Suggested Readings
from
Carmel Middle School Library
Reading Counts Books in Red
Chapter 1
Title
Author
The first Americans : the story of
where they came from and who they
became
Kokopelli's flute
Aveni, Anthony
Hobbs, Will
Chapter 2
Title
Author
The legend of the white doe
Roanoke; a novel of the lost colony.
The carving on the tree
Sabotaged
Hooks, William H
Levitin, Sonia
Campbell, Elizabeth A.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Chapter 3
Title
Author
The corn raid : [a story of the
Jamestown settlement]
The serpent never sleeps : a novel of
Jamestown and Pocahontas
The Virginia Colony
Collier, James Lincoln
O'Dell, Scott
Thane, Elswyth
Written in Bone; Buried Lives of
Jamestown & Colonial Maryland
Blood of freedom; the story of
Jamestown, Williamsburg, and
Yorktown
You wouldn't want to be an American
colonist! : a settlement you'd rather
not start
The ransom of Mercy Carter
The double life of Pocahontas
Witch child
The crucible : a play in four acts
Virginia bound
Pocahontas
The sacrifice
You wouldn't want to sail on the
Mayflower! : a trip that took entirely
too long
Jamestown adventure
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
A Break with Charity: A story about
the Salem Witch Trials
The House of the seven gables
Hang a thousand trees with ribbons :
the story of Phillis Wheatley
The Last of the Mohicans
The fifth of March : a story of the
Boston Massacre
You wouldn't want to be at the Boston
Tea Party! : wharf water tea you'd
rather not drink
Calico Captive
The French and Indian war
Winter People
Early Thunder
Rise to Rebellion
1621:A New Look at Thanksgiving
The Boston Massacre
The Journal of Jasper Jonathan
Walker, Sally M.
Miers, Earl Schenck
Morley, Jacqueline
Cooney, Caroline B.
Fritz, Jean
Rees, Celia
Miller, Arthur
Butler, Amy
Bruchac, Joseph
Benner Duble, Kathleen
Cook, Peter
Hall-Quest, Olga (Wilbourne)
Speare, Elizabeth George
Rinaldi, Ann
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Rinaldi, Ann
Cooper, James Fenimore
Rinaldi, Ann
Cook, Peter
Speare, Elizabeth George
Minks, Benton and Louise
Bruchac, Joseph
Fritz, Jean
Shaara, Jeff
Grace, Catherine O’Neill
Burgan, Michael
Rinaldi, Ann
Pierce: a Pilgrim Boy
Chapter 4- American Revolution
Title
Author
Why not, Lafayette?
Where was Patrick Henry on the 29th
of May?
Will you sign here, John Hancock
John Hancock : a signature life
Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold
And then what happened, Paul
Revere?
Time enough for drums
A ride into morning : the story of
Tempe Wick
Finishing Becca : a story about
Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold
Cast two shadows : the American
revolution in the South
Taking Liberty: the story of Oney
Judge, George Washington’s
Runaway Slave
The Year of the Hangman
Winter of Red Snow
The Revolutionary War home front
April morning
My brother Sam is dead
Sarah Bishop
Johnny Tremain
A Young Patriot:….
Saratoga Secret
Moon of Two Dark Horses
The Fighting Ground
Hope’s Crossing
Rise to Rebellion
Fritz, Jean
Fritz, Jean
Fritz, Jean
Koslow, Philip
Fritz, Jean
Fritz, Jean
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Blackwood, Gary
Gregory, Kristiana
Smolinski, Diane
Fast, Howard
Collier, James Lincoln
O’Dell, Scott
Forbes, Esther
Murphy, Jim
Sterman, Betsy
Keehn, Sally
Avi
Goodman, Joan E.
Shaara, Jeff
Lord Cornwallis: a British General
Harmon, Daniel E.
Chapter 5
Title
Author
The great little Madison
Where was Patrick Henry on the
29th of May?
George Washington
George Washington : first president
of the United States
George Washington and the birth of
our nation
George Washington & the founding
of a nation
Writings
Fritz, Jean
Fritz, Jean
John Jay : first chief justice of the
Supreme Court
George Mason of Virginia
Drafting the Constitution : weighing
evidence to draw sound conclusions
The great Constitution : a book for
young Americans.
Framers of the Constitution
The spirit of 1787 : the making of
our Constitution
Founders of freedom in America;
lives of the men who signed the
Constitution of the United States and
so helped to establish the United
States of America,
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton : Federalist and
founding father
Bruns , Roger
Kent, Zachary
Meltzer, Milton
Marrin, Albert
Washington, George ; [selected by
John H. Rhodehamel].
Powell, Phelan
Henri, Florette
Eck, Kristin
Commager, Henry Steele
McGee, Dorothy Horton
Lomask, Milton
Whitney, David C
Keller, Mollie
O'Brien, Steven
DeCarolis, Lisa
Chapter 6
Title
Author
In defense of liberty : the story of
America's Bill of Rights
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The First Amendment : freedom of
speech, religion, and the press
Freedman, Russell
Armentrout, David
Armentrout, David
Farish, Leah
Chapter 7
Title
Author
Anthony Wayne : American general
The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794; revolt
in western Pennsylvania threatens
American unity,
The Burr-Hamilton duel, July 11,
1804; a tragedy that stunned the
American nation.
John Jay : first chief justice of the
Supreme Court
George Washington
George Washington : first president
of the United States
George Washington and the birth of
our nation
George Washington & the founding
of a nation
Writings
Grabowski, Patricia
Knight, David C.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton : Federalist and
founding father
Knight, Ralph
Powell, Phelan
Bruns , Roger
Kent, Zachary
Meltzer, Milton
Marrin, Albert
Washington, George ; [selected by
John H. Rhodehamel].
