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Recommended Books by Subject
Social Studies
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Activities for Elementary Social Studies
by James W. Stockard, Jr.
The American Revolution
by Bruce Bliven
Buttons for General Washington
by Peter and Connie Roop
Commander-in-Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
by Albert Marrin
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
My Brother Sam is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
Beyond the Mississippi: Early Westward Expansion
by Angela Herb
A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Behind Rebel Lines
by Seymour Reit
The Kid who Ran for President
by Dan Gutman
Lives of the Presidents: Fame, Shame (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull
Lincoln : A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman (Author)
George Washington's Socks
by Elvira Woodruff
Spring Moon
by Jean Craighead George
September 11, 2001: A Day in History<br />
by Evelyn Block
DK Readers: George Washington -- Soldier, Hero, President (Level 3: Reading Alone)
by Justine Korman, Ron Fontes, Justine Fontes
Abe Lincoln's Hat (Step into Reading, Step 2, paper)
by Donald Cook (Illustrator), Martha F. Brenner
Lisa's Airplane Trip
by Anne Gutman, Georg Hallensleben
The Devil's Arithmetic (a novel about the Holocaust)
by Jane Yolen
World War II Tales
by Bentley Boyd
A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
by Harry Mazer
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