Non-fiction Readings

Founding Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past by Ray Raphael.  This is a book that debunks myths that many people believe about the American Revolution such as the midnight ride of Paul Revere.  The book not only tells the real stories but tells the reader where and why the myths developed and why they carry on.  This book is appropriate for high school readers.

The American Revolutionaries:  A History in Their Own Words 1750-1800 Edited by Milton Meltzer.  The book is a collection of first hand accounts of the American Revolution from the perspective of people across many ages, genders and races who witnessed the Revolution first hand.  Published in 1987 the book won a variety of young adult reading awards.