Heroes and Happenings Extra Book List
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Please be aware some of those books (especially those listed toward the very beginning of the list might be used in other Sonlight levels, or have been used previously in Sonlight and since discontinued. As always, please let me know if you find any errors or broken links, etc.
Volume I
Eric the Red and Leif the Lucky by Barbara Schiller; HBL C
Columbus by Ingrid and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire note; Used to be in HBL D
Follow the Dream by Peter Sis
Encounter by Jane Yolen
Pedro’s Journal–by Pam Conrad; HBL D
Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac
Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims by Clyde Robert Bulla; HBL D
Pocahontas and the Strangers by Clyde Robert Bulla; HBL D
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla; HBL D
Can’t You Make Them Behave, King George by Jean Fritz; Was in HBL D
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes; HBL D
Let It Begin Here by Don Brown
Henry and the Cannons by Don Brown
Guns for General Washington by Seymour Reit; Was in HBL 100
Benjamin Franklin by Ingrid and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin by Jean Fritz; HBL D
How Benjamin Franklin Stole the Lightning by Rosalyn Schanzer
Becoming Benjamin Franklin by Russell Freedman
A More Perfect Union by Betsy and Giulio Maestro
The 4th of July Story by Alice Dalgliesh
Unite or Die by Jacqueline Jules
Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution by Jean Fritz; HBL 100
Big George by Anne Rockwell
Take the Lead, George Washington by Judith St. George
George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz
George Washington’s Teeth by Deborah Chandra
The House that George Built by Suzanne Slade
Revolutionary Friends by Selene Castrovilla
Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation by Peggy Thomas
Worst of Friends by Suzanne Tripp Juryman
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything by Maira Kalman
A Big Cheese for the White House by Candace Fleming
Aaron and Alexander by Don Brown
Eliza by Margaret McNamara
Sequoyah by James Rumford
Dolley Madison Saves George Washington by Don Brown
The Flag Maker by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
An Inconvenient Alphabet by Beth Anderson
Noah Webster: Man of Many Words by Catherine Reef
Dave the Potter by Laban Carrick Hill
The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies
Look up! Bird Watching in Your Own Bedroom by Annette LeBlanc Cate
Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt
River Boy by William Anderson
Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain; HBL 100
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; HBL 400
Gold! Gold from the American River by Don Brown
By the Great Horn Spoon by Sid Fleischman; HBL E
Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors? The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell by Tanya Lee Stone
Dr. Jo by Monica Kulling
Randolph Caldecott: The Man Who Could Not Stop Drawing by Leonard S. Marcus
Moses by Carole Boston Weatherford
Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Freedom Train by Dorothy Sterling; HBL E
They’re Off by Cheryl Harness
Riding the Pony Express by Clyde Robert Bulla; Readers 3
Riders of the Pony Express by Ralph Moody
Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman
Abraham Lincoln by Edgar and Ingrid D’Aulaire
Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books by Kay Winters
Lincoln Tells a Joke by Kathleen Krull
Lincoln and Grace by Steve Metzger
How Kate Warne Saved President Lincoln by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
Abraham Lincoln Comes Home by Robert Burleigh
He Has Shot the President by Don Brown
Abraham Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman; Was in HBL E
Thank You, Sarah by Laurie Halse Anderson
Elizabeth Leads the Way by Tayna Lee Stone
I Could Do That by Linda Arms White
Coolies by Yin
Ten Mile Day by Mary Ann Fraser
Locomotive by Brian Floca
Dragon’s Gate by Laurence Yep; HBL 100
A Band of Angels by Deborah Hopkinson
Shoes for Everyone by Barbara Mitchell
Extra Resources:
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626 by Gary Bowen
The Pilgrims of Plimoth by Marcia Sewall
The Boy Who Fell Off the Mayflower by P. J. Lynch
Thanksgiving at Plymouth Plantation by Diane Stanley
Who’s That Stepping on Plymouth Rock by Jean Fritz
Never Forgotten by Patricia McKissack
Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
Thy Friend, Obadiah by Brinton Turkle
Obadiah the Bold by Brinton Turkle
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution by Kay Moore
The Ride by Kitty Griffin
Can’t You Make them Behave, King George by Jean Fritz; Was in HBL D
Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle
We the People: The Constitution of the United States by Peter Spier
Tricking the Tallyman by Jacqueline Davies
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock
Tree in the Trail by Holling Clancy Holling; Was in HBL D
The Desert is Theirs by Byrd Baylor
Between Earth and Sky by Joseph Bruchac
The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal by Cheryl Harness; This one is oddly enough in HBL K
What Miss Mitchell Saw by Hayley Barrett
A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac
No Small Potatoes by Tonya Bolden
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett by Steven Kellogg
The Giant of Seville by Dan Andreasen
Going West by Jean Van Leeuwen
The Buffalo Storm by Katherine Applegate
Apples to Oregon by Deborah Hopkinson
The Blizzard by Betty Ren Wright
Lightship by Brian Floca
The Drinking Gourd by F.N. Monjo; Was in HBL D
Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende and Harry Devlin
Seabird by Holling Clancy Holling; Was in HBL F
Aunt Minnie McGranahan by Mary Skillings Prigger
The Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchac
Crazy Horse’s Vision by Joseph Bruchac
So Tall Within by Gary D. Schmidt
Only Passing Through by Anne Rockwell
Words Set Me Free by Lesa Cline-Ransome
