the Americas of 1491 Mann, Charles C. creator text New York Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2009 First Scholastic printing, October 2010 monographic 116 pages : color illustrations ; color maps ; 23x23 cm This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests. Z 1080 Lexile Z Raz-Plus Charles C. Mann. Indians Origin Juvenile literature Indians History Juvenile literature Indians Antiquities Juvenile literature Indians Origin Indians History Indians Antiquities E61 .M267 2009 970.01 9781416949008 (reinforced) : 1416949003 (reinforced) : DLC 20240112100527.0 2746 eng