Historical fiction/non-fiction book recs for Grade 5 boy
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| My 11 yo son said he was getting more interested in history-any recs on books? fiction or nonfiction are both fine. Looking for something more advanced than Magic Treehouse and the “who was…?” series. |
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My Brother's Secret is set in Nazi Germany
The Breadwinner is set in Afghanistan Both are very good in terms of writing and historical info |
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| Alan Gratz |
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Neal Bascomb has several good books. The ones I've seen are nonfiction
My son has read the Great Escape https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Escape-Greatest-Breakout-Scholastic-ebook/dp/B078TJL7PX/ref=mp_s_a_1_9?crid=1KWG74ZDHKJGI&keywords=neal+bascomb+books&qid=1683456776&sprefix=neal+bas%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-9 He's now reading Race of the Century https://www.amazon.com/Race-Century-Battle-Four-Minute-Scholastic/dp/1338628461/ref=mp_s_a_1_16?crid=1KWG74ZDHKJGI&keywords=neal+bascomb+books&qid=1683456776&sprefix=neal+bas%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-16 |
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Victory by Susan Cooper - this is an excellent book that I highly recommend. It interweaves the stories of a young boy in the British navy, caught up in the middle of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War, and a modern girl struggling with changes in her own life
Ben and Me is a step more advanced than Magic Treehouse, but might still be a little juvenile. Biographies tend to be good because they present history from a personal perspective. Here are some Goodreads lists that might be helpful: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/650.Best_Children_s_Historical_Fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/youth-historical-fiction |
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I survived…. Is a lot like magic treehouse but for older kids.
Alan Gratz is great |
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Dear America/Dear Canada for historical fiction set in North America about kids his age
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper, and The Players and Rebels by Antoina Forest for Shakespeare-era historical fiction The Sky is Falling by Kit Pearson for WWII war guests in Canada Quest for a Maid by Frances Mary Hebert, Juniper/Wise Child by Monica Furlong, The Moorchild Eloise McGraw for medieval UK with fantasy elements Number the Stars/Devil’s Arithmetic/Code Name Verity for increasingly traumatic Holocaust/WWII YA — use your own judgement as to when to suggest these to your child |
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| Mary Renault for classical Greece/Rome — some of the historical accuracy is a trifle dated though. Good writing/good stories nonetheless. |
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Winnetou by Karl May. First 40 pages are a little slow, but once it gets to Old Shatterhand it gets going.
The Horatio Hornblower series by C.S. Forester Several of the James Michener books. The first hundred pages or so are sometimes snoozefests as he gets into the geological beginnings of Texas or Poland or the Chesapeake, but once there are actually people in the story the books tend to gallop along. |
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| Avi is great for this |
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my 5th grader read the Breadwinner in school. She also enjoyed reading Malala |
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| That's exactly the age when I read and loved Johnny Tremain. |
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| The Power of One is intense drama. It will grow him up. |
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| If interested in graphic novels, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales are very engaging and generally accurate, with most inaccuracies addressed either in the story or mentioned in the appendices. |
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https://www.yearroundhomeschooling.com/teaching-history-living-books/ |