This book has many eye opening moments for me. There is so much information in this book that I never really knew the true story of. It actually made me a little upset thinking that I was spoonfed what they wanted me to know in school.

As a history nut this book is a great read but it reads like a history text book that will turn off many readers.

Many part of history are in fact boring which will be skipped over by teachers or completely ignored. Which can cause misinformation or history being lost to the winner instead of the defeated. This book tries to get to the root of all stories.

This is a great recourse book for any history nuts or anyone teaching history to children and teens.

Thank You to Netgalley and The Publisher The New Press for the advance copy of Lies My Teacher Told me.

This is an important book. Like many, I remember little from high school history class, but, through reading over the decades, realized more and more how our selective education doesn't reflect reality. Numerous "heroics" are debunked here, each story more fascinating than the last. For me, James Michener toppled Columbus as an iconic hero and our horrific treatment of American Indians is well-known. More enlightening is the author's research on who was here first. This is supposed to be a simplified version of Loewen's original work and I can't wait to read that edition for more details.

This is an important read for anyone that wants to understand how inaccurate their history class was if they went to public school in America. There are so many omissions and inaccuracies that are cleared up by reading this book.

I really enjoyed this book.  I had always wanted to read the original but it always seemed too daunting a task, considering my lifelong dislike of history.

To be fair, I realized through this book that I retained more of the US history I learned in public school than I would have thought.  Unfortunately, this book taught me that most of what I had retained was wrong, or at least majorly lacking in context.

I'm not sure how I would have felt about this book though if I were still a teenager.  It's a little dry but it's better than textbooks that reinforce rote memorization of what will be on the test. This book taught me that many high schoolers felt this way about studying history, and offers some suggestions to combat that disinterest in the classroom.

That's why I'd love to see an actual textbook written this way - created as a side-by-side comparison book (left side original textbook, right side questioning/correcting/adding context).

I think the younger generations are getting better at questioning things so the rewriting of this book has come at an appropriate time. Everyone really should read it. Young and old, I hope everyone does.

Great job!  I did notice a few typos, but I assume this is a pre-edited ARC and they'll be corrected.
(i.e. "zand" - Kindle location 160 about Helen Keller)

This book is a great read. It is interesting, informative, and thorough. As an English teacher and a history buff, I find the truth eye-opening. The author explains the facts behind mainstream, textbook approved facts. For example, I now understand the heightened attention to race in the 1920s because of President Wilson's racist influences. As a teacher of English, I understand literature reflects the society in which it is written. I can use the information in this book when I teach American classics. I highly recommend this book to history teachers literature teachers, and history buffs. The facts make history come alive.

Love the use of primary sources to demonstrate the rhetoric used in textbooks to create a love for country. This book would make a fine companion to the required materials in any history classroom.

My 11 year old read this book as part of his history homeschool curriculum. He was fascinated by it and often read parts out loud to me because he wanted to make sure I learned everything he was learning. He loved it so much he is recommending it to his best friend so he can question his teachers at school more than he already does. He especially loved the title and hopes history books include more of the facts he learned.

This was a very interesting book. Although I do not teach history, and knew about many of the stories in the book, I am sure I learned all this as an adult. I am happy a book written for younger students will present a more diverse view of history.

I think this book, which tells more of the story of some of America's heroes and founders, will be enlightening to most students and especially resonant with students who wish for a more multiracial depiction of history.

The writing was crisp and easy to read, and I would imagine some of the short articles could easily be used to compare and contrast against other sources for assignments that have students analyze perspectives and become historians. This would be a fantastic way to frame a unit on who writes history and who has their voices lost or a unit on creating fuller pictures of today's "heroes."

All in all an interesting book.

Thanks to the author, Netgalley.com, and the publisher for my ARC.

I'm so excited that this book exists. I've been a fan of the original, and am glad to see one specifically for the middle and high school set. An excellent choice for homeschooling.

A great gateway into thinking critically about history and demanding our school curriculums do better.

I love James W. Loewen’s “”Lies My Teacher Told Me” books. This is the young readers edition, but as an adult it is just as engaging. In this edition, James places front and center the misleadings of our elementary education..and let’s just say there are quite a few. What I like most about these books, is James examines multiple textbooks throughout the US and kind of rates which ones are the most accurate and where others fail miserably. He brings to light many biases that exist within our education system I never would have noticed. ( I had no idea Helen Keller was such a revolutionary socialist and I’m SHOOK) I recommend this book for lovers of history of all ages

In "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers’ Edition", Author James W. Loewen slightly revises his best-selling book for a version dedicated to teen readers. He tackles the subject of school history textbook and the facts they get wrong - or just skip over all together. As someone who loves history, but always hated the textbook versions (so boring!), this was a real eye-opener.
How can we ever hope to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past if we don't learn from them. While sometimes depressing to read, as Loewen says, "The way to correct feel-good history is not with feel-bad history. It is with honest history that includes both the good and the bad." This reader couldn't agree more!

