American History Read Aloud List

Title & Author Almost Home Wendy Lawton The Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare Guns of Thunder Douglas Bond Johnny Tremain Esther Forbes Ben and Me Robert Lawson Tollivers Secret Esther Wood Brady Bold Journey Charles H. Bohner Courage to Run Wendy Lawton The Boy in the Alamo Margaret Cousins & Nicholas Eggenhofer Moccasin Trail Eloise Jarvis McGraw By the Great Horn Spoon Sid Fleischman Iron Scouts of the Confederacy Lee McGiffin Little Britches Ralph Moody Little Riders Margaretha Shemin Snow Treasure Marie McSwigan In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Bette Bao Lord History Topic The Mayflower & the pilgrims

Life in the New World among Indians

French and Indian War Pre-Revolutionary War Boston

Life of Benjamin Franklin

Revolutionary War

Lewis & Clark

Harriet Tubman & path to freedom

Siege of the Alamo

Life with Indians and journey westward

California Gold Rush

Civil War

Life on a ranch in early 1900s Dutch town responds to Natzis in World War II Norweigan kids save towns treasure during World War II

American Culture