The Founding of a Nation: The story of the 13 Colonies;

Now, when the hard-earned rights and freedoms we enjoy are taken for granted, we need to rediscover what life was like without them and how difficult, conflicted, and tenuous the development of our democracy was. Elizabeth Richards provides for children a highly readable and essential history of our democracys founding. Her book helps to lay a sound basis for understanding the challenges our form of government faced and the difficulties faced by those who labored to create our democratic republic. Alan Wadsworth, retired social studies teacher and school administrator