Literature
(Using Picture Books to Teach About the American Civil War)
Lesson 1
**Nettie's Trip South
by Ann Turner, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.0 Point Value 0.5
**Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
by Deborah Hopkinson, James Ransome (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 0.5
**Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family
by Dolores Johnson, Delores Johnson (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.6 Point Value 0.5
Freedom River
By Doreen Rappaport, Bryan Collier (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.3 Point Value 0.5
Lesson 2
**Follow the Drinking Gourd
by Jeanette Winter
AR Reading Level 4.3 Point Value 0.5
**The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad (An I Can
Read Book)
by F. N. Monjo, Fred Brenner (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 2.0 Point Value 1.0
Lesson 3
**Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad
by Pamela Duncan Edwards, Henry Cole, Pamela Duncan Edwards
AR Reading Level 4.0 Point Value 0.5
**Journey to Freedom: A Story of the Underground Railroad
by Courtni C. Wright, Gershom Griffith (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.3 Point Value 1.0
**..If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad
by Ellen Levine, Larry Johnson (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.9 Point Value 1.0
Harriet Tubman
**Wanted Dead or Alive: The True Story of Harriet Tubman
by Ann McGovern, Richard M. Powers (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 1.0
*Picture Book of Harriet Tubman
By David Adler
AR Reading Level 4.7 Point Value 0.5
Frederick Douglass
*Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery
by William Miller, Cedric Lucas (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.2 Point Value 0.5
*Picture Book of Frederick Douglass
By David Adler
AR Reading Level 4.9 Point Value 0.5
Sojourner Truth
*Picture Book of Sojourner Truth
By David Adler
AR Reading Level 5.5 Point Value 0.5
Lesson 8
**. . . If You Grew Up with Abraham Lincoln
by Ann McGovern
AR Reading Level 4.4 Point Value 1.0
**Abe Lincoln's Hat
by Martha Brenner
AR Reading Level 2.6 Point Value 0.5
*A Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln
by David A. Adler
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 0.5
Lesson 9
**...If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
By Kay Moore
AR Reading Level 5.0 Point Value 3.0
**My Brother's Keeper: Virginia's Civil War Diary
by Mary Pope Osborne
AR Reading Level 4.3 Point Value 2.0
Lesson 10
**Pink and Say
by Patricia Polacco
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 1.0
*The Promise Quilt
by Candice F. Ransom, Ellen Beier (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.6 Point Value .5
*Diary of a Drummer Boy
by Marlene Targ Brill, Michael Garland (Illustrator)
AR Reading Level 4.9 Point Value 1.0
**Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War
by Ann Turner, Mark Hess (illustrator)
AR Reading Level 3.8 Point Value 0.5
*The Blue and the Gray
by Eve Bunting
AR Reading Level 3.0 Point Value 0.5
*A Picture Book of Robert E. Lee
by David A. Adler
AR Reading Level 5.7 Point Value 0.5
**Cecil's Story
By George Ella Lyon
AR Reading Level 1.9 Point Value 0.5
**Red Legs: A Drummer Boy of the Civil War
by Ted Levin
AR Reading Level 3.9 Point Value 0.5
*The Gettysburg Address
By Abraham Lincoln, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
*Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln: The Story of the Gettysburg Address
by Jean Fritz
AR Reading Level 2.9 Point Value 0.5