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Jane's Genealogy Jigsaw

Recommended Reading: Children's Books

Introduction

At first, I began with books whose main theme involved genealogy, however I have expanded the list to include many related historical subjects. Sometimes it is difficult to decide just which category a book fits into, but I have done my best. If you have read any books that you think should be included, please contact me.

Contents

• Fiction
  • Adoption
  • Age of Sail
  • Basic Genealogy
  • The Civil War
  • Disasters: Natural & Man-made
  • Explorers
  • Fantasy
  • Frontier & Pioneer Life
  • Gold Rushes & Silver Mining
  • The Immigrant Experience
  • Indian Captives
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Inventions
  • Jamestown
  • Lighthouses & Lighthouse Keepers
  • Mysteries
  • Native Life
  • Oregon Trail
  • Orphan Trains
  • Pilgrim Life
  • The Revolutionary War
  • Slavery & The Underground Railroad
  • War of 1812
  • Witchcraft
  • World War I
  • World War II
  
  
• Non-Fiction
  • Basic Genealogy
  • American History
  • Biographies
  • Diaries & Journals
  • Maps & Atlases
  • Social History

Fiction

Adoption

• Lois Lowry
  • Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye, 1978
  
  
• Jean Davies Okimoto
  • Molly by Any Other Name, 1990
  • The White Swan Express, 2002
  
  

Age of Sail

• Avi
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, 1990
  
  
• Heather Vogel Frederick
  • The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed, 2002
  • The Education of Patience Goodspeed, 2004
  
  
• Bonnie Pryor
  • Luke on the High Seas, 2000
  
  
• Diane Stanley
  • The True Adventure of Daniel Hall, 1995
  
  

Basic Genealogy

• Katherine Ayres
  • The Family Tree, 1996 ^{Highly Recommended!}
  
  
• Deborah Blumenthal
  • Aunt Claire's Yellow Beehive Hair, 2001
  
  
• Robert Lawson
  • They were Strong and Good, 1940
  
  
• Loreen Leedy
  • Who's Who in My Family, 1995
  
  
• Lensey Namioka
  • Half and Half, 2003
  
  
• Dan Rhema
  • One Tiny Twig, 2003
  
  
• Margaret Storey
  • The Family Tree, 1965
  
  
• Joan Sweeney
  • Me and My Family Tree, 1999
  
  

The Civil War

• Miriam Brenaman
  • Evvy's Civil War, 2002
  
  
• Barry Denenberg (Dear America series)
  • When Will This Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, 1996
  
  
• Lynda Durrant
  • My Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier, 2006
  
  
• Susan Fletcher
  • Dadblamed Union Army Cow, 2007
  
  
• Linda Oatman High
  illustrated by Laura Francesca Filippucci
  • The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg, 2007
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson
  • Billy and the Rebel, 2005
  • From Slave to Soldier, 2005
  
  
• Sally M. Keehn
  • Anna Sunday, 2002
  
  
• Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch
  • Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies, 2000
  
  
• Mary Pope Osborne (My America series)
  • My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Diary
    Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863 ; 2000
  • After the Rain: Virginia's Diary, Book Two
    Washington, D.C., 1864 ; 2002
  • A Time to Dance: Virginia's Diary, Book Three
    New York City, 1865 ; 2003
  
  
• Carolyn Reeder
  • Shades of Gray, 1989
  
  
• Susan Rosson Spain
  • The Deep Cut, 2006
  
  
• Ann Turner
  • Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War, 1998
  
  
• G. Clifton Wisler
  • Mr. Lincoln's Drummer, 1995
  
  

