Books with author Rae Bains

Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast

A biography of the Indian leader whose nonviolent passive resistance tactics influenced reformers in other countries

Traces the life of the highly respected Confederate general, with an emphasis on his difficult boyhood in Virginia

A biography of the nineteenth-century French artist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology

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Describes the life of the fifth president of the United States, with an emphasis on his youth in Virginia

Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast

Explains how all matter is composed of atoms, which join together to form molecules, and how scientists have learned to release energy by splitting the atom

A biography of the nineteenth-century French artist who discovered the process for destroying harmful bacteria with heat and opened the door to the new science of microbiology

Discusses briefly the characteristics and uses of some common rocks and minerals

Explains the importance of the contribution made by the Italian sailor and navigator Christopher Columbus, whose discovery of America in 1492 changed the geography of the known world

Briefly traces the history of the pilgrims, a group of Puritans who fled England to escape religious persecution, sailed to Massachusetts on the Mayflower, and celebrated their first harvest there in 1621 with a great feast