Dialectic: Late Renaissance/Early Modern: 1600 A.D. - 1850 A.D.
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan (Nigerian Folk Tales)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin (Chinese Fairy Tale)
Timelines of World History by Jane Chisholm (Nonfiction/Five primary continents side-by-side--30,000 B.C.-2000 A.D.)
The Story of Scotland: Inspired by the Great Tapestry of Scotland by Allan Burnett (Nonfiction/survey of people and events/fascinating!)
The Story of Exploration by Anna Claybourne (from 2270 B.C.-2003 A.D.)
Mysterious Polynesia: The Myths, Legends, and Mysteries of the Polynesians by Charles River Editions (Some history/Cultural--c. 900 B.C.-1878 A.D.)
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross and Stephen Biesty (Nonfiction/Cross-sections/Mechanics of exploration--340 B.C.-1969 A.D.)
History of Britain and Ireland by DK Publishing (Nonfiction/Survey--43-present)
Kings and Queens by Ruth Brocklehurst (Nonfiction/Survey of English monarchs-886-present)
Children's Encyclopedia of American History by David C. King [DK Smithsonian] (1000-2000 A.D.)
Renaissance Artists Who Inspired the World by Gregory Blanch (Nonfiction/Art History/Botticelli-Anguissola--1465-1625)
Anne Hutchinson: Puritan Protester by Darlene R. Stille (England/Massachusetts--1591-1643)
Horrible Jobs in Colonial Times by Louise Spilsbury (1600-1775)
Sam Samurai by Jon Scieszka (Japan/Samurai/Haiku--1600s)
The Ring of Wind by Chris Bradford [7th and 8th grades] (Japan/Samurai--1600s)
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland by Sally M. Walker (Nonfiction/Forensic anthropology--1600s-1700s)
The Shakespeare Stealer by Gary Blackwood (England--1600)
Comic Book Shakespeare: Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and Timber Frame Publications (Play/Illyria--time of setting unknown, pub. 1601)
1607: A New Look at Jamestown by Karen E. Lange (1607)
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Elisa Carbone (Virginia--1607)
Beyond the Sea of Ice: The Voyages of Henry Hudson by Joan Elizabeth Goodman and Fernando Rangel (Nonfiction/Exploration/North America--1607-1611)
Comic Book Shakespeare: The Tempest by William Shakespeare and Timber Frame Publications (Island in the Mediterranean Sea/however-it has been suggested that the wreck of the Sea Venture on Bermuda influenced the writing of the play--believed to be set around the time it was written, 1610-1611)
Miracle: The True Story of the Wreck of the Sea Venture by Gail Langer Karwoski (Nonfiction - Shipwreck/Bermuda--1609)
Tree in the Trail by Holling Clancy Holling (Fiction/What a tree sees during its life along the eventual Santa Fe Trail--1610-1834)
Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford (Japan--1611)
Stink Alley by Jamie Gilson (Holland/Puritans--1614)
The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty (Nonfiction - America--1620)
The Landmark History of the American People by Daniel J. Boorstin (Nonfiction--1620-1969)
Guests by Michael Dorris (Algonquin youth/first Thanksgiving--1621)
The Maryland Colony: Lord Baltimore by Jim Whiting (Nonfiction/Founding of colony--1632)
The Taj Mahal: An Incredible Love Story by Rik Hoskin and Aadil Khan (Graphic novel/Architecture/One of history's greatest love stories--1632-1653)
The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat (England--1640s)
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise by Marc Aronson [7th and 8th grades] (Nonfiction - England/Massachusetts/Puritan rule--1642-1660)
Isaac the Alchemist: Secrets of Isaac Newton, Reveal'd by Mary Losure (Nonfiction/Biography/Newton's childhood/Young scientist--1642-1727)
Trouble's Daughter: the Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive by Katherine Kirkpatrick (Anne Hutchinson's daughter/Delaware Indian captive--1643)
The Rhode Island Colony by Kathleen W. Deady (Nonfiction/Survey--1647)
Dunbar 1650: Cromwell's Most Famous Victory by Stuart Reid (Nonfiction/Scots vs British--1650)
The Iron Peacock by Mary Stetson Clarke (Massachusetts Bay Colony/Bond servants--mid 1650s)
The Vermeer Interviews: Conversations withSeven Works of Art by Bob Raczka (Nonfiction/Art History/Learn culture through art--1655-1675)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Classic/Atlantic Ocean/Africa/Brazil--1659)
Peter Stuyvesant: Dutch Military Leader by Joan Banks (Nonfiction - New Netherlands--mid 1600s)
I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Barton de Trevino (Spain--mid 1600s)
Salem Witch - Elizabeth's Story; Salem Witch - George's Story (Massachusetts--mid-1600s)
The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder (Wales--1663: Historically anachronistic--Harold absolutely decimated the Welsh population. Tell your child it is very unlikely a Welshman, no matter how disadvantaged, would have willingly served Harold. I list this novel only because culturally it fills a void in a reading list for this level.)
Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (London--1665)
Jolliet and Marquette: Explorers of the Mississippi River by Daniel E. Harmon (Nonfiction - 1673)
Dangerous Journey: The Story of Pilgrim's Progress by Oliver Hunkin (Christian classic--pub. 1678-1684)
Peter the Great by Diane Stanley (Nonfiction/Biography--1682-1725)
Huguenot Garden by Douglas M. Jones III (Novel/France/Louis XIV persecution--1685)
Escape Across the Wild Sea by Katherine Kirkpatrick (France/Religious persecution--1686)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (Massachusetts--1687)
Isaac Newton and the Laws of Physics by Andrea Gianopoulos (England/1643-1727--peak of career-1687)
Witch-hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson [7th and 8th grade] (Nonfiction - Massachusetts--1688)
Madeleine Takes Command by Ethel C. Brill (Novel/French Canada--1690s)
A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi (Novel/Salem Witch Trials--1692)
The Salem Witch Trials: An Interactive History Adventure by Matt Doeden [You Choose: History series] (Fiction/Salem Witch Trials--1692)
Witches!: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer (Nonfiction/Massachusetts/Puritans/Witchcraft--1693)
Who Was Blackbeard? by James Buckley, Jr. (Virginia/North Carolina--late 1600s-early 1700s)
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Race Horse/Morocco/France/England--early 1700s)
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson (Japan--1700s)
In Darkness, Death by Dorothy Hoobler (Japan/Ninja/Samurai/mystery--1700s)
The Shipbuilders by Leonard Everett Fisher (Nonfiction - Colonial America--1700s)
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen (early 1700s)
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler (Japan/Kabuki theater/mystery--early half of the 1700s)
Danger in the Harbor by JoAnn A. Grote (Boston/Queen Anne's War--1702-1713)
The European Industrial Revolution by Michael Burgan (1704-1864)
Blackthorn Winter by Douglas Wilson (England/Pirates--1705)
Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia by Margaret Cousins (Biography/Pennsylvania--1706-1790)
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse Amos by Robert Lawson (A cute American classic since the 1930s--1706-1790)
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found by Marting W. Sandler (Nonfiction/Cape Cod/Slave trade/Piracy/Shipwreck--1717)
Smallpox Strikes! by Norma Jean Lutz (Boston--1721)
The Secret of the Sealed Room by Bailey MacDonald (Young Ben Franklin/Boston--1721)
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (Massachusetts--1725-1801)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (Novel/Fantasy--pub. 1726)
The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape from the Tower of London by Elvira Woodruff (England--1730s)
A Pickpocket's Tale by Karen Schwabach (London/New York City/indentured servant/Jews--1731)
The Printer's Apprentice by Stephen Krensky (New York City--1735)
Fort Mose: and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in colonial America by Glennette Tilley Turner (Nonfiction - Florida--1738)
Calico Bush by Rachel Field (Novel/Maine/Indentured servant--1743)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (England--1750s)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Scotland--1751)
Duel in the Wilderness by Karin Clafford Farley (George Washington/Ohio country--1753-1754)
The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon by Carla Killough McClafferty (Nonfiction/Biography/Sculpture/Interesting approach to common subject--1753-1797)
Enemy in the Fort by Sarah Masters Buckley (New Hampshire/Abenaki--1754)
Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski (Pennsylvania/Seneca Indian captive--1758)
A Little Maid of Ticonderoga by Alice Curtis (Novel/French and Indian War--1758)
In Mozart's Shadow: His Sister's Story by Carolyn Meyer (Novel/Music history/Nannerl Mozart/active--1758-1769)
Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude by Louise Borden (Nonfiction/Marine Chronometer/John Harrison--1761)
The Split History of Westward Expansion in the United States by Nell Musolf (Native American/Settlers Perspectives--1763-1890)
Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawas by Jane Fleischer (Nonfiction/Ottawa Tribe/Pontiac's Uprising/British military--1763-1764)
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter (Pennsylvania/Lenape Indian captive--1764)
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz (Nonfiction/Biography/American Founding Father--years of service: 1764-1797)
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began by Lucille Recht Penner (Nonfiction/Revolutionary War causes--1765-1775)
