Modern American

The Trail West

Wagon Wheels - Barbara Brenner (1–3) Covered Wagons, by Verla Kay (K–2) If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon, by Ellen Levine (2–4) Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, by Paul Erickson (3–5) Children of the Covered Wagon, by Mary Jane Carr (4–6) Apples to Oregon, by Deborah Hopkinson (2–4) Bound for Oregon, by Jean Van Leeuwen (4–6) On to Oregon, by Honore Morrow (4–6) For Ma and Pa: On the Oregon Trail, 1844, by Wilma Hayes (3–5) The Stouthearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail, by Neta Lohnes (4–6) Rachel’s Journal: The Story of a Pioneer Girl, by Marissa Moss (3–5) How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark, by Rosalyn Schanzer (2–4) Lewis and Clark and Me: A Dog’s Tale, by Laurie Myers (2–4) Seaman’s Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark, by Patricia Eubank (2–4) A Picture Book of Sacagawea, by David A. Adler (2–4) Sacagawea, by Flora Warren Seymour (5–7) Daniel Boone, by Stevenson (3–5) Who Was Daniel Boone, by Sydelle Kramer (3–5) Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody (6–8) Custer and Crazy Horse: A Story of Two Warriors, by Jim Razzi (5–7)

Pioneer Life

Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (2–4) Little House on the Prairie, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (4–6) Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder (3–5) On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder (3–5) The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder (5–7) Little Town on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (5–7) Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink (5–7) Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan (3–5) Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan (3–5) Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan (3–5) More Perfect than the Moon by Patricia MacLachlan (3–5) Grandfather’s Dance by Patricia MacLachlan (3–5) Prairie Days by Patricia MacLachlan (K–2) The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan (K–2) Sarah Whitcher’s Story by Elizabeth Yates (1–3) Dakota Dugout - Ann Turner (K–2) A Book for Black-eyed Susan, by Judy Young (2–4) Dandelions, by Eve Bunting (2–4) A Pioneer Sampler: The Daily Life of a Pioneer Family, by Barbara Greenwood (4–6) Children of the Wild West - Russell Freedman (5–7) Our Only May Amelia, by Jennifer Holm (6–8) Land of the Buffalo Bones, by Marion Bauer (6–8) Old Yeller - Fred Gipson (6–8) Shag: Last of the Plains Buffalo, by Robert McClung (4–6) The Land of Little Rain, by Mary Austin (9+)

Cowboys and Ranching

Cowboys and Cowgirls, by Gail Gibbons (K–2) Cowboys of the Wild West - Russell Freedman (4–6) Boss of the Plains, by Laurie Carlson (2–4) Rough and Tough Charlie, by Verla Kay (2–4) San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion - Marguerite Henry (4–6)

The Gold Rush

Gold Fever, by Verla Kay (K–2) Striking It Rich: The Story of the California Gold Rush - Stephen Krensky (2–4) By the Great Horn Spoon, by Sid Fleischman (4–6) Gold Rush Fever: A Story of the Klondike 1898, by Barbara Greenwood (4–6) Hard Gold, by Avi (5–7) Chang's Paper Pony - Eleanor Coerr (1–3)

Railroads, Invention and the New Century

Iron Horses, by Verla Kay (2–4) Whatever Happened to the Pony Express, by Verla Kay (2–4) Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody (4–6) Stagecoach West by Ralph Moody, Mark L. Gardner (7–9) Eli Whitney, Jean Lee Latham (5–7) Young Man in a Hurry, Jean Lee Latham (5–7) The Remarkable Rough-Riding Life of Theodore Roosevelt, by Cheryl Harness (3–5)

Slavery and the Underground Railroad

Thee, Hannah! - Marguerite de Angeli (2–4) Follow the Drinking Gourd, by Jeanette Winter (2–4) Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad, by Ellen Levine (2–4) Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, by Carole Boston Weatherford (2–4) Go Free or Die, by Jeri Ferris (2–4) The Price of Freedom: How One Town Stood Up to Slavery, by Dennis Brindell Fradin (2–4) My Name Is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth, by Ann Turner (2–4) Walking the Road to Freedom, by Jeri Ferris (3–5) Freedom Crossing - Margaret Goff Clark (4–6) Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman, by Dorothy Sterling (4–6) The Underground Abductor, by Nathan Hale (4–6) The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad, by Barbara Greenwood (4–6) Bound for the North Star: True Stories of Fugitive Slaves, by Dennis Brindell Fradin (5–7) Amos Fortune, Free Man, by Elizabeth Yates (7–9) Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington (9+) The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, by Phillis Wheatley (9+)

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln - Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (2–4) Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln - Jean Fritz (2–4) Abe’s Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Doreen Rappaport (2–4) Abraham Lincoln, Friend of the People, by Clara Ingram Judson (4–6) Lincoln: A Photobiography - Russell Freedman (5–7)

Soldiers and Battles

Civil War Drummer Boy, by Verla Kay (2–4) The Silent Witness, by Robin Friedman (2–4) The Last Brother, by Trinka Hakes Noble (2–4) Brady by Jean Fritz (5–7) Iron Thunder, by Avi (4–6) Stonewall - Jean Fritz (5–7) The Long Road to Gettysburg - Jim Murphy (6–8) Bull Run, by Paul Fleishman (6–8) Charley Skedaddle, by Patricia Beatty (6–8) Fields of Fury, by James M. McPherson (6–8) Gettysburg: A Day that Changed America, by Shelley Tanaka (6–8) Seeing the Elephant, by Pat Hughes (6–8) The Perilous Road, by William O. Steele (6–8) Turn Homeward, Hannalee, by Patricia Beatty (6–8) The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg, by Rodman Philbrick (7–9) Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt (6–8) The Boys' War - Jim Murphy (6–8) The War Within, by Carol Matas (6–8) No Man’s Land, by Susan Bartoletti (7–9)

Spies and Secret Missions

Nurse, Soldier, Spy, by Marissa Moss (2–4) Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy - Seymour Reit (5–7)

Life Before the War

The Glorious Conspiracy, by Joanne Williamson (6–8)