Disasters: Natural & Man-made

• Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Fever 1793, 2000
  
  
• Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Nory Ryan's Song, 2000
  
  
• Kristiana Gregory
  • Earthquake at Dawn, 1992
  
  
• Gail Langer Karwoski
  • Quake! Disaster in San Francisco, 1906, 2004
  
  
• K.M. Kimball
  • The Secret of the Red Flame, 2003
  
  
• Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
  • Nora's Ark, 2005
  
  
• Milly Lee
  • Earthquake, 2001
  
  
• Marissa Moss
  • Rose's Journal: The Story of a Girl in the Great Depression, 2001
  
  
• Linda Oatman High
  illustrated by Laura Francesca Filippucci
  • City of Snow: The Great Blizzard of 1888, 2004
  
  
• Laurence Yep
  • The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, 2006
  
  

Explorers

• Patricia Reeder Eubank
  • Seaman's Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark, 2002
  
  
• Dennis Fradin
  • Sacagawea: The Journey to the West, 1998
  
  
• Laurie Myers
  • Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale, 2002
  
  
• Claire Rudolf Murphy
  • I am Sacajawea, I am York: Our Journey West with Lewis and Clark, 2005
  
  
• Flora Warren Seymour (Childhood of Famous Americans series)
  • Sacagawea: American Pathfinder, 1945
  
  
• Roland Smith
  • The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe, 1999
  
  

Fantasy

• Cinda Williams Chima
  • The Warrior Heir, 2006
  
  

Frontier & Pioneer Life

• Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • A Lantern in Her Hand, 1928
  
  
• Mary Jane Auch
  • Journey to Nowhere, 1997
  • Frozen Summer, 1998
  • The Road to Home, 2000
  
  
• Marion Dane Bauer (Dear America series)
  • Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota, 2003
  
  
• Joan W. Blos
  • Brothers of the Heart, 1985
  
  
• Dorothy Gilman Butters
  • Witch's Silver, 1959
  • Ten Leagues to Boston Town, 1962
  
  
• Betty Cavanna
  • Runaway Voyage, 1978
  
  
• Lynda Durrant
  • The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed, 2003
  
  
• Marty Rhodes Figley
  • The Schoolchildren's Blizzard, 2004
  
  
• Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood
  • One of Fred's Girls, 1970
  
  
• Jean Fritz
  • The Cabin Faced West, 1958
  
  
• Mary Downing Hahn
  • The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli, 1996
  
  
• Alison Hart
  • Anna's Blizzard, 2005
  
  
• Jennifer Holm
  • Our Only May Amelia, 1999
  • Boston Jane: An Adventure, 1999
  • Boston Jane: Wilderness Days, 1999
  • Boston Jane: The Claim, 1999
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson
  • Prairie Skies Series:
    • Pioneer Summer, 2002
    • Cabin in the Snow, 2002
    • Our Kansas Home, 2002
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails, 2000
  • Homespun Sarah, 2003
  
  
• Sonia Levitin
  • Nine for California, 1996
  • Boom Town, 1998
  
  
• Patricia MacLachlan
  • Sarah, Plain and Tall, 1985
  • Skylark, 1994
  • Caleb's Story, 2001
  • More Perfect than the Moon, 2004
  
  
• Emily Arnold McCully
  • An Outlaw Thanksgiving, 1998
  
  
• Megan McDonald (Dear America series)
  • All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, 2003
  
  
• Marissa Moss
  • Rachel's Journal: The Story of Pioneer a Girl, 1998
  
  
• Jim Murphy (Dear America series)
  • West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, 1998
  
  
• Bonnie Pryor
  • Luke: 1849--On the Golden Trail, 1999
  
  
• Ann Turner
  • Dakota Dugout, 1985
  • Grasshopper Summer, 1989
  
  
• Jean Van Leeuwen
  • Going West, 1992
  • Nothing Here But Trees, 1998
  • Cabin on Trouble Creek, 2004
  
  
• Kate Waters
  Photographs by Marjorie Dressler
  • The Mysterious Horseman: An Adventure in Prairietown, 1836, 1994
  
