Books with author Sally Senzell Isaacs

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life at the Alamo In this book, discover how Spanish people from Mexico set up the home of the Alamo in Texas in the early 1700s. Find out how life changed for the Native Americans of Texans. Learn how Americans moved into Texas and, after battles with the Mexicans, made Texas part of the United States. Then use a recipe to make a popular treat from the time–picadillo!

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in San Francisco's Chinatown In this book, learn why thousands of people from China came to San Francisco after 1848. Discover how they mined for gold, build railroads, and set up homes, stores, laundries, and restaurants. Find out how Chinatown grew and changed and what it is like today. Then use a recipe to make a popular treat from the timefortune cookies!

All About America: Stagecoaches and Railroads by Sally Senzell IsaacsBe part of history in action! Travel back in time to the most exciting and inspiring periods in American history. Action-packed and historically accurate, All About America covers the most important periods in the history of a burgeoning nation, from Colonists and Independence to The Civil War, and from Cowboys and the Wild West to the early inhabitants, the Native Americans. With detailed reconstructions and original artwork from each period, find yourself immersed in the incredible action, as you confront the redcoats, catch gold fever, journey West, and ride the trails, your trusty lasso at your side.

Discover the everyday lives of American Indians living in the East and how and why in the 1830s they were forced from their homelands. Find out what it was like to be captured at home, put in stockades, then made to walk along rough trails to Indian Territory. Learn how the U.S. government failed to keep its promises to the American Indians whose lives were changed forever. This book describes in detail the lives of the Cherokee people who were forced to give up their homeland and traditions to start new lives on land chosen for them by the government. Each book in the series uses reconstruction illustrations and photographs along with clear text and fact boxes to bring the story of our nation to life.

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life on the Underground Railroad In this book, discover what life was like for slaves escaping to freedom in the North. Learn how slaves found out about the trails to follow and how people helped them on their way. Travel with the slaves as they head north, avoiding slave catchers. Then use a recipe to make a food that runaway slaves have eatensouthern biscuits!

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in a Hopi Village In this book, see how one group of Native Americans–the Hopi–built their special homes. Learn about Hopi families and how they worked and played together. Learn how the Hopi found and made their food. Then use a recipe to make a Hopi treat–Pinole drink.

The Picture the Past series looks at the many kinds of communities in America's past. Each book describes what made each community different and what children and adults did each day. Life in San Francisco's Chinatown In this book, learn why thousands of people from China came to San Francisco after 1848. Discover how they mined for gold, build railroads, and set up homes, stores, laundries, and restaurants. Find out how Chinatown grew and changed and what it is like today. Then use a recipe to make a popular treat from the time–fortune cookies!

About the SeriesAction-packed and meticulously researched, with specially-commissioned illustration, detailed reconstructions and original artwork from each period, reading lists, and resources for further study, this series is an immersive introduction to the history that shaped America.Starting with Europe's increasing interest in North America in the 1600's, and covering everything up to ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, Colonists and Independence is an accessible account of the social and geographic forces that led to the founding of the United States. From the Pilgrim's journey and the Mayflower Compact, to the day-today life in the early colonies, the role slavery played in building the nation, and the political crisis which lead to Revolution and War. With dynamic full-bleed spreads featuring historical objects, cutaway illustrations, scenes from daily life, and accessible age-appropriate text, this book breathes new life into this vital period in American history, and makes it understandable to today's contemporary readers