State Librarian: American Revolution Summer Reading

Your State Librarian is often asked, “What can I get my children to read this summer regarding the American Revolution?” This excellent list is compiled and published by the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. Please share wherever you encounter children who read… or should.

READ, the Revolution is for all ages. 

7th Grade and Up

  • Liberty’s Children: Stories Of Eleven Revolutionary War Children, by Scotti McAuliff Cohn
  • Outrageous Women of Colonial America, by Mary Rodd Furbee
  • George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War, by Thomas B. Allen
  • George Washington: The Crossing, by Jack E. Levin
  • It Happened in the Revolutionary War, by Michael R. Bradley
  • Hamilton and Peggy!: A Revolutionary Friendship, by L.M. Elliot
  • Soldier’s Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson, by Sheila Solomon Klass
  • The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party, by M.T. Anderson
  • Gross Facts About the American Colonies, by Mira Vonne
  • Crogan’s Loyalty, by Chris Schweizer
  • The Split History of the American Revolution: A Perspectives Flip Book, by Michael Burgan
  • Patriots and Redcoats: Stories of American Revolutionary War Leaders, by Steven Otfinoski
  • Night of Rebellion!: Nickolas Flux and the Boston Tea Party, by Nel Yomtov
  • Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution, by Roxane Orgill
  • Remember Valley Forge: Patriots, Tories, and Redcoats Tell Their Stories, by Thomas B. Allen

3rd to 6th Grade

  • I Survived the American Revolution, 1776, by Lauren Tarshis
  • The Story of the Star-Spangled Banner, by Ryan Jacobson
  • Yankee Doodle Alphabet, by Wendell Minor
  • A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, by Lynne Cheney
  • Gunpowder and Tea Cakes: My Journey with Felicity, by Kathleen Ernst
  • The Boston Tea Party, by Rebecca Paley
  • Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag, by Ann Weil
  • Privateer’s Apprentice, by Susan Verrico
  • Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak: The Outbreak of the Boston Tea Party Told from Multiple Points-of-View!, by Kay Winters
  • Fight for Freedom: The American Revolutionary War, by Benson Bobrick
  • DK Eyewitness Books: American Revolution, by Stuart Murray
  • Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher, by Jon Meacham
  • Sybil Ludington: Revolutionary War Rider, by E.F. Abbott
  • The Thrifty Guide to the American Revolution, by Jonathan W. Stokes
  • Voices of the American Revolution: Stories from the Battlefields, by Lois Miner Huey
  • The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure, by Elizabeth Raum
  • If You Lived In Colonial Times, by Ann McGovern
  • Washington’s War, by Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon
  • Revolutionary Rogues: John André and Benedict Arnold, by Selene Castrovilla

Preschool – 2nd Grade

  • The Biggest (And Best Flag That Ever Flew), by Rebecca Jones
  • Our American Flag, by Mary Firestone
  • The Rocket’s Red Glare, by Peter Alderman
  • God Bless America: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin, by Adah Nuchi
  • I Visit the Liberty Bell, by Whitney Hopper
  • Abigail Adams: First Lady of the American Revolution, by Patricia Lakin
  • America: A Patriotic Primer, by Lynne Cheney
  • If You Were a Kid During the American Revolution, by Wil Mara
  • George Washington’s Teeth, by Deborah Chandra
  • Sam the Minuteman, by Nathaniel Benchley
  • I am George Washington, by Brad Meltzer

Have fun reading this summer.

Linda Winthers
State Librarian
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