Read the Revolution
Summer 2019 Reading List
June 26, 2019
Preschool to 2nd Grade
Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, by Margaret McNamara (Author), Esme Shapiro (Illustrator), Phillipa Soo (Afterword)
Cheer Up Ben Franklin!, by Misti Kenison
My America The Beautiful, by Katherine Lee Bates and Kate Melrose
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed The World, by Chelsea Clinton
3rd to 6th Grade
Independent Dames: What You Never Knew About the Women and Girls of the American Revolution, by Laurie Halse Anderson
Saving The Liberty Bell, by Marty Rhodes Figley and Kevin Lepp
I Survived the American Revolution, 1776, by Lauren Tarshis
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent, by Anne Rockwell and Floyd Cooper
Diary of Sally Wister, by Sally Wister
Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider (Based On A True Story), by E.F. Abbott
Flashback Four #4: The Hamilton–Burr Duel, by Dan Gutman
Revolutionary Rogues, by Selene Castrovilla (Author), John O'Brien (Illustrator)
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Kathleen Van Cleve
7th Grade and Up
Hamilton and Peggy! A Revolutionary Friendship, by L.M. Elliott
Forge (sequel to Chains), by Laurie Halse Anderson
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