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Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

We were there, too! : young people in U.S. history / - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001. - vii, 264 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

"Melanie Kroupa books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-256) and index.

"Tierra!" When two worlds met.-- Strangers in paradise: the British Colonies.-- Breaking away: the American Revolution.-- Learning to be a nation.-- One nation or two? The Civil War.-- Elbow room: the West.-- Shifting gears in a new century.-- Hard times: wars, depression, and dust.-- Times that kept a-changin'.-- Linking up in the twenty-first century.

Biographies of dozens of young people who made a mark in American history, including explorers, planters, spies, cowpunchers, sweatshop workers, and civil rights workers.

ISBN: 0374382522 0789425874

LCCN: 99089052

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Children--United States--Biography--Anecdotes--Juvenile literature.
Youth--United States--Biography--Anecdotes--Juvenile literature.
Children--Biography.
Youth--Biography.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Anecdotes--Juvenile literature.
United States--Biography--Anecdotes--Juvenile literature.
United States--History.

LC Class. No.: E178.3 / .H74 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 973