All the Gears' previous titles in the First North American series have been national bestsellers. Now, People of the River is finally available in mass-market.

A look at the geography, history, economy, language, social classes, villages and cities, religion, culture, and inventions of the ancient Indus River Valley.

Many children in North America aren’t aware of the importance of rivers in their community. This book lets kids see how indigenous peoples rely on the river as

Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through