Escritor: Rosen Publishing Group

Maracana

More than 500,000 bags of cement were used to build this amazing Brazilian stadium. The Maracana stadium is so big that it can hold 200,000 screaming fans! This feat of engineering will engage young readers from beginning to end.

Crispus Attucks: Hero Of The Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks, a former slave, was living in Boston on March 5, 1770. Hearing of a fight between some citizens of Boston and British soldiers, Crispus boldly took lead at the front of the crowd and struck one of the British soldiers. The soldier fired and hit Attucks with two musket balls. Four other men…

Paul Revere

Describes the life and times of the well-known hero of the American Revolution, Paul Revere, a patriot and silversmith whose midnight ride was made famous in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

John Sutter

Surveys the life of Swiss/German immigrant John Sutter, on whose land gold was discovered in the mid-nineteenth century, spurring the California gold rush and westward expansion.