4 New Books!
14 Titles in Series!
• Supports Common Core State Standards for Reading Informational Text
and Writing Standards (grades 4-5)
• Stimulating writing prompts encourage readers to use evidence from
the text to support their response
• Magazine-format makes history accessible to reluctant readers
• Includes primary source materials
Explore with Francisco Pizarro
by Lisa Dalrymple
ISBN 978-0-7787-1700-3 RLB ISBN 978-0-7787-1704-1 PAP
ISBN 978-1-4271-7700-1 eBook
Explore with James Cook
by Lisa Dalrymple
This adventurous book follows the travels of British navigator Captain James
Cook and his voyages in the Pacific. Historical information and high-interest
fact boxes are presented in an entertaining tabloid style that guides readers
through major journeys, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include why
the British sent Cook to the Pacific, technological innovations in navigation,
claiming Australia for the British, contact with the Maori, and Cook’s violent
death in Hawaii.
ISBN 978-0-7787-1701-0 RLB ISBN 978-0-7787-1705-8 PAP
ISBN 978-1-4271-7701-8 eBook
Explore with John Cabot
by Cynthia O’Brien
This fascinating book follows the travels of Italian navigator John Cabot along
the northeast coast of North America. Historical information and high-interest
fact boxes are presented in an entertaining tabloid style that guides readers
through major voyages, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include what led
Cabot to sail west, life on board ship, the cod industry on the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the fate of Cabot’s unsuccessful
From Explore
second voyage, and Cabot’s legacy.
Explore with John Franklin
by Cynthia O’Brien
This exciting book follows the travels of British explorer Sir
John Franklin on his doomed expedition to the Arctic. Historical
information and high-interest fact boxes are presented in an
entertaining tabloid style that guides readers through major
voyages, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include the
search for a Northwest Passage through the Arctic, life stuck
in the ice, contact with the native Inuit, Franklin’s disappearance,
and the long quest to discover the expedition’s fate.
ISBN 978-0-7787-1703-4 RLB ISBN 978-0-7787-1707-2 PAP
ISBN 978-1-4271-7703-2 eBook
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Reading Level: Grades 4-5
Interest Level: Grades 3-6
32 pages, 8½ x 10¾”,
full color
Four new explorers have been
added to Travel with the Great
$20.70 RLB
Explorers, a series that uses
$9.95 PAP
a modern tabloid-magazine style
of reporting, gossip, and humor to introduce readers to the
achievements of some of history’s most famous explorers. The
lively style presents not just the where and why of groundbreaking
expeditions, but also how explorers found their way, how they
traveled, and how they treated the people they met. The books
also reveal the landscapes through which travelers passed.
This informative book follows the travels of the Spanish conquistador
Francisco Pizarro in Peru. Historical information and high-interest fact
boxes are presented in an entertaining tabloid style that guides readers
through major voyages, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include what
led Pizarro to head into the Andes, first encounters with the Inca, the Inca
capital at Cusco, Pizarro’s desire for gold, and the overthrow of the Inca
Empire.
ISBN 978-0-7787-1702-7 RLB ISBN 978-0-7787-1706-5 PAP
ISBN 978-1-4271-7702-5 eBook
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