7th Grade U. S. History Historical Fiction and NonFiction Tie-ins Native American Culture



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Age of Reform (1830-1850)

Blos, Joan. Brothers of the heart: a story of the Old West from 1837-1838. 1985. Shem spends six months in the wilderness alone with a dying Indian woman, who helps him, not only to survive, but to mature to the point where he can return to his family and the difficulties of life as a person with a physical handicap in a frontier village. Michigan, 1837-1838. Grades 4-6, F&P-, RL


 DeFelice, Cynthia. Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. 1996. Twelve-year-old Lucas Whitaker, orphaned in 1849 when his entire family is claimed by consumption, takes a job as an apprentice with Doc Beecher, and learns the truth about the difference between superstition and science. 1849. Grades 5-8, F&P-U, RL 5.5
 Denenberg, Barry. So far from home: the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish mill girl. 1997. During the potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her Ireland home for Lowell, Massachusetts, where deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of murder force her to rally more courage than she thought she had. Massachusetts, 1845. Grades 5-8, F&P-R, RL 3.5
 Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House. 1997. Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. Minnesota, 1847. Grades 4-7, F&P-T, RL 4.7
 Erdrich, Louise. Game of Sunken Places. Nine-year-old Omakayas and her family, members of the Ojibwa tribe, are forced to leave their island on Lake Superior in 1850 when white settlers move into the territory, and comes to realize that the things most important to her are her home and way of life. Minnesota, 1850. Grades 5-8, F&P-W, RL 5.9
 Erdrich, Louise. Porcupine Year. 2008. Twelve-year-old Omakayas, an Ojibwe girl, draws strength from the land and spirits as she and her family endure numerous hardships in their search for a new home in northern Minnesota in 1852. Minnesota, 1852. Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 5.5
 Fleishman, John. Phineas Gage: a gruesome but true story about brain science. 2002. The true story of Phineas Gage, whose brain had been pierced by an iron rod in 1848, and who survived and became a case study in how the brain functions. 1848. Nonfiction - 921 GAG Grades 7-10, F&P-X, RL 7.5

 Fleischman, Sid. The giant rat of Sumatra. 2005. A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in San Diego in 1846 as war breaks out between the United States and Mexico. California – Mexico, 1846. Grades 5-8, F&P-S, RL 5.1, 5.7


 Fleming, Candice. The Great and Only Barnum: The tremendous, stupendous life of showman P.T. Barnum. 2009. Chronicles the life of showman P. T. Barnum, discussing how he created his legendary circus, the people and events that shaped his life, and the impact Barnum had on the entertainment industry. 1810-1891. Nonfiction - 921 BAR Grades 6&up, F&P-, RL 8.3
 Holt, Kimberly Willis. Water Seeker. 2010. Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he has grown up and has a son of his own. Missouri, 1833-1859. . Grades 5-8, F&P-, RL 4.8
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie. Gifts from the sea. 2003. Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850's, find their lives profoundly changed when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family. Maine, 1850s. Grades 4-6, F&P-X, RL 6.8
 Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the divide. 1983. In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train. 1849. Grades 6-12, F&P-V, RL 6.7
 Myers, Anna. Hoggee. 2004. Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State. Erie Canal, NY, 1830s. Grades 5-7, F&P-W, RL 4.3, 5.0
 Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. 1991. Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s. Lowell, MA, 1840s. Grades 6-9, F&P-V (or U), RL 5.0, 6.5
 Paulsen, Gary. Mr. Tucket. 1994. In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild. Western US. 1848. Grades 6-9, F&P-U (or T), RL 5.5 (This is a series title. Other titles include Call me Francis Tucket, Tucket’s Gold, Tucket’s Home, Tucket’s Ride, and Tucket’s Travels.)
 Watts, Leander. Stonecutter. 2002. In 1835 in rural New York State, apprentice stonecutter Albion Straight relates his experiences when he is hired by the strangely menacing John Good to carve a statue of his daughter. New York, 1835. Grades 6-9, F&P-, RL 6.6

March to the Civil War (abolition, slavery, N/S separation)

 Banks, Sara. Remember my name. 1993. Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838. Trail of Tears. 1838. Grades 4-7, F&P-, RL 4.9


