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