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Title | Author | Lexile Level | Grade Level | ISBN |
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Room 1: Explorers and New World Settlements | ||||
Happy Thanksgiving, Biscuit! | Capucilli, Alyssa Satin | 170 | Grades PK-1 | 9780694012213 |
Follow the Dream | Peter Si | Grades PK-2 | 9780679806288 | |
The Story of the Pilgrims | Katherine Ross | Grades PK-2 | 9780679852926 | |
In the Land of Words: New and Selected Poems | Greenfield, Eloise | Grades PK-3 | 9780060289935 | |
Thanksgiving Turkey Trouble (Ready, Freddy! Series #15) | Kline, Abby | 450 | Grades PK-3 | 9780439895958 |
Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy | Kate Walters | Grades PK-3 | 9780590480536 | |
Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times | Kate Walters | Grades PK-3 | 9780590202374 | |
The Night Before Thanksgiving | Wing, Natasha | Grades PK-4 | 9780448425290 | |
How Many Days to America? A Thanksgiving Story | Bunting, Eve | 460 | Grades K-3 | 9780395547779 |
Christopher Columbus: (Step into Reading Books Series: A Step 3 Book) | Krensky, Stephen | 370 | Grades K-3 | 9780679803690 |
America: A Patriotic Primer | Chenny, Lynne | 840 | Grades 1+ | 9780689851926 |
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving | Bruchac, Joseph | 560 | Grades 1-3 | 9780152060442 |
The Story of the Pledge of Alliegance: Discovering Our Nation's Heritage | Tiner, John Hudson | Grades 1-4 | 9780890513934 | |
I Pledge Allegiance | Martin, Bill Jr. with Sampson, Michael | Grades 1-4 | 9780763625276 | |
Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Treehouse Series #27) | Pope-Osborne, Mary | 340 | Grades 1-4 | 9780375806155 |
Pilgrims: A Nonfiction Companion to Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House Research Guide Series) | Pope-Osborne, Mary with Pope-Boyce, Natalie | 550 | Grades 1-4 | 9780375832192 |
The Pilgrims of Plimoth | Marcia Sewall | 910 | Grades 1-4 | 9780689808616 |
Encounter | Yolen, Jane | 760 | Grades 1-5 | 9780152013899 |
The 13 Colonies: A New Life in a New World | Marsh, Carole | Grades 2+ | 9780635075079 | |
You Wouldn’t Want to Sail with Christopher Columbus! Uncharted Waters You’d Rather Not Cross | Fiona Macdonald | Grades 2-4 | 9780531228531 | |
Molly's Pilgrim | Cohen, Barbra | Grades 2-5 | 9780688162801 | |
The Double Life of Pocahontas | Jean Fritz | Grades 2-5 | 9780698119352 | |
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims | Clyde Bulla | 360 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590440554 |
If You Lived in Colonial Times | Ann McGovern | 590 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590451604 |
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 | Ann McGovern | 600 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590451611 |
Three Young Pilgrims | Harness, Cheryl | 740 | Grades 2-5 | 9780689802089 |
Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh | 610 | Grades 2-5 | 9780689715402 |
The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689 | Betsy Maestro | Grades 2-7 | 9780060575724 | |
Pocahontas: An American Princess | Milton, Joyce | Grades 3-4 | 9780448421810 | |
What Was the First Thanksgiving | Joan Holub | Grades 3-7 | 9780448464633 | |
The Landing of the Pilgrims | James Daugherty | 990 | Grades 3-7 | 9780394846972 |
Mayflower 1620 | Plimoth Plantation | Grades 3-7 | 9780792262763 | |
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving | Catherine O'Neill Grace | Grades 3-7 | 9780792261391 | |
Pilgrims of Plymouth | Susan E Goodman | Grades 3-7 | 9780792266754 | |
If You Were There in 1492: Everyday Life in the Time of Columbus | Barbara Brenner | Grades 4-6 | 9780689822414 | |