  
• Gloria Whelan
  • Once on This Island, 1995
  • Farewell to the Island, 1998
  • Return to the Island, 2000
  
  
• Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little House in the Big Woods, 1932
  • Little House on the Prairie, 1935
  • On the Banks of Plum Creek, 1937
  • By the Shores of Silver Lake, 1939
  • The Long Winter, 1940
  • Little Town on the Prairie, 1941
  • These Happy Golden Years, 1943
  
  
• Patricia Willis
  • Danger along the Ohio, 1997
  
  

Gold Rushes & Silver Mining

• Katherine Ayres
  • Silver Dollar Girl, 2000
  
  
• Patricia Beatty
  • Me, California Perkins, 1968
  
  
• Karen Cushman
  • The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, 1996
  
  
• Kristiana Gregory (Dear America series)
  • Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, 2001
  
  
• Will Hobbs
  • Jason's Gold, 1999
  • Down the Yukon, 2001
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson
  • The Klondike Kid Series:
    • Sailing for Gold, 2004
    • The Long Trail, 2002
    • Adventure in Gold Town, 2002
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Gold Fever, 1999
  
  
• Julie Lawson
  • The Klondike Cat, 2002
  
  
• Barbara Steiner
  • Mystery at Chilkoot Pass, 2002
  
  

The Immigrant Experience

• Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Dear America series)
  • A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, 2000
  
  
• Patricia Beatty
  • Lupita Mañana, 1981
  
  
• Joan W. Blos
  • Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme, 1994
  
  
• Sarah Ellis (Dear Canada series)
  • A Prairie as Wide as the Sea: The Immigrant Diary of Ivy Weatherall, 2001
  
  
• Karen Hesse
  • Letters from Rifka, 1992
  
  
• Amy Hest
  • When Jessie Came Across the Sea, 1997
  
  
• Norma Johnston
  • Lotta's Progress, 1997
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Tattered Sails, 2001
  
  
• Kathryn Lasky (Dear America series)
  • Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, 1998
  
  
• Milly Lee
  • Landed, 2006
  
  
• Sonia Levitin
  • Journey to America, 1970
  • Silver Days, 1989
  • Annie's Promise, 1993
  
  
• Marissa Moss
  • Hannah's Journal: The Story of an Immigrant Girl, 2000
  
  
• Rosemary Wells
  • Streets of Gold, 1999
  
  
• Elvira Woodruff
  • The Orphan of Ellis Island, 1997
  
  

Indian Captives

• Erick Berry
  • Valiant Captive, 1962
  
  
• Caroline B. Cooney
  • The Ransom of Mercy Carter, 2001
  
  
• Lynda Durrant
  • The Beaded Moccasins: The Story of Mary Campbell, 1998
  • Echohawk, 1996
  • Turtle Clan Journey, 1999
  
  
• Sally M. Keehn
  • I am Regina, 1991
  
  
• West Lathrop
  • Black River Captive, 1946
  
  
• Lois Lenski
  • Indian Captive, 1941
  
  
• Mary Pope Osborne (Dear America series)
  • Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan
    Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 ; 1998
  
  
• Elizabeth George Speare
  • Calico Captive, 1957
  
  

Industrial Revolution

• Barry Denenberg (Dear America series)
  • So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, 1997
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson (Dear America series)
  • Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, 2004
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Iron Horses, 1999
  
  
• Julie Lawson (Dear Canada series)
  • A Ribbon of Shining Steel: The Railway Diary of Kate Cameron, 2002
  
  
• Emily Arnold McCully
  • Bobbin Girl, 1996
  
  
• Philip Wooderson
  • Trouble at the Mill, 2005
  
  

Inventions

• Elisabeth Hamilton Friermood
  • Focus the Bright Land, , 1967
  
  
• Jean Van Leeuwen
  • The Amazing Air Balloon, 2003
  
  

