Katiebug_1976 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 My ds9 is looking for good historical fiction books to read. He is a very advanced reader and reads just about at any level. He would greatly appreciate it if you would pass along good book titles or series that you know about. Thanks so much, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeindeed Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I suggest getting a Sonight catalog and going through it with ds. Let him choose books that interest him. They have lots of good ones!:001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Our favorite books have been ones out of the VP catalog, as well as Bethlehem books. The Bethlehem books website also has a handy timeline that you can use to sort out which of their books to read along with the period in history that you are studying. In LCC, Drew recommends the Roman Mysteries series and those have been a big hit here, but I'd say they'd be a very easy read for an advanced 9yo. Drew recommends them in his grade 4 history section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban mama Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Although it's not really fiction, the Childhood of Famous Americans series has a ton of titles and is great fun to read. My ds-8 devours them whenever I request them from the library. Here is a link to one on Thomas Edison. We always get ours by interlibrary loan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffeetime Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I remember loving "Johnny Tremain" at about that age... I second the idea of getting a catalog and looking through it- I use the Veritas Press catalog for just that purpose! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loupelou Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I second both the Sonlight and VP catalogs. Is there a particular time frame he is interested in, or other interests that might guide suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MelanieM Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Last year I read the Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland and quite enjoyed it. The first book in the series is called The Seeing Stone. The reading level is listed as 9-12. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 NON FICTION HISTORY 2nd-3rd grade reading level: - Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (Coerr) - Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express (Brill) - Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (Roop) - Pompeii... Buried Alive! (Davis) - Robert Smalls Sails to Freedom (Brown) - Five True Dog Stories (Davidson) - Seven True Horse Stories (Davidson) - Nine True Dolphin Stories (Davidson) - A Horse Named Seabiscuit (Duvowski) - Man O'War: The Best Racehorse Ever (Mckerly) - Jumbo: The Most Famous Elephant in the World (Worth) - Horse Heroes (Petty) - The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Standiford) - Barry, the Bravest St. Bernard (Hall) - Buddy, the First Seeing Eye Dog (Moore) - Giant Squid: Mystery of the Deep (Dussling) - Dinosaur Hunter (Alphin)- Spies! (Pratt) - Disasters at Sea (Martin) - Zepplin: Age of the Airship (Donkin) - Fly on the Ceiling (Glass) - Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Murphy/Walz) 3rd grade reading level: - Ice Mummy: Discovery of a 3,000 year old Man (Dubowski) - The Titanic: Lost and Found (Donnelly) - Tut's Mummy: Lost and Found (Donnelly) - To The Top! Climbing the World's Highest Mountain (Kramer) - Mountain Climbing: Scaling the World's Highest Peaks (Martin) - Civil War Sub: Mystery of the Hunley (Jerome) - USS Monitor: Iron Warship That Changed the World (Thompson) - Sea of Ice: The Wreck of the Endurance (Kulling) - Race Into Space (Arnold) - Moonwalk (Donnelly) 4th grade reading level: - Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz) - What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz) - And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz) - Archimedes and the Door of Science (Bendick) - Along Came Galileo (Bendick) - Lincoln: A Photobiography (Freedman) HISTORICAL FICTION - U.S. 2nd grade reading level: - The First Thanksgiving (Hayward) -- Colonial US - Small Wolf (Benchley) -- Colonial Native Americans - Finding Providence (Avi) -- founding of Rhode Island capital - Buttons for General Washington (Roop) -- Revolutionary War - The 18 Penny Goose (Walker) -- Revolutionary War - Sam the Minuteman (Benchley) -- Revolutionary