A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights: Curfews, Censorship, and the 100-Pound Giant Hardcover - 1999
by Kathleen Krull; Anna DiVito (Illustrator)
Packed with anecdotes and sidebars, fascinating legal case studies, and humorous illustrations, Krull's lively introduction to the controversial Bill of Rights entertains even as it informs.
From the rear cover
Which 462 words are so important that they've changed American history more than once? The Bill of Rights: the first ten amendments to the Constitution, the crucial document that spells out how the United States is to be governed.Find out what the Bill of Rights is and how it affects your daily life in this fascinating look at the history, significance, and mysteries of these laws that protect the individual freedoms of everyone -- even young people.
- Why did early American founders (like James Madison, Congressman from Virginia) argue that individuals needed a Bill of Rights to protect them from government?
- Why is freedom of speech so thrilling and so controversial?
- What is religious intolerance, and when can it be fatal?
- What does it really mean to take the Fifth?
- And how does the Bill of Rights affect the rights of kids?
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- Title A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights: Curfews, Censorship, and the 100-Pound Giant
- Author Kathleen Krull; Anna DiVito (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins
- Date 1999-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780380974979 / 0380974975
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 1100
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Civil rights
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99017324
- Dewey Decimal Code 342.730
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Citations
- Booklist, 12/01/1999, Page 702
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2000, Page 105
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 102
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