Jamestown

• Patricia Hermes (My America series)
  • Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Diary
    Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 ; 2000
  • The Starving Time: Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two
    Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 ; 2001
  • Season of Promise: Elizabeth's Diary, Book Three
    Jamestown, Virginia, 1610 ; 2002
  
  
• Gail Langer Karwoski
  • Surviving Jamestown: The Adventures of Young Sam Collier, 2001
  
  
• Megan McDonald (American Girl History Mysteries)
  • Shadows in the Glasshouse, 2000
  
  
• Marcia Sewall
  • James Towne: Struggle for Survival, 2001
  
  

Lighthouses & Lighthouse Keepers

• Susan Fletcher
  • Walk Across the Sea, 2001
  
  
• Karen Hesse (Dear America series)
  • A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, 1999
  
  
• Dorothy Holder Jones and Ruth Sexton Sargent
  • Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Heroine, 1969
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson
  • Birdie's Lighthouse, 1997
  
  
• Natalie Kinsey-Warnock
  • Gifts from the Sea, 2003
  
  
• Peter and Connie Roop
  • Keep the Light Burning, Abbie, 1985
  
  
• Marcia K. Vaughn
  • Abbie Against the Storm: the True Story of a Young Heroine and a Lighthouse, 1999
  
  
• Jill Paton Walsh
  • Grace, 1991
  
  

Mysteries

• Albert A. Bell, Jr
  • The Secret of the Lonely Grave, 2007
  
  
• Kathy Lynn Emerson
  • The Mystery of Hilliard's Castle, 1985
  
  
• Joan Lowery Nixon
  • Search for the Shadowman, 1996
  
  

Native Life

• Joseph Bruchac
  • Children of the Longhouse, 1996
  • Squanto's Journey, 2000
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Broken Feather, 2002
  
  
• Jackie French Koller
  • Nickommoh! A Thanksgiving Celebration, 1999
  
  

Oregon Trail

• Kristiana Gregory (Dear America series)
  • Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1997
  
  
• Patricia Hermes (My America series)
  • Westward to Home: Joshua's Diary
    The Oregon Trail, 1848 ; 2001
  • A Perfect Place: Joshua's Diary, Book Two
    Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1848 ; 2002
  • The Wild Year: Joshua's Diary, Book Three
    Willamette Valley, Oregon, 1849 ; 2002
  
  
• Deborah Hopkinson
  • Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains, 2004
  
  
• Louise Moeri
  • Save Queen of Sheba, 1981
  
  
• Ruth Gipson Plowhead
  • Lucretia Ann on the Oregon Trail, 1931
  
  
• Diane Stanley
  • Roughing It on The Oregon Trail, 2001
  
  
• Jean Van Leeuwen
  • Bound for Oregon, 1994
  • A Fourth of July on the Plains, 1997
  
  

Orphan Trains

• Eve Bunting
  • Train to Somewhere, 1996
  
  
• Karen Cushman
  • Rodzina, 2003
  
  
• Verla Kay
  • Orphan Train, 2003
  
  
• Joan Lowery Nixon
  • The Orphan Train Adventures
    • A Family Apart, 1987
    • Caught in the Act, 1988
    • In The Face of Danger, 1988
    • A Place to Belong, 1989
    • A Dangerous Promise, 1994
    • Keeping Secrets, 1995
  • Orphan Train Children
    • Lucy's Wish, 1998
    • Will's Choice, 1998
    • Aggie's Home, 1998
    • David's Search, 1998
  
  
• Erika Tamar
  • The Midnight Train Home, 2000
  
  

Pilgrim Life

• Margaret Tubbs Barton
  • Plymouth Poppet: The Adventures of a Young Girl in Plymouth Plantation, 2004
  
  
• Patricia Clapp
  • Constance: a story of Early Plymouth, 1968
  
  
• Kathryn Lasky (Dear America series)
  • A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, 1996
  
  
• Ann Rinaldi (My Name Is America series)
  • The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, A Pilgrim Boy, 2000
  
