Preschool-Grade 2
Atwell, Debby. Pearl. Walter Lorraine Books/Houghton Mifflin.
Barnes, Peter. Marshall, the Courthouse Mouse: A Tail of the U. S. Supreme Court. Vacation Spot Publishing.
Bates, Katherine Lee. America the Beautiful. Putnam.
Benchley, Nathaniel. Sam the Minuteman. Harper Trophy.
Bunting, Eve. Smoky Night. Harcourt.
Guthrie, Woody. This Land Is Your Land. Little, Brown & Co.
Goble, Paul. Death of the Iron Horse. Macmillan.
Hall, Donald. Ox-Cart Man. Puffin.
High, Linda Oatman. A Humble Life: Plain Poems. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers.
Jimenez, Francisco. The Christmas Gift. Houghton Mifflin.
Kurtz, Jane. River Friendly, River Wild. Simon & Schuster.
Kuskin, Karla. Jerusalem, Shining Still. Harper Trophy.
Le Sueur, Meridel. Little Brother of the Wilderness: The Story of Johnny Appleseed. Holy Cow! Press.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hiawatha. (Various editions.)
Loomis, Christine. Across America, I Love You. Hyperion Press.
MacLachlan, Patricia. All the Places to Love. HarperCollins.
Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn. A Place Called Home. Sleeping Bear Press.
Paul, Ann Whitford. All By Herself. Harcourt Children’s Books.
Ryan, Pam Munoz. The Flag We Love. Charlesbridge Publishing.
Swift, Hildegarde. Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. Red Wagon Books.
Turner, Ann. Abe Lincoln Remembers. HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Turkle, Brinton. Thy Friend, Obadiah. Puffin.
Zolotow, Charlotte. The Sky Was Blue. HarperCollins.
Grades 3 and Up
Baker, Charles F., III. The Struggle for Freedom: Plays on the American Revolution, 1762-1788. Cobblestone.
Brink, Carol R. Caddie Woodlawn. Macmillan.
Fisher, Leonard E. The Oregon Trail. (See also Tracks Across America: The Story of the American Railroad, 1825-1900.) Holiday House.
Fleischman, Paul. Seedfolks. Harper Trophy.
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. (Various editions.)
Freedman, Russell. Cowboys of the Wild West. Clarion.
Hoobler, Dorothy and Hoobler, Tom. The First Decade: Curtain Going Up. Millbrook. (See also other books in the series about life in the twentieth century, including The Second Decade: Voyages; The 1920s: Luck; and The 1930s: Directions.)
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. Berkley.
Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love. Hyperion Press.
Minor, Wendell. Star in the Storm. McElderry.
Mistry, Nilesh. The Story of Divaali. Barefoot Books.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East. Greenwillow.
Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say. Philomel Books.
Ryan, Pam M. The Flag We Love. Charlesbridge Publishing.
Sewall, Marcia. The Pilgrims of Plimoth. New York: Aladdin Library.
Waters, Kate. Giving Thanks: The 1621 Harvest Feast. Scholastic.
Wilder, Laura I. Little House in the Big Woods. (See also others in the Little House series.) (Various editions.)
Zeman, Ludmila. Gilgamesh the King. Tundra Books.
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