“We wondered, ‘Were we helpless or could we fight?’”
(Nurse Mabel Chilson)
United States history is not a story of everything going right. Americans trying to build our country have faced mistakes, disasters, and emergencies, from shipwrecks and epidemics to fires and ferocious storms.
Luckily, many Americans have bravely faced these challenges, helping themselves and their neighbors. Young Americans have played their part, whether risking their lives to save others, caring for the sick and injured, or even collecting pennies to save a heroic dog.
In these sixteen stories told by historian E.B. Wheeler, you’ll learn how young Americans survived terrible disasters, and how they rose up to become heroes and change the course of United States history.
These are stories about the things that went right when everything looked like it was going wrong.
Great for 5th through 8th graders, ages 10 to 14. ATOS reading level 7.4.
E.B. Wheeler 