Resources

Note: Start your research with the excellent Britannica Discover America series. You will find all the categories (economics, history, sociology/culture and geography) well covered there.

Web Sites>

• US Regions
• Fact Monster 50 States (especially helpful)
• The 50 States
• State Statistics
• Maps101 (user name is acds, password is maps101)
• Stately Knowledge (make sure you go to the "Encyclopedias & Almanac" tab once you go to your state. Then use the Columbia encyclopedia site.)
• Directory of State Sites
• Shepphard's Software: New England & Mid-Atlantic, Southern (should include Virginia and W Va), Midwestern/Great Plains, Mountain and Southwestern, Pacific
• US Census Bureau State Info
• Encyclopedia Britannica (terrific resource for in depth information)
• ESPRAT+G Information

Books>

• Encyclopedia Britannica Discover America Series
• Our Fifty States by Mark Bockenhauer and Stephen Cunha
• Facts about the Fifty States by Sue Brandt
• I Love America! A Treasury of Popular Stories, History, Poems, and Songs by Shelagh Canning
• The World Almanac of the U.S.A. by Allan Carpenter
• My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States by Lee Bennett Hopkins
• Unite or Die: How Thirteen States Became a Nation by Jacqueline Jules
• The Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller
• Passport to the United States by Keith Lye
• The Flag We Love by Pam Munoz Ryan
• If America Were a Village: A Book about the People of the United States by David Smith
• First Facts About the States by David Stienecker
• United Tweets of America: 50 State Birds, Their Stories, Their Glories by Hudson Talbott
• How to Draw Cartoon Symbols of the United States by Curt and Kelley Visca
• Go, Go America by Dan Yaccarino

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