The Industrial Revolution by Melissa McDaniel (America--1765-)
Squalls Before War by Ned Bustard (Royal Navy/American colonies/Independence--1768-1772)
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (Maine--1769)
The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi [7th-8th grade] (1770)
The Mysteries of Beethoven's Hair by Russell Martin (Nonfiction/Biography/Music history/Mystery of subject's death--1770-1827)
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson (New York/Slavery/Revolutionary War/Spies--1775)
Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began by Lucille Recht Penner (Nonfiction--1775)
Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by His Horse by Robert Lawson (Novel/Clever point of view--1775)
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Boston--1775)
For Life and Liberty by Becky Levine (Causes and Effects: The Declaration of Independence - Philadelphia--1775)
Ethan Allen: The Green Mountain Boys and Vermont's Path to Statehood by Emily Raabe (Nonfiction/Revolutionary War--1775)
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Scheinkin (Nonfiction/Biography/Revolutionary War--1775-1780)
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz (New York/West Point--1780)
The Split History of the American Revolution by Michael Burgan (Nonfiction - A Perspectives Flip Book--1775-1783)
The Dark Game: True Spy Stories by Paul B. Janeczko (Nonfiction/Espionage/Revolutionary War through the Cold War--1775-1991)
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson (Nonfiction/Survey/Revolutionary Era Slaves to President Obama--1775-2008)
King George: What Was His Problem? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction - Various locales--late 1770s-early 1780s)
Yankee Doodle Boy by Joseph Plumb Martin (Nonfiction/Revolutionary War/First person, primary source account written for children in the early 1800s--1776)
Tolliver's Secret by Ester Wood Brady (New York--1776-1777)
The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy by Mary L. Englar (Nonfiction/Founded in the 12th-century, but played a role in both sides of Revolution--1776-1783)
The Arrow Over the Door by Joseph Bruchac (New York/Quaker & Abenaki friends -- 1777)
The Hollow Tree by Janet Lunn (Novel/Revolutionary War/Espionage--1777)
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution (Sterling Point) by Stewart H. Holbrook (Nonfiction - Revolutionary War/South Carolina--1780-1781)
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson (Novel/Japan/an Asian Robin Hood tale--late-18th century)
Justin Morgan had a Horse by Marguerite Henry (Vermont--1780s and 90s)
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz (Western Pennsylvania--1784)
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz (Philadelphia--1787)
The Magna Carta: Cornerstone of the Constitution by Roberta Baxter (Nonfiction/English charter/Influence on U.S. Constitution--1215 & 1787)
Georgia: The Debtors Colony by Susan Sales Harkins (Nonfiction--1788)
In Search of Honor by Donnalynn Hess (France/Early French Revolution--1789)
The Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (Paris/London/French Revolution--1789-1793)
The Bad Queen: Rules and Instructions for Marie-Antoinette by Carolyn Meyer (Biographical Fiction/French/Queen of France since 1770, generally studied during the French Revolution--1789-1793)
The Industrial Revolution for Kids by Cheryl Mullenbach (Nonfiction--1791-1913)
Egotist: Napoleon, Emperor and Conqueror by Kimberley Heuston (Nonfiction - A Wicked History series--1792)
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (Philadelphia/Yellow Fever--1793)
Path of the Pale Horse by Paul Fleischman (Philadelphia/Yellow Fever--1793)
The Story of Eli Whitney by Jean Lee Latham (Nonfiction/Biography/Inventor/Cotton Gin--1793)
Fear in the Forest by Cateau de Leeuw (Ohio frontier--1794)
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer (Novel/British warship/Pirates/Disguised girl/First in series--late-1790s)
The Complete Jane Austen retold by Anna Milbourne, et al. (Classic retelling--set between 1797-1816)
Jane Austen: A Life Revealed by Catherine Reef (Nonfiction/Biography/Good tandem read with her works--1797-1816)
Carry on, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham (Massachusetts--late 1700s)
The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone by James Cross Giblin (Nonfiction/Cracking hieroglyphs--1799-1822)
The Broken Blade by William Durbin (Montreal/Fur trade--1800)
Naya Nuki: Shoshoni Girl Who Ran by Kenneth Thomasma (Montana/North Dakota--c. 1800)
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (Classic/Shipwreck--c. 1800)
