Need book suggestions for 4th grade readers...

[Guest Virginia Dawn]

I'm looking for good books that take place during the last century and a half in North America. Fiction or non-fiction for me to read aloud to a 9yo boy. I have some on my list already but it's been a five years since I revised the list.

[Guest Virginia Dawn]

Surely somebody's got a list somewhere.

 

Hmm. Of course I could go do the research myself. ;-)

[serene]

Since you haven't had any other responses, I got out an old Sonlight catalog for 4th grade. This covers American history from the War Between the States till today. I love SL for their reading lists.

 

History:

Hero Over Here (Kudlinski)

In Search of the Source (Anderson & Moore)

A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt (DeYoung)

Lincoln: A Photobiography (Freedman)

The Monitor and Merrimac (Stein)

Simon Bolivar (DeVarona)

South America (Moore)

The Story of the U.S.A. - Books 3 & 4 (Escher)

The Story of Thomas Alva Edision: Wizard Menlo of Park (Davidson)

A Unit About Canada (Coe)

Wee Sing America (CD-speeches, patriotic & folk songs)

William Wilberforce (Holzmann)

World War I (Kent)

 

Read-alouds:

Across Five Aprils (Hunt)

All Sail Set (Sperry)

Behind Rebel Lines (Reit)

Caddie Woodlawn (Brink)

Cheaper by the Dozen (Gilbreth & Carey)

Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa (Kalnay)

The Great Turkey Walk (Karr)

The Great Wheel (Lawson)

Little Britches (Moody)

Miracles on Maple Hill (Sorensen)

Mocassin Trail (McGraw)

Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems (Hall, ed.)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)

The Winged Watchman (Van Stockum)

 

Readers:

All of a Kind Family (Taylor)

Bruchko (Olson)

By the Great Horn Spoon (Fleischman)

Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman (Sterling)

George Washington Carver (Collins)

Gone Away Lake (Enright)

Helen Keller (Davidson)

In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson (Lord)

Old Yeller (Gipson)

The Perilous Road (Steele)

Plain Girl (Sorensen)

The Seventeenth Swap (McGraw)

Shades of Gray (Reeder)

Shoes for Everyone (Mitchell)

Sing Down the Moon (O'Dell)

The Terrible Wave (Dahlstedt)

Thimble Summer (Enright )

Turn Homeward, Hannalee (Beatty)

The Wright Brothers (Reynolds)

 

Enjoy your reading!