Books in Adventures in America series

Describes what mazes and labyrinths are, explains how to construct a simple one of each, and provides examples throughout history with many for the reader to solve.

Provides information about the Aztec way of life from around 1300 AD, and details their rich artistic nature with descriptions of artwork, clothing, and pottery.

Shows how pop art works to transform ordinary or found objects into works of art, and how the movement grew out of post-war Europe into the powerful American statement of the 1960s.

In nineteenth-century Texas, a young boy learns a great deal about life on the range when he is allowed to accompany the ranch hands on the spring roundup.

In California in 1848 two brothers helping to build a sawmill for John Sutter witness the discovery of gold and decide to stake out a claim for themselves.

Drifting down the Ohio River on a flatboat, Dan Sawyer and his family travel with other families on their way to the western frontier

In the 1840's twelve-year-old Kristi travels from her family's sod house on the Iowa prairie to an Indiana town to stay with relatives and get an education.

Join brothers Sam and Micaiah as they celebrate one of the most colorful holidays in the world, India's "Holi!"

In nineteenth-century Texas, a young boy learns a great deal about life on the range when he is allowed to accompany the ranch hands on the spring roundup.

An aged Indian chief fears that white strangers who have visited his village will return to destroy the Indian way of life

After spending their first summer in Kentucky on their farm camp, the time has come for the Craleys and their neighbors to join in a cabin raising

Book by Peck, Ira, Jantzen, Steven, Rosen, Daniel