Sunday, June 13, 2010

Children's Book of Patriotic Stories: the Spirit of '76/Google Books

Children's book of patriotic stories: the spirit of '76
Editors Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson
Publisher Doubleday, Page & Company, 1917
Length 305 pages
Overview

The American Republic: a Text in Civics for High Schools

The American republic: a text in civics for high schools, academies and normal schools
Author Samuel Eagle Forman
Publisher The Century Co., 1911
Length 359 pages
Overview

Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Way of the King's Palace, Eighth Grade Reader/Google Books

The way of the king's palace, Volume 8; Volume 1916
King's highway series
The Way of the King's Palace, Elias Hershey Sneath
Author Elias Hershey Sneath
Publisher Macmillan, 1916
Length 284 pages
Overview

Friday, June 11, 2010

The Master of the Strong Hearts: a Story of Custer's Last Rally

The master of the strong hearts: a story of Custer's last rally
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher E.P. Dutton and Company, 1898
Length 314 pages
Overview

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Long Walls: an American Boy's Adventures in Greece/Google Books

The long walls: an American boy's adventures in Greece; a story of digging and discovery, temples and treasure
Elbridge Streeter Brooks, John Alden
Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896
Length 328 pages
Overview

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Historic Boys: Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times/Google Books

Historic boys: their endeavors, their achievements and their times
Author Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Publisher G. P. Putnams̓ Sons, 1885
Length 259 pages
Overview

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Course of Study and Manual of Methods/Google Books

Course of study and manual of methods for the district schools of Michigan
Author Michigan. Dept. of Education
Publisher Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers, 1914
Length 200 pages

For grades one through eight, helpful lists and reading suggestions sorted by grade.

Overview

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Fortune of the Republic/Google Books

Fortune of the republic
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Houghton, Osgood and company, 1878
Length 44 pages
Overview
Eighth grade reading.

Monday, May 24, 2010

Enoch Arden: Including also the Lotus Eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for School and Home Use/Google Books

Student version with Cliff Notes type background and analysis.

Enoch Arden: including also the Lotus eaters, Ulysses, Tithonus for school and home use
Author Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson
Publisher E. Maynard & co., 1890
Length 54 pages
Overview

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Practical Things with Simple Tools: a Book for Young Mechanics/Google Books

Practical things with simple tools: a book for young mechanics
Publisher Sully and Kleinteich, 1916
Length 214 pages
Overview

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools/Google Books

Manual of Geography Combined with History and Astronomy: Designed For Intermediate Classes in Public and Private Schools
Author James Monteith
Published 1877
Overview

Richly illustrated, and still useful despite being outdated in places.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Easy Lessons in Popular Science(Science and Geography)/Google Books

Items on maps are numbered, and each area is covered in a chapter section. Designed for use with a multi-grade elementary school class.

Easy lessons in popular science: and handbook to pictorial chart ...
Author James Monteith
Publisher American Book Co., 1879
Length 251 pages
Overview

Saturday, May 15, 2010

George Washington: The Man/Google Books

George Washington: the man
The Riverside literature series
Author Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher Houghton Mifflin company, 1917
Length 94 pages
Overview

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle(1775): and Other Verse and Prose/Google Books

Generally read in 7th grade.

Grandmother's story of Bunker Hill battle: and other verse and prose
Riverside school library
Author Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1891
Length 93 pages
Overview

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Curious Homes and Their Tenants(Nature Studies 7th and 8th Grades)

Curious homes and their tenants
Appleton's home reading books
Author James Carter Beard
Publisher D. Appleton, 1897
Length 275 pages
Overview

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Synonyms/Google Books

Synonyms: Designed to Give Skill in the Choice and Right Use of Words, and to Afford Variety and Facility in Expression
By John H. Bechtel
Penn Publishing Group, 1915
Overview

Saturday, May 1, 2010