American+History

The Revolutionary War, Colonial Times and The Civil War are fifth Grade Units at BCSIS

Revolutionary War

The fighting ground** ** Avi ** **Author:** Avi Fiction  **Summary:** Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. > Drums at Saratoga** ** Banim, Lisa  ** **Author:** Banim, Lisa > Fiction > **Summary:** Lured by the glamour and excitement of a soldier's life, eleven-year-old Nathaniel follows the British army down the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution and witnesses the true hardships of war firsthand. Samuel's choice** ** Berleth, Richard ** **Author:** Berleth, RichardFiction **Summary:** Samuel, a fourteen-year-old slave in Brooklyn in 1776, faces a difficult choice when the fighting between the British and the colonists reaches his doorstep and only he can help the rebels. Toliver's secret** ** Brady, Esther Wood  ** **Author:** Brady, Esther WoodFiction **Summary:** During the Revolutionary War, a ten-year-old girl crosses enemy lines to deliver a loaf of bread containing a message for the patriots. The arrow over the door** ** Bruchac, Joseph ** **Author:** Bruchac, JosephFiction **Summary:** In the year 1777, a group of Quakers and a party of Indians have a memorable meeting.- Attack of the Turtle** ** Carlson, Drew  ** **Author:** Carlson, Drew Fiction **Summary:** During the Revolutionary War, fourteen-year-old Nathan joins forces with his older cousin, the inventor David Bushnell, to secretly build the first submarine used in naval warfare. My brother Sam is dead** ** Collier, James Lincoln ** **Author:** Collier, James LincolnFiction **Summary:** Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral.

War comes to Willy Freeman** ** Collier, James Lincoln ** **Author:** Collier, James Lincoln Fiction Older Kids  **Summary:** A free thirteen-year-old Black girl in Connecticut is caught up in the horror of the Revolutionary War and the danger of being returned to slavery when her patriot father is killed by the British and her mother disappears. Silence and Lily** ** Duey, Kathleen  ** **Author:** Duey, Kathleen Fiction **Summary:** In 1773, twelve-year-old Silence works to please her mother through household chores and weekly etiquette lessons in hopes of spending time with her beloved horse, Lily, while the men of Boston, including her Loyalist father and brother, discuss a possible war over taxation without representation. Betsy Zane, the rose of Fort Henry** ** Durrant, Lynda ** **Author:** Durrant, Lynda Fiction  **Summary:** In 1781 twelve-year-old Elizabeth Zane, great-great-aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution. Give me liberty** ** Elliott, Laura  ** **Author:** Elliott, Laura Fiction **Summary:** Follows the life of thirteen-year-old Nathaniel Dunn, from May 1774 to December 1775, as he serves his indentureship with a music teacher in Williamsburg, Virginia, and witnesses the growing rift between patriots and loyalists, culminating in the American Revolution. Johnny Tremain** ** Forbes, Esther ** **Author:** Forbes, Esther Fiction  **Summary:** Johnny Tremain, apprentice silversmith, takes on the cause of freedom as a message carrier for the Sons of Liberty in pre-Revolution Boston. The cabin faced west** ** Fritz, Jean  ** **Author:** Fritz, Jean Fiction **Summary:** Ten-year-old Ann overcomes loneliness and learns to appreciate the importance of her role in settling the wilderness of western Pennsylvania.

Early thunder** ** Fritz, Jean ** **Author:** Fritz, Jean Fiction Teens  **Summary:** In pre-revolutionary Salem, fourteen-year-old Daniel begins to re-examine his loyalty to the King as the conflict between Tories and patriots increasingly divides the townspeople. |This time, Tempe Wick?** ** Gauch, Patricia Lee  ** **Author:** Gauch, Patricia Lee Fiction **Summary:** Everyone knows Tempe Wick is a most surprising girl, but she exceeds even her own reputation when two mutinous Revolutionary soldiers try to steal her beloved horse. Five smooth stones** ** Gregory, Kristiana ** **Author:** Gregory, Kristiana Fiction  **Summary:** In her diary, a young girl writes about her life and the events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776. Justin Morgan had a horse** ** Henry, Marguerite  ** **Author:** Henry, Marguerite Fiction Older Kids **Summary:** An unusual work horse raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub" becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner, Justin Morgan. |Moon of two dark horses** ** Keehn, Sally M. ** **Author:** Keehn, Sally M. Fiction Older Kids  **Summary:** At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast. Ben and me** ** Lawson, Robert  ** **Author:** Lawson, Robert Fiction **Summary:** Amos, the mouse who lives in Ben Franklin's hat, explains how he is responsible for Ben Franklin's success.

