Fall 2020 Sneak Peek
READ, EXPLORE, ASK, LEARN, DISCOVER! Nomad Press is passionate about sparking and feeding the natural curiosity kids have about the fascinating world around them! Many of our books include science-minded investigations to expand learning into tactile moments that stick with readers long after the final page. Other books consist of contemporary biographies that dive deep into the STEM careers of successful women. We also offer a set of nonfiction picture books for elementary-school scientists, plus a series of compelling true history stories that offer middle schoolers the chance to get excited about the past! Using Nomad Press books in the classroom? Our books: • Align with Common Core State Standards. • Help students reach the National Science Teachers’ Association benchmarks. • Align with the Next Generation Science Standards. • Incorporate STEM or STEAM material. • Incorporate the 10 themes identified by the National Council for Social Studies. • Provide Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measures for each book to help teachers and parents match kids to the books that best fit their reading abilities and needs. • Offer primary sources and essential questions in most books to foster independent study.
CONTE NTS Social Studies World History....................................................................................... pages 2 & 3 U.S. History...................................................................................... pages 3 & 6–7
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What does it mean to BE A GLOBAL CITIZEN? The right to grow and thrive in a safe environment. The right to a name and an identity. The right to the free expression of ideas. The right to an education. In Global Citizenship: Engage in the Politics of a Changing World, readers ages 12 to 15 find the resources and information they need to become active, engaged global citizens who work toward sustained equality for all. Learn about the history and evolution of citizenship, past and ongoing human rights struggles, economic justice, and environmental sustainability. Ready to create a better future for all? Let’s go! WORLD HISTORY PB: 9781619309364, $17.95 HC: 9781619309333, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Ages: 12–15 Grade Level: 7–9 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Dive into the ORIGINS OF THE UNIVERSE! What exactly is the universe? How did we get here? And where is it all going? Explore these questions and more in The Universe: The Big Bang, Black Holes, and Blue Whales, where readers ages 12 to 15 dive into the scientific mysteries of the past and of our own time. Essential questions, stunning photography, hands-on STEAM activities, graphic novel– style illustrations, and more make for a deeply engaging experience of the universe as you’ve never seen it before!
EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE PB: 9781619309326, $17.95 HC: 9781619309296, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
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Ages: 12–15 Grade Level: 7–9 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Fall 2020 OCTOBER 2020
Experience the period AFTER THE CIVIL WAR! What happened after the end of the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s death? Reconstruction: The Rebuilding of the United States After the Civil War examines these questions while studying the similarities and differences between then and now. Reconstruction was a period of intense change in the United States. Through critical-thinking exercises, essential questions, and links to online resources, readers ages 12 to 15 discover a world that might seem centuries away but still has lessons to offer.
U.S. HISTORY PB: 9781619309760, $17.95 HC: 9781619309739, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Ages: 12–15 Grade Level: 7–9 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Discover a bleak period in HUMAN HISTORY How did the murder of one man, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, escalate into a global conflict that took the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians? In World War I: The Great War to End All Wars, readers ages 12 to 15 learn about the events that led to the first battles of WWI all the way through the war’s final hours. This book asks readers to examine primary sources, photographs, artwork, and literature produced by people involved in the war to explore a complete picture of the global conflict. Hands-on activities and research projects help kids identify how the past provides context for the present-day world. WORLD HISTORY PB: 9781619309722, $17.95 HC: 9781619309692, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Ages: 12–15 Grade Level: 7–9 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