 Bolden, Tonya. Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty. 2013. Examines the Emancipation Proclamation, discussing the steps that led President Lincoln to create the document, how his views changed and how he was to address a divided country. Nonfiction – 973.714 BOL. 1863-. Grades 5-9, F&P-, RL 10.6
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Stealing Freedom. 2001. A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada. 1850s. Grades 6-10, F&P-U, RL 5.6
Clark, Margaret Goff. Freedom Crossing. 1980. When Laura returns to her home in New York after living with her aunt and uncle in Virginia for four years, she discovers that her father and brother are helping runaway slaves escape to Canada. Lewiston, NY. 1890. Grades 5-8, F&P-R, RL 4.6, 6.3
Ferris, Jean. Underground. 2007. Charlotte Brown, a slave who is a maid at Mammoth Cave Hotel in 1839, is drawn to the adventurous spirit of eighteen-year-old tour guide Stephen Bishop, a slave whose knowledge of the Kentucky cave system has given him a measure of freedom, and she hopes her trust in him is not misplaced when she learns that runaway slaves are arriving at the hotel in need of help. Kentucky, 1939. Grades 6-8, F&P-, RL 4.6
Lasky, Kathryn. True North. 1996. Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape. Boston. South, 1858. Grades 5-7, F&P-W, RL 7.1
 Lester, Julius. Day of tears. 2005. Presents an historical fiction written in first-person format that follows Emma, the slave of Pierce Butler, through a series of events in her life as her master hosts the largest slave auction in American history in Savannah, Georgia in 1859 in order to pay off his mounting gambling debts. Savannah, GA. 1859. Grades 6-9, F&P-W, RL 4.4, 5.6
Lyons, Mary E. Letters from a slave girl: the story of Harriet Jacobs. 1992. A fictionalized version of the life of Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of letters that she might have written during her slavery in North Carolina and as she prepared for escape to the North in 1842. North Carolina, Pre1842. Grades 5-9, F&P-X, RL 6.9
Mitchell, Elizabeth. Journey to the Bottomless Pit: the story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth Cave. 2004. In 1838, as the nation struggles with issues of slavery, seventeen-year-old Stephen Bishop serves his master as a guide in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave and spends his free time exploring and discovering new passages and rooms. Grades 4-8, F&P-R, RL 3.4, 4.6
Moses, Shelia P. I, Dred Scott: a fictional slave narrative based on the life and legal precedent of Dred Scott. 2005. A fictional chronicle of Dred Scott's life in slavery and his eleven-year fight for freedom in the nineteenth-century American courts, presented from Scott's point of view. 1846-1857. Grades 4-6, F&P-U, RL 5.5
 Mosley, Walter. 47. 2005. Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom. Georgia, 1832. Grades 7-10, F&P-X, RL 5.2
Paterson, Katherine. Jip: his story. 1996. While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. Vermont, 1855-1856. Grades 5-9, F&P-V, RL 5.5
Paulsen, Gary. Nightjohn. 1993. Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read. South, 1850s. Grades 6-12, F&P-W, RL 4.2
 Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble don’t last. 2002. Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad. 1859. Grades 5-10, F&P-T, RL 4.8, 5.4
 Peck, Richard. The river between us. 2003. During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois. Illinois, 1861. Grades 7-10, F&P-Y, RL 4.7, 6.2
 Rinaldi, Ann. The Blue Door. 1996. When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills. 1880s. Grades 6-9, F&P-X, RL 6.2
Smucker, Barbara Claassen. Runaway to freedom: a story of the underground railroad. 1977. Two young slave girls escape from a plantation in Mississippi and wind a hazardous route toward freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad. Grades 4-8, F&P-T, RL 5.0, 5.5
 Sterling, Dorothy. The Story of Harriet Tubman: the Freedom Train. 1954. Harriet Tubman, known as the Moses of her people, escapes slavery, and then risks her life to bring other slaves to freedom up the Underground Railroad. Nonfiction – 921 TUB Grades 4-6, F&P-T, RL 4.5
 Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 1852. Presents the controversial novel, published in 1852, in which author Harriet Beecher Stowe offers an indictment of the pre-Civil War South through the story of Uncle Tom, an elderly slave who maintains his human dignity in the face of cruelty, suffering, and death. 1850s. Grades YA-Adult, F&P-T, RL 7.5, 9.3
 Turner, Ann Warner. The girl who chased away sorrow: journal of Sarah Nita, a Navaho girl. 1999. Sarah Nita uses her education at the white man's school to write down her grandmother's account of the Long Walk of 1864, during which the Navajo people were driven off their land and forced by soldiers to take refuge in Fort Sumner. New Mexico, 1864. Grades 5-8, F&P-T, RL 5.6, 6.2
 Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1885. Huckleberry Finn, fleeing his drunken father, and Jim, a runaway slave, escape down the Mississippi River on a raft, experiencing many adventures along the way. 1880s. Grades YA-Adult, F&P-Z, RL 5.9, 6.8
 Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 1876. The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the early nineteenth century. 1880s. Grades YA-Adult, F&P-Z, RL 7.5, 8.1
Woodruff, Elvira. Dear Austin: letters from the Underground Railroad. 1998. In 1853, in letters to his older brother, eleven-year-old Levi describes his adventures in the Pennsylvania countryside with his African-American friend Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad. Pennsylvania, 1853. AR-3, F&P-T, RL 5.3


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