Preschool-Grade 2
Adler, David A. A Picture Book of Sacagawea. Holiday House.
Bateman, Teresa. Red, White, Blue, and Uncle Who? The Stories Behind Some of America’s Patriotic Symbols. Holiday House.
Catrow, David. We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. New York: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.
Chandra, Deborah. George Washington’s Teeth. Farrar Straus & Giroux.
Cheney, Lynne V. America: A Patriotic Primer. Simon & Schuster.
Cherry, Lynne. A River Ran Wild. Harcourt Brace.
Curlee, Lynn. Brooklyn Bridge. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Grant, R. G. and Dailey, John R. Flight. Smithsonian Institution.
Harness, Cheryl. Three Young Pilgrims. Aladdin Library.
Hudson, Wade. Great Black Heroes; Five Bold Freedom Fighters. Cartwheel Books.
Jakes, John. Susanna of the Alamo: A True Story. Harcourt Brace.
Jezek, Alisandra. Miloli’s Orchids. Raintree/Streck Vaughn.
Johnson, Angela. Those Building Men. Blue Sky Press/Scholastic.
Monjo, F. N. The One Bad Thing about Father (biography of Theodore Roosevelt). Harper.
O’Kelley, Mattie Lou. From the Hills of Georgia: An Autobiography in Paintings. Little, Brown.
van Rynbach, Iris. Everything from a Nail to a Coffin. Orchard Books.
Waters, Kate. The Story of the White House. Scholastic.
Grades 3 and Up
Barber, James and Pastan, Amy. Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies. Smithsonian Institution.
Bartoletti, S. C. Kids on Strike! Houghton Mifflin.
Bridges, Ruby with Lundell, Margo. Through My Eyes. Scholastic.
Bruchac, J. Navajo Long Walk: Tragic Story of a Proud Peoples’ Forced March from Homeland. National Geographic Press.
Busby, Peter. First to Fly: How Wilbur & Orville Wright Invented the Airplane. Crown Books for Young Readers.
Catrow, David. We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. Dial Books for Young Readers.
Cheney, Lynne V. A Is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women.
Clapp, J. Right Here on This Spot. Houghton Mifflin.
Coombs, K. M. Children of the Dust Days. Carolrhoda Books.
Evans, Freddi Williams. A Bus of Our Own. Albert Whitman & Company.
Farris, Christine King. My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Simon & Schuster.
Fisher, Leonard E. The Statue of Liberty. Holiday House.
Frank, Mitch. Understanding September 11th: Answering Questions about the Attacks on America. Viking’s Children’s Books.
Freedman, Russell. In The Days of the Vaqueros: America’s First True Cowboys. Clarion.
Harbison, Elizabeth M. (1998). Loaves of Fun: A History of Bread with Activities and Recipes from Around the World. Chicago Review Press.
Hakim, Joy. The First Americans. Oxford University Press. (The first volume of the A History of US series. Other volumes include: Making Thirteen Colonies; The New Nation; Reconstructing America; An Age of Extremes; War, Peace, and All That Jazz 1918-1945; and All the People 1945-1999.)
Hoose, Phillip. We Were There, Too! Young People in U. S. History. Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Jacobs, William Jay. Ellis Island: New Hope in a New Land. Atheneum.
Loewen, Nancy. We Live Here Too! Kids Talk about Good Citizenship. Picture Window Books.
Macaulay, David. Mill. Houghton Mifflin.
Maestro, Betsy. Coming to America. Scholastic.
Maestro, Betsy and Maestro, Giulio. A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution. New York: Morrow.
Miller, Marilyn. Words That Built a Nation. Scholastic.
New York Times Staff. The New York Times: A Nation Challenged, Young Reader’s Edition. Scholastic.
Parkes, B. School Then and Now. Newbridge Emergent Readers Series.
Ravitch, Diane. The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation. Perennial.
Reichhardt, Tony. Space Shuttle: The First 20 Years—The Astronauts’ Experiences in Their Own Words. Smithsonian Institution.
Schanzer, Rosalyn. How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning. HarperCollins.
Sobel, Syl and Tanzey, Pam. How the U. S. Government Works. Barrons Juvenile.
Tanaka, Shelly. Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II. Hyperion Books for Children.
Wallner, Alexandra. Since 1920. Doubleday.
Wells, Rosemary. The House in the Mail. Puffin Books.
West, Delno C. and West, Jean M. Uncle Sam and Old Glory: Symbols of America. Atheneum.
Wilson, Jon. The Declaration of Independence: Foundation of America. Child’s World.
Wong, J. S. Apple Pie Fourth of July. Harcourt.
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