Full name: Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491

Author: Charles C. Mann Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781536628197 1536628190

One Sentence Review: A very effective adaptation of Mann's adult version, and very easy to booktalk if you just tell kids that corn is a Frankenstein creation (which it is). Similar books: Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn by Joseph M. Marshall, III In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen American Holocaust by David E. Stannard Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria If You Lived with the Cherokee by Peter Roop Trail of Tears by John Ehle If You Lived with the Iroquois by Ellen Levine Oh, Yikes! by Joy Masoff A Treasury of Deception by Michael Farquhar The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers If You Lived with the Hopi Indians by Anne Kamma