April Book Report

Genre: Historical fiction or nonfiction, focus on the American Revolutionary War or Civil War

Directions:

1. Choose a historical fiction or nonfiction book about either the Revolutionary War (1770's) or the Civil War (1860's) that is at your reading level. A variety of average fifth grade reading level books are listed at the bottom of this page. If you are reading above the fifth grade reading level, try a book from the Challenge list. If you are reading below the fifth grade reading level, try a book from the Easy list.
2. Read the book on your own.
3. Create a timeline of the war events discussed in your book, and present it to someone else, or to a group of people. See the Book Report Timeline page for complete directions.

Possible Book Selections:

Average Book List

• The Fighting Ground, Avi
• Dear America: When will this Cruel War Be Over? The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Barry Denenberg
• Patsy's Discovery, Elizabeth Massie
• Patsy and the Declaration, Elizabeth Massie
• Barbara's Escape, Elizabeth Massie
• Dear America: Five Smooth Stones; Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776, Kristiana Gregory
• American Diaries: Mary Alice Peale: Philadelphia 1777, Kathleen Duey
• My Name is America: The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot, Barry Denenberg
• Spies on the Devil's Belt, Betsy Haynes
• Rifles for Watie, Harold Keith
• Betrayal at Cross Creek, Kathleen Ernst
• Retreat from Gettysburg, Kathleen Ernst
• Charley Skedaddle, by Patricia Beatty

• Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes (Newbery Award book)
• The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane
• Across Five Aprils, Irene Hunt
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
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• The Sign Painter's Secret: The Story of a Revolutionary Girl, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
• Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams?, Jean Fritz
• Revolutionary War on Wednesday, Mary Pope Osborne
• Civil War on Sunday, Mary Pope Osborne
• Year of the Sevens: History's Children (1777), Mary Z. Holmes
• Redcoats and Petticoats, Katherine Kirkpatrick