The USA / Oxford Bookworms Stage 3 Alison Baxter.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford bookworms library. Stage 3. Factfiles.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 72 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 21 cm + 2 audio discs (95 min. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780194233910
  • 019423391X
  • 9780194236034
  • 019423603X
  • 9780194236027
  • 0194236021
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 428.6 22
LOC classification:
  • PE1127.H5 B37 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
In the beginning -- The Pilgrim fathers -- The war of independence -- The Civil War -- The wild West -- Native Americans -- New Americans -- Black Americans -- The government of the USA -- Living in the USA -- Eating and drinking the American way -- Music from America -- Some great American cities -- California -- Beautiful places to visit -- Hot and cold, big and small.
Summary: "Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world. Cowboys, jazz, hamburgers, the Stars and Stripes - that's the United States. But it's a country with many stories to tell. Stories of busy cities, and quiet, beautiful forests and parks. Stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against itself, to make the United States of today. Stories of rich and poor, black and white, Native American and immigrant. And the story of what it is really like to be an American today ..."--Publisher's description.
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In the beginning -- The Pilgrim fathers -- The war of independence -- The Civil War -- The wild West -- Native Americans -- New Americans -- Black Americans -- The government of the USA -- Living in the USA -- Eating and drinking the American way -- Music from America -- Some great American cities -- California -- Beautiful places to visit -- Hot and cold, big and small.

"Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world. Cowboys, jazz, hamburgers, the Stars and Stripes - that's the United States. But it's a country with many stories to tell. Stories of busy cities, and quiet, beautiful forests and parks. Stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against itself, to make the United States of today. Stories of rich and poor, black and white, Native American and immigrant. And the story of what it is really like to be an American today ..."--Publisher's description.

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