Entries by Jim McCabe

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Samples of all of our titles are available on Amazon so that you and your faculty, and students can see if the narratives are engaging. The ebooks are a combination of young adult and regular trade biographies. These books were not published in the last couple of years. Typically, they are trade biographies or young […]

Free ebook: Death is Incidental, A Story of Revolution in Mexico by Heath Bowman and Stirling Dickinson

The writer, Heath Bowman, does not slow down to spell out the details of the two revolutions in this story. So the preface and introduction which add  some details about the settings which may be useful to you. People have died to own land for generations around the world. Bowman asks us when these deaths […]

Free: Revolts, Resistance and Emancipation by Dorothy Sterling. Grade Level is 9.1

Here is the story of the slavery issue from the first slave traders through the African-American part in early American history and the Civil War, and the events and people who played a part in the history-making document, the Emancipation Proclamation. Read about Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner who led revolts, and the settlements of […]

Thomas Edison: American Inventor by Ray Eldon Hiebert and Roselyn Hiebert

Download in the epub format for Android and Apple devices: Download in the mobi format for Amazon devices: A self-made man with little formal education, Thomas Edison had a remarkable mind and possessed the imagination, creative ability, self-confidence, and perseverance to succeed brilliantly in his field. It was he who perfected the incandescent electric bulb, […]

Tom Paine-America’s Godfather by W. E. Woodward, Grade Level is 10.3

Download an epub version here: Download a version for Kindle Fires and other Amazon devices: An excerpt from a review in The New York Times: Paine’s Career Highly Dramatic Mr. Woodward writes of Paine with the brisk and lively vigor that has distinguished all his books. Subtleties of character analysis and beauties of language he […]

Abraham Lincoln by James Daugherty

Download the epub format for Android tablets, Chromebooks and Apple devices: Download the mobi format for Amazon devices: James Henry Daugherty (1889-1974), winner of a Newbery Medal for Children’s Literature, was born in Asheville, North Carolina, but grew up in Indiana and Ohio. When he was 9, the family moved to Washington D.C., where he […]