6-8 Year Old
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Historical Fiction: Reconstruction
[Part of an ongoing series of historical fiction book lists for students and teachers. For the full list and to see more info, click here.] Lower Grades (K-3) A Band of Angels-Hopkinson (4.4/0.5) More Than Anything Else-Bradby (3.3/0.5) Walking Home to Rosie Lee-LaFaye (4.1/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) Bigger-Calvert (5.7/6) Brotherhood-Westrick (4.7/10) Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877-Bolden (9.5/7) Nonfiction Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule-Robinet (4.3/5) The Forty-Acre Swindle: George Washington Carver-Jackson (5.3/4) He Will Go Fearless-Lawlor (4.9/8.0) Janie’s Freedom: African-Americans in the Aftermath of the Civil War-Grant (4.9/5) The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy-Myers* (5.0/4) The Land-Taylor (5.0/18) The Road to Freedom: A Story of Reconstruction-Asim (5.2/5) Sugar-Rhodes (2.9/4) Upper Grades…
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Historical Fiction K-12 Book Lists
When I taught middle school History, one of my goals was to encourage a love of historical fiction. I offered lots of options each unit and read aloud as much as I was able. It’s been 20 years since I started my lists, and I’m still adding. My list grew and grew as I went spread out from teaching just US History. Now that I have a new platform here, I figured I’d share them. They are in no way complete, please let me know if you know of a book that I missed, but hopefully you’ll find some titles that work for you. Some of the books may be…
