Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims
10 best books like Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims (Clyde Robert Bulla): The Thanksgiving Story, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, Twenty and Ten, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Matchlock Gun, Paddle-to-the-Sea, Toliver's Secret, Walk The World's Rim, Swift Rivers, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689710534 |
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698113519 |
| Author | Claire Huchet Bishop |
| ISBN | 0140310762 |
The Courage of Sarah Noble
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689715404 |
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. “Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble,” her mother had said, but Sarah...
The Matchlock Gun
| Author | Walter D. Edmonds |
| ISBN | 0698116801 |
In 1756, New York State was still a British colony, and the French and the Indians were constant threats to Edward and his family. When his father was called away to watch for a raid from the north, only Edward was left to protect Mama and little Trudy. His father had shown...
Paddle-to-the-Sea
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
| ISBN | 0808551515 |
I really enjoyed this book....
| Author | Esther Wood Brady |
| ISBN | 0679848045 |
Ten year-old Ellen Toliver is a meek and mild girl, who is often bullied by another girl named Dicey. Grandfather encourages Ellen to stand up for herself and talk back to Dicey, but Mother...
| Author | Betty Baker |
| ISBN | 1887840222 |
| Author | Cornelia Meigs |
| ISBN | 0802777031 |
| Author | Bailey MacDonald |
To the outside world, Tom Pryne is an orphan traveling Elizabethan England with his uncle’s theater troupe. In actuality, “Tom” is Viola, in disguise because her parents’ Catholic sympathies have put them at odds with the Crown and forced them into hiding....
| Author | Susan Schaeffer Macaulay |
But as Susan Schaeffer Macaulay...
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689716044 |
The Brave Learner: Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life
| Author | Julie Bogart |
| ISBN | 0143133225 |
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids....
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380315 |
| Author | Douglas W. Gorsline |
| ISBN | 0394837029 |
Author: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Illustrator: Marie and Douglas Gorsline
Type of Book (format and literary genre): Picture book/ Non-Fiction
Awards the book has received (national): None
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| Author | Marguerite de Angeli |
| ISBN | 0836191242 |
Eli and his family have come to America from Germany. When they are in their new home, he must start school. Eli doesn't like school. He likes to make things and play in the woods and help...
| Author | Holling Clancy Holling |
| ISBN | 0395539641 |
No mortgages, just move when you want a new dwelling and take it over. I like that. Pagoo (short for 'Pagurus') is a Hermit Crab. When he is born, he is no bigger than a tiny pencil dot.
When you start life like that, the odds are not good. But...
| Author | Dorothy Rhoads |
| ISBN | 0140363130 |
Can Tigre find the strength and courage to support his family?
When Tigre's father is badly injured in an accident, the family is thrown into turmoil. Who will plant and harvest the corn that they need to survive--and to please the Mayan gods? The neighbors have...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380307 |
We haven't yet read every work by the d'Aulaires. But their works on Leif Erikson and the Norse Gods show they have a passion for Norwegian mythology, history,...
| Author | Judith Berry Griffin |
| ISBN | 0698119568 |
| Author | Kenneth Thomasma |
| ISBN | 0801088844 |
Om-Kas-Toe is the retelling of stories passed down for generations through the Blackfeet tribe about the lives of Blackfeet children in the early 1700's....
| Author | Elizabeth Yates |
| ISBN | 0890847541 |
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0590462067 |
Based on a child who actually did travel on the Santa Maria with Columbus. Also clearly based on Columbus's shockingly stupid journal entries.I like reading this with my students while we are learning about Columbus and other European explorers. It...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0385241062 |
These d'Aulaire books are GORGEOUSLY illustrated, and I feel like I am looking at a work of art as I flip through the pages....
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380390 |
Ellie (6 y.o): I loved it, and I thought the bathtub was really funny. That one little part when he went on a boat was the part I did not like. It was too violent.
Connor (7 y.o.): The reason I didn't I didn't like it was because...
Pocahontas
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0964380366 |
The Sign of the Beaver
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
Matt and his father head to Maine territory to stake their claim, which involves declaring their land, building a home and planting crops. Once they've...