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IF YOU WERE THERE SERIES

This series from Scholastic helps elementary age children visualize what life would have been like for them if they had lived during a different period of American history. Reading level is ages 9-12, but younger children will understand if this is read aloud. The books answer such questions as the following:

1. Where would you live?

2. What kind of house would you live in? What was the furniture like?

3. What about the bathroom?

4. What kind of clothes did people wear?

5. Where did people get their food? How and where was food prepared?

6. What did children and grown-ups do for fun?

7. Would you go to school? What kind? What would you learn and how?

8. Where did travelers stay overnight?

9. How did people get their mail?

10. How did sick people get help?

Each book focuses on a specific time period and would answer a different set of relevant questions, but the ones above are typical for those centered on a historical period rather than based on specific social issues. Each book does discuss what was important politically during the time period it covers.
$5.39-D each

If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln, by Ann McGovern. This book explains what it was like to grow up on the frontiers of Kentucky and Indiana, in the prairie town of New Salem, and in the city of Springfield, Illinois, during the early 1800s. 79 pages. BTH-1034. $5.39-D

If You Grew Up With George Washington, by Ruth Gross. In this book readers will learn what it was like to live in Virginia during the colonial times of the 1730s and 1740s. 64 pages. BTH-1044. $5.39-D

If You Had Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, By Ellen Levine. This is another book that focuses on politics. It explains the changes brought about by the civil rights movement -- how it began, how it affected children, how the fight against segregation was planned and carried out. 80 pages.BTH-1042. $5.39-D

If You Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann McGovern. This book explains to children what it was like to live in New York City in the year 1900. . Children learn what the streets were like, what games they might have played, what their schools might have been like, what clothes they might have worn, what the new inventions were, how people kept their food fresh, etc. 80 pages. BTH-1035. $5.39-D

If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution, by Kay Moore. This book explains what started the American Revolution, how it divided the people into Loyalists and Patriots, what you would have seen in a battle, how civilians-children and adults -- were affected by the war, and how life changed when the war was over. 80 pages. BTH-2737. $5.39-D

If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War, by Kay Moore. Readers will learn in this book what it was like to live during the time of the Civil War from 1861 - 1865. It explains what everyday life was like for both civilians and soldiers of both the Union and the Confederacy. 64 pages. BTH-1045. $5.39-D

If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake, by Ellen Levine. In this book readers will visit San Francisco, California shortly before, during, and after April 18, 1906, the day the great earthquake struck. As if you were there you will try to decide what things in your house you will try to save, how you will carry them, were you will live if your house has been destroyed. You will experience what an earthquake looks, feels, and sounds like, and see how the animals act, and you will hear exciting rescue stories. 64 pages, $5.39-D

If You Lived in Colonial Times, by Ann McGovern. Children will learn what it was like to live in the New England colonies from 1565 - 1776. 80 pages. BTH-1036.  $5.39-D

If You Lived in the Days of the Knights by Ann McGovern. If you lived back in the Middle Ages in the time of the knights, do you think you'd live in a castle? Would you have to go to school? What would you do for fun? What would you wear? Learn what your life would have been like 700 years ago. 79 pages. BTH-1043. $5.39-D

If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial Days by Barbara Brenner. Children will learn what it would have been like for them to grow up over 200 years ago in the town of Williamsburg, Virginia, before there was a United States. 79 pages. BTH-1037. $5.39-D

If you Lived With the Cherokee, by Peter and Connie Roop. Children will learn what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family in the Great Smoky Mountains about 200 years ago. 79 pages. BTH-2892. $5.39-D

If You Lived with the Sioux Indians, by Ann McGovern. Children will learn what it was like to live as a Sioux Indian in North and South Dakota during the years 1800 to 1850. 80 pages. BTH-2891. $5.39-D

If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, by Ann McGovern. Learn all about how the ship looked, what the journey was like, and how the land was settled when they got to shore. Ends with the first Thanksgiving. 80 pages. BTH-2893. $5.39-D

If You Traveled on the Underground  Railroad, by Ellen Levine. This book explains what it was like to be a slave trying to escape on the Underground Railroad, how slaves found out about it, the dangers they faced on the journey, what happened if they were caught, and what they did after they were free. 64 pages. $5.39-D

If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, by Ellen Levine. This book explains the daily life, dangers, obstacles, and adventures of the pioneers who traveled west to Oregon in the 1840's. 80 pages.
BTH-1038. $5.39

If You Were a Pioneer on the Prairie by Anne Kamma. 64 pages. Can you imagine living with no electric lights, no refrigerators, no TVs, radios, computers, or air conditioners? How would you like to have no supermarkets, automobiles, or running water in the house? The pioneers on the prairies had none of these things. Find out how they got around, how they preserved and cooked their food without gas and electricity, what they did for fun, and much more. BTH-2895. $5.39-D

If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution, by Elizabeth Levy. In this book you will look behind the locked doors of the State House in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787, meet the key delegates, and find out what's going on. This book does not deal with the daily life questions listed above, but with the political situation after the Revolutionary War.   80 pages. BTH-1039 $5.39-D

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