"Would you have survived the shark attacks of 1916? Make decisions and tally your score to find out . . . Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the state of medicine in eighteenth-century New Jersey, particularly during the Revolutionary War when nine out of ten deaths in the American forces were due to disease.

A textbook of New Jersey history concentrating on Indian and early colonial life traces briefly the area's development into a modern industrial state.

Combining rich historical detail and harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, the author re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue great white shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore.

Examines the diversity of peoples who inhabit New Jersey, including Native Americans and immigrants from many lands.