From the best-selling author of "Animorphs" and "Everworld" comes a dark and powerful new series that begins in 2011 when the Earth is about to be destroyed. In a desperate attempt to survive, a handful of people aboard a revamped space shuttle are placed into suspended animation. Light years from home and all alone some 500 years later, they awake to find that the very future of the human race is in their hands

The world is going to end. A massive asteroid is headed for Earth and the countdown to Armageddon has begun. A select band of people will be given the chance of survival - a shuttle is being launched into space. For the passengers on board, what sort of world awaits for them when they awake?

The tracing of the descendants of the Mayflower passengers.

Presents fifteen models designed to introduce students in kindergarten through third grade to the pilgrims, their voyage on the "Mayflower," and their settlement in Plymouth.

Follows a group of eighty people chosen to board a revamped space shuttle set to leave Earth before an astroid destroys it and everything on it, but no one knows if their plan will work, or where they will end up even if it does.

The black experience in America--starting from its origins in western Africa up to 1961--is examined in this seminal study from a prominent African American figure. The entire historical timeline of African Americans is addressed, from the Colonial period through the civil rights upheavals of the late 1950s to 1961, the time of publication. "Before the Mayflower" grew out of a series of articles Bennett published in Ebony magazine regarding "the trials and triumphs of a group of Americans whose roots in the American soil are deeper than the roots of the Puritans who arrived on the celebrated Mayflower a year after a 'Dutch man of war' deposited twenty Negroes at Jamestown." Bennett's history is infused with a desire to set the record straight about black contributions to the Americas and about the powerful Africans of antiquity. While not a fresh history, it provides a solid synthesis of current historical research and a lively writing style that makes it accessible and engaging reading. After discussing the contributions of Africans to the ancient world, "Before the Mayflower" tells the history of "the other Americans," how they came to America, and what happened to them when they got here. The book is comprehensive and detailed, providing little-known and often overlooked facts about the lives of black folks through slavery, Reconstruction, America's wars, the Great Depression, and the civil rights movement. This is a classic in examining the history of African Americans from their African past through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars to contemporary problems and accomplishments.

Contains easy instructions for making twenty models, manipulatives, and mini-books that will teach students in grades two through four about the human body.