Banim, Lisa. Drums at Saratoga--from
the publisher's Stories of the States collection. It 's no great
shakes as literature, but it is historical fiction for the "lower-reading"
student, and its subject is the American Revolution. Another title that
comes to mind is George Washington's Socks; it's a time-travel book about
a group of today's kids accompanying Washington across the Delaware.
Bauer, Marion Dane. On my
Honor. It is a great book and not too long. Great lesson to be learned.
Clapp, I'm Deborah Sampson
Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother
Sam is Dead
DeFord, Deborah. AN ENEMY
AMONG THEM. Houghton Mifflin c1987; 203p.
Denenberg, Barry. THE JOURNAL
OF WILLIAM THOMAS EMERSON, A REVOLUTIONARY WAR PATRIOT. My Name is
America.Scholastic c1998 130p.
Fast, Howard. APRIL
MORNING. Crown 1961; 202p.
Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Gregory, Kristiana. THE WINTER
OF RED SNOW: THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR DIARY OF ABIGAILJANE STEWART, VALLEY
FORGE, PENNSYLVANIA 1777-78. c1996; 173p.
Griffin, Judith Berry. Phoebe,
the Spy. It's about a girl who is sent to be a servant of Revolutionary
commanders in a house they have overtaken and she spies on them for the
Americans.
Jensen, Dorothea; Riddle of Pennecroft
Farm. It is the story of a boy who meets a revolutionary soldier's ghost.
It goes a long way to explain terms and phrases that grew out of that time
period. And as the boy learns about the revolution so does the reader.
Lawson, Robert, Mr. Revere and
I, is very simple, and the kids enjoy learning about the war through the
eyes of Paul Revere's horse. I booktalk it with the low 5th grade reading
class.
Myers, Anna.
THE KEEPING ROOM.Walker c1997; 135p.
O'Dell, Scott. SARAH BISHOP.
Houghton Mifflin c1980; 184p.
Reit, Seymour. Guns for
General Washington.
Rinaldi, Ann. FINISHING
BECCA. Harcourt Brace c1994; 342p.
Rinaldi, Ann. CAST TWO SHADOWS:
The American Revolution in the South. Harcourt Brace c1998
267p.
