Books with author Thomas Allen

From historian Thomas B. Allen, author of Remember Pearl Harbor and George Washington, Spy Master comes a sweeping, dramatic history of the Americans who fought alongside the British on the losing side of the American Revolution. Allen’s compelling account comprises an epic story with a personal core, an American narrative certain to spellbind readers of Tom Fleming, David McCullough, and Joseph Ellis. The first book in over thirty years on this topic in Revolution War history, Tories incorporates new research and previously unavailable material drawn from foreign archives, telling the riveting story of bitter internecine conflict during the tumultuous birth of a nation.

Cosy Joe is the cosiest cat in the world. He likes nothing more than being cosy, but sometimes he has to venture outside...The Cosy Joe stories are written by an 8-year old boy about his cat and other pets. Thomas was so badly bullied at his infant school that he is now having to be home schooled. We started on this project to encourage him to write and we thought we'd publish them so other children could share in his ideas.There's a Facebook fan page where you can see pictures of the real Cosy Joe and the gang and where your children can submit their ideas for Cosy Joe adventures - www.facebook.com/cosyjoecat

In Hell, when Rayea is turned into a vampire, her adventure begins. Blick, her best friend rescues her from a horrible eternity with Satan, her father. They escape to the House of G where Rayea hopes to find peace among Blick's angelic friends until her father comes for her. After Rayea kills her father, everyone believes the worst is over. A relieved Rayea travels to Earth and finally meets her fantasy heartthrob, the actor Ashton Taylor. Rayea is preoccupied with her vacation, her friends, and her new romance until she learns that Blick is deathly ill. Will she be able to save him in time?

ABC Yoga for KidsABC Yoga for Kids simplified yoga poses with alphabetized animals and objects, for kids. Kids often need movement breaks, so why not incorporate the alphabet with yoga poses. Airplane pose Dog pose Mermaid pose, and many more.Twenty-six different yoga postures are displayed in alphabetical order. Each letter of the alphabet is paired with an engaging illustration mimicking the various animals' natural movements and explain how toddlers (and their parents!) can copy the poses, each of which encourages movement, physical fitness, and mental health.

It's 1863. Harriet Tubman is facing one of the biggest—and most dangerous— challenges of her life. She has survived her master's lash, escaped from slavery, and risked her life countless times to lead runaway slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Now she has a new role—that of Union spy! The outcome of a secret night raid deep into Confederate territory depends on the accuracy of the intelligence she and other black spies have gathered. Success will mean freedom for hundreds of slaves. Failure will mean death by hanging. You are about to enter the undercover world of African-American spies—enslaved and free—risking everything in the name of freedom. How were the Underground Railroad and slave songs used to pass secret messages? What were "contrabands" and "Black Dispatches?" What did Harriet have in common with the Secret Six and a maidservant in the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis? You'll discover these answers and more as the action unfolds. Thomas B. Allen, author of the award-winning George Washington, Spymaster, has sifted through military and intelligence archives, diaries, and little-known memoirs from ex-slaves to bring to light new facts about the role Harriet and other black spies played in helping the Union win the war. This detailed account combined with powerful archival images supplemented with woodcuts by Carla Bauer, maps, a time line, footnotes, and extensive quote sources make this incredibly detailed account an excellent resource for report writing as well as an exciting true-life adventure.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

