{"id":52,"date":"2009-01-13T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angiewindheim.wordpress.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-01-13T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T17:27:48","slug":"historical-fiction-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Historical Fiction for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During my two years of \u00a0homeschooling Ben and Joe, we read a lot of historical fiction. I adopted the literary-focused American history series from Sonlight Curriculum. \u00a0Reading to the boys every day was probably the best part of the whole homeschooling experience. That being said, a good book made our day and a bad book was incredibly tough on us. And, let&#8217;s face it, some of those &#8220;classics&#8221; are difficult to read because of the complex language and long-winded sentences. I thought it would be useful to compile a short list of books that both taught us about a time period in American history AND entertained us with good writing and a sense of humor. In no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Old Yeller<\/em>, Fred Bipson<\/li>\n<li><em>By the Great Horn Spoon<\/em>!, Sid Fleischman<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Turkey Walk<\/em>, Kathleen Karr<\/li>\n<li><em>The Wright Brothers<\/em>, Quentin Reynolds<\/li>\n<li><em>The Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson<\/em>, Bette Bao Lord<\/li>\n<li><em>Caddie Woodlawn<\/em>, Carol Ryrie Brink<\/li>\n<li><em>The Seventeenth Swap<\/em>, Eloise McGraw<\/li>\n<li><em>Little Britches<\/em>, Ralph Moody<\/li>\n<li><em>The Great Wheel<\/em>, Robert Lawson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few that I really enjoyed. The boys gave them an &#8220;OK&#8221; but they&#8217;re longer and don&#8217;t have as much humor. \u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>J<\/em><em>ohnny Tremain<\/em>, Esther Forbes<\/li>\n<li><em>Carry on Mr. Bowditch<\/em>, Jean Lee Latham<\/li>\n<li><em>Moccasin Trail<\/em>, Eloise Jarvis McGraw<\/li>\n<li><em>Walk the World&#8217;s Rim<\/em>, Betty Baker<\/li>\n<li><em>The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/em>, Elizabeth Greorge Speare<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my two years of \u00a0homeschooling Ben and Joe, we read a lot of historical fiction. I adopted the literary-focused American history series from Sonlight Curriculum. \u00a0Reading to the boys every day was probably the best part of the whole homeschooling experience. That being said, a good book made our day and a bad book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/angie.windheim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}