Ambleside Online Suggested Supplemental History Books

Occasionally Ambleside users request suggestions for extra books to embellish history study. While this is not an exhaustive list of everything we would find acceptable, these are books we find especially worthy of consideration for history supplementation.

year 3

Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Yonge
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink

year 4

Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill [OOP]
Landmark's Swamp Fox of the Revolution not in print
America's Paul Revere by Esther Forbes
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (too easy for year 4?)
Calico Captive (girl interest) or The Sign of the Beaver (boy interest) by Elizabeth George Speare
The Reb and the Redcoats by Constance Savery (British view of revolution)
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Justin Morgan had a Horse, Marguerite Henry

year 5

***Goodbye Mr. Chips by James Hilton, 115 pages
***Rilla of Ingleside (7 of the Anne series) by Lucy Maud Montgomery; shows WWI effects on a community
Winged Watchman Hilda van Stockham
Falcons of France by Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

year 6

The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor deals with racism in the 1930's
Blue Willow, by Doris Gates, dust bowl story- there is another book by this name, in print
MIracles on Maple Hill, by Virginia Sorensen; depression era fiction - sweet, upbeat, nature appreciation
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse - very literary story of a Jewish Immigrant to post WWII America
The Von Trapp Family Singers by Maria Von Trapp
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan - true story of Norwegian children who spirited away gold for the resistance right under the Nazi's eyes
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - WWII based on a true story of the Danish efforts to save the Jews
The Ark by Margo Benary - Isbert refugee family attempts survival in post WWII Germany [OOP]
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth Speare

Note for the advisory - these etexts were suggested as sources for chapters to supplement science.

Great Moments in Science Every Child Should Know
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/preservation/science/moments/cover.htm