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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War

10 best books like Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War (Thomas B. Allen): A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840, With Lee in Virginia, Dear Benjamin Banneker, If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, The Little House Guidebook, Seven Alone, Who Was Winston Churchill?, Arms & Armor

A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840
AuthorBarbara Greenwood
ISBN0395883938
Using a juxtaposition of fiction and non-fiction, interspersed with intersting and fun activity and project suggestions, Barbara Greenwood's A Pioneer Story: The Daily Life of a Canadian Family in 1840 (also released as A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840 for the American...
With Lee in Virginia
AuthorG.A. Henty
ISBN0486434567
Over the last few evening my family (ages 5-39) has listened to this excellent audio, which we concluded tonight.

What I appreciated most about this story was contemplating the Civil War from the South's perspective. It enrages me to realize that we were only taught one side in public school.....which...
Dear Benjamin Banneker
AuthorAndrea Davis Pinkney
ISBN0152018921
Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call Jefferson a hypocrite for owning slaves. Jefferson...
If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
AuthorFaith Ringgold
ISBN0689856768

If a bus could talk, it would tell the story of a young African-American girl named Rosa who had to walk miles to her one-room schoolhouse in Alabama while white children rode to their school in a bus. It would tell how the adult Rosa rode to and from work on a segregated city bus and couldn't sit in the...
John Brown: His Fight for Freedom
AuthorJohn Hendrix
ISBN0810937980
Published on the 150th anniversary of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, this biography explores the life of one of American history’s most controversial figures. A great deal of academic study has been published recently about John Brown. This is the first book for young readers to include these...
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698116240
Again, Jean Fritz does such a good job of taking a dry subject and adding life. For instance, I learned that during a break from the Constitution Convention Oliver Ellsworth wrote a letter home about visiting an Egyptian mummy on display in Philadelphia and how he opened it up so he could see what the flesh...
The Little House Guidebook
AuthorWilliam Anderson
ISBN0064461777
In her best-selling Little House books, Laura Ingalls Wilder described in loving detail the many places she lived in while growing up on the American frontier. All the little houses Laura wrote about, and even some of the little houses Laura lived in but didn't write about, have been turned into sites...
Seven Alone
AuthorHonoré Willsie Morrow
ISBN0590102915
The epic journey of the Sager children by covered wagon from Missouri to Oregon in 1848. Oldest brother John is forced to maturity when tragedy strikes his family.
When his father and mother both die on the journey from their home in Missouri to a new home in Oregon, John Sager, only thirteen, continues...
Who Was Winston Churchill?
AuthorEllen Labrecque
ISBN0448483009
Born into aristocracy, Churchill cut his teeth as a young army officer in British India, the Sudan, and the Second Boer War. He rose in the ranks to First Lord of the Admiralty and was a staunch opponent of the encroaching German Nazis. Churchill served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940...
Arms & Armor
AuthorMichele Byam
ISBN0756606543
-Para curiosos y para aquellos que buscan documentos gráficos particularmente interesantes sin recurrir a internet (o que los buscaban cuando la red no estaba en todas partes).-

Género. Historia.

Lo que nos cuenta. Aproximación a las armas y armaduras desde la Prehistoria...
Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale
AuthorLaurie Myers
ISBN0805063684
A dog's account of one of the most extraordinary expeditions of all time.

"Dog and man can fit together like no others do. Lewis and I had that fit....

How did we get that close? I think the wilderness had something to do with it. Lewis and I would have been close anywhere, but the wilderness...
George Washington's Teeth
AuthorDeborah Chandra
ISBN0374325340
A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first President

"Poor George had two teeth in his mouth
The day the votes came in.
The people had a President,
But one afraid to grin."

From battling toothaches while fighting the British, to having rotten teeth removed by his dentists,...
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution
AuthorBetsy Maestro
ISBN0688101925
With accurate historical information, this easy-to-understand book tells why and how the Constitution of the United States was created. A More Perfect Union includes a map and back matter with a table of dates and a summary of the Articles of the Constitution.

"A simple, attractive, informative...
Molly Bannaky
AuthorAlice McGill
On a cold gray morning in 1683, Molly Walsh sat on a stool tugging at the udder of an obstinate cow. When she spilled the milk, she was brought before the court for stealing. Because she could read, Molly escaped the typicalpunishment of death on the gallows. At the age of seventeen, the English dairymaid...
William Shakespeare & the Globe
AuthorAliki
ISBN0064437221
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world.

Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to...
Granddaddy's Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
AuthorMichael S. Bandy
ISBN0763665932
Based on the true story of one family’s struggle for voting rights in the Civil Rights–era South, this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight on a dark facet of U.S. history.

Life on the farm with Granddaddy is full of hard work, but despite all the chores, Granddaddy always makes time...
When Washington Crossed the Delaware: A Wintertime Story for Young Patriots
AuthorLynne Cheney
ISBN0689870434
"This is the story that I tell my grandchildren at Christmas. I hope that this book will bring the tradition of sharing history to families all across America." -- Lynne Cheney

Christmas night, 1776, was a troubled time for our young country. In the six months since the Declaration of Independence...
Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0805082646
Our 16th president is known for many things: He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address.He was tall and skinny and notoriously stern-looking. And he also had some very strong ideas about abolishing slavery, ideas which brought him into close contact with another very...
The Negro's Civil War
AuthorJames M. McPherson
In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporary journalism, speeches, books, and...
The Adventures of Mark Twain by Huckleberry Finn
AuthorRobert Burleigh
ISBN0689830416
Everyone knows the story of the raft on the Mississippi and that ol' whitewashed fence, but now it’s time for youngins everywhere to get right acquainted with the man behind the pen. Mr. Mark Twain! An interesting character, he was...even if he did sometimes get all gussied up in linen suits and even...
Signing Their Rights Away
AuthorDenise Kiernan
Unfold Book Jacket for a Full-Color Reproduction of the U.S. Constitution

With their book Signing Their Lives Away, Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese introduced readers to the 56 statesmen (and occasional scoundrels!) who signed the Declaration of Independence. Now they’ve turned...
Seeker of Knowledge: The Man Who Deciphered Egyptian Hieroglyphs
AuthorJames Rumford
To a child, the future is a magnificent dream. For Jean-Francois Champollion, the dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past. In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over...
Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail: Letters from the Overland Trail
AuthorElvira Woodruff
ISBN0679885587
This is a pioneer book written in diary form, inspired by diaries that were actually written by men and women who traveled on the Overton Trail between 1840-1870. The feel is a lot like Laura Ingalls Wilder, except more tragedy is discussed. In this book, Austin Brently's grandfather has left him letters...
Wit and Wisdom
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
ISBN0880880813
The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin was erratic at best. Tidbits taken from Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac" are splattered throughout the book and they range from enlightening snippets such as:

"He's a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom."

to mundane sayings bordering...
Lincoln Tells a Joke: How Laughter Saved the President (and the Country)
AuthorKathleen Krull
Poor Abraham Lincoln! His life was hardly fun at all. A country torn in two by war, citizens who didn’t like him as president, a homely appearance—what could there possibly be to laugh about? And yet he did laugh. Lincoln wasn’t just one of our greatest presidents. He was a comic storyteller and...
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