Chinese Immigrants

Michael Teitelbaum‏ · Robert Asher‏

ינו׳ 2009 · Infobase Publishing

מידע על הספר הדיגיטלי הזה

The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a ""nation of nations."" Spanning the time from when the Europeans first came to the New World to the present day, the new ""Immigration to the United States"" set conveys the excitement of these stories to young people. Beginning with a brief preface to the set written by general editor Robert Asher that discusses some of the broad reasons why people came to the New World, both as explorers and settlers, each book's narrative highlights the themes, people, places, and events that were important to each i.

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Michael Teitelbaum is the author of more 150 children's books including young adult and middle-grade novels, tie-in novelizations, and picture books based on characters, movies, and television shows such as Spiderman, Superman, and Avatar. He has worked with all the major trade children's publishers, including Scholastic, Little, Brown, Dorling Kindersley, Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, Disney, Reader's Digest, and HarperCollins. Michael's sports series, Backyard Sports, is based on the best-selling video game of the same name. He was also editor of Little League Magazine For Kids, and is the author of a two-volume encyclopedia on the Baseball Hall of Fame as well as Breaking Barriers; In Sports, In Life a character education program, based on the life of Jackie Robinson. Michael is the author of The Scary States of America, 50 short stories, one from each state, all about the paranormal, based on true events, published by Yearling. Michael's latest book,The Very Hungry Zombie, done in collaboration with artist Jon Apple, is a parody of a children's classic, published by Skyhorse.