In Social Studies, fifth graders focus on U.S. History starting with Native
Americans and ending with the Constitution. Below is a list of historical
fiction books set around the Revolutionary War.
Mrs. Buckner
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz
April Morning by Howard Fast
Away Goes Sally by Elizabeth Coatsworth
Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
Boston Tea Party: A Rebellion in the Colonies by James E. Knight
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
Captain Grey by Avi
Charlotte by Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn
Crossing the Delaware by Louise Peacock
Diary of Anna Green Winslow by Anna Green Winslow
Early Thunder by Jean Fritz
The 18 Penny Goose by Sally M. Walker
Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss
The Fighting Ground by Avi
The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz
I'm Deborah Sampson: a Soldier in the War of the Revolution by Patricia
Clapp
Jack Jouett's Ride by Gail Haley
John Treegate's Musket by Leonard Wibberley
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln & Christop Collier
Katie's Trunk by Ann Warren Turner
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln & Christop Collier
Path of the Pale Horse by Paul Fleischman
Phoebe the Spy by Judith Griffin
The Riddle of Penncroft Farm by Dorothea Jensen
Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley
Sarah Bishop by Scott O'Dell
The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart Holbrook
Toliver's Secret by Esther Wood Brady
Tree of Freedom by Rebecca Caudill
War Comes to Willy Freeman by James Lincoln & Christop Collier
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz
Who is Carrie? by James Lincoln & Christop Collier
Winter Danger by William O. Steele
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by
Christina Gregory
Young John Quincy by Cheryl Harness