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkings by Barbara Kerley
From Slave to Soldier by Deborah Hopkinson
The Silent Witness by Robin Friedman
The Last Brother by Trinka Hakes Noble
Emily by Michael Bedard
The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter by Bonnie Christensen
They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
Volume II
A Wizard from the Start: The Incredible Boyhood and Amazing Inventions of Thomas Edison by Don Brown
Inventing the Future; A Photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Marfe Ferguson Delano
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins; Was in HBL E
Mr. Ferris and His Wheel by Kathryn Gibbs Davis
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson; HBL E
Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
The Story of the Statue of Liberty by Betsy and Guilio Maestro
A Weed is a Flower by Aliki
A Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David A. Adler
George Washington Carver (photobiography) by Tonya Bolden
Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson
Teedie: The Story of Young Teddy Roosevelt by Don Brown
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz
Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson by Deborah Hopkinson
The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkins
Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein by Don Brown
Last City: The Discovery of Machu Picchu by Ted Lewin
Fearless Flyer by Heather Lang
Ruth Law Thrills a Nation by Don Brown
A Splash of Red by Jen Bryant
Home Run by Robert Burleigh
Journey to Ellis Island by Carol Bierman
All the Way to America by Dan Yaccarino
The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischmann
When Jessie Came Across the Sea by Amy Hest
Fiona’s Lace by Patricia Polacco
Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say
Bobbie the Wonder Dog by Tricia Brown
Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda by Alicia Potter
A River of Words by Jen Bryant
The Navajo Code Talkers by J. Patrick Lewis
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (although I do wonder if they meant Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker’s Story by the same author?)
Ballet for Martha by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge
Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark
Rosa by Nikkie Giovanni
Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds
Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman; HBL 100
Martins’ Big Words by Doreen Rappaport
I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop by Alice Fate Duncan
I Have a Dream by Margaret Davidson
Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta
A Time to Act by Shana Corey
One Giant Leap by Don Brown
Margaret and the Moon by Dean Robbins
Team Moon: How 40,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmish
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein
How to Build a Hug: Temple Grandin and Her Amazing Squeeze Machine by Amy Guglielmo
The Peace Tree from Hiroshima: The Little Bonsai with a Big Story by Sandra Moore
Additional Resources for Volume II
Jim Thorpe’s Bright Path by Joseph Bruchac
Miss Rumphius by Barabara Cooney
John Phillip Duck by Patricia Polacco
The 5000-Year Old Puzzle by Claudia Logan
Peppe the Lamplighter by Elisa Bartone
Brave Girl by Michelle Markel
All Stations! Distress! by Don Brown
The Amazing Collection of Joey Cornell by Candace Fleming
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
Flight by Robert Burleigh
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge by Hildegarde H. Swift
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling Clancy Holling; Was in HBL D
Next Year by Ruth Vander Zee
The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
Potato: A Tale from the Great Depression by Kate Lied
Mississippi Morning by Ruth Vander Zee
Brothers at Bat by Audrey Vernick
Duke Ellington by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Night Flight by Robert Burleigh
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Munoz Ryan
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle
Erika’s Story by Ruth Vander Zee
Let the Celebrations Begin! By Margaret Wild
Eli Remembers by Ruth Vander Zee
Hedy’s Journey by Michelle Bisson
Lily’s Victory Garden by Helen L. Wilbur
Nim and the War Effort by Milly Lee
Coming on Home Soon by Jacqueline Woodson
The United States vs. Jackie Robinson by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
The Quiet Place by Sarah Stewart
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Tomas and the Library Lady by Pat Mora
The Castle on Hester Street by Linda Heller
Watch out for Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie DePaola
Testing the Ice by Sharon Robinson
Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! By Jonah Winter
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World by Laurie Lawlor
Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull
Goin’ Someplace Special by Patricia C. McKissack
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
White Water by Michael S. Bandy
When Clay Sings by Byrd Baylor
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles
The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson
Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Apple Pie 4th of July by Janet S. Wong
Always With You by Ruth Vander Zee
Adrift at Sea by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
The Wall by Eve Bunting
Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
This is My Home, This is My School by Jonathan Bean
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting
Working Cotton by Sherley Anne Williams
Radiant Child by Javaka Steptoe
Going Home by Eve Bunting
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Brothers in Hope by Mary Williams
America is Under Attack by Don Brown
Saved by the Boats by Julie Gassman
Creekfinding by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
How Do You Raise a Raisin by Pam Munoz Ryan
If America Were a Village by David J. Smith
A Different Pond by Bao Phi
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
