To those doing SOTW3: What do you love for historical fiction for this period?

[Stacey in MA]

Just thought I'd see if there are any great recommendations. We're always looking for good audio-books that go along with our learning. Our recent ones that were great were:

Ben and Me
Mr. Revere and I
George Washington's Socks

However, we're presently listening to "Stowaway" about the boy named Nick who stows away on Captain Cook's ship to Tahiti and then on discovery of Australia. It's an interesting story to me, but it is NOT holding the kids attention. I'm glad we're sticking it out, and glad we're listening to it and not reading it (they would be totally lost!).

So, wha'cha got that's good for a 3rd (and 1st grader) to listen to? ;-p

Thanks! - Stacey in MA

[Old Dominion Heather]

Ds 8 is reading "Carry on Mr. Bowditch" and we enjoyed all of the Jean Fritz books. (Can't you make them behave, King George?"

[Soph the vet]

Another vote for "Carry on Mr. Bowditch"
Johnny Tremain is a must.
Bold Journey (Lewis and Clark)
Born in the Year of Courage
Sign of the Beaver
Amos Fortune, Free Man

[Virginia Dawn]

Sarah Witcher's Story
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Rip Van Winkle
Justin Morgan Had a Horse

[Jean in Newcastle]

Our third year booklist:

• Usborne World History “The Last 500 Years”
• “Vasco Nunez de Balboa” - Emma Gelders Sterne
• “Cortes of Mexico” - Ronald Syme
• “Ferdinand Magellan: Master Mariner” - Seymour Gates Pond
• “Magellan: A Voyage Around the World” by Fiona MacDonald
• “Francisco Pizarro: Finder of Peru” - Ronald Syme
• “Cartier: Finder of the St. Lawrence”, by Ronald Syme
• “The Man Who Discovered the Amazon”, by Ronald Syme
• “Francis Drake: Sailor of the Unknown Seas” by Ronald Syme
• “Drake and the 16th Century Explorers”
• “Martin Luther” by Harry Emerson Fosdick
• “A 16th Century Mosque” by Fiona MacDonald
• “The Ninth Jewel of the Mughal Crown- The Birbal Tales from the Oral Traditions of India, Vol. 1" by James Moseley
• “The Taj Mahal: How and Why it was Built” by Christine Moorcroft
• “The Hawk that Dare not Hunt by Day” by Scott O’Dell
• “Henry VIII” by Dorothy Turner
• “The Royal Diaries: Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor” by Kathryn Lasky
• “The Spanish Armada” by C. Walter Hodges
• “Magnifications: A Shakespearean Theater” by Jacqueline Morley and John James
• “William Shakespeare’s The Tempest” retold by Brian Coville
• “William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream” retold by Brian Coville
• “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” retold by Brian Coville
• “William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night” retold by Brian Coville
• “William Shakespeare’s Macbeth” retold by Brian Coville
• “William Shakespeare’s Hamlet” retold by Brian Coville
• “The Play’s the Thing: A Story about William Shakespeare” by Ruth Turk
• “Little Pilgrim’s Progress” by Helen L. Taylor
• “The Tinker’s Daughter” by Wendy Lawton
• “Stink Alley” by Jamie Gilson
• “The Magic Flute”, retold by Anne Gatti
• “Hana in the Time of the Tulips”, by Deborah Noyes
• “Johannes Vermeer” by Mike Venezia
• “Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: First to See Microscopic Life”, by Lisa Yount
• “Rembrandt” by Xavier Niz
• “Little Salt Lick and the Sun King” by Jennifer Armstrong
• “The King’s Day: Louis XIV of France” by Aliki
• “The Honest Woodman” by La Fontaine, My Book House, vol. 3
• “Discovering Nature’s Laws: A Story about Isaac Newton”
• “William Harvey: Discoverer of How Blood Circulates” by Lisa Yount
• “Johannes Kepler: Discovering the Laws of Planetary Motion” by Mary Gow
• “Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Moscow” by Patricia Toht, p. 24 (Ivan the Terrible)
• “Peter the Great”, by Diane Stanley
• “Christening the Baby in Russia” by Arthur Ransome, My Book House, vol. 4
• “Russian Rhymes”, My Book House, vol. 1
• “Russian ABC: Featuring Masterpieces from the Hermitage, St. Petersburg” by Florence Cassen Mayers
• “Francisco Coronado and the Seven Cities of Gold” by Ronald Syme
• “De Soto: Finder of the Mississippi” by Ronald Syme
• “Champlain of the St. Lawrence” by Ronald Syme
• “Henry Hudson” by Ronald Syme
• “Marquette and Joliet: Voyagers on the Mississippi”