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Explore the world of LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo da Vinci stood at the forefront of the Renaissance as inventors, artists, and innovators reveled in the search for answers to questions that had long lay unexplored. In The Science and Technology of Leonardo da Vinci, readers ages 9 through 12 explore the life of one of the world’s most amazing minds, discovering what it might have been like to live in the seventeenth century, when work, entertainment, medicine, travel, and food were very different. Kids love the links to online media, STEM projects, and loads of career connections in the fields of engineering, art, astronomy, medicine and more! ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY PB: 9781647410148, $17.95 HC: 9781647410117, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Ages: 9–12 Grade Level: 4–7 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Discover the life and work of BEN FRANKLIN Diplomat, statesman, writer, scientist, inventor—Ben Franklin had many different ideas and interests along with an all-consuming appetite for knowledge and experience. In The Science and Technology of Ben Franklin, readers ages 9 to 12 experience Franklin’s joy of learning by reading about his life and doing hands-on inventive activities that promote innovation and engineering-design thinking. Kids love the links to online media and loads of career connections in the fields of engineering, art, astronomy, and more! ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY PB: 9781647410186, $17.95 HC: 9781647410155, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
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Ages: 9–12 Grade Level: 4–7 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Fall 2020 NOVEMBER 2020
Gain insight into the ATOMIC UNIVERSE Discover the world of Marie Curie, a person who revolutionized the way we perceive the universe while getting the world to question gender roles and social norms. In The Science and Technology of Marie Curie, readers ages 9 through 12 explore Curie’s groundbreaking scientific research in physics and chemistry and discover how this research forced people to rethink the very structure of their surrounding world . . . and the role of women within it. Hands-on STEM activities, essential questions, text-to-world connections, and links to online resources encourage readers to take a closer look into Curie’s world. ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY PB: 9781647410223, $17.95 HC: 9781647410193, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Ages: 9–12 Grade Level: 4–7 Specs: 8 x 10, 128 pages, color interior
Read an Excerpt!
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a handful of chemists and physicists tirelessly worked to bring about a seismic shift in scientific knowledge. They wanted to prove that everything we are and everything we see is made up of miniscule parts, smaller than anything humans had ever imagined. And at the forefront of this group of intrepid pioneers was an unlikely figure who defied convention to reset the way that scientists work, and who laid the foundations for the new field of atomic science. Her name was Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934).
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The CIVIL RIGHTS Era 4 BOOK HARDCOVER SET: 9781619309289, $89.95
Ages: 12–15 Grade Level: 7–10
Specs: - 8 x 10 - 112 pages - color interior
Singing for Equality: Musicians of the Civil Rights Era introduces readers ages 12 to 15 to the history of the civil rights movement and explores the vital role that music played in that tumultuous period of American history. Hands-on projects and research activities alongside essential questions, links to online resources, and text-to-world connections promote a profound understanding of history and offer opportunities for social-emotional learning.
U.S. HISTORY PB: 9781619309234, $14.95 HC: 9781619309203, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
In Boycotts, Strikes, and Marches: Protests of the Civil Rights Era, readers 12 through 15 explore five ground-breaking protests that took place during the 1950s, ’60s, and early ’70s. Become immersed in the excitement, challenges, and spirit of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Draft Card Burning Protests of the Vietnam War, the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott, the first Gay Pride March, and the Women’s Strike for Equality. Hands-on activities and research projects use critical- and creative-thinking skills, while links to online resources, text-to-world connections, and essential question all create bridges between the world then and now and encourage social-emotional connections. U.S. HISTORY PB: 9781619309197, $14.95 HC: 9781619309166, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
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In Changing Laws: Politics of the Civil Rights Era middle graders explore key legislative and judicial victories of the civil rights era, including Brown v. the Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As racial tensions ripped the country apart, presidents from Eisenhower through Nixon worked to uphold the U.S. Constitution, sometimes willingly and sometimes reluctantly. Opportunities for social-emotional learning and the formation of criticaland creative-thinking skills, thrive through hands-on projects, research activities, essential questions, links to online resources, and text-to-world connections. U.S. HISTORY PB: 9781619309272, $14.95 HC: 9781619309241, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
Sitting In, Standing Up: Leaders of the Civil Rights Era tells the story of one of the most tumultuous and important eras in American history through the lives of five major figures of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s: Thurgood Marshall, Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker, and John Lewis. Hands-on activities, essential questions, text-to-world connections, and links to online resources encourage readers ages 12 to 15 to explore how the work of these people sparked the passion of a nation and helped change the tide of social injustice in a way that reverberates to this day. U.S. HISTORY PB: 9781619309159, $14.95 HC: 9781619309128, $22.95 eBook: all formats available, $12.99
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