This American history volume for children was published in 1900. From the book's Preface: It is the aim of this work to set forth the main facts of American History, particularly the earlier periods, in such a way as to attract and interest pupils of the earlier grammar grades. It is now very generally acknowledged that history is best approached through biography. Personal incident is more attractive to every one, and especially to children, than any narrative of events can possibly be. Most of the book, therefore, has been given to biographical sketches of representative makers of the nation. Effort has been made to choose those men who would best illustrate the most important phases of national growth. Some of these phases are: the difficulties and dangers of exploration, and how they were overcome by earnestness and perseverance; the risks and hardships of settlement, and how they were met and conquered; the independence and patriotism of the colonists, and how they triumphed; the effect of environment upon character; the develop- ment of the people in politics and government and in social life; and the progress of invention and its effect upon national development. It has not been thought advisable to break the conti- nuity of the narrative by dividing the text into sections, or to insert many dates or foot-notes, or to add analyses and appendices. At the end of each chapter an Outline is given to summarize what has been said, and a few ques- tions added in the line of suggestion. Each teacher will use questions adapted to the age of the pupils and the circumstances of the occasion. The main idea in illustrating the book has been to give the most authentic representations possible of the man, the place, or the thing described, so as to round out and complete the mental impression gained from the text. A few illustrations which may be called imaginative have been admitted; these are chiefly after paintings, based upon authentic knowledge and information, or which are among our national heirlooms. The maps have been made as simple as possible, and sometimes purely diagrammatic in character; and, for the sake of clearness, only such details given in them as are called for by the story. ............................................................................... Content: I. Old-Time Ideas II. Columbus III. The Cabots IV. De Soto and Other Explorers V. Drake and Raleigh VI. Virginia and Captain John Smith VII. Henry Hudson VIII. The Pilgrims IX. The Puritans X. Lord Baltimore and Maryland XI. King Philip's War XII. Peter Stuyvesant and New Netherland XIII. Father Marquette and La Salle XIV. Nathaniel Bacon XV. William Penn XVI. Oglethorpe and Georgia XVII. Life in New England and Middle Colonies before the Revolution XVIII. Benjamin Franklin XIX. George Washington — The French and Indian War XX. The Revolution XXI. Daniel Boone XXII. Thomas Jefferson XXIII. Lewis and Clark XXIV. Zebulon M. Pike XXV. Early Inventors (Fitch, Fulton, Whitney) XXVI. Andrew Jackson. — Tecumseh — ThevWar of 1812 XXVII. Canals, Railroads, Telegraphs, and Other Inventions XXVIII. Oregon — Whitman's Ride XXIX. Texas — Mexican War — California XXX. Abraham Lincoln XXXI. The Civil War XXXII. The United States in Recent Years

This is a heartwarming story of love and devotion and how good can triumph over evil. A fourteen-year-old girl named Jenny from an orphanage is determined to get a retired sign painter named Old Jake to paint holiday windows again. The orphanage needs money to pay a note on the property in January. Jenny wants to help Old Jake paint to make the money. An evil banker named Mr. Caldwell wants the property the orphanage is sitting on. He plans on foreclosing in January because of nonpayment. He does everything in his power to prevent them from reaching their goal. Jenny and Old Jake team up to make the money they need. In the process Jenny becomes a great painter herself. They go to work, and with the snow people's help, they overcome evil with good. Along the way she discovers she has a family she knew nothing about.

Remember Valley Forge tells the ultimate survival story. Travel the trail of defeat that leads Washington's ragtag army to seek winter refuge at Valley Forge. Read from a teenage soldier's diary and a doctor's gruesome accounts of disease, hunger, and cold. Learn of plots against Washington and spies who aid the enemy. Discover why farmers sell the British food as the Continental Army starves and a powerless Congress looks on. Learn the true story behind the amazing achievements of the "winter soldiers." A time line, archival images, maps, Web sites, source list, and index make this an excellent research tool for students.National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources.Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

“Writes with a ferocious passion that’ll knock the wind out of you.” —The New York Times, on Darktown “Reads like the best of James Ellroy.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Darktown “Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers.” —The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown, a “combustible procedural that will knock the wind out of you” (The New York Times).Officer Denny Rakestraw and “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith’s sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake’s brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to “save” their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family or the law. Across town, Boggs and Smith try to shut down the supply of white lightning and drugs into their territory, finding themselves up against more powerful foes than they’d expected. Battling corrupt cops and ex-cons, Nazi brown shirts and rogue Klansmen, the officers are drawn closer to the fires that threaten to consume the city once again. With echoes of Walter Mosley and Dennis Lehane, Mullen demonstrates in Lightning Men why he’s celebrated for writing crime fiction “with a nimble sense of history...quick on its feet and vividly drawn" (Dallas Morning News).