Global Issues: World Poverty (Facts On File, 2008)—research companion for high school/junior college
What’s Cooking? The History of American Food (Lerner Publications, 2001)—middle-grade nonfiction
- Bank Street College, Best Children’s Books of the Year 2001, Bank Street College
Get Up and Go: The History of American Road Travel (Lerner Publications, 1996)—middle-grade nonfiction
This Land Is Your Land: The American Conservation Movement (Lerner Publications, 1994)—middle-grade nonfiction
Uncle Sam Wants You: Military Men and Women of World War II (Lerner Publications, 1993)—middle-grade nonfiction
“V” Is for Victory: The American Home Front during World War II (Lerner Publications, 1993)—middle-grade nonfiction
- Distinguished book, Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California
- Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, NCSS-CBC Joint Committee, 1993
Hernando de Soto and the Explorers of the American South (Chelsea House, 1991)
—middle-grade nonfiction
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