Summer 2018 Reading List

Summer 2018 Reading List

Read the Revolution is for all ages. Find these books online or in our Museum Shop!

7th Grade and Up

Liberty's Children: Stories Of Eleven Revolutionary War Children, by Scotti McAuliff Cohn

Outrageous Women of Colonial America, by Mary Rodd Furbee

George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War, by Thomas B. Allen

George Washington: The Crossing, by Jack E. Levin

It Happened in the Revolutionary War, by Michael R. Bradley

Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship, by L.M. Elliot

Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson, by Sheila Solomon Klass

The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson

Gross Facts About the American Colonies, by Mira Vonne

Crogan's Loyalty, by Chris Schweizer

The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book, by Michael Burgan

Patriots and Redcoats: Stories of American Revolutionary War Leaders, by Steven Otfinoski

Night of Rebellion!: Nickolas Flux and the Boston Tea Party, by Nel Yomtov

Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution, by Roxane Orgill

Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories, and Redcoats Tell Their Stories, by Thomas B. Allen

3rd to 6th Grade

I Survived the American Revolution, 1776, by Lauren Tarshis

The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner, by Ryan Jacobson

Yankee Doodle Alphabet, by Wendell Minor

A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, by Lynne Cheney

Gunpowder and Tea Cakes: My Journey with Felicity, by Kathleen Ernst

The Boston Tea Party, by Rebecca Paley

Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, by Ann Weil

Privateer's Apprentice, by Susan Verrico

Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak: The Outbreak of the Boston Tea Party Told from Multiple Points-of-View!, by Kay Winters

Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War, by Benson Bobrick

DK Eyewitness Books: American Revolution, by Stuart Murray

Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher, by Jon Meacham

Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider, by E.F. Abbott

The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution, by Jonathan W. Stokes

Voices of the American Revolution: Stories from the Battlefields, by Lois Miner Huey

The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure, by Elizabeth Raum

If You Lived In Colonial Times, by Ann McGovern

Washington's War, by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon

Revolutionary Rogues: John André and Benedict Arnold, by Selene Castrovilla

Preschool - 3rd Grade

The Biggest (And Best Flag That Ever Flew), by Rebecca Jones

Our American Flag, by Mary Firestone

The Rocket's Red Glare, by Peter Alderman

God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin, by Adah Nuchi

I Visit the Liberty Bell, by Whitney Hopper

Abigail Adams: First Lady of the American Revolution, by Patricia Lakin

America: A Patriotic Primer, by Lynne Cheney

If You Were a Kid During the American Revolution, by Wil Mara

George Washington's Teeth, by Deborah Chandra

Sam the Minuteman, by Nathaniel Benchley

I am George Washington, by Brad Meltzer