Reading Recommendations

American Revolution Nonfiction – Middle Grade and Young Adult

• The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin
• Spies, Soldiers, Couriers, & Saboteurs: Women of the American Revolution by K.M. Waldvogel
• George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War by Thomas B. Allen
• An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of the American War of Independence 1775-1783 by Digby Smith and Kevin F. Kiley

Fiction – American Revolution (YA and Middle Grade)

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
• Seeds of American Trilogy: Chains, Forge, and Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
• Sophia’s War by Avi
• Woods Runner by Gary Paulson
• The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood (Alternative History)
• The Secret Mission of William Tuck by Eric Pierpoint
• The King’s Broad Arrow by Kathryn Goodwin Tone
• Patriot Kids of the American Revolution series by Geoff Baggett
• Susanna’s Midnight Ride by Libby McNamee
• Rebel Mechanics by Shanna Swendson (Steampunk series)

American Revolution Nonfiction – Adult

• Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution’s Lost Hero by Christian Di Spigna
• The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis
• Bunker Hill, Valiant Ambition, and In The Hurricane’s Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Forgotten Allies: The Oneida Indians and the American Revolution by Joseph T. Glatthaar and James Kirby Martin
• Benedict Arnold’s Navy: The Ragtag Fleet that Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain by Won the American Revolution by James L. Nelson
• Saratoga: Turning Point of America’s Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum
• Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose
• Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War by Edwin G. Burrows

Fiction – Everything Else – 10 of Erin’s favorite YA and Middle Grade authors (in no particular order – they are all excellent!)

• Gary D. Schmidt
• Tirzah Price
• Gareth Nix
• Abigail Hing Wen
• V.E. Schwab
• A.S. King
• Gerald Morris
• Holly Black
• Alan Gratz
• Jason Reynolds