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10 best books like Viking Adventure (Clyde Robert Bulla): Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales, Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia, The Journeyman, Clara and the Bookwagon, The Apprentice, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found, George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist, The Lewis & Clark Expedition

Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
AuthorPeter Roop
ISBN0613535189
Wow, this one takes me back. I remember "watching" this book on Reading Rainbow as a child. Even reading it now, I can still "hear" the seafaring music that played in the background. I had no idea it took place in Maine (my home state), though I guess it shouldn't surprise me. It's a story of a girl who has to...
McBroom's Wonderful One-Acre Farm: Three Tall Tales
AuthorSid Fleischman
ISBN0688155952
When Josh McBroom learns that the eighty acres of Iowa farmland he's purchased are all stacked up on top of each other at the bottom of a muddy little pond, he thinks he's been bamboozled. But McBroom knows he's got the better of the bargain when the pond dries up to reveal an acre of soil so rich that seeds...
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
AuthorMargaret Cousins
ISBN0394849280
I read this biography aloud to my children.

Until I read this book, I had no idea how brilliant Ben Franklin was! When I think of Franklin, I think about how he had flown a kite in a thunderstorm with a metal key attached to the string and felt the electric shock in his hand. I knew he invented the lightning...
The Journeyman
AuthorElizabeth Yates
ISBN0890845352
The boy isn't much to look at: thin, pale, and undersized for his age. Neighbors shake their heads over Jared Austin's odd ways. His father doesn't think he's good for anything much. Even his friend Jennet wonders what will become of him.

But Jared isn't concerned; he has his own ideas about what...
Clara and the Bookwagon
AuthorNancy Smiler Levinson
ISBN0064441342
I saw this in my library's bookstore and it sounded like such a cute story. The cover is adorable and I expected a cute tale about a girl who loved to read getting to read to her heart's content with the traveling library. I've never encountered a traveling library and I couldn't wait to hear about it.
Instead,...
The Apprentice
AuthorPilar Molina Llorente
ISBN0374404321
Given a challenge to read a book set in the Renaissance, I hit our school library card catalog hoping to find a few options for a quick read. I found one. One book set in the Renaissance. This book. So I read it. I'm sure it is one of those books that rarely gets checked out because the cover looks dated, and the...
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
AuthorAlice Dalgliesh
ISBN0689716044
Now while I certainly have very much enjoyed Alice Dalgliesh' 1953 Newbery Honour winning The Bears on Hemlock Mountain theme and content wise and do greatly appreciate the slice of pioneer American life presented and depicted, I am nevertheless and sadly left rather majorly cold and unsatisfied...
Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found
AuthorJudy Donnelly
ISBN0394891899
• This book is a great choice for beginners, and tells the story of the death of Tutankhamen. This is a great step into getting children excited to read books that are nonfiction,
• Teachers may use this for History, English
• Grades K-3
• Individual students may read this during...
George Washington Carver: Man's Slave Becomes God's Scientist
AuthorDavid R. Collins
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...
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
AuthorRichard 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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The Story of Eli Whitney
AuthorJean Lee Latham
ISBN1887840427
I read this non-fiction biography aloud to my children.

I have to admit that I had never heard of Eli Whitney before I picked up this book! His invention, the "cotton 'gin" built in 1793, was the first of its kind to separate the seeds from the cotton bolls. Until that time, cotton was not a popular...
Good Queen Bess: The Story of Elizabeth I of England
AuthorDiane Stanley
ISBN0688179614
She was a queen whose strong will, shrewd diplomacy, religious tolerance and great love for her subjects won the hearts of her people and the admiration of her enemies.

Elizabeth was born into an age of religious strife, in which plots and factions were everywhere and private beliefs could...
The Greek News
AuthorAnton Powell
ISBN0763603406
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly

Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
The Minstrel in the Tower
AuthorGloria Skurzynski
ISBN0394895983
In this gripping medieval page-turner, Roger and his sister Alice are
kidnapped and held for ransom in an ancient tower. To escape and find their
uncle, the children must summon all their courage and imagination. "Designed as
easy-reading material for middle-graders, this has the virtues...
The Little Riders
AuthorMargaretha Shemin
ISBN0688124992
"Take care of the little riders," says Johanna's father to the eleven-year-old when he leaves her with his parents for an extended vacation in their Dutch village. And Johanna does. She loves the twelve metal figures on horseback who ride forth each hour from the clock on the ancient church tower. She...
Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess
AuthorRichard Platt
ISBN0763621641
"Not many, if any, children’s books on the Middle Ages and castles contain the wealth of information found in this fresh, appealing offering." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL (starred review)

What was it really like to live in a castle? Step back to the Middle Ages with Castle Diary: The Journal...
The Long Way to a New Land
AuthorJoan Sandin
ISBN0064441008
Summary/Annotation: This is a book about a boy named Carl Erik and his family who lived in Sweden. The setting is in 1868. Times aren't so great because in the summer they lack rain and in the winter they lack food. They are facing horrible times without food and money. They receive a letter from their uncle...
Leif the Lucky
AuthorIngri d'Aulaire
ISBN0964380307
Okay, Leif the Lucky might've topped Benjamin Franklin. The contest was a close one. It's the d'Aulaires' world, I'm just living in it.

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,...
The Great Wall Of China
AuthorLeonard Everett Fisher
ISBN0689801785
1. This book gives an historic account of why the Great wall of China was built. It gives fun fact and many pictures that show the hard work it took to build and just how big it is. We learn that China built the wall to keep the invading Mongols out of China.
2. For grades 2-4
3. I would use this with world...
Prairie School
AuthorAvi
ISBN0060513187
This is set in 1880 when Colorado was a new state. The Bidson family moved from Maine to Colorado. 

They lived in a sod house but the author didn't say what a sod house was. Kids aren't going to know what that means.

Aunt Dora came to teach Noah as the plot said already, and we knew Noah didn't...
Tornado
AuthorBetsy Byars
ISBN0064420639
From Newbery Medal-winning author Betsy Byars comes a sweet, entertaining story that will touch the heart of dog lovers at any age.

A tornado appears in the distance, and the family quickly gathers into the storm cellar. The storm rages outside, but Pete, the farmhand, knows this is the perfect...
Third-Grade Detectives #1-2: The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope & The Puzzle of the Pretty Pink Handkerchief
AuthorGeorge E. Stanley
ISBN0689871066
Mr. Merlin's Third Graders are known as the Third Grade Detectives -- with some hints from secret code clues and help from Mr. Merlin's friend, the police scientist Dr. Smiley, they help solve cases. This two-in-one flip book contains the full text and illustrations for the first two Third Grade Detectives...
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