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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

 

 

 

 




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