Trade+Books

**On this page students can find a variety of books that can aid in their understanding of history. From non-fiction to historical fiction, there is something for everyone! **
 * Trade Books **



**Revolutionary Books ** Murphy, J. (2007). //The Real Benedict Arnold//. Clarion Books.  --->This thoughtful profile of the man whose name is synonymous with “traitor” forces readers to question Arnold’s reputation  and consider the simplistic manner in which history is often portrayed. Bolstered by Arnold’s letters, writings, and documents of the time.

Shea, P.D. (2007). //Patience Wright: America’s First// //Sculptor and Revolutionary Spy //. Henry Holt and Company.  --->Raised as a Quaker in the 1700s, Patience Lovell Wright became an independent thinker, artist, international entrepreneur,  patriot, and spy. The book traces her development as a wax sculptor, and her contributions to America’s independence.

**Government Books ** Bausum. A.(2007) // Our Country’s First Ladies //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> National Geographic Society. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->Historic essays, fun-fact boxes, quotations, full-page portraits and photographs, and illustrated timelines create fascinating profiles of both the public personas and private sides of First Ladies, from Martha Washington to Laura Bush.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> Jackson, E. (2007) //The Cupcake Thief//. Kane Press, Inc. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->When one student accuses another of stealing his cupcake, the teacher sets the matter for Student Court. This book is filled <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> with examples and definitions that will make your students want to have their own student court to resolve disputes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Morris-Lipsman, A. (2007). //Presidential Races: The Battle for// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Power in the United States //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Twenty-First Century Books. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->Using lively text, political cartoons, photographs, and campaign memorabilia, Morris-Lipsman presents more than 200 years of presidential races—from simple campaigns to stumping, polls, television ads, fundraising, conventions, and controversies.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> Woelfle, G. (2007) //Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer//. Boyds Mills Press Inc: New York. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> --->This story chronicles the life and evolution of America’s first congresswoman. Rankin, who underscored the importance of organizing, waged a tireless fight for peace, women’s suffrage, and social justice.

**<span style="color: #7c080b; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; text-align: center;">Other Books (for later units) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Beller, S.P. (2007). //Battling in the Pacific: Soldiering in// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">World War II: Soldiers on the Battlefront //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Twenty-First Century Books. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->Experience the terrors and triumphs of World War II battles through the eyes of soldiers on the front. Quotations, illustrations, statistics, and sidebars enhance the vivid text. Map of Major Battles of World War II Pacific Theater 1941-1945, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> Chronology of World War II in the Pacific.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Harness, C. (2007) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> //The Remarkable Rough-Riding Life// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Empire America //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">National Geographic Society. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->An all-encompassing biography of the little boy who became a Rough Rider and eventually the twenty-sixth president of <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> the United States. The conversational text, accompanied by pen-and-ink illustrations, makes history fun for any reader.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Lewis, J.P. (2007). //The Brothers’ War: Civil War Voices// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">in Verse //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">National Geographic Society. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->Letters and writings of soldiers and civilians, Northerners and Southerners, the famous and not so famous, as well as <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> pictures and verse, expose the emotional side of war.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Stauffacher, S. (2007). //Nothing But Trouble: The Story of// //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Althea Gibson //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">. Random House <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"> Children’s Books: New York. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> --->Rhythmic prose and vibrant impressionistic illustrations capture Althea Gibson’s rise from her days as a “tomboy” <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> in Harlem to becoming the first African American to compete for and win the Wimbledon Tennis Championship, in <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; text-align: left;"> 1957.