Posted by Lori D. on 21:46 Mar 9
In Reply to: I am looking for great historical fiction or biography books to read aloud... posted by AmyA
Non Fiction History
- Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz)
- What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz)
- And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz)
- Archimedes and the Door of Science (Bendick)
- Along Came Galileo (Bendick)
Geography with Fictional Storyline
- Paddle-to-the-Sea, Tree in the Trail, Seabird, Minn of the Mississippi (Holling)
- Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (Field) - doll travels the world
Historical Fiction - U.S.
- Pedro's Journal (Conrad) -- Columbus' voyage
- Skippack School (de Angeli) -- Colonial U.S.
- The Matchlock Gun (Edmonds) -- Colonial US
- The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial US
- Sarah Whitcher's Story -- Colonial US
- The Sign of the Beaver (Speare) -- Colonial US/Native American
- Ben and I (Lawson) -- tall tales of Ben Franklin told by a mouse, Amos
- The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial US
- Sarah Plain and Tall; Skylark; Caleb's Story (MacLachlan) - pioneer times
- Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) -- pioneer times US
- By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) -- Gold Rush 1849
- Sounder (Armstrong) -- post Civil War South
- The Great Wheel (Lawson) -- building of the first Ferris Wheel in 1893
Historical Fiction - WORLD
- Detectives in Togas; Mystery of the Roman Ransom (Winterfeld) -- Ancient Rome
- A Single Shard (Park) -- 1100s Korea
- The Kite Fighters (Park) -- 1400s Korea
- The Sword in the Tree (Bulla) -- Medieval England
- Adam of the Road (Gray) -- Medieval England
- The Door in the Wall (de Angeli) -- Medieval England
- The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) -- 1700s Europe
- The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Hoobler) -- 1700s Japan - boy detective
- Little Pear (Lattimore) --1900 China
- The Big Wave (Buck) -- Japanese survivors of a tsunami
- Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa (Kalney) - Argentina
- Twenty and Ten (Bishop) -- WWII French children hide Jewish children
- The Little Riders (Shemin) -- WWII occupied Europe
- Number the Stars (Lenski)-- WWII Dutch girl helps her Jewish friend
- Snow Treasure (McSwigan))-- WWII Norweigan children hide the country's gold
- The House of Sixty Fathers (de Jong) -- WWII occupied China
Biography
- The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (Davidson)
- Helen Keller (Davidson)
- Louis Braille (Davidson)
- Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) --American Revolution - true story
- Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman (Henry) -- inventor of steam engine as a boy
- Land I Lost; Water Buffalo Days (Nhuong) -- memories of pre-war (rural Vietnam)
- Indian Captive (Lenski)
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (Latham) early US man who improved naval navigation
- Naya Nuki: The Shoshone Girl Who Ran -- friend of Sacajewea
- Behind Rebel Lines (Reit) -- teen girl disguised as a boy / Union spy in Civil War
- Born in the Year of Courage -- biog. of a shipwrecked Japanese boy in 1850s