First Place | Middle School Curriculum
Practical Homeschooling Readers Award
History Makers
MIDDLE SCHOOL
3500 B.C. - Present
Historical Novel Suggestions
The History Makers student will be reading one historical fiction or biography per lesson to acclamate him/her to the time period. This way, as they are studying Scientists, Inventions, and Explorers they will get a feel for what was going on around those remarkable events and people.
Lesson |
Titles |
Authors |
0 |
The Cat of Bubastes |
G.A. Henty |
1 |
Black Ships Before Troy |
Rosemary Sutcliff |
2 |
Children's Homer |
Padraic Colum |
3 |
Detectives in Togas |
Henry Winterfeld |
4 |
Vinegar Boy |
Alberta Hawse |
5 |
Men of Iron |
Howard Pyle |
6 |
Trumpeter of Krakow |
Eric Kelly |
7 |
Call It Courage |
Armstrong Sperry |
8 |
Hawk that Dare not Hunt by Day |
Scott O'Dell |
9 |
Spy for the Night Riders |
Dave & Neta Jackson |
10 |
Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees |
Lensey Namioka |
11 |
Serpent Never Sleeps |
Scott O'Dell |
12 |
Corn Raid |
James Collier |
13 |
Night Journey |
Avi |
14 |
Calico Captive |
Elizabeth Speare |
15 |
Journals of Lewis and Clark |
John Bakeless |
16 |
Streams to the River, Rivers to the Sea |
Scott O'Dell |
15 |
My Brother Sam is Dead |
James & Christopher Collier |
17 |
Amos Fortune Free Man |
Elizabeth Yates |
18 |
Hue and Cry |
Elizabeth Yates |
19 |
By the Great Horn Spoon |
Jim Fleischman |
20 |
With Lee in Virginia |
G. A. Henty |
21 |
Brady |
Jean Fritz |
22 |
Forgotten Heroes |
Clinton Cox |
23 |
Little Town on the Prairie |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
24 |
Jim Ugly |
Jim Fleischman |
25 |
Orphan of Ellis Island |
Elvire Woodruff |
26 |
Angel on the Square |
Gloria Whelan |
26 |
George Washington Carver |
David Collins |
27 |
After the Dancing Days |
Margaret Rostkowski |
28 |
Number the Stars |
Lois Lowry |
29 |
Journey to Topaz |
Yoshiko Uchida |
30 |
Hero of Lesser Causes |
Julie Johnston |
31 |
My name is Sepeetza |
Shirley Sterling |
32 |
Journey Home |
Yoshika Uchida |
33 |
The Return of Gabriel |
John Armistead |
34 |
Boat to Nowhere |
Maureen Wartski |
35 |
Lupita Manana |
Patricia Beatty |
36 |
Goodbye Vietnam |
Gloria Whelan |
37 |
Any Small Kindness |
Tony Johnston |