This is a great book for helping children (and adults) gain a better understanding of America and its people. The book is full of statistics about things like populations, energy use, income, housing, etc. The author symbolizes America's 304 million people by having 1 person represent 3 million people and framing statistics that way. For example instead of saying that there are 250 million Christians in America the book says that out of the village of 100 people 82 of them are Christian. Breaking down statistics in this way makes the information much more easy to process and remember. I would definitely keep this book in my classroom and use it for different units to help students gain a better understanding of what statistics represent.
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