The Year of the Horseless Carriage: 1801 by Genevieve Foster (Nonfiction/Survey--1801)
The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter (Nonfiction - Napoleonic Wars--1800-1815)
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen (Novel/Slave learns to read--early 1800s)
The Barbary Pirates by C. S. Forester (Nonfiction/Naval history--1801-1805)
Expanding a Nation by Elizabeth Raum (Nonfiction - Causes and Effects series--the Louisiana Purchase--1803)
A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began by Delia Ray (Nonfiction/United States/Civil War instigators--early-to-mid-1800s)
Into the West by Terry Collins (Nonfiction - Causes and Effects series--the U.S. Westward Expansion--early to late 1800s)
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr (Nonfiction/Combined biography--1804)
Sacajawea by Joseph Bruchac (Alternating chapters: Sacajawea and William Clark--1804-1806)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Richard L. Neuberger (North America--1804-1806)
The Captain's Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and Clark Tribe by Roland Smith (The voyage of discovery from a dog's-eye-view--1804-1806)
Robert Fulton, Boy Craftsman by Marguerite Henry (Biography/Inventor/Steamboat--1807)
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen (Oregon Trail--1811-1840)
Mr. Madison's War by Kassandra Radomski (Nonfiction - Causes and Effects series--1812)
Once on This Island by Gloria Whelan (Mackinac Island, Michigan--1812)
Betsy and the Emperor by Staton Rabin (St. Helena/Napoleon's exile--1815-1821)
The Journeyman by Elizabeth Yates (New Hampshire/Journeyman painters--1816)
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy (Nonfiction/Role of the bicycle in women's liberation--1817)
Classic Starts: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (Novel/Europe--published in 1818)
Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge (Nonfiction/Free verse biography/Author--1818)
To Preserve the Union by Kaavonia Hinton (Nonfiction - Causes and Effects series--the Missouri Compromise--1818)
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon by Nancy Plain (Nonfiction/Biography/Ornithology/Art history--1827)
They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth (North Carolina--1830s)
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Novel/Sea story/Mutiny--1832)
Swift Rivers by Cornelia Meigs (Minnesota/Mississippi River log floats--1835)
The Great and Only Barnum: The Tremendous, Stupendous Life of Showman P. T. Barnum by Candace Fleming (Nonfiction/Biography/Circus Owner/Opened first entertainment venue--1835)
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (Novel/Stranded girl/San Nicolas Island--1835-1853)
Remember the Alamo: Texians, Tejanos, and Mexicans Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker (Nonfiction--1836)
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats by Carolyn Meyer (Novel/Frontier Texas/Comanche captive Cynthia Ann Parker/Mother of Quanah Parker--study around 1836-1860)
Only the Names Remain by Alex W. Bealer (Cherokee Trail of Tears--1837-1838)
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornelissen (Cherokee Trail of Tears--1838)
The Complete Dickens retold by Anna Milbourne (Classic retellings--pub. between 1838-1861)
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by Andrea Warren (Nonfiction/Reformer--1839)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (Missouri--1840s)
Born in the Year of Courage by Emily Crofford (Japan--1841)
The Lightning Dreamer by Margarita Engle (Novel/Cuba/Abolitionist writer/Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda/About Spanish Uncle Tom's Cabin, published--1841)
Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff (Western Ireland/Brooklyn, New York--1845-1852)
Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature by George Sullivan (Nonfiction/Biography/Dwarfism/Performer/P. T. Barnum--1845-1883)
Frederick Douglass: A Noble Life by David A. Adler (Nonfiction/Biography/Abolitionist/Slave--1845)
Stonewall by Jean Fritz (Nonfiction/Biography/General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson/Mexican American War/Civil War--1846-1848 and 1861-1863)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte retold by Jane Bingham (Classic novel/England--pub. 1847)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship That Changed the World by Penny Colman (Nonfiction/Biography/Equal rights for women/Good to study concurrent with Seneca Falls Convention--1848)
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman (Nonfiction/Biography/Brain injury/Neuroscience--1848)
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (Buxton, Ontario, Canada--1849)