Recommended Book Lists

Great History Books

(History Maker Bios Collection)
(Great For Young Children and History Starters)


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Abigail Adams                                       Abraham Lincoln                                      Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell                         Andrew Jackson                                        Anne Frank

Anne Hutchinson

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B

Benjamin Banneker                               Benjamin Franklin                                 

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C

Clara Barton                                          Christopher Columbus                               Chief Joseph

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D

Daniel Boone                                         Dolley Madison                                         Douglas MacAuthur

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E

Eleanor Roosevelt

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F

Florence Nightingale                             Franklin D. Roosevelt                                Frederick Douglass

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George H.W. Bush                               George Washington Carver                        George Washington
Geronimo George S. Patton Jr.

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Henry Ford                                            Helen Keller                                                Harriet Tubman 

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Jackie Robinson                                     Jimmy Carter                                              John Adams
John Deere                                             John Hancock                                             Juan Once de Leon
Juliette Low

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Levi Strauss                                           Lewis & Clark                                            Louis Braille

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Marie Curie                                          Matthew Henson                                         Milton Hershey

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Nat Love                                               Neil Armstrong                                           Nellie Bly


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Patrick Henry                                       Paul Revere

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Q

Quanah Parker

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R

Richard Nixon                                     Robert E. Lee                                                Rosa Parks
Ruby Bridges

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Sacagawea                                          Sir Walter Raleigh                                         Sitting Bull
Susan B. Anthony                              Sojourner Truth 

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Tecumseh                                           Theodore Roosevelt                                     Thomas Edison
Thomas Jefferson

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Wright Brothers                                  W. K. Kellogg

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(Childhood of Famous Americans Series)
(Great For Older Children & Research)


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Abigail Adams                                   Abner Doubleday                                          Abraham Lincoln
Althea Gibson                                    Andrew Jackson

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B
Benjamin Franklin                             Betsy Ross

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C
Clara Barton                                       Crazy Horse                                                  Crispus Attucks

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D
Daniel Boone                                      Davy Crockett

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E
Elizabeth Blackwell                          

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F
Franklin Roosevelt

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G
Geronimo

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Harriet Tubman                                  Helen Keller                                                    Henry Ford

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Jackie Robinson                                 Jesse Owens                                                     Jim Henson
Jim Thorpe                                         Joe Di Maggio                                                 John Adams
John Glenn                                         John Muir

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Knute Rockne

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Laura Ingalls Wilder                          Lou Gehrig                                                        Louis Armstrong

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Mahalia Jackson                                Margaret Bourke                                             Mary Todd Lincoln

Martha Washington                           Meeriwether Lewis

Molly Pitcher

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Neil Armstrong

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Paul Revere                                        Pocahontas

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Ray Charles                                       Roberto Clemente                                            Robert E. Lee
Rosa Parks

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Sacagawea                                         Sitting Bull                                                       Sojourner Truth

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Teddy Roosevelt                                Thomas Edison                                                Thurgood Marshall

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Will Clark                                          Wilma Rudolph 

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Great Missionary Book/Christian Heroes

(Trailblazer Books Series)




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A
Adoniram & Ann Judson - Imprisoned in the Golden City
Amy Carmichael - The Hidden Jewel

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B
Barbrooke Grubb - Ambushed in Jaguar Swamp

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C
Charles Loring Brace - Roundup of the Street Rovers
Chief Spokane Garry - Exiled to the Red River

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D
David Livingstone - Escape from the Slave Traders
David Zeisberger (Moravians) - The Warrior's Challenge

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E
Elizabeth Fry - The Thieves of Tyburn Square

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F
Florence Nightingale - The Drummer Boy's Battle
Festo Kivengere - Assassins in the Cathedral
Frederick Douglass - Caught in the Rebel Camp

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G
Gladys Aylward - Flight of the Fugitives
George Müller - The Bandit of Ashley Downs
George Washington Carver - The Forty-Acre Swindle

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H
Harriet Tubman - Listen for the Whippoorwill
Hudson Taylor - Shanghaied to China

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John Bunyan - Traitor in the Tower
Jonathan & Rosalind Goforth - Mask of the Wolf Boy
John G. Paton - Sinking the Dayspring
John Newton - The Runaway's Revenge
John Wesley - The Chimney Sweep's Ransom
Joy Ridderhof - Race for the Record

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Lottie Moon - Drawn by a China Moon

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Martin Luther - Spy for the Night Riders
Marcus & Narcissa Whitman - Attack in the Rye Grass
Mary McLeod Bethune - Defeat of the Ghost Riders
Mary Slessor - Trial by Poison
Maude Cary - Risking the Forbidden Game
Menno Simons - The Betrayer's Fortune

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Nate Saint - The Fate of the Yellow Woodbee

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Peter Cartwright - Abandoned on the Wild Frontier

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Rómulo Sauñe - Blinded by the Shining Path

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Samuel Morris - Quest for the Lost Prince
Sheldon Jackson - The Gold Miners' Rescue

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William & Catherine Booth - Kidnapped by River Rats
William Bradford - The Mayflower Secret
William Penn - Hostage on the Nighthawk
William Seymour - Journey to the End of the Earth
William Tyndale - The Queen's Smuggler




(Heroes Of The Faith Series)


Adoniram Judson – God’s Pioneer by Hull
Alexander Mackay – God’s Engineer by Fahs
Through Flood & Flame by Moore
David Livingstone – The Pathfinder by Mathews


Great Books For Boys

(Ten True Tales Series)

  1. Battle Heroes: Voices from Afghanistan
  2. Combat Heroes: Voices from Vietnam (coming soon)
  3. FBI Heroes
  4. Heroes Of 9/11
  5. Teens At War
  6. Titanic: Survivors
  7. The Rescuers
  8. The Secret Agent
  9. War Heroes: Voices from Iraq
  10. World War II Heroes


(Misc.)


  1. Dangers on the Alaska Trail by H.W. Bailey
  2. Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears by Alex W. Bealer
  3. Red Cap by G. Clifton Wisler
  4. The Mysterious Camel of India by Grace Vernon
  5. The Israeli Oil Well Mystery by Bernard Palmer
  6. The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
  8. The Cat Of Bubastes: A Tale Of Ancient Egypt by G.A. Henty
  9. The Hawk That Dare Not Hunt By Day by Scott O’Dell
  10. Wolf Of The Warpath by Ralph Moody




Great Books For Girls


Ladies

Apples of Gold by Lisa Sampson
Before You Meet Prince Charming by Sarah Mally
Raising Maidens Of Virtue by Stacy McDonald

Pioneer

Hannah of Fairfield by Jean Van Leeuwen
Hannah’s Helping Hands by Jean Van Leeuwen
Hannah’s Winter Of Hope by Jean Van Leeuwen

Native American

Thunder Rolling In The Mountains by Scott O’Dell
Sing Down The Moon by Scott O’ Dell

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