New Releases by Bonnie Hinman

Born free when most blacks were slaves, Banneker was a successful land surveyor, astronomer, and author of almanacs.

John Winthrop''s plan for "the Citty upon a Hill" was grand and based on noble motives. He wanted a place where he and other Puritans could live and prosper without religous persecution. That place was the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop and his fellow Puritans landed in Massachusetts Bay in 1630. Soon they had organized a government, started towns, and were sending goods back to England.

" Traces the lives and careers of today''s hottest stars" Great for reluctant readers" Attractive full-color covers and candid photos

Details the life and accomplishments of the British general who ordered 700 soldiers to march to Concord to destroy the patriots'' supplies and organized the British assault on Bunker Hull.

Presents the life of the celebrated member of the famous political family who died in a plane crash in 1999.

In early-nineteenth-century Cincinnati, fifteen-year-old George Lankford, whose main interests include creating a steam engine and avoiding a friendship with the badly scared new boy, Charles Lidell, finds his life radically changed when an earthquake hits town.