Books in Everyday Life Series series

Topics: getting there, homes, food and clothing, tasks and chores, dangers and hardships, frontier schools, fun and amusements, justice, towns, heroes and heroines, and Native Americans. GDY328.

"Learn about castles and moats, knights and jousts, the Crusades, and the bubonic plague. Being a knight wasn't as fun as you might think! Intercurricular activites and puzzles follow each chapter to enhance language arts, math and critical thinking skills."

Book by Ross, Anne

"Learn to appreciate how inventions in science, industry, transportation, and technology helped shape history and the way Americans live and work."

"From traveling by foot and horseback to blasting off in a space shuttle, transportation pioneers redefine means of transportation."

Describes the day-to-day life and work of a fifteenth-century printer in Nuremberg, Germany, as seen through the eyes of his twelve-year-old son

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A look at monastic life in twelfth century France follows the experiences of Pierre, a young novice, as he learns about the rules and work of the monastery

Describes the travellers of medieval Europe on their way to war, the crusades, another manor, and to sell or to buy merchandise.

Learn about how people survived hardships and established a new way of life on the frontier extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Appalachian Mountains as well as the frontier beginning with the settlement of the Great Plains.

Presents the story of a young auxiliary soldier at a fortress on Hadrian's Wall, depicting life in the Roman Army in the third century A.D

A look at the everyday life of an artist's apprentice as he learns from the master architect of the Rheims Cathedral in thirteenth-century France depicts medieval culture, history, and religion and offers a glossary of masonry and carpentry tools.