The keeping room** ** Myers, Anna ** **Author:** Myers, Anna Fiction  **Summary:** Left in charge of the family when his father joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen-year-old Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears he may be betraying his beloved parent. Sarah Bishop** ** O'Dell, Scott  ** **Author:** O'Dell, Scott **Fiction** Buttons for General Washington** ** Roop, Peter ** **Author:** Roop, Peter Fiction  **Summary:** Reconstructs a possible mission of John Darragh, a fourteen-year-old Quaker spy who carried messages to George Washington's camp in the buttons of his coat during the Revolutionary War. The buffalo knife** ** Steele, William O.  ** **Author:** Steele, William O. Fiction **Summary:** In 1782, nine-year-old Andy, his family, and neighbors make a dangerous journey by flatboat down a thousand miles of the Tennessee River to make a new home.
 * Summary:** Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.

Hannah of Fairfield** ** Van Leeuwen, Jean ** **Author:** Van Leeuwen, Jean Fiction **Summary:** For almost nine-year-old Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut, growing up means facing new challenges, both great and small--from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping the family prepare to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolutionary War. Includes recipe. Danger along the Ohio** ** Willis, Patricia  ** **Author:** Willis, Patricia Fiction **Summary:** Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

CIVIL WAR

#|Added [|Rifles for Watie] Author: Keith, Harold, 1903-1998 Fiction Summary: With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. When he infiltrates Colonel Watie's Confederate camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself--only fighting for a different cause. > Fiction Summary: Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the Glory Field. > Fiction Summary: At the end of the //**Civil**// //**War**//, twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family, reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor" because he refused to take part in the //**war**//. > Fiction Summary: After the //**Civil**// //**War**//, Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own. > Nonfiction Summary: Photographs and text trace the life of the //**Civil**// //**War**// President. > Fiction Summary: Twelve-year-old Patsy keps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the //**Civil**// //**War**// and the granting of freedom to former slaves,. > Fiction Summary: By following the directions in the song, "The Drinking Gourd," taught to them by an old sailor named Peg Leg Joe, runaway slaves journey north along the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. > Fiction Summary: Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the //**Civil**// //**War**//. #|Added [|**Jip: his story**] **Author:** Paterson, Katherine Fiction **Summary:** An abandoned boy living on a poor farm in Vermont in the 1850s learns his true identity.
 * [|The Glory Field] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780590458979 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args12',);"]] Author: Myers, Walter Dean, 1937-
 * [|Shades of gray] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780027758108 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args13',);"]] Author: Reeder, Carolyn
 * [|The land] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780803719507 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args15',);"]] Author: Taylor, Mildred D.
 * [|Lincoln: a photobiography] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780899193809 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args16',);"]] Author: Freedman, Russell
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 * y soul would rise and fly: the diary of Patsy, a freed girl [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780590849135 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args17',);"]] Author: Hansen, Joyce, 1942-
 * [|Follow the drinking gourd] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780394896946 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args18',);"]] Author: Winter, Jeanette
 * #|Added [|The river between us] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780803727359 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args19',);"]] Fiction Summary: During the early days of the //**Civil**// //**War**//, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
 * [|Bull Run] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780064405881 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args20',);"]] Author: Fleischman, Paul

