Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West
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Does your son race through video games for hours - then stall out on page two of a book?
Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West is the fix, covering the fastest-moving, most dangerous, and truly curious chapter in American history - the kind of story that gets a reluctant reader to turn the page. And then another. And another.
Fifteen years ago, history teacher Joe Giorello started a middle-school class called "Great Battles for Boys" because his own son wouldn't read. The class worked, not only for his son but hundreds of boys who otherwise avoided reading. Today, the Great Battles for Boys books are trusted by families and have earned more than 7,000 five-star reviews - because they spark a love of reading and history in boys who might otherwise avoid books altogether.
In this new volume, boys ride west and find out:
How a small band of defenders held the Alamo for thirteen days - and how Texas won its independence eighteen minutes later at San JacintoWhy a man born into slavery became the most feared Deputy U.S. Marshal in the WestWhat really happened during the thirty seconds of gunfire at the O.K. CorralHow two railroad crews raced from opposite ends of a continent to meet in the Utah desertWhich frontier "cures" were real medicine - and which ones could kill youWhy the Wild West didn't end in 1890. It ended in 1928, with one last gunfight.Every chapter is built for a boy who thinks he doesn't like reading: short, fast, and packed with historic photographs, battle maps, and WHO FOUGHT? profiles of the people who were actually there - Doc Holliday, Annie Oakley, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Bass Reeves, and more.
And it tells boys the truth.
The Wild West included some controversial battles. This book doesn't skip them, and it doesn't sensationalize them. Parents, grandparents, and homeschool teachers can hand a boy this book without worrying about what he'll find in it - or what he'll be missing.
"My grandson has become a voracious reader. His teacher noticed a dramatic jump in his reading proficiency."
"We homeschool, and he learned more from these battle books than from any other curriculum or textbook."
Get him hooked on reading - one battle at a time. Order Great Battles for Boys: The Wild West today.
Once he finishes this one, he'll want the next.
Great Battles for Boys runs all the way from Ancient warfare to the twentieth century, and boys almost never stop at one book:
Ancients to Middle Ages - the fights that built the western worldThe American RevolutionThe Civil WarWorld War IWW2 Pacific and WW2 EuropeThe Korean WarThe Vietnam WarEpic Sea BattlesThe Boys Book of Sea Fights, Volumes 1 & 2The complete series is also available as a set - a gift that tends to outlast every other present in the room.
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