Among the authors of this highly acclaimed series are Laura Ingalls Wilder Award winner Milton Meltzer, Coretta Scott King Award winner James Haskins and noted author Raymond Bial. The series itself focuses on major population shifts in America and the driving forces behind them. The authors' vivid accounts are given additional immediacy with the inclusion of excerpts from diaries, newspaper articles and letters.
The strange and wonderful experiences of the 13th-century explorer are recounted in this book which highlights his journey to China from Venice and back and his 17 years at Kublai Khan's court