> Fiction **Summary:** Fifteen-year-old Say Curtis, a wounded Union soldier, describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, an African-American soldier, after a //**Civil**// //**War**// battle in Georgia, and their subsequent capture by Southern troops. Based on a true story about the author's great-great-grandfather. > Fiction **Summary:** Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the //**war**// and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking. > Fiction **Summary:** During the //**Civil**// //**War**//, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman. > Fiction **Summary:** Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. #|Added [|**When will this cruel war be over?: The Civil War diary of Emma Simpson**] **Author:** a-4e6c-b583-e0b93ca98865@sessionmgr104&vid=5&hid=101&ss=AR "Denenberg, Barry"&sl=rl|Denenberg, Barry]] Fiction **Summary:** The diary of a fictional fourteen-year-old girl living in Virginia, in which she describes the hardships endured by her family and friends during one year of the //**Civil**// //**War**//. #|Added [|**Sound the jubilee**] **Author:** Forrester, Sandra Fiction **Summary:** A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the //**Civil**// //**War**//. > Fiction **Summary:** A sixteen-year-old orphan keeps a journal of his experiences as a volunteer in the Union army during the //**Civil**// //**War**//. > Fiction **Summary:** Fourteen-year-old Johnny is on a bold mission to supply the Rebel troops with his family's mules and wagon when he is captured by a Yankee--Cush, a runaway slave.
 * [|**Pink and Say**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780399226717 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args22',);"]] **Author:** Polacco, Patricia
 * [|**How I found the Strong**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780618350087 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args23',);"]] **Author:** McMullan, Margaret
 * [|**Charley Skedaddle**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780833526724 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args25',);"]] **Author:** Beatty, Patricia, 1922-1991
 * [|**Charley Skedaddle**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780833526724 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args25',);"]] **Author:** Beatty, Patricia, 1922-1991
 * [|**Trouble don't last**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780375814907 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args26',);"]] **Author:** Pearsall, Shelley
 * #|Added [|**The journal of James Edmond Pease: a Civil War Union soldier**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780590438148 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args39',);"]] **Author:** Murphy, Jim, 1947-
 * [|**With every drop of blood: a novel of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780440219835 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args40',);"]] **Author:** Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-

[|**A light in the storm: the Civil War diary of Amelia Martin**] **Author:** Hesse, Karen Fiction **Summary:** In 1860 and 1861, while working in her father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware, fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the //**Civil**// //**War**// is beginning to devastate her divided state.

#|Added [|**Red Legs: a drummer boy of the Civil War**] **Author:** Lewin, Ted Fiction **Summary:** Provides a reenactment of a real battle from the //**Civil**// //**War**// as young Steven, the drummer boy from the "Red Legs" regiment, and other men head out to meet the Confederate Army. > Fiction **Summary:** After his father is killed during the //**Civil**// //**War**//, thirteen-year-old Tom takes on a job to at the ironworks to support his family, and finds himself a target of ruthless spies when he begins assisting with the ironclad ship the "Monitor.".
 * [|**Iron thunder: the battle between the Monitor & the Merimac: a civil war novel**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9781423104469 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args2',);"]] **Author:** Avi, 1937-

> Fiction **Summary:** Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of //**Civil**// //**War**// combat.
 * #|Added [|**Soldier's heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers: a novel of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780385324984 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args3',);"]] **Author:** Paulsen, Gary

> > Fiction **Summary:** In 1862, as William Burd fights in the //**Civil**// //**War**//, he exchanges letters with his sister, Sallie, who is also writing to Confederate and Union generals asking about their horses in order to write a //**book**//.
 * #|Added [|**Drummer boy: marching to the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780060276973 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args4',);"]] **Author:** Turner, Ann Warren
 * #|Added [|**All their names were Courage: a novel of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780066238104 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args5',);"]] **Author:** Denslow, Sharon Phillips

> Fiction **Summary:** The ghost of Willie, President Abraham Lincoln's older son, transports Lindsey back to his own time, where she sees and hears many things from both sides of the //**Civil**// //**War**//. Includes passages from contemporary documents, a glossary, biographical sketches, and a bibliography. > Fiction **Summary:** Weary of the //**war**//, a Union lieutenant recalls his life with his twin brother on their family's Virginia plantation and the events that led them to fight on different sides in the //**Civil**// //**War**//. > Nonfiction **Summary:** Tells the story of the //**Civil**// //**War**// photographer, Mathew Brady, and the band of field photographers he hired to travel with the troops and record images of the time.
 * [|**Ghosts of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780689831355 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args6',);"]] **Author:** Harness, Cheryl
 * #|Added [|**Ballad of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780060273620 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args7',);"]] **Author:** Stolz, Mary, 1920-2006
 * [|**Photo by Brady: a picture of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780689857850 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args8',);"]] **Author:** Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-

> Fiction **Summary:** Sixteen-year-old twins Susanne and Stephen leave their sleepy town to help the Union army, but they are unaware of the impending battle that will occur between Union and Confederate forces in a small town called Gettysburg.
 * #|Added [|**1863: a house divided: a novel of the Civil War**] [[image:http://contentcafe2.btol.com/ContentCafe/jacket.aspx?UserID=ebsco-test&Password=ebsco-test&Return=T&Type=S&Value=9780812590951 link="javascript:__doLinkPostBack(,'targetfullText||args9',);"]] **Author:** Massie, Elizabeth