Walk The World's Rim

10 best books like Walk The World's Rim (Betty Baker): The Journeyman, Toliver's Secret, Swift Rivers, The Secret of the Sealed Room: A Mystery of Young Ben Franklin, A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, Moccasin Trail, A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry, North American Indians, The Landmark History of the American People, 2 Volumes, If You Were There When They Signed The Constitution

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...
AuthorEsther Wood Brady
ISBN0679848045
I read this book aloud to my children. It is an historical fiction adventure set in New York in the 1700s.

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...
AuthorCornelia Meigs
ISBN0802777031
Barred from his family home- stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather’s land and float the logs...
AuthorBailey MacDonald
The play’s the thing . . .

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....
AuthorC. Coco De Young
ISBN0440415292
Eleven-year-old Margo Bandini has never been afraid of anything. Her life in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with Mama and Papa and her little brother, Charlie, has always felt secure. But it's 1933, and the Great Depression is changing things for families all across America.

One day the impossible...
AuthorEloise Jarvis McGraw
ISBN0140321705
Jim Keath has lived for six years as a Crow Indian when he learns that his two younger brothers and a sister are journeying west to take up land. Although Jim finds it difficult to fit in with the family he hasn't seen since childhood, and though they are wary and distrustful of him, Jim feels his duty is at...
AuthorMichael Driscoll
ISBN1579122825
This is a nice hardback book with an extremely diverse selection of poetry. Along with the explanations of the different forms of poetry; you will find little biographies of some famous Poets, and an accompanying CD of poetry that is read aloud.

Some forms of poetry you will find include; Nursery...
AuthorDouglas W. Gorsline
ISBN0394837029
Title: North American Indians

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

Short original summary of...
AuthorDaniel J. Boorstin
ISBN0394891201
This was used as a spine book in Sonlight's History program. A bit dense in information, and a slow read, but WELL worth the effort. It brought to life many of the otherwise dry events of our nation's history such as processes of the Add-A-State program, Associated Press, how and why we began using Standard...
AuthorElizabeth Levy
ISBN0590451596
If you were there when they signed the Constitution you would see
--Why the Constitution is called a miracle.
--The first big argument.
--What was missing from the Constitution.
This books takes you behind the locked doors of Philadelphia's State House during the history-making...
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.

About Landmark Books
"Each is a book that brings to life a...
AuthorMarvin Barrett
ISBN0375812113
When Thomas Jefferson was young, Virginia was still a colony of England. Jefferson thought that many English laws and taxes were unfair, so he studied hard to become a lawyer and help make better laws. Soon he and others came to believe that the colonies should become a new country, and Jefferson was chosen...
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...
AuthorJoan Heilbroner
ISBN0375803971
George Washington grew up in the English colony of Virginia. He was tall and strong, fair in judgment, and respected by his friends as a
good leader. As he grew older, George saw how England took advantage of the American colonies—and he didn't like it. When the colonies declared their independence,...
AuthorMarguerite de Angeli
ISBN0836191242
I have been making my way through all of the deAngeli books and I think that this one might be my favorite so far.

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...
AuthorMildred A. Martin
ISBN0962764345
Sad to see this book end. While reading it to my 7yr old, my 10yr old daughter would always listen with one ear open while she was supposed to be reading her own school books. I can't rave enough about it! It engaged us in true stories of missionaries across the globe throughout many centuries of time. It demostrates...
AuthorJean Fritz
ISBN0698113721
A fun historic tale by Newbery Honor-winning author, Jean Fritz!

No matter how busy he was, Ben Franklin always found time to try out new ideas: a remote-control lock (so he could lock his door without getting out of bed), a rocking chair with a fan over it (to keep flies away), and a windmill (to...
AuthorClyde Robert Bulla
ISBN0590434810
Summary
This book tells the story of a young curious Indian girl named Pocahontas. Pocahontas is the daughter of king Powhatan. She worked in the fields along with the other women and children. One day, the village received message of palefaces down by the river. She remembered stories that a wise...
AuthorJudith Berry Griffin
ISBN0698119568
Someone is planning to kill George Washington, and young Phoebe Fraunces is trying to save his life. Phoebe gets a job as George Washington's housekeeper, but her real job is to work as a spy. She listens and watches very carefully, and she meets her father every day to tell him what she has learned. One...
AuthorKenneth Thomasma
ISBN0801088844
Ok, please, ignore the cover art on this book- the other illustrations are great, and I'm sure the cover illustrator was trying their best :)

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....
AuthorPam Conrad
ISBN0590462067
Historical fiction/Children's Literature
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...
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