Veritas Press Catalog 2008/2009 - (Page 53) S I X T H G R A D E she praised her Lord. We would do well to follow her example. Soft 222p 26 #460-100 $11.99 Daily Life in a Covered Wagon Paul Erickson How did they do it? What did they eat? How did they survive sickness and attacks from thieves? Drawing on diaries and letters, this book explores what life was really like on the wagon trail. A project in the Veritas Press Teacher’s Manual makes extensive use of this book. Soft 48p 8 #435-283 $7.99 Sitting Bull Lucille Recht Penner 20 #435-845 $3.99 The Trail of Tears Joseph Bruchac 6 #490-850 $3.99 Wagon Train Sydelle Kramer 8 #435-960 $3.99 What Makes the Light Bright, Thomas Edison? Melvin and Gilda Berger Soft 48p 25 #510-925 $4.99 Early History Readers Collection, 6th Grade (All fourteen titles, 15% savings) Gettysburg MacKinlay Kantor #255-277 $49.20 A favorite from the original Landmark series. The citizens of the quiet Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg peered from their windows in terror. Strange grayclad soldiers were striding down their streets. Read about what was to become the bloodiest, saddest engagement of the Civil War. Soft 149p 14 #490-530 $5.99 Escape From Warsaw Ian Serraillier Davy Crockett: His Own Story David Crockett Originally written in 1834, this “autobiography” actually was written by Davy Crockett, and the flavor of the times and place come through. This book went a long way to establish Davy Crockett as a largerthan-life American hero. Soft 122p 7 #045-050 $14.95 On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi Storm Troopers arrest their mother. Now they are alone, and food and shelter are hard to find. Finally, they get word that their father is alive and in Switzerland. See what happens next. 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