American History Living Books

 

Native American

 

Walk the World’s Rim by Betty Baker

 

Om-Kas-Toe by Kenneth Thomasma

 

Jamestown

 

Pocahontas and the Strangers by Clyde Robert Bulla

 

Advanced

 

The Keepers of the Ring series by Angela Elwell Hunt

This Dear-Bought Land by Jean Lee Latham

 

Pilgrims

 

Picture Books

 

Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas

 

Squanto’s Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac

 

Thunder from the Clear Sky by Marcia Sewall

 

Easy Reader

 

Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla

 

Pilgrim Voices: Our First Year in the New World by Connie Roop (expensive on Amazon)

 

The Story of the Pilgrims for Children by Roland Usher

 

https://archive.org/details/storyofpilgrimsf00ushe/page/n19/mode/2up

 

Pilgrim Stories by Margaret Pumphrey

 

Advanced

 

The House of Winslow series by Gilbert Morris

 

https://archive.org/details/storiesofpilgrim00pump/page/16/mode/2up

 

The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

https://archive.org/details/courtshipofmiles1903long/page/20/mode/1up

 

American Revolution

 

Picture Books

 

George Washington by Ingri and Edgar D’Aulaire

 

We the People: The Story of Our Constitution by Lynne Cheney

 

  

Easy Reader

 

They Called Her Molly Pitcher by Anne Rockwell

 

Phoebe the Spy by Judith Berry Griffin

 

When Washington Crossed the Delaware by Lynne Cheney

 

Advanced

Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

 

Great Battles for Boys The American Revolution by Joe Giorello

 

True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. Henty (from the British perspective)

 

The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution by Jim Murphy

 

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (audiobook)

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (paperback)

 

Washington at Valley Forge by Russell Freedman

 

George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved America by Brian Kilmeade

 

Colonial Life

 

Picture Books

 

Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson

 

How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark by Rosalyn Schanzer

 

Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall

 

Easy Reader

 

Charlie’s House by Clyde Robert Bulla

 

Advanced

 

The Jefferson Lies by David Barton and Wallbuilders – Advanced

 

Thomas Jefferson’s America: Stories of the Founding Fathers by Jim Weiss – audiobook

 

Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The War That Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade 

 

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: A Novel of Sacagawea by Scott O’Dell – Lewis and Clark Expedition

 

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

 

Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry

 

Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

 

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham

Pioneers

 

Easy Reader

 

Daniel’s Duck by Clyde Robert Bulla

 

Riding the Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla

 

Wagon Wheels by Barbara Brenner

 

Advanced

 

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

 

Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder)

 

The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare

 

Tree in the Trail by Holling C. Holling

 

Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Story of the Oregon Trail (Part of the Cornerstones of Freedom Series)

by R. Conrad Stein

 

Inside the Alamo by Jim Murphy

 

I Remember the Alamo by D. Anne Love

 

California Gold Rush

 

By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman

 

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman

 

Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan

Civil War

 

Picture Books

 

Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

 

Nurse, Soldier, Spy: the Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss

 

Advanced

 

Cry of Courage (Between Two Flags series) by Lee Roddy

 

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

 

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

 

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

 

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

 

With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. Henty

 

And for some good British Adventure books

 

Horatio Hornblower series – Mr. Midshipman Hornblower is the first one

 

Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

 

The Coral Island and other adventure books by R. M. Ballantyne

 

G.A. Henty – he wrote adventures about places all over the world