The Mayflower and the Pilgrims' New World | Nathaneil Philbrick | Grades 5+ | 9780142414583 | |
Sterling Biographies: Pocahontas: A Life in Two Worlds | Victoria Garrett Jones | 1230 | Grades 5+ | 9781402751585 |
Room 2: A New Nation | ||||
Story of America's Birthday | Pingry, Patricia | Grades PK-1 | 9780824918941 | |
John, Paul, George and Ben | Smith, Lane | 660 | Grades PK-2 | 9780786848935 |
George Washington's Teeth | Chandra, Deborah | Grades PK-3 | 9780312376048 | |
Town Mouse, Country Mouse | Brett, Jan | Grades PK-3 | 9780698119864 | |
Fourth of July Story | Dalgliesh, Alice | 790 | Grades PK-3 | 9780689718762 |
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington | Brown, Don | 920 | Grades K-3 | 9780618411993 |
A Picture Book of George Washington | Adler, David | 750 | Grades K-3 | 9780823408009 |
A Picture Book of Thomas Jefferson | Adler, David | 700 | Grades K-3 | 9780823408818 |
We the Kids: The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States | Catrow, David | Grades K-3 | 9780142402764 | |
George Washington and the General's Dog (Step Into Reading: Step 3 Reading on Your Own) | Murphy, Frank | Grades K-3 | 9780375810152 | |
When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots | Cheney, Lynn V. | Grades K-4 | 9781442444232 | |
We the People: The Story of Our Constitution | Lynne Cheney | Grades K-4 | 9781442444225 | |
George Washington's Mother | Fritz, Jean | 250 | Grades 1-2 | 9780448403847 |
Abigail Adams: First Lady of the American Revolution | Lakin, Patricia | 860 | Grades 1-3 | 9780689870323 |
Judy Moody Declares Independence (Judy Moody Series #6) | McDonald, Megan | 590 | Grades 1-4 | 9780763648510 |
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution | Anderson, Laurie Halse | Grades 1-5 | 9780689858086 | |
Abigail Adams | Time for Kids | 780 | Grades 2-4 | 9780060576288 |
Let it Begin Here! | Dennis Brindell Fradin | Grades 2-4 | 9780802797117 | |
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? | Fritz, Jean | 970 | Grades 2-4 | 9780698114401 |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean | Grades 2-4 | 9780698113510 | |
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | Fritz, Jean | 800 | Grades 2-4 | 9780698114166 |
George Washington: Soldier, Hero, President | Korman, Justine and Fontes, John | 700 | Grades 2-4 | 9780789473776 |
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | Fritz, Jean | 1000 | Grades 2-4 | 9780698114395 |
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution! | Fritz, Jean and de Paola, Tomie | Grades 2-4 | 9780698116245 | |
George Washington's Breakfast | Fritz, Jean | Grades 2-5 | 9780698116115 | |
If You Were There When they Signed the Constitution | Elizabeth Levy | 810 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590451598 |
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution | Kay Moore | 860 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590674447 |
The U.S. Constitution and You | Sobel, Syl | 940 | Grades 2-6 | 9780764147944 |
The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence | St. George, Judith | Grades 3-5 | 9780147511645 | |
Declaration of Independence | Landau, Elaine | Grades 3-5 | 9780531147801 | |
Phoebe the Spy | Griffith, Judith Berry | Grades 3-6 | 9780698119567 | |
You Wouldn't Want to be at the Boston Tea Party! | Peter Cook | Grades 3-6 | 9780531238561 | |
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America | Glennette Tilley Turner | 1180 | Grades 3-7 | 9780810940567 |
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began | Lucille Recht Penner | Grades 3-7 | 9780375822001 | |
Toliver's Secret | Esther Wood Brady | 740 | Grades 3-7 | 9780679848042 |
Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson | McGovern, Ann | 590 | Grades 3-7 | 9780590430524 |
George Washington’s Socks | Woodruff, Elvira | 840 | Grades 3-7 | 9780590440363 |
George Washington’s Spy | Woodruff, Elvira | Grades 3-7 | 9780545104883 | |
Story of the American Revolution | Copeland, Peter F. and Cynthia | Grades 3-8 | 9780486256481 | |
Greek Gods and Goddesses | Green, John and Sliver, Drew | Grades 3-8 | 9780486418629 | |
Mythology | Hamilton, Edith | Grades 3-8 | 9780446574754 | |
The Declaration of Independence: The Story Behind America's Founding Document | Graves, Kerry A. | Grades 4-6 | 9780791073346 | |
Molly Pitcher | Augusta Stevenson | 420 | Grades 4-6 | 9780020420408 |
Martha Washington | Jean Brown Wagoner | 600 | Grades 4-6 | 9780020421603 |
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides | Schanzer, Rosalyn | Grades 4-7 | 9781426300424 | |
Black Heroes of the American Revolution | Davis, Burke | 1330 | Grades 5-7 | 9780152085612 |
Who Was Thomas Jefferson | Fradin, Dennis Brindell | 680 | Grades 8-12 | 9780448431451 |
Room 3: The Western Frontier | ||||
North American Indians | Douglas Gorsline | 830 | Grades PK-2 | 9780394837024 |
If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast | Anne Kamma | 870 | Grades PK-3 | 9780439260770 |
Rosie's Walk | Hutchins, Pat | Grades PK-3 | 9780020437505 | |
Working Cotton | Williams, Sherley Anne | 600 | Grades K-2 | 9780152014827 |
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express | Eleanor Coerr | Grades K-3 | 9780064442206 | |
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes | Heyward, Dubose | Grades K-3 | 9780395185575 | |
Daily Life in a Covered Wagon | Paul Erickson | 1120 | Grades K-3 | 9780140562125 |
Ghost Town at Sundown | Mary Pope Osborne | 350 | Grades 1-4 | 9780679883395 |
Amazing Impossible Erie Canal | Cheryl Harness | Grades 1-4 | 9780689825842 | |
Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | 560 | Grades 1-5 | 9780064402057 |
Trail of Tears | Joseph Bruchac | 610 | Grades 2-4 | 9780769890522 |
Geronimo and the Gold Medal Mystery | Stilton, Geronimo | 810 | Grades 2-5 | 9780545021333 |
If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon | Ellen Levine | 860 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590451581 |
If You Lived With the Cherokees | Peter Roop | 800 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590956062 |
Louisiana Purchase | Roop, Peter and Connie | Grades 2-5 | 9780689864438 | |
They're Off! The Story of the Pony Express | Cheryl Harness | Grades 2-5 | 9780689851216 | |
Life in the West | Teresa Domnauer | Grades 3+ | 9780531212462 | |
Dinosaur Hunter | Elaine Marie Alphin | 470 | Grades 3-4 | 9780064442565 |
The Story of the Golden Fleece | Colum, Padraic | Grades 3-5 | 9780486443669 | |
Bound for Oregon | Jean Van Leeuwen | 830 | Grades 3-6 | 9780140383195 |
You Wouldn't Want to be an American Pioneer! | Jacqueline Morley | Grades 3-6 | 9780531280256 | |
366: A Leap Year of Great Stories from History | Marsh, W.B. | Grades 3-7 | 9781848310056 | |
How We Crossed the West | Rosalyn Schanzer | Grades 3-7 | 9780792267263 | |
A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 | Barbara Greenwood | 900 | Grades 4-6 | 9780395883938 |
Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike, 1898 | Greenwood, Barbara | 840 | Grades 4-6 | 9781550748505 |
The Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | Grades 4-7 | 9780547577111 | |
America...the Dream Lives On (Sheet Music) | Coates, Dan (comp.) | 9780757990632 | ||
Room 4: The Civil War | ||||
Sweet Clara and the Quilt of Freedom | Hopkinson, Deborah | 680 | Grades PK-2 | 9780679874720 |
Mr. Lincoln’s Whiskers | Winnick, Karen B. | 420 | Grades PK-3 | 9781563978050 |
