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The Drinking Gourd
F.N. Monjo
Paperback (HarperCollins, Sept. 7, 1983)The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the Underground Railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party—or will the secret passengers be discovered and their hope for freedom destroyed? This Level 3 I Can Read book is a captivating first-person historical fiction account of the Underground Railroad, narrated by Tommy, a ten year-old Quaker boy,. With beautiful, simple prose that folds in historical facts about slavery and the Civil War, this book makes this important period of American history accessible to beginning readers. Includes an afterword from the author F.N. Monjo that explains the historical context of the Fugitive Slave Law. Supports the Common Core Learning Standards
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The sea beggar's son
F. N Monjo
Hardcover (Chatto and Windus, March 15, 1974)Relates in verse the exploits of the Dutch hero, Piet Heyn, whose capture of Spanish ships carrying valuable cargo was instrumental in Holland's overthrow of Spanish rule in the seventeenth century.
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Me and Willie and Pa: The Story of Abraham Lincoln and His Son Tad
F. N. Monjo
Library Binding (Simon & Schuster, Dec. 1, 1973)Written from the point of view of Lincoln's favorite son Tad, this account focuses upon the experiences of the young boy and his family in the White House and events of the Civil War
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Gettysburg: Tad Lincoln's story
F. N Monjo
Hardcover (Windmill Books, March 15, 1976)Recounts the events of the Battle of Gettysburg and the dedication of the cemetery there, as seen through the eyes of Tad Lincoln.
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House on Stink Alley, The
F.N. Monjo
Paperback (Yearling, Oct. 1, 1991)Young Love Brewster describes the experiences of his family and other Pilgrims living in Leyden in the years before the Mayflower sailed for the New World.
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Drinking Gourd: Novel-Ties Study Guide
F.N. Monjo
Paperback (Learning Links, Jan. 1, 1995)Use Novel-Ties ® study guides as your total guided reading program. Reproducible pages in chapter-by-chapter format provide you with the right questions to ask, the important issues to discuss, and the organizational aids that help students get the most out of each book they read.
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Poor Richard in France
F.N. Monjo
Paperback (Dell Yearling, Sept. 15, 1974)Benjamin Franklin's seven-year-old grandson recounts the events of his grandfather's visit to France seeking aid for the revolutionaries in America.
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Porcelain Pagoda
F. N. Monjo
Hardcover (Viking Juvenile, April 26, 1976)As she sails on her father's ship from New York to China in the early nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Kitty describes in her journal the places she sees, the events occurring in them, and the romantic conclusion to the trip.
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Slater's mill
F. N Monjo
Paperback (Simon and Schuster, Jan. 1, 1972)A fictional account of a young English immigrant's efforts to build America's first automated spinning mill entirely from his memory of similar factories and machines in England.
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Indian Summer
F. N. Monjo
Library Binding (HarperCollins, June 1, 1968)A frontier woman struggles to save her cabin and four children from the Indians.
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Sea Beggars Son Tr
F. N. Monjo
Paperback (Penguin Adult HC/TR, Feb. 5, 1975)Relates in verse the exploits of the Dutch hero, Piet Heyn, whose capture of Spanish ships carrying valuable cargo was instrumental in Holland's overthrow of Spanish rule in the seventeenth century.
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Clarence and the Burglar
F. N. Monjo
Library Binding (Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1973)A dog who never growls at strangers meets a burglar in his house.
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