ALABAMA ROOTS-A Biography Series Published by Seacoast Publishing, Inc. Alabama Roots is a book series designed to provide reading pleasure for young people (ages 12-15), to allow readers to better know the men and women who shaped the State of Alabama, and to fill a much needed void of quality regional non-fiction for students in middle grades. For years, teachers and librarians have searched for quality biographies about famous people from Alabama. This series is a response to that search. The series (40+ titles) will cover a span of time from pre-statehood through the modern day. The goal of Alabama Roots is to provide biographies that are historically accurate and as interesting as the characters whose lives they explore. The readers will enjoy Tom Bailey's research in writing this story which is as much about Desoto as it is about Tuskalusa. The author writes that we know little about Tuskalusa and most of that we learn from the Spaniards who kept records. Tuskalusa will inform the reader much about the Native American culture and the Spanish expeditions.