American History for Kids
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Derivation Incognita: A Comprehensive Study into the Peopling of America
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Diogenes Vindex
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 9. 
Rosa sat......: A true story about people who pressed on
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Lucy Erber
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)
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Frank Murphy
4.06 avg rating — 356 ratings 16. 
The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
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Russell Freedman
3.97 avg rating — 1,229 ratings 
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We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
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Kadir Nelson
4.26 avg rating — 4,069 ratings 
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Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq. as Revealed by his Horse
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Robert Lawson
3.97 avg rating — 1,399 ratings 
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Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
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Let It Begin Here!: April 19, 1775: The Day the American Revolution Began
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Don Brown
3.55 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Doreen Rappaport
4.33 avg rating — 12,819 ratings 32. 
Let It Begin Here!: Lexington & Concord: First Battles of the American Revolution (Actual Times, 1) 4.23 avg rating — 116 ratings
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A Girl Named Rosita: The Story of Rita Moreno: Actor, Singer, Dancer, Trailblazer! 4.27 avg rating — 353 ratings
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You Wouldn't Want to Be a Suffragist!: A Protest Movement That's Rougher Than You Expected
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Fiona Macdonald
3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings 
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Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy
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Kate Waters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 472 ratings 38. 
Hedy Lamarr's Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor (People Who Shaped Our World, #4)
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Laurie Wallmark
4.25 avg rating — 603 ratings 41. 
Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl
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Kate Waters
4.01 avg rating — 674 ratings 
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A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859 4.03 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
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I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
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Joyce Hansen
3.94 avg rating — 5,281 ratings 45. 
Dreams in the Golden Country: the Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903
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Kathryn Lasky
3.90 avg rating — 4,918 ratings 46. 
My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
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Ann Rinaldi
3.74 avg rating — 3,564 ratings 47. 
Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 3.97 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl
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Ann Turner
3.78 avg rating — 2,519 ratings 49. 
I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 3.89 avg rating — 2,862 ratings
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Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 4.06 avg rating — 1,822 ratings
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The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941
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Kirby Larson
4.06 avg rating — 2,250 ratings 52. 
Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl 3.88 avg rating — 1,379 ratings
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Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,
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Sherry Garland
3.85 avg rating — 1,647 ratings 54. 
With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 4.15 avg rating — 1,630 ratings
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When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864
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Barry Denenberg
3.60 avg rating — 4,880 ratings 56. 
Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932
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Kathryn Lasky
3.92 avg rating — 3,479 ratings 57. 
A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
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Kathryn Lasky
3.92 avg rating — 2,580 ratings 58. 
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11,288 ratings
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A Journey to the New World: The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
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Kathryn Lasky
3.69 avg rating — 9,444 ratings 60. 
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 3.93 avg rating — 9,058 ratings
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Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell 4.05 avg rating — 8,481 ratings
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Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 4.01 avg rating — 6,921 ratings
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A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 4.18 avg rating — 5,681 ratings
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So Far From Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847
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Barry Denenberg
3.75 avg rating — 5,448 ratings 
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My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
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Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941
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Barry Denenberg
3.85 avg rating — 3,897 ratings 68. 
One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss
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Barry Denenberg
4.04 avg rating — 3,244 ratings 69. 
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
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Karen Hesse
3.69 avg rating — 3,872 ratings 70. 
A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence
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Sherry Garland
3.76 avg rating — 3,163 ratings 
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West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
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Jim Murphy
3.77 avg rating — 2,759 ratings 73. 
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
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Katelan Janke
3.94 avg rating — 2,417 ratings 74. 
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan
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Barry Denenberg
3.93 avg rating — 2,490 ratings 75. 
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 3.83 avg rating — 2,212 ratings
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When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer 3.95 avg rating — 2,004 ratings
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My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
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Jim Murphy
3.75 avg rating — 1,827 ratings 78. 
Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918
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Lois Lowry
3.90 avg rating — 2,725 ratings 79. 
Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, An English Girl in Minnesota 3.67 avg rating — 1,549 ratings
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Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson
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Ann Turner
3.78 avg rating — 1,300 ratings 81. 
All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
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Megan McDonald
3.80 avg rating — 1,348 ratings 82. 
Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1779 4.08 avg rating — 1,418 ratings
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Down the Rabbit Hole, Chicago, Illinois, 1871: The Diary of Pringle Rose 3.68 avg rating — 952 ratings
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A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906
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Judy Blundell
3.79 avg rating — 901 ratings 85. 
Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880
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Susan Patron
3.56 avg rating — 1,006 ratings 
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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653 3.67 avg rating — 2,170 ratings
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A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
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Anne Rockwell
4.13 avg rating — 425 ratings 
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Whispers of War: The War of 1812 Diary of Susanna Merritt
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Kit Pearson
3.80 avg rating — 993 ratings 
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Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman
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Reeve Lindbergh
4.17 avg rating — 150 ratings 93. 
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race 4.44 avg rating — 3,274 ratings
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Meet Josefina: An American Girl (American Girls: Josefina, #1)
by:
Valerie Tripp
3.96 avg rating — 5,620 ratings 
