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... like adventure, romance, what?
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare: Set in pre-Revolutionary America.
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes: Historical fiction at the advent of the American Revolution.
Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith or Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Cran ... ... Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb
Joe Gosh by Tom de Haven
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes Independence Day, Richard Ford
Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes
The Parade's Gone By, Kevin Brownlow
George Washington, Joseph Ellis
1776, David McCullough ... What I retained was the difference between historical fiction, which features actual historical people and events such as Johnny Tremain or The Green Glass Sea, and period fiction, which is set in the past, such as Mildred Taylor's books or Long Way From Chicago, but without specific ... ... was going to read The Witch of Blackbird Pond and my mother insisted they make an exception for me, so I had to read Johnny Tremain by myself. Of course, I checked out The Witch of Blackbird Pond from the school library, and read it, and told her it wasn't even about a real witch, so ... When I was a young lad I enjoyed Johnny Tremaine, as much Nancy Drew as I could read, juvenile poetry (Eugene Field, Robert W. Service, James Whitcomb Riley), as many of the Edward M. Pease modern sea-going adventures, Stevenson, juvenile histories and biographies, Penrod novels ... Johnny Tremain
Great Expectations
Yeah, I hated Johnny Tremain for that reason. I didn't like the class or the teacher. In fact, before high school I don't remember liking any of the books assigned in class. They always picked ones that were boring to me. ... I believe I have a problem with sad-for-the-sake-of-sad.
But I also think that making kids read war stories like, say, Johnny Tremain, isn't needed, either. It didn't cause me trauma, I just didn't get into it.
Perhaps I'm just a fan for choice. If, as a teacher/school district (or ... I see you've just started today too.
Johnny Tremain is a great story. When I was in 5th grade, the teacher read us a chapter a day during the spring semester. ... before you choose)
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1. Johnny Tremain
2. Caddie Woodlawn
3. The Bronze Bow
4. Rifles for Watie
5. King of the Wind
6. A Single Shard
7. Shadow of a Bull
8. The Hero and the Cro ... Maybe it just hit me at the right time, back in 8th grade, but Johnny Tremain is probably one of my favorite books of all time. how could I forget johnny Tremain that was one of my favorites in grade school Here are an interesting two to read, side-by-side, one after the other: Johnny Tremain (1943) by Esther Forbes and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: vol 1 The Pox Party (2006) by M.T. Anderson. Both are coming-of-age stories set in Massachusetts in the early 1770s ... ... by Marguerite Henry or Walter Farley
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caddie Woodlawn
Johnny Tremaine
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle
The Boxcar Children
My Side of the Mountain (must have read this one 50 times)
Lois Lenski's books
Louisa May Alcott
... 63. Johnny Tremain
64. My Side of the Mountain ... me?
I can do historical fiction, so long as the fiction is pretty well done. I cut my teeth on James Michener and Johnny Tremain growing up. It depends on how good the fiction is, though. Very often it can feel like being beaten over the head with the history stick. It's almost as ... I think I also read Across 5 Aprils for school. Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam is Dead I think as well, but those may have been earlier... I can't recall. My AP US History had us read The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 to the Present which gave me my first sense of chronology ... # 85
I would recommend Johnny Tremaine for prose and a collection of James Whitcomb Riley for Poetry. I think one of the problems in selecting reading for school aged kids before the 11th grade (age 16 - 17 for our international friends) is that there are many interesting books for boys ... ... a reading family, so I was first enchanted with books by my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Peitz. The three that stay with me are Johnny Tremain, Harriet the Spy (especially Harriet!!) and Charlotte's Web.
As for comic books...well, I used to spend endless summers on a farm in Pennsylvania ... ... Pierce
Raistlin: DragonLance Chronicles by Weis and Hickman
Mairelon: Mairelon the Magician
Johnny Tremain & Rab: Johnny Tremain
When I was in sixth grade I read the first Five Little Peppers book and the Anne of Green Gables books. I remember telling my mother that if I ever had ... ... Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Phantom Tollbooth
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Homer Price
Johnny Tremain
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Johnny Tremain was a favorite of mine when I was a kid. It's about a silversmith apprentice, aged about 14, in Boston. The Newbery YA novel Johnny Tremain for those interested in Boston and the events leading to the Revolutionary War. ... to the 6th grade side go with The Giver.
Historical fiction was (and still is) a big component of middle school. Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam Is Dead are old standbys, but there are many more recent options out there. Here's a good ... Eyre, Silas Marner, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and more modern stuff like Johnny Tremain, Lord of the Flies, and A Day No Pigs Would Die.
On my own, I was reading a lot of Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, C. S. Forester and ...
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