The Great Little Madison
10 best books like The Great Little Madison (Jean Fritz): The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War, The Yanks Are Coming: The United States In The First World War, The Landing of the Pilgrims, Bonanza Girl, My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage, George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist, The Lewis & Clark Expedition, A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution, The Slopes of War, Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
| Author | Jim Murphy |
| ISBN | 0395664128 |
I have never read about the Civil War in such a basic and simplistic way before. This is a sad, but true book about the boys who fought in the Civil War. Some were as young as 10 years old! I have a ten year old and I can't imagine him not only witnessing what these boys saw, but being part of it as well. Most of these...
| Author | Albert Marrin |
| ISBN | 0689312091 |
I love Albert Marrin. He has a great style that presents all the facts in a conversational, easy tone, without talking down. I've learned a lot of history through him already.
'The Yanks Are Coming' isn't any different. It's an engaging look at both the personal life of the Doughboy and the decisions...
| Author | James Daugherty |
| ISBN | 0394846974 |
In England in the early 1600s, everyone was forced to join the Church of England. Young William Bradford and his friends believed they had every right to belong to whichever church they wanted. In the name of religious freedom, they fled to Holland, then sailed to America to start a new life. But the winter...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688122809 |
Mama is widowed, with two children and no job prospects. She decides to start a school out in the gold fields but is shortly and firmly disabused of all her city slicker notions. The story is narrated by Ann Katherine, who is a nicely written young teen. Her younger brother is the bane of her existence, naturally....
| Author | Elizabeth Borton de Treviño |
| ISBN | 1883937515 |
What happens when a thoroughly twentieth-century American lady journalist becomes a Mexican señora in nineteen-thirties provincial Monterrey? She finds herself sometimes hilariously coping with servants, daily food allowances, bargaining, and dramatic Latin emotions. It is like stepping...
This is the first book I have read in the YA "Sower" series. It is written in 1st-person narrative and emphasizes Carver's Christian faith. I think it's a great biography for all ages, and especially for youth. Personally, I also find it interesting to look at the religious side of a person's background...
| Author | Richard L. Neuberger |
Did you know that Clark wanted to name a river after his childhood sweetheart? Romantic, right? Except that he got her name wrong! Uh oops! Haha! Learn other interesting facts and all the history associated with this expedition.
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| Author | Betsy Maestro |
| ISBN | 0688101925 |
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...
| Author | N.A. Perez |
| ISBN | 0395549795 |
About: The Slopes of War is about a family living in Gettysburg at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg. What I think: I love this book. I love all of the main characters, especially Bekah Summerhill and Adam Waite. One of the most interesting things about this book is that it's from multiple people's perspectives....
| Author | Luetta Reimer |
| ISBN | 0866515097 |
Ah but we're missing the subtitle! The full title is: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians.
My parents are in that group of retired folk that go into public schools and read stories to children - of course, it helps that mom was a teacher for something...
| Author | D. Jeanene Watson |
| ISBN | 0880620129 |
Serving the Poorest of the Poor Agnes and her family lived in Macedonia in eastern Europe. Agnes eagerly read letters by missionaries from faraway places. She especially enjoyed the letters from Calcutta, India. Eventually Agnes arrived in Calcutta where she taught young, well-to-do girls. They...
| Author | Augusta Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0020421508 |
In the book George Washington By Augusta Stevenson George Washington goes from being a very bad kid to being very kind and leading adult. When he was young he broke sticks off of a tree and gave them to his classmates and they used them to fight.
George was always wanted throughout his life and he would...
| Author | Joy Hakim |
| ISBN | 0195153235 |
How did compliant colonials with strong ties to Europe get the notion to become an independent nation? Perhaps the seeds of liberty were planted in the 1735 historic courtroom battle for the freedom of the press. Or maybe the French and Indian War did it, when colonists were called "Americans" for the...
| Author | Carolyn Reeder |
| ISBN | 0689855508 |
Twelve-year-old Tom Higgins is learning the craft of making whiskey. Even though Prohibition forbids the production and sale of alcoholic beverages, Tom is determined to be a good apprentice. He is, after all, a moonshiner's son. His father has raised moonshining to an art, and Tom wants nothing more...
| Author | Joseph Bruchac |
| ISBN | 0439280680 |
Young Sacajawea has been asked to join Lewis and Clark in their exploration of the American West. As a translator, peacemaker, caretaker, and guide, Sacajawea alone will make the historic journey of Lewis and Clark possible. This captivating novel, which is told in alternating points of view -- by...
| Author | Janet Benge |
| ISBN | 1576581640 |
During WWI, Cameron Townsend was told, "You'll do more good selling Bibles in Central America than you would shooting Germans in France." Cameron began by translating the Bible into the language of his Guatemalan friends. Then he started Wycliffe Bible Translators with the dream of making the Good...
| Author | Richard J. Maybury |
| ISBN | 0942617436 |
All my kids will be reading this, as I think its challenge to the "mainstream" interpretations of World War II is invaluable. However, I hope my kids all have their internal B.S. detector going, because Maybury isn't immune. Maybury makes important points but can't resist innuendo (like telling us...
