Pocahontas
Description
Meet Pocahontas through an engaging biography that helps children understand what life was like in early colonial America--and how one person's choices can make a difference.
In Pocahontas: One-of-a-Kind Peacemaker, children explore the world she grew up in, the challenges her community faced, and the role she played during moments of conflict and uncertainty. With helpful historical context throughout, kids can see how relationships, communication, and thoughtful decisions can shape what happens next. Full-color photographs and illustrations bring her story to life and support understanding along the way.
Pocahontas: One-of-a-Kind Peacemaker
- Explores Pocahontas's life and her role in fostering understanding during early colonial history
- Includes a timeline linking Pocahontas's life to world events and key moments in history
- Provides meaningful activities that connect to her story and the cultures of her time
Add context, color, and character to history with Pocahontas: One-of-a-Kind Peacemaker!
The One-of-a-Kind series takes a fresh look at history's most fascinating figures, going beyond the biographies you may already know by adding context, color, and character to each person's story. Instead of focusing only on major accomplishments, these books weave in the wider world around each historical figure--what else was happening at the time, who influenced them, and how their actions helped shape the era they lived in--so children can better understand why their contributions still matter. Each title also includes a timeline that connects the person's life to key events in history and engaging activities that help bring their experiences and ideas to life.
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Persons
Lorin Driggs is a children's author who has written books on many topics, including true stories of individuals who made a positive impact on achieving freedom for all in the United States, the interesting and unique characteristics of different regions in the United States, amusement parks in America, amazing plants that survive in truly harsh conditions, and fantastic landmarks around the world. She also wrote about her own experience as a survivor of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001. Besides being a writer, Lorin has helped create learning experiences for children and teachers involving television programs, computer-based activities, and books.
Lorin grew up in a very small town in Central Florida and moved to New York City when she was 18 years old. She earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature from City College of the City University of New York.
Besides writing and creating things for children and teachers, Lorin loves dogs, gardening, observing all the interesting wild animals and plants in nature, volunteering at a wild bird rescue and rehabilitation center, riding her bike, and going to live theater and the movies. She currently lives with her wife in Sarasota, Florida, but who knows where they might live next!