US History and Children's Literature
Professional Books
- In Times Past by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis.
This book is an Encyclopedia for Integrating US History with Literature in Grades 3-8. Our section about this book includes the table of contents and sample chapters. Order from Amazon.com.
Subjects and Themes
These topics are fully developed with related children's books, and activities.
- Biographies and Memoirs
- Buildings and Architecture
- The Civil War
- Colonial America, 1600-1776
- Flight and Planes
- The Great Depression
- Local History and Family Stories
- Martin Luther King Day
- Native Americans Past and Present
- Pilgrims, The Time of: 1600-1700
- Quilts
- The Revolutionary War
- Rivers
- Slavery
- Time as a Subject and Time Travel Fantasies
- History through Time-Travel Fantasies
- Trains
- Westward Movement
- World War II
- World War II as an example of a school wide parallel reading theme.
General Activities and Lesson Plans
- Creating a Living History Museum
- A timeline activity with children's books, an article.
- See also the Subjects and Themes, and Featured books listed above or below for more US History activities.
Annotated Booklists
Children's Books
Here are some of the historical books featured on this site. You'll find a review, discussion topics, activities, related books and links for each. There are many other historical novels featured within the subject articles above.
- Araminta's Paint Box - by Karen Ackerman. Picture Book. Grades 1 and up.
- Birchbark House, The - by Louise Erdrich. Novel. Grades 3 and up.
- Breaker Boys, The - by Pat Hughs. Novel. Grades 5 and up.
- Bud, Not Buddy - by Christopher Paul Curtis. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Charlotte's Web - by E. B. White. Novel. Grades 3 and up.
- Dandelions - by Eve Bunting. Picture Book. Grades 2 and up.
- Everywhere - by Bruce Brooks. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Foxman, The - by Gary Paulsen. Novel. Grades 5 and up.
- Ghost Belonged to Me, The - by Richard Peck. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Grasshopper Summer - by Ann Turner. Novel. Grades 3 and up.
- I Am Regina - by Sally M. Keehn. Novel. Grades 5 and up.
- Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain - by Robert Burch. Novel. Grades 3 and up.
- Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain - by Robert Burch. Novel. Grades 3 and up.
- Keeper of the Doves - by Betsy Byars. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Keeping Quilt, The - by Patricia Polacco. Picture Book. Grades K and up.
- Killing in Plymouth Colony, A - by Carol Otis Hurst. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Kira-Kira - by Cynthia Kadohata. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Letting Swift River Go - by Jane Yolen. Picture Book, Nonfiction. Grades PreK and up.
- Lyddie - by Katherine Paterson. Novel. Grades 5 and up.
- Man Who Walked Between the Towers, The - by Mordicai Gerstein. Picture Book, Nonfiction. Grades K and up.
- Miss Bridie Chose a Shovel - by Leslie Connor. Picture Book. Grades 1 and up
- Night the Bells Rang, The - by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock. Novel. Grades 4 and up.
- Out of the Dust - by Karen Hesse. Novel. Grades 5 and up.
- Snowflake Bentley - by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. Picture Book, Nonfiction. Grades 2 and up.
- Storm in the Barn, The - by Matt Phelan. Graphic Novel. Grades 3 and up.
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