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Independent Reading
EASY- The Goat in the Rug
- by Charles L. Blood/Martin Link. MacMillan Publishing, 1990
- Geraldine the goat tells the story of how a Navajo weaver makes a rug.
- Ox-Cart Man
- by Donald Hall. Puffin Books, 1983
- The Ox-Cart Man takes the products of his family's labor to the Portsmouth Market to sell, and the year's cycle begins again.
- Samuel Eaton's Day
- by Kate Waters. Scholastic, Inc, 1993
- Reconstruction of a day in the life of a Pilgrim boy at Plimoth Plantation. Includes Glossary.
- Sarah Morton's Day
- by Kate Waters. Scholastic, Inc, 1991
- Photo essay on a day in the life of a young girl at Plimoth Plantation. Includes Glossary.
- The Shawnees
- by Laurie A. O'Neill. The Millbrook Press, 1995
- This book describes the life and culture of the Shawnees in the 19th century.
- Train Song
- by Diane Siebert. Harper Collins, 1990
- Rhyming text captures the essence of a train rushing on tracks.
- Who Came Down That Road?
- by George Ella Lyon. Orchard, 1992
- A mother answers her child's questions about an old road, going back and back to the misty beginnings of time.
- Abuela
- by Arthur Dorros. Dutton, 1991
- Rosalba and her grandmother fly in Rosalba's imagination above Manhattan, where they comment in Spanish and English on what they see. Glossary is included.
- Colonial People
- by Sarah Howarth. The Millbrook Press, 1994
- Art and text provide a view of the people who made up colonial America.
- Corn Is Maize: The Gift of the Indians
- by Aliki. Harper Collins, 1986
- Explains how corn grows and how Native Americans cultivated it.
- Cotton Mill Town
- by Kathleen Hershey. Dutton, 1993
- Girl enjoys swimming, fishing, berrying, and the like when she visits her grandmother in a southern cotton mill town.
- The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot
- by Alice & Martin Provensen. Puffin Books, 1987
- French aviator makes airplane after airplane until with his eleventh model he succeeds in flying across the English Channel.
- The Hopi
- by Ann H. Tomchek. Children's Press, 1992
- A brief history of the Hopi, describing their customs and beliefs and the changes modern civilization has brought.
- Lucy's Summer
- by Donald Hall. Harcourt Brace, 1995
- Lucy and her sister help mother with farm household chores and with her millinery shop in the front parlor. Lucy and her mother visit Boston.
- Three Young Pilgrims
- by Cheryl Harness. Simon & Schuster, 1995
- Readers experience the settling of Plymouth as seen through the eyes of three young children.
- From Path to Highway: The Story of the Boston Post Road
- by Gail Gibbons. Harper Collins, 1986
- Traces the history of the three mail routes, New York to Boston, from colonial times to the present.
- How My Family Lives in America
- by Susan Kuklin. MacMillan Publishing, 1992
- Three young children explain customs of their families based on a parent's place of birth -- Senegal, Puerto Rico, Taiwan.
- ...If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island
- by Ellen Levine. Scholastic, Inc., 1993
- Fully researched account of immigration via Ellis Island from the 1880s until 1914.
- ...If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620
- by Ann McGovern. Scholastic, Inc., 1991
- Text contains questions and answers about the Pilgrims' voyage and daily lives.
- N.C. Wyeth's Pilgrims
- by Robert San Souci. Chronicle Books, 1991
- Recounts the coming of the Pilgrims to America, with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.
- Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock?
- by Jean Fritz. Coward, McCann & Co., 1975
- This is the story of Plymouth Rock and the sometimes foolish attempts of people to honor it.
Read Aloud and Reference Books
READ ALOUD BOOKS- People of the Breaking Day
- by Marcia Sewall. MacMillan Publishing, 1990
- Wampanoags tell the story of their tribal lives at all seasons. Full of detail and thoroughly researched. Includes glossary.
- The Pilgrims of Plimoth
- by Marcia Sewall. Atheneum, 1986
- Recreates the coming of the Pilgrims to Plimoth and tells the story of their daily lives in the early years.
- From Abenaki to Zuni: A Dictionary of Native American Tribes by Evelyn Wolfson. Walker and Co., 1988 Describes habitats, customs, food, means of travel, and modern descendants of sixty-eight North American Indian tribes.
- The Great Migration: An American Story by Jacob Lawrence. HarperCollins, 1993 Series of paintings, 1940-1941, recording the migration of African Americans from the rural south to the industrial north.