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10 best books like Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog's Tale (Laurie Myers): A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family in 1840, Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day, John Brown: His Fight for Freedom, The Little House Guidebook, The Bicycle Man, Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War, George Washington's Teeth, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Colonist!: A Settlement You'd Rather Not Start, Leonardo's Horse

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...
Hawk That Dare Not Hunt by Day
AuthorScott O'Dell
ISBN0890843686
I couldn't decide between two and three stars on this one, but due to the author having written other books that I adore and the subject matter, I will call it 2.5 stars and round up. This was just not well written and did not convey the sense of what was really happening in these times that led to the martyrdom...
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...
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...
The Bicycle Man
AuthorAllen Say
ISBN0395506522
This is the third Allen Say book I've read this year, and being the huge Japanophile that I am, it's safe to say that I am officially a fan. I found this book today misshelved in the Education and Reference book section of a dusty old charity shop.

Set on a mountainside village near Yokohama not long...
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
AuthorThomas B. Allen
ISBN0792278895
It's 1863. Harriet Tubman is facing one of the biggest—and most dangerous— challenges of her life. She has survived her master's lash, escaped from slavery, and risked her life countless times to lead runaway slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad. Now she has a new role—that of Union...
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...
You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Colonist!: A Settlement You'd Rather Not Start
AuthorJacqueline Morley
- Fits in well with social studies and U.S. history curricula.
- Draws in even the most reluctant reader with a lighthearted tone and hilarious illustrations.
- Includes glossary and index.
National Social Studies Education Standards: Grades K-4
II. Time, Continuity, and Change
-...
Leonardo's Horse
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0399235760
"A scintillating sliver of history. . . . An inventive introduction to the Renaissance and one of its masters." (Publishers Weekly, starred review)

"An unusual and surprisingly touching story . . . . An offbeat and intriguing read." (The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred...
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...
Rocks in His Head
AuthorCarol Otis Hurst
ISBN0060294035
Some people collect stamps. Other people collect coins. Carol Otis Hurst's father collected rocks. Nobody ever thought his obsession would amount to anything. They said, "You've got rocks in your head" and "There's no money in rocks." But year after year he kept on collecting, trading, displaying,...
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...
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane
AuthorRussell Freedman
Russell Freedman’s books are just fantastic. In each one, he focuses in on an area of history that fascinates him, connects the dots into a cohesive narrative that tells a story with a beginning, middle and end, and then enriches the verbal with visuals that match up perfectly, usually from primary...
The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
AuthorDennis Brindell Fradin
ISBN0802721664
When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started...
Down Comes the Rain
AuthorFranklyn Mansfield Branley
ISBN0064451666
Starts with the idea of water vapor being something that is in the air but that you can't see, or smell or feel it. It then explains evaporation by suggesting putting a teaspoon of water in a saucer in the morning and that it will have evaporated by later in the day or a boiling tea kettle. It explains that sometimes...
Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii (Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12 (Awards))
AuthorJames M. Deem
ISBN0618473084
In ancient times, Pompeii was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. Its 20,000 inhabitants lived in the shadow of Vesuvius, which they believed was nothing more than a mountain. But Vesuvius was a volcano. And on the morning of August 24, A.D. 79, Vesuvius began to erupt. Within twenty-four hours,...
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...
If You Traveled West In A Covered Wagon
AuthorEllen Levine
ISBN0590451588
This is part of a great series that allow young readers to be given a history book without being too overwhelming. The book focuses on a time period while exploring in detail the particulars such as in this case what it would have like to have traveled West when there were no modern transportation methods...
The Memory Coat
AuthorElvira Woodruff
ISBN0590677179
In the story The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff,Elvia uses a different technique to express how Rachel acts like a sister to Grisha. When everyone wanted Grisha to get a new coat so, they had a better chance to enter America. Rachel sticks up for him. Rachel explains to the family why the coat was important...
I'm in Charge of Celebrations
AuthorByrd Baylor
ISBN0689806205
From the highly acclaimed team of Byrd Baylor and Peter Parnall comes the story of a girl who shares her love for desert life as she tells of treasured experiences like dancing in the wind on Dust Devil Day or sleeping outside on a hot summer night during The Time of the Falling Stars. Baylor's radiant prose-poem...
Dare the Wind: The Record-breaking Voyage of Eleanor Prentiss and the Flying Cloud
AuthorTracey E. Fern
ISBN0374316996
Ellen Prentiss’s papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that...
George Washington Carver
AuthorTonya Bolden
A Coretta Scott King Honor Award author offers a fresh look at this pioneering American innovator

Shampoo from peanuts? Wallpaper from clay? Ink from sweet potatoes? Discover Carver's imagination and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind biography.

With imagination and intellect,...
Ben Franklin's Big Splash: The Mostly True Story of His First Invention
AuthorBarb Rosenstock
ISBN1620914468
Every inventor has to start somewhere, and one of the greatest innovators in our history was no exception. Ben Franklin developed his first invention while doing what he loved best: swimming! Ben's Big Splash is the story of Franklin's first invention, his journey through the scientific method, and...
Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares
AuthorFrank Murphy
ISBN0375806210
A funny, entertaining introduction to Ben Franklin and his many inventions, including the story of how he created the "magic square."

A magic square is a box of nine numbers arranged so that any line of three numbers adds up to the same number, including on the diagonal!

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