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Historical Books for
Grades 5 and 6

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Anderson, Laurie Halse Fever 1793
Auch, Mary Jane Road to Home
Arrington, Frances Prairie Whispers
Avi

The Fighting Ground (American Revolution)
Don't You Know There's a War On? (WWII)
Prairie School
The Secret School (1925 One Room School)
Night Journeys
(1767)

Ayres, Katherine

Silver Dollar Girl
Macaroni Boy (Depression)

Baker, Betty Mining The Spirit Is Willing (1880s)
Bartoletti, Susan

A Coal Miner's Bride (Polish-American 1896)
No Man's Land (Civil War)

Beatty, Patricia

Who Comes With Cannons
Charley Skedaddle (Civil War)

Birney, Betty Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs
Blackwood, Gary

Shakespeare's Scribe (England 1558 Plague)
The Shakespeare Stealer

Blos, Joan A Gathering of Days
Brooke, Peggy Jake's Orphan (N.D. farm 1926)
Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My Shirts
Clapp, Patricia

Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth
The Tamarack Tree (Civil War)

Collier, James

My Brother Sam is Dead (Revolution)
Jump Ship to Freedom (Civil War)

Conrad, Pam

Prairie Songs (Nebraska Pioneers)
Our House: The Stories of Levittown

Cowley, Marjorie The Golden Bull
Crum, Shutta Spitting Image
Cullen, Lynn Nelly in the Wilderness
Curry, Jane L.

What the Dickens (Pennsylvania 1840s)
A Stolen Life (Colonial--Indentured)
The Black Canary (Elizabethan England)

Curtis, Christopher Paul Elijah of Buxton
Cushman, Karen

Rodzina
Catherine, Called Birdy

Davis, Ossie Just Like Martin (Civil Rights)
Denenberg, Barry

When Will this Cruel War Be Over? (Civil War)
Journal of Ben Uchida
(Japanese American Internment)

Donaldson, Joan A Pebble and a Pen (1800s)
Doucet, Sharon Fiddle Fever (1914 Cajun Farm Life)
Durbin, William Journal of Otto Peltonen (Finnish Immigrant)
Edmonds, Walter Matchlock Gun
Erdrich, Louise The Game of Silence
Fletcher, Susan Walk Across the Sea (California 1850s)
Fleischman, Paul Bull Run (Civil War)
Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain (Revolutionary War)
Foreman, Michael The Boy Who Sailed With Columbus
Forrester, Sandra Wheel of the Moon (Indentured Servants in VA)
Fusco, Kimberly Newton The Wonder of Charlie Anne
Giff, Patricia Reilly

Willow Run
Storyteller
Lily's Crossing (WWII)
Nory Ryan's Song (Ireland)

Glaze, Lynn Seasons of the Trail
Going, K.L. Liberation of Gabriel King
Greenwood, Barbara Factory Girl
Haas, Jessie Chase
Hahn, Mary D. Stepping on the Cracks (WWII)
Hale, Marian The Truth About Sparrows
Harris, Carol A Place for Joey (Boston 1900s)
Hesse, Karen

A Time of Angels (1918 Flu Epidemic)
The Stowaway

Holm, Jennifer

Our Only May Amelia
(Frontier pioneer Wash. State)

Boston Jane (1889 Wash. State)

Holman, Felice The Wild Children (Russian Revolution)
Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils (Civil War)
Ibbotson, Eva Journey to the River Sea (1910 Brazil)
Isaacs, Anne Torn Thread (Holocaust)
Kadohata, Cynthia Weedflower
Karr, Kathleen Spy in the Sky
Kerr, Judith When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie (Civil War)
Ketchum, Liza Orphan Journey Home (1828)
Klages, Ellen Green Glass Sea
Klass, Sheila Little Women Next Door
Kline, Lisa Eleanor Hill (1900s independent woman)
Kochenderfer, Lee Victory Garden (WWII)
Krensky, Stephen The Printer's Apprentice
LaFaye, A. Worth (Nebraska Frontier)
Lasky, Kathryn The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
(Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804)
LeZotte, Ann Clare T4:A Novel In Verse
Lisle, Janet Taylor Art of Keeping Cool (WWII)
Lovelace, Maud Betsy Series
Lowry, Lois Number the Stars (Holocaust)
Martin, Ann Here Today
Matas, Carol

Lisa's War (1940s)
The War Within (Civil War)

McCaughrean, G. Kite Rider
McDowell, Marilyn Carolina Harmony
McSwigan, Marie Snow Treasure (Norway WWII)
Meyer, Carolyn Beware, Princess Elizabeth (England)
Myers, Walter Dean The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins (WWII)
Naidoo, Beverly Journey to Jo'burg (So. Africa Apartheid)
Nelson, Theresa And One for All (Vietnam War)
Nixon, Joan L.

Caught In the Act (1856 Missouri)
Caesar's Story, 1759 (Slavery)
Ann's Story, 1747 (Colonial)

O'Dell, Scott Sing Down the Moon
Orvel, Uri Run, Boy, Run (Holocaust)
Osbourne, Mary Pope My Secret War (WW II)
Panagopoulos, Janie Lynn Little Ship Under Full Sail (Seneca Indians 1779)
Park, Linda When My Name was Keoko
(Japanese occupied Korea)
Paterson, K.

The Master Puppeteer (18th century Japan)
Lyddie (1840s Textile Mills)

Peck, Richard Teacher's Funeral
Pinkney, Andrea Davis Bird in a Box
Prevost, Guillaume The Book of Time
Pryor, Bonnie

Hannah Pritchard: Pirate of the Revolution
Thomas In Danger (American Revolution)
Joseph's Choice 1861

Ray, Delia Ghost Girl (1939 Virginia)
Robinet, Harriette Walking to the Bus--Rider Blues
(Alabama Bus Boycott)
Schmidt, Gary D.

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
The Wednesday Wars (1960s)

Schwartz, Virginia Send One Angel Down (Slavery)
Snyder, Zilpha Keatly Cat Running (Depression)
Speare, Elizabeth The Witch of Blackbird Pond
(Colonial New England)
Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
(Depression, Discrimination)

Mississippi Bridge (Mississippi 1930s)

Thor, Annika A Faraway Island
Van Leevwen, Jean Cabin on Trouble Creek
Vos, Ida

The Key is Lost (Holocaust)

Wait, Lea

Stopping to Home (1800s Maine)
Finest Kind (1836 Maine)

Wallace, Barbara B. Sparrows in the Scullery (19th century England)
Warner, Sally Finding Hattie (1882)
Whelan, Gloria

Once on This Island (Mackinac during War of 1812)
Miranda's Last Stand (Wild West)
Return to the Island (Michigan 1818)

Wild, Margaret Let the Celebrations Begin (Holocaust)
Winthrop, Elizabeth Counting on Grace

Last Updated on June 15, 2011