The Civil War

Literature

(Using Picture Books to Teach About the American Civil War)

 

Lesson 1
**Nettie's Trip South
by Ann Turner, Ronald Himler(Illustrator)   
AR Reading Level 3.0 Point Value 0.5

**Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
by Deborah Hopkinson, James Ransome (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8  Point Value 0.5

**Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family
by Dolores Johnson, Delores Johnson (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.6  Point Value 0.5

Freedom River
ByDoreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier(Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.3  Point Value 0.5

Lesson 2
**Follow the Drinking Gourd
by Jeanette Winter
AR Reading Level 4.3  Point Value 0.5

**The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (An I Can Read Book)
by F. N. Monjo, Fred Brenner (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 2.0  Point Value 1.0

Lesson 3
**Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad

by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole, Pamela Duncan Edwards
AR Reading Level 4.0  Point Value 0.5

**Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
by Courtni C. Wright, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.3  Point Value 1.0

**..If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
by Ellen Levine, Larry Johnson (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.9  Point Value 1.0

Lesson 4

Harriet Tubman
**Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman

by Ann McGovern, Richard M. Powers (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8  Point Value 1.0

**Escape North! The Story of Harriet Tubman (Step into Reading, Step 3)
by Monica Kulling, Teresa Flavin (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.6  Point Value 0.5

*Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
By David Adler
AR Reading Level 4.7  Point Value 0.5

Frederick Douglass
*Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery

by William Miller, Cedric Lucas (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.2  Point Value 0.5

*Picture Book of Frederick Douglass
By David Adler
AR Reading Level 4.9  Point Value 0.5

Sojourner Truth
*Picture Book of Sojourner Truth

By David Adler
AR Reading Level 5.5  Point Value 0.5

Lesson 8
**. . . If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln
by Ann McGovern
AR Reading Level 4.4  Point Value 1.0

**Abe Lincoln's Hat
by Martha Brenner
AR Reading Level 2.6 Point Value 0.5

*A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
by David A. Adler
AR Reading Level 3.8  Point Value  0.5

Lesson 9
**...If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
By Kay Moore
AR Reading Level 5.0 Point Value 3.0

**My Brother's Keeper:  Virginia's Civil War Diary
by Mary Pope Osborne
AR Reading Level 4.3 Point Value 2.0

Lesson 10
**Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 1.0

*The Promise Quilt
by Candice F. Ransom, Ellen Beier (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.6  Point Value .5

Lesson 11 Part 1

*Diary of a Drummer Boy
by Marlene Targ Brill, Michael Garland (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.9 Point Value 1.0

**Drummer Boy:  Marching to the Civil War
by Ann Turner, Mark Hess (illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 0.5

*The Blue and the Gray
by Eve Bunting
AR Reading Level 3.0 Point Value 0.5

*A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee
by David A. Adler
AR Reading Level 5.7  Point Value  0.5

Lesson 11 Part 2

**Cecil's Story
By George Ella Lyon
AR Reading Level 1.9 Point Value 0.5

**Red Legs:  A Drummer Boy of the Civil War
by Ted Levin
AR Reading Level 3.9 Point Value 0.5

*The Gettysburg Address
By Abraham Lincoln, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)

*Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln:  The Story of the Gettysburg Address
by Jean Fritz
AR Reading Level 2.9  Point Value  0.5

**Lesson 11 Part 3 Civil War on Sunday
by Mary Pope Osborne

AR Reading Level 3.4 Point Value 1.0

 

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