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Age Range
10 - 13
Genre
narrative nonfiction
Page Count
176
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Grade Level
5th - 8th
ISBN
9780593386088
Lexile
1250
Themes
native american
u.s. history

Indigenous America (True History)

Written by Liam McDonald, Jennifer Sabin (Creator), & Doug Kiel (Introduction)

The true story of the United States’ Indigenous beginnings.

American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was “discovered” by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus’s and other colonizers’ arrivals. So, what’s the true history? 


Complete with an 8-page color photo insert, Indigenous America introduces and amplifies the oral and written histories that have long been left out of American history books.

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Age Range
10 - 13
Genre
narrative nonfiction
Page Count
176
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Grade Level
5th - 8th
ISBN
9780593386088
Lexile
1250
Themes
native american
u.s. history
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