Now adapted for youthful readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller which makes true American background come alive in every of its discord, drama, and difficulty Lies My Teacher EXPLAINED is one of the most important-and successful-history books of our time. Having sold almost two million copies, the reserve won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Honor for Recognized Anti-Racist Scholarship. Today Rebecca Stefoff, the acclaimed nonfiction children’s writer who adapted Howard Zinn’ about Lays My Teacher EXPLAINED for Young Readers: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Incorrect s bestseller A People’s History of the United States for young visitors, makes Loewen’s favorite work available to more youthful students. Essential reading in our age of fake information and slippery, sloppy background, Lies My Teacher EXPLAINED: Young Readers’ Edition cuts through the mindless optimism and outright is situated within most books that are often not even actually compiled by their ‘authors.’ Loewen is usually, as historian Carol Kammen provides said, the annals teacher we all should have had. Beginning with pre-Columbian background and then covering heroes and occasions as different as the initial Thanksgiving, Helen Keller, the My Lai massacre, 9/11, as well as the Iraq Battle, Loewen’s lively, provocative telling of American background is normally a ‘counter-textbook that retells the storyplot from the American past’ (THE COUNTRY). This streamlined youthful readers’ edition can be rich in stunning details and quotations from major resources that poke holes in the textbook versions of history and help college students develop a deeper knowledge of our world. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition provides this classic text to a new generation of readers (and their parents and educators) who will welcome and value its honesty, its humor, and its integrity.