girls and boys. "Jamestown's American Portraits" is a unique, enriching reading program designed to teach reading skills and strategies while exploring exciting historical novels.

The Corn Raid (Jamestown's American Portraits)

When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner workings of a clock, fifteen-year-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town's new wool mill to help support her family. Her job is full of risk  especially after she and her friend Robert discover that the mill's cruel overseer is stealing bags of wool and decide to do something about it. Annie longs for the chance to continue her schooling and become a teacher. Will she ever be able to leave the mill? An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

Clocks (Great Inventions)

For use in schools and libraries only. In the mid-eighteenth century a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.

The classic story of one family torn apart by the Revolutionary War All his life, Tim Meeker has looked up to his brother Sam. Sam's smart and brave -- and is now a part of the American Revolution. Not everyone in town wants to be a part of the rebellion. Most are supporters of the British -- including Tim and Sam's father. With the war soon raging, Tim know he'll have to make a choice -- between the Revolutionaries and the Redcoats . . . and between his brother and his father.

My Brother Sam Is Dead (A Newbery Honor Book)

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Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s.

The Jazz Kid

Johnny promised his father, wounded while fighting for the South, that he would take care of the family and not run off to fight. When there's a request to take his mules and wagon on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops, Johnny can't resist. Then he's captured by Cush, a runaway slave. Johnny doesn't like taking orders from a black, but he has no choice. He's heading for prison camp wondering what will become of his family and himself.

Life for indentured servents in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for 12-year-old Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age gives him a friend, the first real friend he has had in years-until his master's plan to raid an Indian village for corn turns Richard's world upside down. br&gt;Titles in this series: - This Generation of Americans: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement, by Fredrick L. McKissack, Jr. - The Road to Freedom: A Story of the Reconstruction, by Jabari Asim - All For Texas: A Story of Texas Liberation, by G. Clifton Wisler - The Worst of Times: A Story of the Great Depression, by James Lincoln Collier - Wind on the River: A Story of the Civil War, by Laurie Lawlor - When I Dream of Heaven: Angelina's Story, by Steven Kroll (1895 Italian Immigrant in NYC) - An Eye for an Eye: A Story of the Revolutionary War, by Peter and Connie Roop - Sweet America: An Immigrant's Story, by Steven Kroll - The Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement, by James Lincoln Collier - Revenge of the Aztecs: A Story of 1920s Hollywood, by Susan Beth Pfeffer - To Touch the Stars: A Story of World War II, by Karen Zeinert

The Corn Raid: A Story of the Jamestown Settlement

Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the great genius' of jazz--its major composer and leader of probably the most significant of all jazz bands. Yet, other than his own not-very-revealing autobiography and a collection of reminiscences of his band members, there has never been an indepth biography of this preeminent figure in twentieth century music and entertainment. Here at last is the definitive critical biography of both the man and his music. James Lincoln Collier, author of the highly acclaimed Louis Armstrong: An American Genius, has produced a fascinating work which tells the full story of Edward Kennedy Ellington, from his childhood as the pampered and adored only son of a middle-class Washington black family to his death in 1974, hailed as "America's greatest composer" (according to the New York Times obituary) and mourned at his funeral by more than 10,000 people. Collier describes Ellington's charisma--his sense of being special even from childhood, when he would announce to his cousins "I am the grand, noble, Duke; crowds will be running to me,"...the formation of his band, including some of the greatest names in jazz history, among them, Barney Bigard, Johnny Hodges, Cootie Williams, Lawrence Brown, and Paul Gonzavles...his arrival at the legendary Cotton Club in Harlem in the 1920s...his involvement with his manager Irving Mills, who manipulated and cheated him and even put his name on some of Ellington's songs, but who made him famous...his relationship with his family, including his troubled relationship with his son, his marriage and many affairs (including involvements with some of his own musician's women). But most of all, the book is about the creation of the music, from classic songs like "Sophisticated Lady" to the "sacred concerts" of Ellington's last years. Collier maintains that it is not necessary to see Ellington as a "composer" in the narrow sense of the word but as something just as important: an improvising jazz musician. His instrument was a whole band.This is a controversial book--not all will agree with Collier's assessments--but it will enthrall jazz buffs as well as anyone interested in a fascinating life and times.

Duke Ellington

This biography of Benny Goodman's music and times attempts to recreate the colourful music world of the 1920s and 1930s, when Goodman was hailed the King of Swing. The author offers insights into the character and music of a man who helped transform the Depression years into the Swing Era.

Benny Goodman and the Swing Era

Young Daniel Arabus and his mother are slaves in the house of Captain Ivers of Stratford, Connecticut. By law they should be free, since Daniel's father fought in the Revolutionary army and earned enough in soldiers' notes to buy his family's freedom. But now Daniel's father is dead, and Mrs. Ivers has taken the notes from his mother. When Daniel bravely steals the notes back, a furious Captain Ivers forces him aboard a ship bound for the West Indies--and certain slavery. Even if Daniel can manage to jump ship in New York, will he be able to travel the long and dangerous road to freedom?

James Lincoln Collier

Following are some books written by James Lincoln Collier