Keller, Mollie
O'Brien, Steven
DeCarolis, Lisa
Chapter 8
Title
Author
Wolf by the Ears
Bold Journey; West with Lewis &
Clark
York's adventures with Lewis and
Clark : an African-American's part
in the great expedition
The incredible journey of Lewis and
Clark
The War of 1812
Once on this island
Thomas Jefferson : man on a
mountain
Cabin on Trouble Creek
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Animals on the trail with Lewis and
Clark
The captain's dog : my journey with
the Lewis and Clark tribe
This vast land : a young man's
journal of the Lewis and Clark
expedition : a novel
How we crossed the West : the
adventures of Lewis & Clark
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
: the Corps of Discovery and the
exploration of the American frontier
Lewis and Clark : path to the Pacific
New found land : a novel
The Great Little Madison
Rinaldi, Ann
Bohner, Charles
Blumberg, Rhoda
Blumberg, Rhoda
Green, Carl R
Whelan, Gloria
Bober, Natalie
Van Leeuwen, Jean
O’Dell, Scott
Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw
Smith, Roland
Ambrose, Stephen E.
Schanzer, Rosalyn
Fox, Michael D. and Suzanne G.
Chapter 10
Eisenberg, Jana
Wolf, Allan
Fritz, Jean
Title
Author
The talking earth (Seminole)
Andrew Jackson : and his America
George, Jean Craighead
Meltzer, Milton
Chapter 11
Title
Author
Inside the Alamo
The perilous journey of the Donner
party
You wouldn't want to be an
American pioneer! : a wilderness
you'd rather not tame
Murphy, Jim
Calabro, Marian
Morley, Jacqueline
Chapter 12
Title
Author
The Lowell Mill girls: life in the
factory
So far from home: the diary of Mary
Driscoll, an Irish mill girl
Lyddie
Mill
The Blue Door
Deitch, JoAnne Weisman
Denenberg, Barry
Paterson, Katherine
Macaulay, David
Rinaldi, Ann
Chapter 13
Title
Taking Liberty: the story of Oney
Judge, George Washington’s
Runaway Slave
Mine Eyes Have Seen
Author
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
The house of Dies Drear
Hamilton, Virginia
Chapter 14
Title
Author
The scarlet letter
The House of the seven gables
18 best stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Eight tales of terror
You want women to vote, Lizzie
Stanton?
Prisoner of time
Sojourner Truth and the struggle for
freedom
The Last of the Mohicans
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Underground Railroad Books
The house of Dies Drear
Steal away
North by night : a story of the
Underground Railroad
Jayhawker
Who comes with cannons?
Stealing freedom
Underground man
Silent thunder : a Civil War story
Cezanne Pinto : a memoir
Escape from Slavery: Five Journeys
to Freedom
Poe, Edgar Allen
Fritz, Jean
Cooney, Caroline B.
Claflin, Edward Beecher
Cooper, James Fenimore
Hamilton, Virginia
Armstrong, Jennifer
Ayres, Katherine
Beatty, Patricia
Beatty, Patricia
Carbone, Elisa
Meltzer, Milton
Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Stolz, Mary
Rappaport, Doreen
Chapter -Civil War
Title
Author
Amelia’s War
Girl in Blue
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
In my Father’s House
The Last Silk Dress
Bull Run
You Wouldn’t Want to be a Civil War
Soldier
Good brother, bad brother : the story
of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes
Booth
Secrets of a Civil War submarine :
solving the mysteries of the H.L.
Hunley
Jayhawker
Silent thunder : a Civil War story
How I Found the Strong: A Civil War
Story
Sarny, a life remembered
Soldier’s Heart….
Promises to the Dead
When will this cruel war be over? :
the Civil War diary of Emma Simpson
When this cruel war is over : the
Civil War home front
Bigger
No man’s land:a young soldier’s
story
Charley Skedaddle
Turn homeward, Hannalee
Who comes with cannons?
The Tamarack tree: a novel of the
siege of Vicksburg
A month of seven days
With every drop of blood
Ghost soldier
The red badge of courage
An island far from Home
Cold Mountain
The journal of Rufus Rowe: a witness
to the Battle of Fredricksburg
Rifles for Watie
Rinaldi, Ann
Rinaldi, Ann
Fleischman, Paul
Ratliff, Thomas
Giblin, James Cross
Sally M. Walker
Beatty, Patricia
Pinkney, Andrea Davis
McMullan, Margaret
Paulsen, Gary
Paulsen, Gary
Hahn, Mary Downing
Denenberg, Barry
Damon, Duane
Calvert, Patricia
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
Beatty, Patricia
Beatty, Patricia
Beatty, Patricia
Clapp, Patricia
Climo, Shirley
Collier, James Lincoln
Alphin, Elaine Marie
Crane, Stephen
Donahue, John
Frazier, Charles
Hite, Sid
Keith, Harold
Gone with the wind
A dangerous promise
Civil War on Sunday
The river between us
Across the lines
Gods and generals
The last full measure
The perilous road
Mr. Lincoln’s drummer
Hoosier farmboy in Lincoln’s army:
the Civil War letters of Pvt. John R.
McClure: for young people
Mitchell, Margaret
Nixon, Joan Lowery
Osborne, Mary Pope
Peck, Richard
Reeder, Carolyn
Shaara, Jeff
Shaara, Jeff
Steele, William O.
Wisler, G. Clifton
Baxter, Nancy N.
Chapter
Title
Author
The land
An acquaintance with darkness
Shades of gray
Taylor, Mildred
Rinaldi, Ann
Reeder, Carolyn
Mississinewa 1812
Title
Author
The Miamis!
The Shawnee Indians
A Second Bend in the River
Baxter, Nancy Niblack
Dolan, Terrance
Rinaldi, Ann