Books with author Janey Levy

Jamestown Colony is often held up as a great achievement of colonization. It did help start the United States, after all! However, the truth of Jamestowns beginnings is a less pleasant story of starvation, drought, and frequent quarrels with nearby Powhatans. Readers will learn lots of fascinatingand shockinginformation about the settlement to enhance what they learn in the social studies curriculum. Fact boxes full of surprising details will increase interest while historical images help readers picture what life in the first permanent English colony was like.

Animals are a familiar part of most people's lives, from household pets to farm animals to backyard birds, but the animal world holds an enormous number of weird and freaky stories. This fascinating book is the second volume in this popular series to explore such stories. Readers will be thrilled to learn about animal oddities like creatures with night-vision goggles, organisms that are almost invisible, and even the swarm of bees that followed a car for two days to rescue their trapped queen. Absorbing text and vivid images will keep readers engaged. Captions, sidebars, fun facts, and a graphic organizer enrich the narrative.

"Today, women can have careers in fields such as medicine, engineering, and politics. But it wasn't always that way. Women couldn't even vote when the United States was founded. Readers of this powerful volume will discover the history of women's rights through the words of women who fought for them, including Abigail Adams urging her husband to "Remember the Ladies," Elizabeth Cady Stanton's "Declaration of Sentiments," Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, the contemporary #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, and much more. Vivid images bring the text to life, and sidebars, fact boxes, and a graphic organizer enhance the main text"--