Books that Fit -- History
Listed below are several books that can be and are often used in
teaching reading. These books are grouped by topic under the strand. Beside each
entry is an estimation of the grade level in which the book would be
appropriate. Some books cover all areas because of the graphics that they offer.
| P = Primary grades K-3 |
| I = Intermediate grades 4-5 |
| M = Middle School grades 6-8 |
| H = High School grades 9-12 |
K-3 Famous People
Funny Facts and Rhymes by Suzanne Steele available from
author suzannesteele@hotmail.com ($5.95) (P)
A Flag for Our Country by Spencer (P)
Betsy Ross by Alexandra Wallner (P)
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers by Karen Winnick (P/I)
The Buck Stops Here: Presidents of the United States by Alice Provensen
(P/I)
Christopher Columbus by Jan Gleiter and Kathleen Thompson (P)
I Want to be a President by Michaela Muntean (P)
Arthur Meets the President by Marc Brown (P)
Young Helen Keller by Anne Benjamin (P)
Young Rosa Parks by Anne Benjamin (P)
George Washington Carver by Katherine Scraper (P)
The Flag We Love by Pam Munoz Ryan (P/I)
Young Pocahontas by Anne Benjamin (P)
More than Anything Else by Marie Bradby (Booker T. Washington)
(P/I)
China and Egypt
See Through History: Ancient China by Brian Williams
(P/I/M/H)
The Story About Ping by Marjorie Flack (P)
National Geographic Reading Expeditions Civilizations Past and Present: Egypt
by Kevin Supples (P)
The Silk Route by John Major (P/I)
See Through History: Ancient Egypt by Judith Crosher (P/I/M/H)
See Through History: Ancient Greece by Loverance and Wood (P/I/M/H)
Look What Came From Egypt by Miles Harvey (P)
Greece and Rome
Children of Series by Rosen Real Readers Children of Ancient
Greece by Claudia Diamond (P)
See Through History: Ancient Greece by Loverance and Wood (P/I/M/H)
Virginia
Portrait of America Series Virginia by Kathleen Thompson
(P/I)
John Smith by Melanie Zucker Stanley (P/I)
Colonization
Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? By
Jean Fritz (I/M)
Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Who's Stepping on Plymouth Rock? by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz (I/M)
How Many Days to America? by Bunting (I/M)
On the Mayflower by Kate Waters (P)
Colonial Times by Jeri Cipriano (I)
American Revolution and Founding a Nation
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? By Jean Fritz
(I/M)
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? By Jean Fritz (I/M)
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? By Jean Fritz (I/M)
George Washington's Breakfast By Jean Fritz (I/M)
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? By Jean Fritz (I/M)
Why Don't You Get A Horse, Sam Adams? By Jean Fritz (I/M)
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? By Jean Fritz (I/M)
George Washington's Mother by Jean Fritz (I/M)
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz (I/M)
SHH! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Why Not, Lafayette? by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson (I/M)
See Through History: The Industrial Revolution by Andrew Langley
(P/I/M/H)
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis (H)
The First American: The Life and Times of Ben Franklin by H. W. Brands
(H)
John Adams by David McCullough (H)
Which Way to the Revolution? by Bob Barner (P/I/M)
Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill (P/I)
1800-1850
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Traitor: The Double Life of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Make Way for Sam Houston by Jean Fritz (I/M)
The Star Spangled Banner by Peter Spier (P/I)
Daniel's Walk by Michael Spooner (M/H)
Civil War
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Stonewall by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Just Like Abraham Lincoln by Bernard Waber (P/I)
A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David Adler (P/I)
If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern (P/I)
Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone (I/M)
Spy in the Sky by Kathleen Karr (I/M)
Stonewall's Gold by Robert J. Mrazek (I/M/H)
One More River to Cross: An African American Photograph Album by Walter
Dean Myers (M/H)
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (M/H)
Behind the Blue and Gray: The Soldier's Live in the Civil War by Delia
Ray (M/H)
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (M/H)
The Unknown Civil War by Webb Garrison (H)
The Lincoln No One Knows: The Mysterious Man Who Ran the Civil War by
Webb Garrison (H)
An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government by
William C. Davis (H)
Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller (H)
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers by Karen Winnick (P/I)
April 1865 by Jay Winik (H)
Expansion, Industrialization, Turn of the Century
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz (I/M)
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz (I/M)
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (I/M)
The Promise Quilt by Candice Ransom (I/M)
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan (I/M)
Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris (H)
Alexander Graham Bell by Greg Linder (P/I)
The Path Between the Seas: the Creation of the Panama Canal by David
McCullough (H)
World War I through World War II
A Traitor Among Us by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
(I/M/H)
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Modhizuki (I/M)
Amelia and Eleanor Go For a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan (I/M)
Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows by Barry
Denenberg (M/H)
Christmas Saved Us: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift by Kathryn
Lasky (M/H)
No End Save Victory by Stephen Ambrose et al (H)
A Time of Courage: the Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen by Kathryn
Lasky (M/H)
Truman by David McCullough (H)
1950 to the Present
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Marzollo (P/I)
General
History That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas
Ayres (M/H)
Don't Know Much About Geography: Everything You Need to Know about the World
but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis (H)
Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know about American
History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis (H)
Where Am I? Clue-by-clue Descriptive Sketches of American Historical Places by
Marsha Lynn Beeman (M/H)
Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay (M/H)
World History Topics
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (M/H)
See Through History: the Industrial Revolution by Andrew Langley
(P/I/M/H)
See Through History: the Middle Ages by Susan Howarth (P/I/M/H)
See Through History: The Renaissance by Tim Wood (P/I/M/H)
See Through History: Ancient Greece by Loverance and Wood (P/I/M/H)
See Through History: Ancient Egypt by Judith Crosher (P/I/M/H)
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