I Can Read History Books
By Heather Idoni
Updated Sunday, March 29, 2009
- The Drinking Gourd by F. N. Monjo (Underground Railroad)
- Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner (Kansas, Homestead Act, true story! Get the audio tape if possible.)
- The One Bad Thing About Father by F. N. Monjo (Teddy Roosevelt)
- Six Silver Spoons by Janette Sebring Lowrey (Paul Revere)
- Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express by Eleanor Coerr
- Chang's Paper Pony by Eleanor Coerr (Chinese boy during Gold Rush)
- Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner (Oklahoma during the Depression)
- Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
- Indian Summer by F. N. Monjo
- George the Drummer Boy by Nathaniel Benchley
- Clipper Ship by Thomas P. Lewis
- The Pig War by Betty Baker
- Prairie School by Avi (Maine to Colorado, 1880s)
- The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin
- The Long Way Westward by Joan Sandin
- The Josephina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr
- Running Owl the Hunter by Nathaniel Benchley
- How Far Felipe? by Genevieve Gray