Unit 1 – Exploration and Settlement
 Exploration and Conquest, by Betsy and Giulio Maestro
 A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple,
Mayflower 1620, by Kathryn Lasky
 Who Really Discovered America?, by Stephen Krensky
 Morning Girl, by Michael Dorris
 Stowaway, by Karen Hesse
 The Serpent Never Sleeps: A Novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas, by Scott
O’Dell
 Early American Civilization and Exploration, 1607, by Helen Cothran and
Brenda Stalcup
 The Mayflower Compact, by E.J. Carter
 Magellan and the First Voyage Around the World, by Nancy Smiler Levinson
 We Asked for Nothing: The Remarkable Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, by Stuart
Waldman
 Despite All Obstacles: La Salle and the Conquest of the Mississippi, by Joan E.
Goodman
 Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage, by C. O. Grace, P. Arenstam,
J. Kemp
Unit 2 – The English Colonies
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…If You Lived in Colonial Times, by Ann McGovern
William Penn: Quaker Colonist, by Kieran Doherty
The Witch of Blackbird Pond, by Elizabeth George Speare
Ben Franklin’s Almanac, by Candace Fleming
Hasty pudding, Johnny Cakes and Other Good Stuff, by Loretta F. Ichord
Making Thirteen Colonies, 1600-1740, by Joy Hakim
How We Lived in Colonial New England, by Deborah Kent
African-Americans in the Thirteen Colonies, by Deborha Kent
The New York Colony, by Barbara A. Somervill
Growing Up in a New World: 1607 to 1775, by Brandon Marie Miller
Anne Hutchinson: Religious Reformer, by Melina Mangal
Unit 3 – The American Revolution and Independence
 Yankee Doodle Boy, by Joseph Plumb Martin
 The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence, by
Dennis Fradin
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The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution, by Dennis Fradin
The Many Lives of Benjamin Franklin, by Mary Pope Osborne
Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution, by Karen Zeinert
A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy, by Jim
Murphy
 Hour of Freedom, by Milton Meltzer
 The French and Indian War: 1660-1763, by Christopher Collier and James L.
Collier
 Countdown to Independence, by Natalie S. Bober
 The United States Constitution, by Karen Price Hossell
 Growing Up in Revolution and the New Nation 1775 to 1800, by Brandon M.
Miller
 Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, by Ann Turner
 The Secret Soldier, by Ann McGovern
 The Fighting Ground, by Avi
Unit 4 – The New Nation
 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham
 How We Crossed the West: The Adventure of Lewis and Clark, by Rosalyn
Schanzer
 My Name Is York, by Elizabeth Van Steenwyck
 Bold Journey, by Charles Bohner
 Battles of the War of 1812, by Diane and Henry Smolinski
 The Louisiana Purchase, by Michael Burgan