  
• Diane Stanley
  • Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantationl, 2004
  
  
• Jean Van Leeuwen
  • Across the Wide Dark Sea, 1995
  
  
• Kate Waters
  Photographs by Russ Kendall
  • Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast, 2001
  • On the Mayflower: Voyage of the Ship's Apprentice and a Passenger Girl, 1996
  • Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy, 1993
  • Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl, 1989
  • Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times, 1996
  
  

Revolutionary War

• Marsha Amstel
  • Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride, 2000
  
  
• Louise Borden
  • Sleds on Boston Common, 2000
  
  
• Dorothy Gilman Butters
  • The Bells of Freedom, 1963
  
  
• Betty Cavanna
  • A Touch of Magic, 1961
  • Ruffles and Drums, 1975
  
  
• Patricia Clapp
  • I'm Deborah Sampson, 1977
  
  
• Barry Denenberg (My Name Is America series)
  • The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, 1998
  
  
• Lynda Durrant
  • Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry, 2000
  
  
• Dennis Fradin
  • Let it Begin Here! Lexington & Concord, First Battles of the American Revolution, 2005
  
  
• Kristiana Gregory
  • (Dear America series)
    • The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, 1996
  • (My America series)
    • Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 ; 2001
    • We Are Patriots: Hope's Diary, Book Two
      Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 ; 2002
    • When Freedom Comes: Hope's Diary, Book Three
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1777 ; 2004
  
  
• William Lavender
  • Just Jane: A Daughter of England caught in the struggle of the American Revolution, 2002
  
  
• Elizabeth Massie
  • Patsy's Discovery, 1997
  • Patsy and The Declaration, 1997
  • Barbara's Escape, 1997
  
  
• Marissa Moss
  • Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl, 1999
  
  
• Ann Rinaldi
  • Finishing Becca, 1994
  
  
• Diane Stanley
  • Joining the Boston Tea Party, 2001
  
  
• Betsy Sterman
  • Saratoga Secret, 1998
  
  
• Ann Turner
  • Katie's Trunk, 1992
  • (Dear America series)
    • Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, 2003
  
  
• Kate Waters
  Photographs by Russ Kendall
  • Mary Geddy's Day: A Colonial Girl in Williamsburg, 1999
  
  
• Sally Watson
  • The Hornet's Nest, 1968
  
  
• David B. Weems
  • Son of an Earl . . . Sold for a Slave, 1993
  
  
• Elvira Woodruff
  • George Washington's Socks, 1991
  
  

Slavery & The Underground Railroad

• Betty Cavanna
  • Secret Passage, 1946
  
  
• Joyce Hansen
  • (Dear America series)
    • I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, 1997
  • The Captive, 1994
  
  
• Alison Hart
  • Fires of Jubilee, 2003
  
  
• Mary E. Lyons
  • Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs, 1992
  
  
• Patricia C. McKissack
  • (Dear America series)
    • Look to the Hills: the Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, 2004
    • A Picture of Freedom: the Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, 1997
  • & Fredrick L. McKissack
    • Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, 1994
  
  
• Ann Rinaldi
  • Wolf by the Ears, 1993
  
  
• Harriette Gillem Robinet
  • Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule, 1998
  
  
• Lois Ruby
  • Steal Away Home, 1994
  • Soon Be Free, 2000
  
  
• Marcia Vaughan
  • The Secret to Freedom, 2001
  
  
• Lea Wait
  • Seaward Born, 2003
  
  
• Mildred Pitts Walter
  • Second Daughter: The Story of a Slave Girl, 1996
  
  
• Jacqueline Woodson
  • Show Way, 2005
  
  

War of 1812

• Janet Greeson
  • An American Army of Two, 1992
  
  
• K.M. Kimball
  • The Star-Spangled Secret, 2001
  
  
• John A. Minahan
  • Abigail's Drum, 1995
  
  
• Anita Sanchez
  • The Invasion of Sandy Bay, 2008
  
  

