Historical Fiction and Nonfiction

[kirchara]

Here is a list of historical fiction and nonfiction books that M read and enjoyed in third grade and fourth grade:
(The list is chronological by time setting)

1. Sees Behind Trees (Powhatan, 16th century America/post-Columbus)
2. The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano (18th century, nonfiction, based on Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography)
3. I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl (1865, post-Civil War)
4. Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (1870s, sugar plantation, Chinese laborers, Louisiana)
5. Hidden Figures (1930s to 1960s, nonfiction, Black women in NASA)
6. They Called Us Enemy (1940s, graphic novel autobiography, Japanese American internment camps)
7. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1950s, post-Hiroshima, short nonfiction, based on the life of Sadako Sasaki)
8. The Watsons Go to Birmingham (1963, Civil Rights movement, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing)
9. Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom (1965, short nonfiction, Selma Voting Rights march)

Promising, not read yet: Troublemaker by John Cho (1992, L.A. Riots)

Seven of the above nine books we read as part of the Oh Freedom US history curriculum.

Comments

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl

[kirchara]

https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/dear-america-i-thought-my-soul-would-rise-and-fly-9780439445733.html

[kirchara]

He read Louise Erdrich's "The Birchbark House," "Bud, not Buddy" and John Cho's "Troublemaker" at age 11/fifth grade.

He read "The Game of Silence" (the sequel to "The Birchbark House") in third grade, but he seems to enjoy the first book more.

[kirchara]

The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (The Ojibwe community beginning in 1847, smallpox epidemic).

https://birchbarkbooks.com/collections/young-readers/products/the-birchbark-house