Author: Marilyn Boyer
Series: What a Character! Notable Lives from History
Narrator: Will Stauff
Unabridged: 2 hr 32 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 10/09/2023
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography
America’s War Heroes: Notable Lives from History offers you a fantastic way to give your 4th – 8th grade level students reading practice. Student’s will enjoy the full color illustrations, maps, war stories, and easy-to-find vocabulary worlds and definitions. Exciting for anyone who enjoys American history, this reader features the life stories and accomplishments of 10 notable war heroes from the American War of Independence, The War of 1812, The Civil War, World War 1 and World War including:
Ethan AllenDaniel MorganFrancis MarionJohn Paul JonesStephen DecaturDavid FarragutJohn MosbySergeant YorkJake DeshazerDesmond DossYour students will be inspired by the remarkable accounts of these heroes to apply their God-given talents and opportunities to impact their generation and possibly change the world!
America’s War Heroes is part of the What a Character! Series which can be used alongside Master Books curriculum for reading practice or to dive deeper on topics that are of special interest to the students. The stories incorporate well with history, language arts, vocabulary words and definitions, as well as science, innovation, and cultural insights.
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