Henry’s Freedom Box | Levine, Ellen | 380 | Grades PK-3 | 9780439777339 |
The Story of Abraham Lincoln | Pingry, Patricia A. | Grades PK-K | 9780824941079 | |
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom | Weatherford, Carole Boston | 660 | Grades K-3 | 9780786851751 |
Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln | Adler, David | 630 | Grades K-3 | 9780823408016 |
Abe Lincoln’s Hat (Step into Reading Books Series: A Step 3 Book) | Brenner, Martha | 330 | Grades K-3 | 9780679849773 |
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books | Winters, Kay | Grades K-3 | 9781416912682 | |
From Slave to Soldier | Deborah Hopkinson | 460 | Grades 1-3 | 9780689839665 |
Abe Lincoln and the Muddy Pig | Krensky, Stephen | 480 | Grades 1-4 | 9780689841033 |
Mr. Macky Is Wacky! | Gitman, Dan | 620 | Grades 1-5 | 9780061141515 |
My Name is Sally Little Song | Brenda Woods | Grades 2+ | 9780142409435 | |
A Ballad of the Civil War | Mary Stolz | Grades 2-5 | 9780064420884 | |
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of the Gettysburg Address | Fritz, Jean | 390 | Grades 2-5 | 9780448401706 |
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad | Levine, Ellen | 720 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590451567 |
Freedom's Wings: Corey's Underground Railroad Diary | Wyeth, Sharon Dennis | Grades 2-5 | 9780439369077 | |
My America Book One | Sharon Dennis Wyeth | Grades 2-5 | 9780439368988 | |
I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 | Lauren Tarshis | 660 | Grades 2-5 | 9780545459365 |
Iron Thunder | Avi | Grades 2-7 | 9781423105183 | |
They Mystery at Fort Sumter | Carole Marsh | 750 | Grades 3+ | 9780635074294 |
Behind the Blue and Gray | Delia Ray | 1120 | Grades 3+ | 9780140383041 |
Civil War Sub: The Mystery of the Hunley | Kate BoehmJerome | 660 | Grades 3+ | 9780448425979 |
A Separate Battle: Women and the Civil War | Ina Chang | Grades 3+ | 9780140381061 | |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Civil War Soldier | Thomas Ratliff | Grades 3-6 | 9780531245033 | |
The Thing about Georgie | Graff, Lisa | Grades 3-7 | 9780060875916 | |
Escape by Night: A Civil War Adventure | Laurie Myers | Grades 3-7 | 9781250050557 | |
What Was the Battle of Gettysburg? | Jim O'Connor | Grades 3-7 | 9780448462868 | |
Who Was Abraham Lincoln | Janet Pascal | 720 | Grades 3-7 | 9780448448862 |
What Was the Underground Railroad | Yona Zeldis McDonough | Grades 3-7 | 9780448467122 | |
Who Was Clara Barton | Stephanie Spinner | Grades 3-7 | 9780448479538 | |
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington | Harness, Cheryl | Grades 3-7 | 9781426304361 | |
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad | Woodruff, Elvira | Grades 3-7 | 9780375803567 | |
Dear Levi: Letters from Overland Trail | Woodruff, Elvira | Grades 3-7 | 9780375803567 | |
Yankee Blue or Rebel Gray? | Kate Connell | Grades 3-7 | 9780792251798 | |
On Enemy Soil: Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier | Jim Murphy | Grades 3-7 | 9780545398879 | |
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Rodman Philbrick | Grades 3-7 | 9780439668217 | |
Civil War Uniforms Coloring Book | Peter F Copeland | Grades 3-8 | 9780486235356 | |
Two Miserable Presidents | Steve Sheinkin | 920 | Grades 3-9 | 9781596435193 |
Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy | Hale, Sarah Edler (ed.) | Grades 3-9 | 9780812679083 | |
Lincoln: A Photobiography | Freedman, Russell | 1040 | Grades 4-7 | 9780395518489 |
Top Secret Files The Civil War Spies, Secret Missions, and Hidden Facts from the Civil War | Stephanie Bearce | Grades 4-7 | 9781618212504 | |
The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Grades 4-8 | 9780486434223 | |
