Homefront Heroes
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About this ebook
Book Features:
• Ages 9-15, Grades 4-9
• 32 pages, 7 inches x 9 inches
• Simple, easy-to-read pages with full-color pictures
• Includes post-reading questions and activities
• Reading/teaching tips and glossary included
Beyond the Battlefield: In Beyond the Battlefield: Homefront Heroes, 4th—9th graders go beyond the traditional battlefield to uncover the amazing tales of courageous civilians who risked their lives during times of war in their own communities.
Action-Packed Stories: Not all war heroes are fighting on the battlefield. Young readers learn about amazing civilians who risked their lives for their country and communities during times of war.
Build Reading Skills: This engaging 32-page children’s book will help your child improve comprehension and build confidence with guided post-reading questions and fun activities.
Leveled Books: Part of the Beyond the Battlefield series, the grade-level text and full-color pictures make this children’s book an engaging story with fun and interesting facts about civilians and their war efforts from home.
Why Rourke Educational Media: Since 1980, Rourke Publishing Company has specialized in publishing engaging and diverse non-fiction and fiction books for children in a wide range of subjects that support reading success on a level that has no limits.
Allen R. Wells
Allen R. Wells is an author and engineer. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He studied Architectural Engineering at Tennessee State University in Nashville. He is the author of It's Pride, Baby! and Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark. He currently lives in Virginia. DeAndra Hodge is an illustrator and character designer based in Washington D.C. She graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Art from the University of Montevallo. She is the illustrator of Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark by Allen R. Wells. DeAndra grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, a.k.a “Rocket City” where Yvonne Clark spent a summer working on the Saturn V booster engine.
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