- A comprehensive series designed to showcase particular features of a country.
- Provides maps, timelines, fast facts, charts, sidebars, and vivid four-color photographs that complement the text.
- Also includes a To Find Out More section. Grades 5-8 Social Studies Culture: I
- Explain how language, literature, the arts, architecture, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture. Time, Continuity, & Change: II
- Identify and use key concepts such as chronology, change, and conflict to explain and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity. People, Places, & Environments: III
- Elaborate mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape.
Author
Sara Louise Kras is an American children’s book author. Her first book titled Giant Lizards was published in 2000. Since then she has had thirty books published. The range of these books are for children ages five to fifteen. Because the majority of her books are nonfiction, she has traveled the world for research. She’s ridden elephants to ancient temples in Cambodia, tracked lions and leopards in Botswana, dived with great white sharks in South Africa, snorkeled with sea lion at the Galapagos Islands, and observed polar bears in the Arctic. On a trip around the world, she visited Egypt, Jordan, India, China, and Indonesia. While in Indonesia she traveled off-the-beaten path to the Komodo Islands to see the Komodo dragons – the largest lizard in the world – in their natural habitat. She lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband. Currently, she is working on several children’s book projects. Her newest fiction book, The Hunted, Polar Prey, is based on a true story.
