Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius
Help your child love history with these books!
General History:
- The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child (4 volumes) by Susan Wise Bauer
- A Child’s History of the World by Virgil M. Hillyer
- History Quest (Pandia Press), first 2 volumes (Early Times, Middle Times) available to the date (2/2021)
- Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (This book has some bias included (informative but wiped away slave trade and biased writing on the Opium War)
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A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
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An Interactive history adventure series
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The Story of People: A first book about humankind (2nd Graders and under)
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A Street Through Time: A 12,000 Year Journey Along the Same Street Reading Level: Q
People in History
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Genevieve Foster series
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Ordinary People Change the World series (3rd Graders and under)
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Little Heroes series (2nd graders and under)
European History
- The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 (The Penguin History of Europe) by Chris Wickham The Penguin History of Europe (7 book series)
- The Story of Civilization series by Phillip Campbell
Fun Reads about History
- Horrible History by Terry Deary
- You Wouldn't Want to series
- What was/Who was series
- I Survived series
- Ranger in Time series
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham–1963
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Guts and Glory series
American History
- Everything You Need to Ace American History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
- A History of US (11 volumes) by Joy Hakim
- The Rainbow Book of American History by Earl Schenck Miers
- The Landmark History of the American People (2 volumes) by Daniel J. Boorstin and Ruth Boorstin
Fun Read about American History
- Steve Sheinkin books
- Rush Revere series
- If you were a kid series (reading level: O)
Encyclopedia
- History Year by Year: The History of the World, from the Stone Age to the Digital Age
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Timelines of Everything
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The New Children's Encyclopedia (Visual Encyclopedia)
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History!: The Past as You've Never Seen it Before
