HIT: 5th Grade American Revolution Novels

[Susan Grigsby <SGrigsby@EPSTEIN-ATL.ORG>]

Thanks to all who responded. I am passing along a copy of this hit to
the 5th grade teachers. As usual, the collective wisdom of this list
makes me look good! Here are the edited responses:

I don't remember the exact title of this book, but I believe its called
Phoebe, the Spy. It's about a girl who is sent to be a servant of
Revolutionary commanders in a house they have overtaken and she spies on
them for the Americans.
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How about Johnny Tremain
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DeFord, Deborah.  AN ENEMY AMONG THEM.    Houghton Mifflin c1987; 203p.
Denenberg, Barry.  THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON, A
REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT.  My Name is America.Scholastic c1998   130p.
Fast, Howard.   APRIL MORNING. Crown 1961; 202p.
Gregory, Kristiana. THE WINTER OF RED SNOW: THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIARY
OF ABIGAILJANE STEWART, VALLEY FORGE, PENNSYLVANIA 1777-78.
c1996; 173p.
Myers, Anna.    THE KEEPING ROOM.Walker c1997; 135p.
O'Dell, Scott.  SARAH BISHOP.  Houghton Mifflin c1980; 184p.
CAST TWO SHADOWS:   The American Revolution in the South. Harcourt Brace
c1998    267p.
Rinaldi, Ann.   FINISHING BECCA. Harcourt Brace c1994; 342p.
Sterman, Betsy. SARATOGA SECRET.        Dial c1998      249p
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While not set in the Revolution and a fantasy. 5th graders at my school
love
Riddle of Pennecroft Farm. It is the story of a boy who meets a
revolutionary soldier's ghost. It goes a long way to explain terms and
phrases that grew out of that time period. And as the boy learns about
the
revolution so does the reader.
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My husband uses Johnny Tremain with his fifth grade.
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I have a 5th grade teacher that like On my Honor by Marion Dane Bauer.
It
is a great book and not too long.  Great lesson to be learned.
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We used Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit for our fith grade
Battle of the Books and the kids loved it.
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O'Dell, Sarah Bishop
Clapp, I'm Deborah Sampson
Lawson, Mr. Revere and I
Forbes, Johnny Tremain
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An old Robert Lawson book, Mr. Revere and I, is very simple, and the
kids enjoy learning about the war through the eyes of Paul Revere's
horse. I booktalk it with the low 5th grade reading class.
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I just processed a book today from Silver Moon Press--Drums at
Saratoga--from the publisher's Stories of the States collection.  It 's
no great shakes as
literature, but it is historical fiction for the "lower-reading"
student, and its subject is the American Revolution. Another title that
comes to mind is George Washington's Socks; it's a time-travel book
about a group of today's kids accompanying Washington across the
Delaware.
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Susan Grigsby, LMS
The Epstein School, Atlanta Georgia
sgrigsby@epstein-atl.org

What is hateful to you, do not to another: this is the whole Torah, the
rest is commentary.  Hillel.

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