Children's encyclopedia of American history (King, 2003) is quite a good history book for young people. It covers many of the pivotal historical events of the USA from its beginning to 9/11. Most of the informational paragraphs are accompanied by images of people, documents, etc., which aids in comprehension and adds to background knowledge. Its format of chunking information simply makes reading about history less boring or daunting. Other useful features are the timelines on the opening pages of each era/period, and the appendix documents and charts. A project for my students could be choosing one of the topic headings, reading the following paragraph(s), then expounding upon them. ELL students at a low English language proficiency could complete the project with pictures and a corresponding sentence - almost using the pages of the book as the format.
King, David C. (2003) Children's encyclopedia of American history.
New York: DK Publishing.
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