Independent Reading Suggested Books for Examining Our History: American Revolution
See our Independent Reading for Elementary Students Teacher Tool for guidance on how to use the suggested texts below.
Fiction Texts with Connecting Topics and Themes
- Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy) by Laurie Halse Anderson (780L) **
- Dear America: The Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana Gregory (870L)
- Forge (The Seeds of America Trilogy) by Laurie Halse Anderson (820L) **
- I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis (660L) *
- My Name is America: The Journal of William Thomas Emerson, A Revolutionary War Patriot by Barry Denenberg (950L)
- Sophia’s War by Avi (730L)
- The Fighting Ground by Avi (580L)
- The Keeping Room by Anna Myers (780L)
- War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln Collier (800L)
Informational Texts to Build Content Knowledge
- African Americans in the Thirteen Colonies by Michael Burgan (1040L) **
- American Revolution (DK Eyewitness Books) by Stuart Murray
- Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial Patriots by Dharathula Millender (750L)
- George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer (980L)
- Independent Dames: What You Never Knew about the Women and Girls of the American Revolution by Laurie Halse Anderson (930L)
- Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts
- The Split History of the American Revolution (Perspectives Flip Books series) by Michael Burgan (930L)
- The Untold Story of the Black Regiment: Fighting in the Revolutionary War by Michael Burgan (1070L) **
- You Wouldn’t Want to Be an American Colonist! by Jacqueline Morely (780L)
- You Wouldn’t Want to be at the Boston Tea Party! by Peter Cook and David Antram (1020L)
* lower Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
** higher Lexile or qualitative measures than core text.
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