Here's a HIT for my TARGET: 5th grade historical fiction books, listing the
websites and titles I received. Many thanks to everyone who responded.
Kimberlin Hurson has a wonderful website for historical fiction:
http://bookgirl3.tripod.com/historicalfiction.html
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/literature.htm
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/civil_war.htm
http://www.geocities.com/athens/delphi/4393/index.html
http://nancykeane.com/booktalks/shistfic.htm historical fic by dates
http://nancykeane.com/rl/ has a variety of 'lists'
http://www.multcolib.org/kids/history.html
http://www.fresnolibrary.org/child/bkch/bklists/hisfic.pdf
http://www.bright.net/~double/rev.htm - Revolutionary era
1787 : a novel - Joan Anderson
A dangerous promise - Joan Lowery Nixon.
A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel - Joan W. Blos
A Ride Into Morning – Ann Rinaldi
Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt (Civil War)
Amelia’s War - Rinaldi
American Girls series
Amos Fortune: Free Man - Elizabeth Yates (We really liked this story).
An Acquaintance with Darkness - Ann Rinaldi (female main character)
An Enemy Among Them – DeFord
April Morning - Howard Fast
Attack of the Turtle - Drew Carlson (Revolutionary War)
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky - Ringgold
Battle Lanterns - Merritt Allen
Be ever hopeful, Hannalee – Patricia Beatty
Ben Franklin by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
Ben Franklin of old Philedelphia - Margaret Cousins
Betsy Zane the Rose of Fort Henry - Durrant
Black Crows and White Cockades – Christine Swagert
Brady - Jean Fritz
Bull Run - Paul Fleischman (not really a novel but great info)
Caleb's Choice - Whisler
Calico bush - Rachel Field
Calico Captive - Elizabeth Speare
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lee Latham
Cast Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South – Ann Rinaldi
Celia Garth – Gwen Bristow
Cezanne Pinto : a memoir - Mary Stolz.
Charley Skedaddle – Patricia Beatty (Civil War)
Charlotte – Lunn
Christian Heritage Series - Nancy Rue
Civil War Days - Ellen Weiss (low level)
Courage of Sarah Noble - Alice Dalgliesh
Cowslip - Betsy Haynes
Dangerous crossing : the revolutionary voyage of John and John Quincy
Adams - Stephen Krensky
Daughter of Liberty - Quackenbush
Day of Glory (The guns at Lexington and Concord) - Philip Spencer
Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies - Mary Lyons
Drums at Saratoga - Lisa Banim
Drums – James Boyd and N.C. Wyeth
Early Thunder - Jean Fritz
Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey - Patricia Beatty and Phillip
Elkhorn Tavern - Douglas C. Jones.
Finishing Becca - Rinaldi
Forty Acres and a Mule - Harriette Gillem
Francis Marion and the Legend of the Swamp Fox – Kate Salley Palmer
Freedom Crossing-underground railroad
Freelon Starbird, being a narrative of the extraordinary hardships suffered by an
accidental soldier in a beaten army during the autumn and winter of 1776 by Richard
F. Snow
George Midgett's war - Sally Edwards.
George the Drummer Boy – Benchley
George the Drummer Boy & Sam the Minuteman - Benchley
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides – Rosalyn
Schanzer
George Washington - d'Aulaire
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the
Revolutionary War – Thomas B. Allen
George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff
George Washington's World by Genevieve Foster (used this more for reference)
Ghost Cadet-civil war – Elaine Marie Alphin OOP
Girl in Blue – Rinaldi
Grace's Letter to Lincoln - Roop (easier)
Guns for General Washington: a story of the American Revolution - Seymour Reit
Hannah of Fairfield - Van Leeuwen
Hannah's Helping Hands - Van Leeuwen
Hannah's Winter of Hope - Van Leeuwen
Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Train - Sharon Gayle
If My Country Ever Needs Me – Christine Swagert
If you lived in Colonial Times - Ann McGovern
In My Father's House - Anne Rinaldi (female main character)
Jack Wade, Fighter for Liberty – Irving Werstein
Jennie Lee, Patriot – Anne Emery
Johnny Treegate's Musket - Leonard Wibberly
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
Katie’s Trunk by Ann Turner
Killer Angels (not sure of language in this one)
Kings Mountain – Clifton G. Wisler
Lives of the Signers
Meet George Washington - Joan Heilbroner
Meet Thomas Jefferson - Marvin Barrett
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer (maybe lower than 8th grade)
My America, Dear America, and My Name is America—in diary or journal format
My Brother Sam Is Dead - James Lincoln Collier
Nabby Adams' diary - Miriam Anne Bourne
Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry’s Family – Ann Rinaldi
Palmetto, Symbol of Courage – Kate Salley Palmer
Patriots in Petticoats: Heroines of the American Revolution – Shirley Raye Redmond
Paul Revere and the Minute Men - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Paul Revere's Ride - Longfellow
Phoebe and the General - Griffin
Phoebe the Spy - Judith B. Griffin
Pink & Say (children's but good)
Poor Richard in France - Monjo
Private Captain : a story of Gettysburg - Marty Crisp
Rebel Siege - Jim Kjelgaard
Red Cap
Redcoats and Petticoats - Kirkpatrick
Revolutionary War on Wednesday - Osborne
Ride into Morning: the story of Tempe Wick - Ann Rinaldi
Rifles for Watie - Keith
Samuel's Choice – Berleth
Sarah Bishop – Scott O’Dell
Saratoga Secret – Betsy Sterman
Secret of Sarah Revere – Ann Rinaldi
Shades of Gray - Carolyn Reeder
Shenandoah (a play)
Sign of the Beaver - E. Speare
Silent Thunder - Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sleds on Boston Common: a story from the American Revolution - Louise Borden (a
picture book but a great one!)
