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Included here are three lists of books: Student Readers are for students in grades 1-4 who can read beginning readers ranging from Level 1-5; Read Alouds are chapter books read aloud to students at about a chapter a day, five days per week; Related Picture Books are for reading aloud to younger students who do not yet have the attention span to listen to chapter books with few pictures.  Most of the picture books, if not all, can be found in the public library.  You may also borrow the readers and chapter books from the library, or you can purchase them.  Links are provided for ordering through SFA's amazon store.  You might also search for used copies at yard sales, used book stores, or online.
1st-3rd Grade Readers
Christopher Columbus (Step into Reading, Step 3)
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The True Story of Pocahontas (Step into Reading, Step 3)
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Pocahontas, an American Princess (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
​Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams (I Can Read Level 3)
​Sam the Minuteman (I Can Read Level 3) 
George the Drummer Boy (I Can Read Level 3) 
The 18 Penny Goose (I Can Read Level 3) 
Red, White, and Blue (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) 
Wagon Wheels (I Can Read Level 3) 
Wagon Train (Penguin Young Readers, Level 3) 
The Josefina Story Quilt (I Can Read Level 3) 
The Long Way to a New Land (I Can Read Level 3)
​Thomas Jefferson's Feast (Step into Reading, Step 4)
Lewis and Clark: A Prairie Dog for the President (Step into Reading, Step 3)
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Sacajawea: Her True Story (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
The Long Way Westward (I Can Read Level 3) 
Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express (I Can Read Level 3) 
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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1st Avenue)
The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (I Can Read Level 3)
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Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln, by Jean Fritz (Penguin Young Readers, Level 4)
Clara Barton: Spirit of the American Red Cross (Ready to Read, Level 3)
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Prairie School (I Can Read Level 4)
Clara and the Bookwagon (I Can Read Level 3)
Helen Keller: Courage in the Dark (Step into Reading, Level 4)
First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers (I Can Read Level 4)
Amelia Earhart: More than a Flier (Ready to Read, Level 3)
Dust for Dinner (I Can Read Book - Level 3)
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Pearl Harbor: Ready to Read Level 3

4th-8th Grade Readers or Family Read Aloud
Brendan the Navigator by Jean Fritz
Viking Adventure (Bulla)
Lief the Lucky (d'Aulaire)
​Columbus by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
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Meet Christopher Columbus (Landmark)
Pocahontas by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire 
In Their Own Words: Pocahontas, by George Sullivan
Pocahontas and the Strangers (Scholastic Biography)
Squanto, Friend Of The Pilgrims (Scholastic Biography)
A Lion to Guard Us
The Courage of Sarah Noble
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain
​Benjamin Franklin by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
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Ben and Me by Robert Lawson

George Washington by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
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Meet George Washington (Landmark)
The Matchlock Gun
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The Cabin Faced West
Toliver's Secret
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A More Perfect Union: They Story of Our Constitution by Betsy Maestro
A New Nation: The United States: 1783-1815 by Betsy Maestro
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​Daniel Boone (Childhood of Famous Americans)
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Meet Thomas Jefferson (Landmark)
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Riding the Pony Express (Bulla) 1860
Meet Abraham Lincoln (Landmark)
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Clara Barton (Childhood of Famous Americans)
​Sarah, Plain and Tall
​Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph (Childhood of Famous Americans)
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Little House in the Big Woods
Farmer Boy (Little House)
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, No 3)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House, No 4)
In Grandma's Attic (Grandma's Attic Series)
What Happened on D-Day?
​A Penny's Worth of Character
Read Aloud Picture Books

North American Indians by Douglas Gorsline
A Picture Book of Christopher Columbus by David A. Adler

Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus by Peter Sis
If You Sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern
The Thanksgiving Story by Dalgliesh*
If You Were at the First Thanksgiving by Anne Kamma
Daniel Boone: Woodsman of Kentucky by John Paul Zronik
If You Lived in Colonial Times by Ann McGovern*                   
The Boston Tea Party by Steven Kroll
Paul Revere’s Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, illustrations by Ted Rand*
The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh*
Winter at Valley Forge: Survival and Victory by James Knight    
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore

The Star-Spangled Banner Illustrated by Peter Spier
How We Crossed the West, by Rosalyn Schanzer                              
Sacajawea, by Liselotte Erdrich
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A Picture Book of Sacajawea, by David A. Adler

Daily Life in a Covered Wagon, by Paul Erickson
Ox-Cart Man, by Donald Hall*
They’re Off! The Story of the Pony Express, by Cheryl Harness
Gold Fever!, by Rosalyn Schanzer
Who Owns the Sun?, by Stacy Chbosky*
Follow the Drinking Gourd, by Jeanette  Winter*
Abraham Lincoln, by Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
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Ten Mile Day and the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad, by Mary Ann Fraser
John Henry, by Ezra Jack Keats
A Picture Book of Davy Crockett, by David A. Adler
Paul Bunyan, by Steven Kellogg
Pecos Bill, by Steven Kellogg
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart*
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler
Boys and Girls of Colonial Days
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