Promises to the Dead | Mary Downing Hahn | Grades 5+ | 9780547258386 | |
Boys of Wartime | Laurie Calkhoven | Grades 5+ | 9780142419878 | |
The Gettysburg Address | Wills, Gary (Forward) | 9780743299633 | ||
Room 5: A Growing Country | ||||
Statue of Liberty: (Step into Reading Books Series) | Penner | 250 | Grades PK-1 | 9780679869283 |
Statue of Liberty (Wonders of America Series) | Bauer, Marion Dane | 710 | Grades PK-1 | 9781416934790 |
One Green Apple | Bunting, Eve | 450 | Grades PK-3 | 9780618434770 |
The Memory Coat | Elvira Woodruff | 650 | Grades PK-3 | 9780590677172 |
America the Beautiful: A Pop-up Book | Sabuda, Robert | Grades PK-3 | 9780689847448 | |
Listen Up! Alexander Graham Bell's Talking Machine (Step into Reading Books Series) | Kulling, Monica | 420 | Grades K-3 | 9780375831157 |
Potato | Kate Lied | Grades K-4 | 9780792269465 | |
George Washington Carver: The Peanut Wizard | Driscoll, Laura | Grades K-5 | 9780448432434 | |
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez | Krullm, Kathleen | 800 | Grades 1-3 | 9780152014377 |
Picnic in October | Bunting, Eve | 310 | Grades 1-3 | 9780152050658 |
Trains: A Pop-Up Railroad Book | Crowther, Robert | Grades 1-4 | 9780763630829 | |
When Jesse Came Across the Sea | Hest, Amy | 470 | Grades 1-4 | 9780763612740 |
How Ben Franklin Stole the Lightning | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 910 | Grades 1-7 | 9780688169930 |
Henry Ford | 860 | Grades 2-4 | 9780060576301 | |
If Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island | Levine, Ellen | 880 | Grades 2-5 | 9780590438292 |
St. Patrick's Day Shillelagh | Nolan, Janet | Grades 2-5 | 9780807573457 | |
Hannah's Journal | Marissa Moss | Grades 3-6 | 9780152163297 | |
Rose's Journal | Marissa Moss | Grades 3-6 | 9780152046057 | |
Joshua's Song | Harlow, Joan Hiatt | Grades 3-6 | 9780689855429 | |
Turn Homeward, Hannalee | Beatty, Patricia | Grades 3-7 | 9780688166762 | |
Ten Mile Day | Mary Ann Fraser | 890 | Grades 3-7 | 9780805047035 |
Thimble Summer | Elizabeth Enright | Grades 3-7 | 9780312380021 | |
The Saturdays | Elizabeth Enright | 820 | Grades 3-7 | 9780132375980 |
Roller Skates | Ruth Sawyer | 810 | Grades 3-7 | 9780140303582 |
What Was Ellis Island? | Patricia Brennan Demuth | 800 | Grades 3-7 | 9780448479156 |
Who Were the Wright Brothers? | James Buckley Jr | Grades 3-7 | 9780448479514 | |
Who Was Henry Ford? | Michael Burgan | Grades 3-7 | 9780448479576 | |
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp | Stanley, Jerry | 1120 | Grades 3-7 | 9780517880944 |
Lawn Boy | Panlsen, Gary | Grades 3-7 | 9780553494655 | |
Maggie's Door | Giff, Particia Reilly | Grades 3-7 | 9780440415817 | |
Counting on Grace | Elizabeth Winthrop | Grades 3-7 | 9780553487831 | |
All-of-a-Kind Family | Sydney Taylor | 750 | Grades 3-7 | 9780440400592 |
Bud, Not Buddy | Christopher Paul Curtis | 950 | Grades 3-7 | 9780553494105 |
Esperanza Rising | Ryan, Pam Munoz | 750 | Grades 3-7 | 9780439120425 |
Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | Grades 3-7 | 9780590371254 | |
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule | Harriette Gillem Robinet | Grades 3-7 | 9780689833175 | |
Shades of Gray | Carolyn Reeder | Grades 3-7 | 9780689826962 | |
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell? | Bonnie Bader | Grades 3-7 | 9780448464602 | |
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor | Freedman, Russell | 1140 | Grades 4-6 | 9780395797266 |
Growing up in Coal Country | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | Grades 4-6 | 9780395979143 | |
New York for Kids: 25 Big Apple Sites to Color | Wynne, Patricia J. | Grades 6-8 | 9780486441269 |