Witchcraft

• Patricia Clapp
  • Witches' Children, 1982
  
  
• Lisa Rowe Fraustino (Dear America series)
  • I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, 2004
  
  
• Elizabeth George Speare
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958
  
  

World War I

• Siobhán Parkinson
  • No Peace for Amelia, 1994
  
  
• Kate Seredy
  • The Singing Tree, 1939 ^{Highly Recommended!}
  
  

World War II

• Claire Huchet Bishop
  • Twenty and Ten, 1952
  
  
• Louise Borden
  • The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from The Netherlands, 2004
  • The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II, 1997
  
  
• Hester Burton
  • In Spite of All Terror, 1968
  
  
• Barry Denenberg
  • (My Name Is America series)
    • The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, 1999
  • (Dear America series)
    • One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, 2000
  
  
• Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Lily's Crossing, 1997
  • Willow Run, 2005
  
  
• Karen Hesse
  • The Cats in Krasinski Square, 2004 ^{Highly Recommended!}
  
  
• Cynthia Kadohata
  • Weedflower, 2006
  
  
• Sonia Levitin
  • Room in the Heart, 2003
  
  
• Lois Lowry
  • Number the Stars, 1989
  
  
• Carol Matas
  • Lisa's War, 1987
  • Jesper, 1989
  
  
• Robin McKown
  • Janine, 1960
  
  
• Marie McSwigan
  • Snow Treasure, 1942
  
  
• Ken Mochizuki
  illustrated by Dom Lee
  • Baseball Saved Us, 1993 ^{Highly Recommended!}
  • Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story, 1997 ^{Highly Recommended!}
  
  
• Mary Pope Osborne (Dear America series)
  • My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck; 2000
  
  
• Kit Pearson
  • The Sky is Falling, 1989
  • Looking at the Moon, 1991
  • The Lights Go On Again, 1993
  
  
• James Riordan
  • Escape from War, 2005
  
  
• Laura E. Williams
  • Behind the Bedroom Wall, 1996
  
  
• Jacqueline Woodson
  • Coming On Home Soon, 2004
  
  
• Jane Yolen
  • The Devil's Arithmetic, 1988
  
  

Non-Fiction

Basic Genealogy

• Rosemary A. Chorzempa
  • My Family Tree Workbook: Genealogy for Beginners, 1988
  
  
• Nancy Shepherdson
  • Ancestor Hunt: Finding Your Family Online, 2003
  
  
• Maureen Taylor
  • Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors, 1999
  
  
• Ira Wolfman
  • Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off Line Genealogy for Kids, 2002
  
  

American History

• Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Independent Dames, 2008
  
  
• Susan Provost Beller
  • Letters from the Homefront: The Revolutionary War, 2002
  
  
• Peter I. Bosco
  • Roanoke: The Story of the Lost Colony, 1992
  • The War of 1812, 1991
  
  
• Lynne Cheney
  • America -- A Patriotic Primer, 2002
  • A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, 2003
  • When Washington Crossed the Delaware, 2004
  
  
• Penny Colman
  • Girls: A History of Growing Up Female in America, 2000
  
  
• Russell Freedman
  • Immigrant Kids, 1980
  
  
• Jean Fritz
  • The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 2004
  
  
• Linda S. George
  • Letters from the Homefront: World War I, 2002
  
  
• Joyce Hansen & Gary McGowan
  • Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad, 2003
  
  
• Stuart A. Kallen
  • Life on the American Frontier, 1999
  
  
• Gail Langer Karwoski
  • Miracle: The True Story of The Wreck of the Sea Venture, 2004
  
  
• Patricia C. McKissack & Fredrick L. McKissack Jr.
  • Hard Labor: The First African Americans, 1619 ; 2004
  
