Fall 2024

Civic Minded

What Everyone Should Know about the US Government

  • Interest Level: Grade 6 - Grade 12
  • Reading Level: Grade 8

How do student loans work? What do sanctions do? Where does federal spending go, and who decides on the budget?

Author and established journalist Jeff Fleischer digs into these and other relevant civics topics to explain the history behind different processes and programs, what they look like today, and why it’s important to understand them.

Through engaging, well-researched text and related sidebars, this book will help you understand and join many ongoing political conversations in the US, from spending to citizenship to international relations and more.

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Interest Level Grade 6 - Grade 12
Reading Level Grade 8
Genre Social Studies, Young Adult
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Traditional Nonfiction
Copyright 2024
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Zest Books ™
Language English
Number of Pages 312
Publication Date 2024-10-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS YAN052040, YAN031000, YAN038100
Dewey 320.473
Dimensions 5.25 x 7.5
Features Author/Illustrator biography, Reviewed, Sidebars, Table of contents, and Teaching Guides

Author: Jeff Fleischer

Jeff Fleischer is a Chicago-based author, editor, and journalist. He is the author of A Hot Mess: How the Climate Crisis Is Changing Our World (Zest Books, 2021), Votes of Confidence: A Young Person’s Guide to American Elections (Zest Books, 2020 and 2016), Rockin’ the Boat: 50 Iconic Revolutionaries (Zest Books, 2015) and The Latest Craze: A Short History of Mass Hysterias (Fall River Press, 2011). His fiction has appeared in more than seventy publications including The Chicago Tribune’s Printers Row Journal, Shenandoah, The Saturday Evening Post, and So It Goes by the Kurt Vonnegut Library and Museum. He has a master’s in magazine journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor’s in both journalism and history from Indiana University.

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Civic Minded

How do student loans work? What do sanctions do? Where does federal spending go, and who decides on the budget? Author and established journalist Jeff Fleischer digs into these and other relevant civics topics to explain the history behind different processes and View available downloads →

Reviews

Kirkus Reviews

“Clear and stripped of partisan hyperbole; every American can benefit from this book.”—Kirkus Reviews