War - George the Drummer Boy (Benchley) -- Revolutionary War - Paul Revere's Ride (Corey) -- Revolutionary War - Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride (Amstel) -- Revolutionary War - Chang's Paper Pony (Coerr) -- Gold Rush/Chinese immigrant - Wagon Wheels (Brenner) -- true story of a black pioneer family - The Drinking Gourd (Monjo) -- Underground Railroad - Abe Lincoln's Hat (Brenner) - Snowshoe Thompson (Levinson) -- mailman to the pioneers of the west - The Long Way to a New Land (Sandin) -- immigrants - The Long Way Westward (Sandin) -- immigrants go west - The Josefina Story Quilt (Coerr) -- true story of a wagon train - Clouds of Terror (Welch) -- 1870s US prairie grasshopper plagues - The Copper Lady (Ross) -- building of the Statue of Liberty - First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (Shea) - Dust for Dinner (Turner) -- Dust Bowl/Depresssion 3rd grade reading level: - A Lion to Guard Us (Bulla) -- Jamestown Colonial - Pocahontas and the Strangers (Bulla) -- Colonial - The Cabin Faced West (Fritz) -- Colonial Pioneer - Toliver's Secret (Brady) -- Revolutionary War - Hannah (Whelan) -- blind pioneer girl - Sarah Plain and Tall; Skylark; Caleb's Story (MacLachlan) -- pioneer times - Riding the Pony Express (Bulla) -- boy and father on the 1860s Pony Express - Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) -- American Revolution - true story - The Secret Valley (Bulla) -- 1849 Gold Rush; pioneers - The Matchlock Gun (Edmonds) -- Colonial US - The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial U.S.; fun, tall-tale-like - The Courage of Sarah Noble (Dalgliesh) -- Colonial US - Grandma's Attic series (Richardson) -- pioneer - House on Rocky Ridge (Macbride) -- series following Laura Ingalls Wilder's descendants - Follow My Leader (Garfield) -- blinded boy must learn how to work with a guide dog - Stone Fox (Gardiner) -- boy & dog must win Alaskan sled race prize money - Light at Tern Rock (Sauer) -- boy learns how to care for a lighthouse - Dolphin Adventure; Dolphin Treasure; Dolphins and Me (Grover) -- scuba diver adventures 3rd-4th grade reading level: - Pedro's Journal (Conrad) -- Columbus' voyage - Skippack School (de Angeli) -- Colonial U.S. - Sarah Whitcher's Story -- Colonial US - Amos Fortune, Freeman (Yates) -- Colonial US, slavery - The Sign of the Beaver (Speare) -- Colonial US/Native American - By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman) -- 1849 Gold Rush, rounding the horn; fun tall-tale - Caddie Woodlawn (Brink) -- 1860s pioneer times - Mountain Born (Yates) -- turn of century sheep/farm family 4th grade reading level: - Ben and I (Lawson) -- Ben Franklin's story -- from the viewpoint of his mouse - Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? (Fritz) - What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (Fritz) - And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz) HISTORICAL FICTION - WORLD Readers at a 2nd-5th grade reading level: 2nd grade reading level: - The Big Balloon Race (Coerr) -- 1890s Europe 3rd grade reading level: - The Trojan Horse: How the Greeks Won the War (Little) - The Trojan Horse: The World's Greatest Adventure (Davies) - Viking Adventure (Bulla) -- Viking times - The Arrow and the Apple (Buff) -- William Tell; middle ages Europe - Minstrel in the Tower (Skurzynski) -- middle ages England - Tales of Robin Hood (Claybourne) -- middle ages England - Days of the Knights: A Tale of Castles and Battles (Maynard) -- medieval England - The Sword in the Tree (Bulla) -- Medieval England - Pirates: Raiders of the High Seas (Maynard) -- 1700s - Antarctic Adventure: Exploring the Frozen Continent (Martin) -- 1900s explorers - The Little Riders (Shemin) -- WWII occupied Europe - The Kite Fighters (Park) -- 1400s Korea 3rd-4th grade reading level: - A Single Shard (Park) -- 1100s Korea - The Whipping Boy (Fleischman) -- 1700s Europe; fun tall-tale 4th grade reading level: - Archimedes and the Door of Science (Bendick) - Along Came Galileo (Bendick) - Detectives in Togas; Mystery of the Roman Ransom (Winterfeld) -- Ancient Rome - The Door in the Wall (de Angeli) -- Medieval England - The Big Wave (Buck) -- Japanese survivors of a tsunami - Twenty and Ten (Bishop) -- WWII French children hide Jewish children - Number the Stars (Lenski) -- WWII Dutch girl helps her Jewish friend 5th grade reading level: - The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn (Hoobler) -- 1700s Japan - boy detective - Snow Treasure (McSwigan) -- WWII