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Recommended Reading List

Native American

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

Navajo Long Walk by Nancy M. Armstrong

Sees Behind Trees by Michael Doris

Moccassin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The Legend of Jimmy Spoon by Kristiana Gregory

Indian Chiefs by Russell Freedman

The Defenders by Ann McGovern

 

Colonial Days and the American Revolution

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Spy in Old West Point by Anne Emery

Guns for the Saratoga by Stephen W. Meader

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Ben and Me by Robert Lawson

 

 Post American Revolution

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830 - 1832 by Joan L. Blois

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

The Toad on Capitol Hill by Esther Wood Brady

Path of the Pale Horse by Paul Fleischman

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

 

The American Civil War

Charlie Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty

Jed by Peter Burchard

Canalboat to Freedom by Thomas Fall

Up a Road Slowly by Irene Hunt

Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith

The Mosquito Fleet by Gordon Shirreffs

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

With Every Drop of Blood by James: Lincoln Collier

Bull Run by Paul Fleischman

Turn Homeward, Hanalee by Patricia Beatty

The Root Cellar by Janet Lunn

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

Who Comes with Cannons by Patricia Beatty

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

 

Westward Expansion

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol R. Brink

Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

 

World War II

Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki

Hiroshima by Laurence Yep

Hiroshima no Pika by Toshi Maruki

 

Hawaii

Amelia: A novel of mid-nineteenth century Hawaii by Juliet Rice Wichman

Keola, a boy of old Hawaii by Caroline Curtis

Mahealani and the King of Hawaii by Rianna M. Williams

Plantation Child and Other Stories by Eve Begley Kiehm

Stories of Life in Old Hawaii by Caroline Curtis

 

 

 

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