  
• Stuart Murray
  • American Revolution, 2002
  
  
• Janet Riehecky (Landmark Events in American History series)
  • The Settling of Jamestown, 2002
  
  
• Gail Sakurai (Cornerstones of Freedom series)
  • The Jamestown Colony, 1997
  • Japanese American Internment Camps, 2002
  
  
• Virginia Schomp
  • Letters from the Battlefront: The Revolutionary War, 2004
  • Letters from the Homefront: The Civil War, 2002
  • Letters from the Battlefront: The Civil War, 2004
  • Letters from the Battlefront: World War I, 2004
  • Letters from the Battlefront: World War II, 2004
  
  
• Marcia Sewall
  • Thunder From The Clear Sky, 1995
  
  
• John Stanchak
  • Civil War, 2000
  
  
• George E. Stanley
  • A Primary Source History of The United States
    • The European Settlement of North America, 1492-1763 ; 2005
    • The New Republic, 1763-1815 ; 2005
    • The Crisis of the Union, 1815-1865 ; 2005
    • The Era of Reconstruction and Expansion, 1865-1900 ; 2005
  
  
• Judith St. George
  • The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence, 2005
  
  
• Laurel van der Linde
  • The Devil in Salem Village: The Story of the Salem Witchcraft Trials, 1992
  
  
• Diane Yancey
  • The Internment of the Japanese, 2001
  
  
• Karen Zeinert
  • Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, 1996
  
  

Biographies & Autobiographies

• Louise Borden
  • The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey, 2005
  
  
• Dennis Fradin Brindell
  • The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, 2002
  • The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution, 2005
  
  
• Barry Denenberg
  • Shadow Life: A Portrait of Anne Frank and Her Family, 2005
  
  
• Olga Levy Drucker
  • Kindertransport, 1992
  
  
• Jean Fritz
  • The Double Life of Pocahontas, 1983
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers, 1994
  • You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?, 1995
  
  
• Mary R. Furbee
  • Outrageous Women of Colonial America, 2001
  • Outrageous Women of the American Frontier, 2002
  • Outrageous Women of Civil War Times, 2003
  • Shawnee Captive: The Story of Mary Draper Ingles, 2001
  • Women of the American Revolution, 1999
  
  
• Miep Gies
  • Anne Frank Remembered, 1987
  
  
• Mary Hoehling
  • Girl Soldier and Spy: Sarah Emma Edmundson, 1959
  
  
• Kate Jassem
  • Pocahontas, Girl of Jamestown, 1979
  
  
• Claire Rudolf Murphy & Jane G. Haigh
  • Children of the Gold Rush, 1999
  • Gold Rush Dogs, 2001
  • Gold Rush Women, 1997
  
  
• James E. Reger
  • Civil War Generals of the Confederacy, 1999
  
  
• Susan Goldman Rubin
  • Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa, 2003
  
  
• Michael V. Uschan
  • America's Founders, 2000
  
  
• John F. Wukovits
  • The Importance of Anne Frank, 1999
  
  
• Diane Yancey
  • Civil War Generals of the Union, 1999
  • Leaders of the North and South, 2000
  
  

Diaries & Journals

• Zlata Filopovic
  • Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo, 1994
  
  
• Anne Frank
  • Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
  
  

Maps & Atlases

• Rebecca Stefoff
  • North American Historical Atlases
    • First Frontier, 2001
    • Exploring the New World, 2001
    • The Colonies, 2001
    • Revolutionary War, 2001
    • The War of 1812, 2001
    • Texas and the Far West, 2003
    • The Civil War: 1861-1863, 2003
    • The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1863-1877, 2003
    • The Indian Wars, 2003
    • Growth in America: 1865-1914, 2003
  
  

Social History

• Jim Barmeier
  • Life in America 100 Years Ago: Manners and Customs, 1997
  
  
• Bobbie Kalman
  • Historic Communities: 19th Century Clothing, 1993
  
  

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