Norweigan children hide the country's gold BIOGRAPHY 2nd-3rd grade reading level: - The Secret Soldier: The Story Of Deborah Sampson (McGovern) - Little Sure Shot: Annie Oakley (Spinner) - Phoebe the Spy (Griffin) - Joan of Arc (Corey) - Christopher Columbus (Krensky) - Johnny Appleseed: My Story (Harrison) - George Washington's Mother (Fritz) - The Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth (Patrick) - Flying Ace: Story of Amelia Earhart (Bull) 3rd grade reading level: - Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky - The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft (Moore) - The Story of Thomas Alva Edison (Davidson) - Helen Keller (Davidson) - Louis Braille (Davidson) - The Wright Brothers (Reynolds) - The Great Houdini: World Famous Magician & Escape Artist (Kulling) - Escape North! Story of Harriet Tubman (Kulling) - Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Kulling) - Great Black Heroes: Five Brilliant Scientists (Jones/Garnet) - Great Black Heroes: Five Notable Inventors (Hudson/Garnet) 4th grade reading level: - Brendan the Navigator (Fritz) - Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman (Henry) -- inventor of steam engine as a boy - Om-kas-Toe (Thomasa) -- 1700s Blackfoot boy who first tames a horse for his tribe - Naya Nuki (Thomasa) -- true story; Shoshone girl who escapes slavery and travels 1000 miles to get home - Behind Rebel Lines (Reit) -- teen girl disguised as a boy / Union spy in Civil War Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laylamcb Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 He might like The Sign of the Beaver, My Side of the Mountain, Men of Iron, or Adam of the Road. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 How about the Mr. Tucket series (5 books) by Gary Paulsen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownie Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Golden Goblet and Boy of the Pyramids are good. Brownie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELaurie Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Lori, Thanks for posting this great list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyndie Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 http://www.visionforum.com/booksandmedia/productdetail.aspx?productid=60000&categoryid=184 My son recently started reading this series (well part of it, we went in with other families b/c of the cost so we don't have all of them). They are very Christian so be aware of that if you're not looking for that. My 9 yr old son is really starting to enjoy these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 One that I don't usually see mentioned is "Stick & Whittle: Wanted for Mischief, Adventurous Behavior, and a Tendency to get in Trouble" by Sid Hite. My dd loves this book & says it is really funny. I think it's OOP, but perhaps your library has a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Lori, Thanks for posting this great list! :iagree::iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 DD the Elder has enjoyed: Sea of Trolls (so good we've just started the sequel) The Canterbury Tales (McCaughrean) My Guardian Angel (Weil) Pyle's Robin Hood Adam of the Road Catherine, Called Birdy (some oblique sexual references) The Midwife's Apprentice Matilda Bone Castle in the Attic and Battle for the Castle A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver Erik the Viking (Jones) Sutcliff's Arthur trilogy (The Sword and the Circle, etc.) Sutcliff's Beowulf The Knight and the Squire and They Lady and the Squire -- by Terry Jones. The second volume mentions rape in passing (the horrors of the Hundred Years' War for many French peasants are apparent, but not lingered upon). These are for the most part fun adventure books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart'sjoy Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 If reading level is not an issue, Henty is the cream of the crop in our house for historical fiction. My 7 yr old, and 5 yr old think things like the box-car children are boring after listening to me read Henty's historical fiction. The books published by Preston Speed have the easiest to read type. I buy from Rainbow Resource usually. Preston Speed also keeps a few titles discounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqr Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 Kipling, Henty, Forrester Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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