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7th Grade American History Reading List

The books below are suggestions for what would go well with our content in each chapter. Students are required to read at least one book shown below each 10 week marking period or an approved book from another source. Please use the book review guidelines found on the link at the bottom of this page.

Educational Reading
Click on the book title for more info	Rating	Difficulty
18th Century Clothing by Bobbie Kalman		Challenging
A Boy's Will by Erik Christian Haugaard		Average
A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution by Betsy Maestro		Easy Reading
An Enemy Amoung Them by Deborah H. Deford & Harry S. Stout		Average
Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the U.S. by Rebecca Stefoff		Average
Andrew Jackson: Young Patriot by George Stanley		Easy Reading
Battles of the War of 1812 by Diane & Henry Smolinski		Average
Benjamin Franklin: American Statesman, Scientist & Writer by Bruce Durost Fish & Becky Fish		Easy Reading
By Secret Railway by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft		Challenging
Calico Bush by Rachel Field		Easy Reading
California Indian Days by Diana Noonan & Keith Olsen		Average
Columbus: 1500-1620 by Betsy Maestro		Average
Cultures Collide: Native Americans & Europeans, 1492-1700 by An Rossi		Easy Reading
Elizabeth Blackwell: The First Woman Doctor by Francene Sabin		Challenging
Exploration and Conquest: The Americas After by Betsy Maestro		Average
Five Smooth Stones: Hope's Diary by Kristiana Gregory		Easy Reading
George Washington by Genevieve Foster		Average
George Washington and the Founding of a Nation by Albert Marrin		Challenging
God and Government: The Separation of Church and State by Ann E. Weiss		Challenging
Heart of a Jaguar by Marc Talbert		Average
Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley		Average
I'm Deborah Sampson by Patricia Clapp		Average
Ikwa of the Mound-Builder Indians by Margaret Zehmer		Easy Reading
In the Middle Colonies by Deborah Kent		Average
Lost in Death Valley: The True Story of Four Families in California's Gold Rush by Connie Goldsmith		Average
Montzuma and the Fall of the Aztecs by Eric A. Kimmel		Challenging
Our Congress by Michael Weber		Average
Our Constitution by Hal Marcovitz		Average
Patsy and the Declaration by Elizabeth Massie		Average
Pilgrim Times by Kate Waters		Easy Reading
Redcoat in Boston by Ann Finlayson		Average
Samuel Adams by Veda Boyd Jones		Challenging
Send One Angel Down by Virginia Frances Schwartz		Easy Reading
Sojourner Truth: Voice for Freedom by Kathleen Kudlinski		Average
Soldiers of the French and Indian War by Diane Smolinski		Average
The Age of Exploration by Sarah Flowers		Challenging
The Architects by Leonard Everett Fisher		Average
The Articles of Confederation by Karen Price Hossell		Average
The Charm of the Bear Claw Necklace by Margaret Zehmer		Average
The Cherokee: An Independent Nation by Anne M. Todd		Average
The Colonies by Rebecca Stefoff		Average
The Double Life of Pocahontas by Jean Fritz		Challenging
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper		Easy Reading
The Mexican War: "Mr. Polk's War" by Charles W. Carey		Average
The Renaissance by Paul Johnson		Challenging
The Secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi		Easy Reading
The Seekers by Ellis Dillon		Average
The Serpent Never Sleeps by Scott O'Dell		Average
The Story of the Salem Witch Trials by Zachary Kent		Challenging
The Travels of Marco Polo by Mary Hull		Challenging
The War of 1812 by Don Nardo		Challenging
The War of 1812: We Have Met the Enemy and They Are Ours by Karen Clemens Warrick		Average
The World's Greatest Explorers by William Scheller		Easy Reading
The Young United States: 1783 to 1830 by Edwin Tunis		Average
These Lands Are Ours: Tecumseh's Fight for the Old Northwest by Kate Connell		Easy Reading
Thomas Jefferson: Third President of the U.S. by Rebecca Stefoff		Average
True North by Kathryn Lasky		Average
War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Collier		Average
What Shall We Do With the Land? by Laurence Pringle		Challenging
Who Came First? New Clues to Prehistoric Americans by Patricia Lauber		Challenging
Who Comes With Cannons? by Patricia Beatty		Easy Reading
Who is Carrie? by James Collier & Christopher Collier		Average
Why Not, Layette? by Jean Fritz		Challenging
Worlds Apart by Kathleen Karr		Average

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