I absolutely love this book. It's not only well-written and engaging for an adult, but it's clearly important for kids. And it underscores so much of what I've seen in the school systems through my own kids and others I've spoken with. The problems with so many textbooks that the author addresses tie into why I chose to homeschool my kids through elementary school. And why we try to discuss "real" history after watching movies, etc. Unfortunately, sometimes that "real" account is hard to find. I'll be grabbing copies for my kids ... and searching out the original edition for myself.

I have a 12-year-old who loves history and loves to question everything: this book is so perfect for him! From Helen Keller to Woodrow Wilson to Columbus this book goes into untold history and inconvenient truths. It even goes into the American interference in Chile, Guatemala, and others. This is eyes-wide open history for kids who are encouraged to question and never settle for easy answers. It will inevitably lead to more questions and prompt further research, but that's a good thing in my view. I will be reading this book with my child.

The books started out as an interesting look at how history has been taught and how much of it students have missed. Toward the middle of the book, it becomes a work of boring rehashing of the same thing. While I have always thought that the textbooks for history and the way it is taught, are boring, I think that in his own way, he makes the subject even more boring. When I looked at other reviews of the book, I realized that some of his factual information was distorted and not substantiated by the sources he claimed. Most of the scholarly reviews pointed out the flaws in his argument and the facts that he uses to back them up. Being from Illinois, I was surprised when he tried to say that Lincoln was a staunch abolitionist. I know that Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, but I also know that one of his plans was to keep slavery in the south, but not let it go anywhere else. I also believe I read somewhere that his plan to free slaves included a plan to send them back to Africa. In none of his writings, that I have read, did he ever proclaim that slaves were equal to whites. Knowing this lead me to question most of his writings. I was hoping that with this title I would find something that would help teachers find a better way to make history interesting and alive for students. But this is not that book. I will give him credit for making me think--if only to check his facts.

I've always been interested in the original version of Lies My Teacher Told Me, but I hadn't gotten a chance to read it yet. When I saw this title available on Netgalley, I couldn't request it fast enough. I started it as soon as I was able, putting all my other ebooks aside.

Unfortunately, this book was not a good fit for me. I cant say whether I would have disliked the original book as much--was this the fault of the adapter? I can't be sure. What I will say is I would have rather read a history textbook. I thought there were some fascinating tidbits and this book did give me some issues to mull over that I thought were extremely relevant. I especially liked the last chapter. But I honestly can't imagine a young reader wanting to read this. I'm not sure how I would change the book, but it felt so dry.

I really wanted to love this one. I think it would be a good read for history teachers, It was inspiring in that regard--history classes are in need of passionate teachers that can show learners how to apply critical thinking skills to the history texts. But sadly I don't see many kids wanting to read this book.

I appreciate the publisher providing me a copy of this book to review.

This is a slimmed-down version of the author’s famous book for adults. Even though it’s meant for younger readers, it hasn’t lost any important information in the abridgment. Younger readers are made aware of the weaknesses in American history books used in their history courses, but the author does not go into as much detail in the text itself. The author also uses examples that are as clear and interesting as ever. This book can help change a student’s paradigm. It would work perfectly in high schools and in teen sections of libraries.

Not only does this book tackle facts we've been lied to about, it also goes into why we've been told those lies. In some ways finding out how textbooks get put together was more interesting than the facts presented here. I would think most people willing to pick this book up probably have done a lot of reading and already gotten the truth on some of the topics tackled here.

Overall the book is written in an easy to read way, but is not watered down just because it is aimed at younger readers.

Interesting book that reveals a lot about the false history we are taught of the USA's history. Some of it I knew, such as Columbus and Thanksgiving's falsehoods, but more recent events, like Woodrow Wilson's true nature and some details around 9/11, I didn't know about at all. It's a quick read and worth the time, if for nothing more than to understand another perspective of history.

However, I do not agree that this book is adapted for young readers (apparently it's for 7th graders and up). It is definitely an easier read, but the target audience seems to fluctuate between educators, the general public, and students at some point. Reading it as an adult was an enjoyable experience, but I can't say many middle schoolers would get a kick of out of it or understand the complexities. I could see it being better advertised as for high school or college students.

I received a free copy of this ebook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I want to note that in the edition I received, the photos/captions and vignettes were not formatted properly, which took some time to get used to. Hopefully, this is corrected in the final version.