Soldier's Heart - Gary Paulsen
Spunky Revolutionary War Heroine – Idella Bodie
Sybil's Night Ride - Winnick
The 290 - Scott O’Dell
The Arrow Over the Door - Brouchac
The Bloody Country – Christopher and James Collier
The Boston Coffee Party – Rappaport
The Boys' War-Jim Murphy (not a novel but great lit)
The Bulletproof George Washington - David Barton (geared more for grades 7 & up).
The captive - Joyce Hansen
The Chester Town Tea Party - Seabrooke
The Cow Neck Rebels – James Forman
The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft - Moore
The Deep Cut - Susan Rosson Spain
The Diary of Joseph Plumb Martin, a Revolutionary War Soldier – Connie and Peter
Roop
The fall of the Quaker City by Susan & John Lee
The Fifth of March – Ann Rinaldi
The Fighting Gamecock – Idella Bodie
The Fighting Ground by Avi (overwhelming favorite for 5th grade novel)
The Glory Field - Walter Dean Myers
The Hessian; a novel - Howard Fast.
The Hollow Tree – Janet Lunn (contains some harsh scenes)
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: a Revolutionary War patriot - Barry Denenberg
The Keeping Room – Anna Myers (set in SC; contains some harsh scenes)
The last silk dress - Ann Rinaldi
The Little Bugler - William B. Styple
The Long Road to Gettysburg - Jim Murphy
The Man Who Loved the Flag – Idella Bodie
The Matchlock Gun - Walter Edmonds
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Riddle of Pencroft Farm - Dorothea Jensen
The Rifle – Gary Paulsen
The road to Lexington and Concord - Susan and John Lee
The Root Cellar
The Rose of Fort Henry – Durrant
The Secret Message – Idella Bodie
The Secret of Sarah Revere (Great Episodes) - Rinaldi
The Secret of Van Rink's cellar by Beverly Haskell Lee
The Sign Painter’s Secret - Hoobler
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - Clifford Lindsey Alderman
The Story of Thomas Jefferson - Earl Schenck Miers
The Swamp Fox – Idella Bodie
The Tamarack Tree - Patricia Clapp
The Winter of Red Snow - Kristiana Gregory
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart –
Kristiana Gregory
The Year of the Hangman - Gary Blackwood
This Time, Tempe Wick? – Margot Tomes and Patricia Lee Gauch
Thomas – Pryor
Thomas in Danger - Bonnie Pryor
Thunder at Gettysburg - Gauch
Time Enough for Drums – Ann Rinaldi
Tolliver's Secret – Esther Wood Brady
Treegate's Raiders - Leonard Wibberley
Voice from the Border - Smith
War Comes to Willy Freeman – Christopher and James Collier
We Were There Too - Phillip M. Hoose
What are you Figuring Now? a story of Benjamin Banneker - Jeri Ferris
When the World’s on Fire – Sally Edwards
Who Comes to King’s Mountain? - John Louis Beatty
Who Comes with Cannons - Patricia Beatty
Winter Hero – Christopher and James Collier
With Every Drop of Blood - James and Lincoln Collier
Ann Rinaldi has several quality Civil War books
Clifton Wisler has a few good title
--
Gail Brubaker, Librarian
srvca.library@comcast.net
San Ramon Valley Christian Academy
Danville, CA - www.srvca.org
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