New Releases by Peter Roop

Recounts the life story of the noted explorer, including excerpts from his own writings.

A biography of the noted statesman and inventor, featuring excerpts from his letters, pamphlets, essays, scientific papers, and autobiography.

Includes questions and answers about the history of Thanksgiving, along with jokes and riddles, a craft activity, and a brief look at other harvest celebrations around the world today.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a typical American town, using Elkton, Maryland, as an example.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American schools, covering such topics as travel to school, subjects studied, and the nature of the classrooms.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a large city, using Chicago, Illinois, as an example.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of change and continuity in American farms during the past 150 years, covering such topics as types of farms, farm buildings, farm life, and the effects of weather on farming.

Describes the transportation, schools, housing, shopping, working, recreation, and other aspects of life in a typical American town, using Elkton, Maryland, as an example.

A compilation of entries and excerpts from the journals of William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, describing their historic expedition.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of continuity and change in homes and home life in the United States, including such topics as types of homes, house work, playing, bathing, sleeping, and more.

Text, photographs, and illustrations identify and trace patterns of continuity and change in cities in the United States, including such topics as transportation, homes, recreation, and employment.

Introduces the country of Japan, land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, sports, free time, celebrations, and the arts.

This fun-to-read, well-researched history of Halloween is loaded with jokes and riddles, fascinating facts, many interesting projects for school and home, and ideas for making costumes and masks. Full-color illustrations.

Presents some basic facts about Christmas, along with jokes and riddles, Christmas crafts, and brief explanations of Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

Fourteen essays on animals and their habitats, accompanied by cartoons, riddles, and jokes.

Uses the words of Audubon himself, selected from various sources, to present an account of the life and work of this nineteenth-century naturalist.

Introduces animals that are a part of the ecosytem of the Pacific Northwest, discussing how they depend on one another and their environment for survival.

Presents opposing viewpoints on the origin and purpose of the mysterious megalithic monument in England.

Follows a family of whooping cranes through a year, in a world increasingly hostile to their existence.

Discusses several mysteries of the solar system, including its origin and the possibility of life on Mars, and incorporates the opposing views of experts.

Discusses possible reasons for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper''s return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.

As he practices for a competition, a Hawaiian boy unknowingly breaks a kapu, or taboo, invoked by an evil high priest, and as the traditional punishment is death, he must flee to safety.

The reader is one in a series of stories of the Blackfeet Indians which take place when the people were at the height of their power, hunting buffalo north to the North Saskatchewan River, south to the Yellowstone River, east to the Montana-North Dakota border, and west to the Rocky Mountains. The story is about Little Blaze, a young Blackfeet boy, who is jealous of his older brother, who has been chosen to be the ahwa waki (the buffalo runner). However, he overcomes his jealousy and shows great courage in saving his brother''s life as a herd of buffalo is stampeded over a cliff. (ERB)

A selection of jokes about food, cooking, baking, and eating.