I went to the school and worked on the Archive Library site. It is an amazing resource.
I looked at some of the information on Sitting Bull. I was mostly interested in looking at the texts and abstracts available online in children's literature. I saw book titles that I have not seen before. I am familiar with the more common ones, but these looked more interesting for my students since they are quite familiar with the common stories about Sitting Bull.
I checked out other children's stories about George Washington, stories about communism, and American history. I didn't quite understand at first what they meant when they said "full text PDF." I thought that meant you could view the book online and read parts of it. Instead, you get an excerpt from the School Library Journal that gives a review about the book. The review and short description of the book are very helpful and would certainly help a person make a good decision about whether a particular book is fitting for the child or lesson that the book was needed for.
It is a great site. I think it would be the most useful for a person who was not sure of what he/she were looking for, and also for research when the person has to be sure the information is at the level of reading that it needs to be.
Hi, lovetoread! You found a very interesting application for ArchiveGrid that I had not thought of before! Thanks for the idea and the comments!
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