• “La Salle of the Mississippi” by Ronald Syme
• “John Smith of Virginia” by Ronald Syme
• “Margaret Pumphrey’s Pilgrim Stories” revised by Elvajean Hall
• “William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania” by Ronald Syme
• “Life in New Amsterdam” by Laura Fischer
• “Exploring the Wilderness: the story of Daniel Boone” My Book House, vol. 9
• “Shingebiss: A Chippewa Indian Tale”, My Book House, vol. 2
• “Hiawatha’s Childhood” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, My Book House, vol. 5
• “Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams” by Avi
• “The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings”, retold by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, My Book House, vol. 2
• “A Story about the Little Rabbits”, retold from the story by Joel Chandler Harris, My Book House, vol. 3
• “How Brer Rabbit Met Brer Tar Baby”, an American Negro Folk Tale, My Book House, vol. 4
• “A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet” by Kathryn Lasky
• “Vancouver: Explorer of the Pacific Coast” by Ronald Syme
• “Captain Cook: Pacific Explorer” by Ronald Syme
• “The Fisherman Who Caught the Sun”, a Hawaiian Island, My Book House, vol. 6
• “A Boy in the Island of Bali”, My Book House, vol. 2
• “The Turtle Who Could Not Stop Talking”, an East Indian Tale, My Book House, vol. 2
• “The Ballad of East and West”, Rudyard Kipling, My Book House, vol. 9
• “The Boston Tea Party” by Steven Kroll
• “The Journey of the One and Only Declaration of Independence” by Judith St. George
• “George Washington: The First President” by Carin T. Ford
• “George Washington and the First American Flag”, My Book House, vol. 5
• “George Washington’s Rules of Civility”, The Book of Virtue
• “John Paul Jones”, My Book House, vol. 8
• “Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles”, by Katheryn Lasky
• “The Sleeping Beauty”, My Book House, vol. 6
• “The Acorn and the Pumpkin”, by La Fontaine, My Book House, vol. 7
• “The Nuremberg Stove” by Louise de la Ramee, My Book House, vol. 5
• “Snow White and Rose Red”, the Brothers Grimm, My Book House, vol. 4
• “Hansel and Grethel”, the Brothers Grimm, My Book House, vol. 4
• “The Golden Bird”, a German Fairy Tale, My Book House, vol. 7
• “The Shoemaker and the Elves”, a German Folk Tale, My Book House, vol. 3
• “The Little Girl and the Hare”, by the Brothers Grimm, My Book House, vol. 3
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses”, a German Folk Tale, My Book House, vol. 4
• “More than a Queen: The Story of Josephine Bonaparte” by Frances Massiker
• “My Napoleon” by Catherine Brighton
• “Cinderella”, My Book House, vol. 4
• “Pigling and her Proud Sister”, (a Korean Cinderella story) My Book House (Through Fairy Halls)
• “Rhodopis and Her Gilded Sandals”, (the first Cinderella story - Egyptian) My Book House, vol. 7
• “The Chimney Sweep’s Ransom: John Wesley” by Dave & Neta Jackson
• “The Industrial Revolution” by Andrew Langley
• “Ms. Frizzle’s Adventures: Imperial China” by Joanna Cole
• “Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams” by Ann Tompert
• “The Jade Horse, the Cricket and the Peach Stone” by Ann Tompert
• “Himeji Castle: Japan’s Samurai Past”, by Jacqueline Ball
• “The Fool and the Phoenix: A Tale of Old Japan” by Deborah Nourse Lattimore
• “Basho and the River Stones” by Tim Myers
• “The Moon Maiden”, a Japanese Folk Tale, My Book House, vol. 6
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[Stacey in MA]

Great suggestions....thanks for taking the time to respond, ladies.

Holy moly, Jean! What a big list! You go, girl! Are they all novels? or just short stories? Anyway, I'm excited to check some out! Thanks for the list....

- Stacey in MA

[Jean in Newcastle]

No, they aren't all novels! For instance, all the ones that say "The Book House, Vol # after them are all stories in The Book House anthologies. Some of the books are picture books. Some are longer chapter books.

[Laura R (FL)]

We used SL 4 for that period and some of my girls' favorites were By the Great Horn Spoon, The Turkey Walk, The Great Wheel, Across Five Aprils, Moccasin Trail, Helen Keller, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

[Laura R (FL)]

BTW, My 6th grader was assigned Carry On Mr. Bowditch this year and she absolutely loved it!