What Lays Beyond the Pages of a Book

You have heard teachers and other people say that books are friends, that reading is good, that it widens and broadens your horizons, that reading opens new worlds. May be you have said the same, or you have experienced it yourself, but, is there more than ink on paper on books? what lays beyond the pages of a book?
Find out about the events, times and history where the stories take place and enjoy them more while you enrichen your knowledge and culture.

For example, 9th graders please visit http://www.zunal.com/webquest.php?w=71988 for a day in the 1930's