A Land Remembered For Students – Get Yours Here

Here’s How To Get Students Excited About History And Reading

“The kids love the characters, the story … everything about the book.”
Nancy Prizito, 4th Grade Teacher, Beachland Elementary, Vero Beach

A Land Remembered for students is available in a two-volume edition. (Volume 1 contains chapters 1-23; Volume 2 continues with chapters 24-45.)Young readers love it. We have heard from many parents and teachers that this book was just what was needed to teach a youngster the joy of reading (the kids tell us the same thing). Give your child, grandchild, niece, nephew, or friend the gift of a lifelong love of reading by getting them started on a book they are sure to finish – give them A Land Remembered for students.

 

In VOLUME 1, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, with his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at his side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood.

 

In VOLUME 2, with the birth of Zech and Glenda’s son, Solomon, a new generation of MacIveys learns to ride horses, drive cattle, and teach rustlers a thing or two. Sol and his family earn more and more gold doubloons from cattle sales, as well as dollars from their orange groves. They invest it in buying land, once free to all, now owned and fenced and increasingly populated until it becomes just “a land remembered.”
Sold As Complete Sets (Volumes 1 & 2)

Volume 1 & 2 Softbound – $17.00 

Volume 1 & 2 Hardbound – $30.00 

Also Sold As Individual Volumes 

Volume 1, Softbound – $9.95  (Also available on Kindle)
Contains chapters 1-23.

Volume 1, Hardbound – $16.95 

Contains chapters 1-23.

Volume 2, Softbound – $8.95  (Also available on Kindle)
Contains chapters 24-45.

Volume 2, Hardbound – $16.95 

Contains chapters 24.45.

A Land Remembered Teaching Guide

You get study guides with tests on all chapters of the student volumes of A Land Remembered. They are all in pdf and Word format and are ready for you to print out and use right away or alter to meet your needs. Also includes additional activities. For grades 4 – 8.

A Land Remembered Teaching Guide (Immediate Digital Download) – $15 –
You will receive an email with a link to download a .zip file.

Click here to get a FREE STUDY GUIDE for chapters 4-6 as a sample.

Order 10 or more copies of A Land Remembered hardbound, softbound, or student versions and you will automatically get 10% off the regular price.

When ordering 40 or more books total you’ll also get a free copy of Patrick Smith’s Florida, A Sense of Place DVD – a $19.95 value in addition to the 10% discount.

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We gladly accept school, library, and institutional purchase orders.

All Florida kids should read this book. I’m so glad my son loved history and made me read it. ~ Susan Serra, Largo, FL

Teaching Manuals Written By Teachers To Enhance Teaching A Land Remembered

Teaching manuals are useful to teach language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.

You can preview this teaching manual by clicking here. (Please return here to purchase.)

A Land Remembered Goes To School
An Elementary Teacher’s Manual for A Land Remembered: Student Edition – $6.00 –

The Elementary Teacher’s Manual is also available in Kindle.

Middle School Teacher Plans and Resources for A Land Remembered 

$7.00 –

The Middle School Teacher’s Plans and Resources is also available in Kindle

You can preview this manual by clicking here. (Please return here to purchase.)

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FREE Resources

Vocabulary List: Here is a very extensive vocabulary list for A Land Remembered, compiled by WildClassroom.net

Florida History Resources and Links

An Essay by Hailee Chattaway
A Fourth Grade Student at Eisenhower Elementary School
Clearwater, Florida

What A Land Remembered Has Taught Me

A Land Remembered has taught me to treasure the land that we’ve got, it has helped me out of thinking negative and into thinking positive, and last……. This book has made me feel emotions I have never felt before. Let me tell you more!

This book has taught me to treasure the land that we’ve got. That’s the first reason why I like this book. The land that is free should be for the animals, not for hotels, condos, and mini-malls. It should be only for the poor animals digging in the trash for a single scrap of food. Tobias, Zech, and Sol taught me that. The MacIvey’s are a unique, one-of-a-kind, earth-living family. I respect that 100%.

This book got me thinking less negatively and more positively. That’s my second reason why I like this book. I used to think “Oh. I can’t do this,” Or “He/she is doing better than me, I suck!” Now I think more positively “I know I can!” Or “You can do it! You’re just like any other genius!”  It’s hard to think positively because my mom has three diseases, and my brother who knows a lot isn’t very patient with me. Sometimes I think he buys new patience at the store when he takes his time to help me! But the MacIveys NEVER gave up….So I will try my best to do the same through the tough times that I endure!

This book made me feel emotions I have never felt before! This is my third and final reason why I like the book! Soloman made me as furious as a train’s whistleblowing! Cutting down trees, draining rivers, and building hotels where hammocks once were. When Emma, Tobias, Glenda, Nip and Tuck, Ishmael, Zech, and Sol died, I was as lonesome as a lone wolf crying in the moonlight sky waiting for an answer from another wolf. The MacIvey clan came slowly and faded away fast. Sadness, and happiness all emotions I felt reading, A Land Remembered! A story of a family that was beloved and forgotten. The history that went with this once-read book is unexplainable.

In conclusion, these are the three reasons why I adore this book, A Land Remembered!  It really has taught me to treasure the land we’ve got, to stay positive, not be negative, and to feel emotions I’ve never felt before.

I am a teacher in Orange County.  I have taught A Land Remembered to my Freshmen.  Although I am a Yankee Ohioan who always thought Ohio history was the best, A Land Remembered has given me new respect for the people who came to what is now the state of Florida. The story is told with such raw realism that even my most reluctant readers are interested. I read the story to my students because I can’t afford a class set, the story is so captivating I feel like I am telling them a personal story.

On a more personal note, As I drive through the state, I live in central Florida to visit my relatives in south Florida, I often think of the story.  It is like I am a part of the state I now call home. Thanks to the author and your company for printing this wonderful story.

Candace B. Drake