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When will young readers be able to enjoy the biographies and popular histories that the general public has been buying for generations? When will school districts stop buying history textbooks that are missing narratives and missing controversies? And when will school districts find reading materials that below-grade-level readers can handle? The time to replace textbooks is now, Jim McCabe says. With his guidebook to ninety eBooks, all available for free on the websites of non-profits, McCabe offers an alternative to the status quo for teachers and school board members. Each book in the catalog has succeeded in the marketplace. Each one has been purchased voluntarily by readers who had choices. Not a single eBook in this catalog was produced for the captive marketplace of high school students. And McCabe realizes that students arrive in high school with a variety of reading levels so he describes the reading level of each eBook and has created electives based on reading level and content. This guidebook will give new teachers better preparation as they begin their careers and it will provide current teachers the ability to expand the volume of reading done in their history classrooms. Parents who complain that their teenagers are not reading, can turn the family TVs off and read biographies and popular history along with their children for an hour each evening.