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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for Grades 6-8

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1500s
Topic
Native Americans/Canadians | Pilgrims | Roanoke
Geographic Region
United States - America | Virginia
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Lyon’s Roar (The Lyon Saga #1)

Author: Stainer, M.L.Part of a Series: Lyon Saga

Fourteen-year-old Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to Roanoke Island in 1587, their attempt to make a permanent settlement, and Jess’s contact with the Croatoan Indians.

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Lexile/Reading Level
550L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Topic
Pilgrims | Plymouth Rock
Format
Book | Ebook

Pilgrims (Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #13)

Author: Osborne, Mary PopePart of a Series: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker

When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday, they had lots of questions. What was it like to sail on the Mayflower? Why did the Pilgrims choose Plymouth? How did they survive in their new home? What did they really eat at the first Thanksgiving? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts. Filled with up-to-date information, photos, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discovered in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 9-12 Grade & Adult

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
American History | Mayflower | Pilgrims | Plymouth Colony
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Award-Winning Book
Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction
Format
Book | Ebook

Mayflower & the Pilgrims’ New World

Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-12 Grade

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
American History | Mayflower | Pilgrims | Plymouth Rock
Geographic Region
Massachusetts | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

Plymouth Pilgrim, A: William Bradford’s Eyewitness Account of the Mayflower Passengers

Author: White, Donald W.

“An easy to digest contemporary guide to the Mayflower Pilgrims…. a useful companion to the original text, ‘Of Plimoth Plantation.’… The book is excellent.” – Jane Williams (Producer and Director of the documentary film, “Pilgrim Home: In Search of Scrooby Manor”)

“I highly recommend A Plymouth Pilgrim for middle school and high school students. My boys will be reading the book… and I feel blessed to be able to use it as a part of their studies.” – Danika Cooley (homeschooling blogger, and author of When Lightning Struck! The Story of Martin Luther).

This is the dramatic story of the Plymouth Pilgrims as told by an eyewitness to their lives: their persecutions, secret meetings, angry negotiations, religious disputes, savage storms, kidnapping and sabotage, fear and faith, and their desperate struggle to survive. This is William Bradford’s own 400-year-old story, now faithfully updated for today’s readers.

FEATURES OF THIS BOOK:
* Timeline of historical events leading up to the Plymouth settlement.
* Chapter questions for study, discussion, and reflection.
* Maps and illustrations unique to this book.
* Obscure historical references clarified within the text as part of the story.
* The list of Mayflower passengers grouped into families.
* Archaic language paraphrased into a clear first-person account.
* True to Bradford’s original content, convictions, and chronology.

This fresh retelling of the Pilgrim’s true story concludes with their first full year in the New World, thereby encompassing all the events that fascinate us most: from their persecutions in England, to their dangerous ocean voyage, their first encounters with Native Americans, their struggle against sickness and starvation, culminating with their now famous celebration that we call the “First Thanksgiving.”

In this book you will find neither patriotic hero-worship, nor politically correct revisionism. This is the true story of Governor William Bradford, with all his faith, fears, and frailties, but retold in modern language so readers may hear his story the way he might tell it today over a hot cup of tea at your kitchen table.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-10 Grade

Genre/Category
History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Colonialism | Culture and Traditions | Pilgrims
Geographic Region
England | Europe | United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Book

John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise

Author: Aronson, Marc

This carefully researched and insightful account by Sibert medalist Marc Aronson focuses on the intertwined lives of John Winthrop, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Puritan Commonwealth in England. Set against a broad canvas of the turmoil that engulfed Britain in the 17th century, the book examines the clashes of the monarchy and the church with Parliament, which led these two powerful men to take opposite courses. Here is a panoramic view of the period, from elaborate masques to the trial of a heretic, from wars fought against Indians to dramatic battles led by cavalry, from the toppling of a king to the search for the ideal society.
Packed with literary allusions, vivid descriptions of significant events, and a cast of memorable figures, this sweeping account picks up where the highly acclaimed Sir Walter Ralegh leaves off, providing another riveting look at British and early American history. Cast of characters, maps, endnotes and bibliography, Internet resources, timeline, index.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1060L

Genre/Category
Biographies | History | Nonfiction

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Mayflower | Native Americans/Canadians | Pilgrims | Sailing the seas
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Man/Men
Format
Audiobook | Book

Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-but-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony, The

Author: Harness, Cheryl

Say hello to Myles Standish, a fiery man with short legs and an even shorter temper. When he got mad his face turned as red as his hair, earning him the nickname “Captaine Shrimpe.”

It’s a story that has been told for almost 400 years—how a brave band of people set sail on the Mayflower to find a new life in America.

By weaving her chatty, narrative text with her incredibly detailed artwork, award-winning author-illustrator Cheryl Harness makes readers feel as though they are part of the adventure.

Students will discover all sorts of things they never knew before: that a teenage boy almost blew up the Mayflower and that the first Indian the Pilgrims met greeted them in English! They’ll learn more serious things, too: all about why they came, the hardships they suffered, the people they met, and the successes they achieved.

Middle-graders will experience one of history’s great adventures as only Cheryl Harness can tell it.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 3-8 Grade

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Mayflower | Pilgrims
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Girl(s)
Format
Book | Ebook

Mayflower Secret (Trailblazer Books Book 26)

Author: Jackson, Dave and NetaPart of a Series: Trailblazers

Elizabeth Tilley’s parents did not survive the Mayflower’s trip to America, and she is on her own. But what about the secret she has held since the fateful night when William Bradford’s young wife disappeared? Ages 8-12.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 1-4 Grade

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Mayflower | Persecution | Pilgrims | Religious Freedom
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Children
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Stories of the Pilgrims

Author: Pumphrey, Margaret

Beginning with Queen Anne’s visit to Scrooby inn, tells in story form of the everyday life of the Pilgrims in England and Holland, of their voyage on the Mayflower and their adventures in the New World. The Brewster children and other Pilgrim boys and girls are the center of interest. A wonderful book to read aloud in the weeks before Thanksgiving. Suitable for ages 6 and up.

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Lexile/Reading Level
340L

Genre/Category
Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
Holidays | Native Americans/Canadians | Pilgrims | Thanksgiving | Time Travel | Wampanoag
Geographic Region
Pennsylvania | United States - America
Main Character
Children
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Thanksgiving on Thursday (Magic Tree House #27)

Author: Osborne, Mary PopePart of a Series: Magic Tree House

Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series–the Magic Tree House!
It’s a time for giving thanks . . .
when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to 1621 on the first Thanksgiving Day. The Pilgrims ask them to help get things ready. But whether it’s cooking or clamming, Jack and Annie don’t know how to do “anything” the Pilgrim way. Will they ruin the holiday forever? Or will the feast go on?

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Lexile/Reading Level
740L

Genre/Category
Adventure | Fiction | Historical

Historical Time Period
Colonial America
Date
1600s
Topic
American History | Animals | Horses | Mayflower | Pilgrims | Time Travel
Geographic Region
United States - America
Main Character
Boy(s)
Format
Audiobook | Book | Ebook

Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims (Rush Revere #1)

Author: Limbaugh, RushPart of a Series: Rush Revere

Nationally syndicated radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has long wanted to make American history come to life for the children of his listeners, so he created the character of a fearless middle-school history teacher named Rush Revere, who travels back in time and experiences American history as it happens, in adventures with exceptional Americans. In this book, he is transported back to the deck of the Mayflower.

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