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Thanks, ladies! This is very helpful, and the recommendations are excellent as well. I hadn't heard of the Ronald Syme books. I think that any of those you've listed, we can get from the library, I probably will, and he will probably inhale them. 
I also plan to make a lot of the heftier books our lunchtime read alouds. They'll never know we're doing school
Also, thanks for reminding me about the Fritz and D'Aulaire type books. I'd been trying so hard to find something that was more like a chapter book on his level, I wasn't really thinking of those books and just assigning a handful of them each term.
I do think that he could do a 5th-6th grade level book narrating slowly as you describe. The hard part will be training him to pace himself and not read ahead, but it seems that's a key aspect of all this.
By your estimation, would Carry On Mr. Bowditch be a good choice for this careful, savored reading all year long? I have plans to do Seabird (Beautiful Feet) stretched throughout the year for geography, and it seems like it would bridge the history and geography well. I haven't read the whole book (though, I've read the Amazon preview--isn't that a tremendous tool for tasks like this?!), but it seems that even though it is quite long, there are also a good number of illustrations peppered throughout.
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Carry On Mr. Bowditch is a fantastic book, and an utterly DELICIOUS book for a boy with all the adventure. (It's a book on my not-to-be missed list and works for a girl or boy, but is ESPECIALLY appealing to a boy!) I *almost* mentioned it, and I wavered. I'd probably put it just outside where he is reading right now, but within the realm of possibility. Nat, the main character, is forced into apprenticeship on board a ship just after the Revolutionary War. At first Nat is very unhappy, but through the book you see a wonderful journey through his own turnaround, and he begins to love his apprenticeship and his duties. If you happen to be learning Latin this year, this book is great for subtly reinforcing that because Nat undertakes a study of Latin all by himself. He studies other subjects on his own in order to better learn the skills needed on board the ship and offers an excellent example of industry and initiative in choosing to learn (very difficult subjects) to better oneself.
This is a book I can recommend for ANYONE - it's a classic and really should be on every shelf, and then if it doesn't fit this year, put it in the rotation another year....ANY year.
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We ARE starting Latin this year, so it really sounds ideal. Maybe I'll try it, just really slowly, and if it proves too much, reconsider it as a read aloud.
Then, I can focus on a list of lots of books WELL within his level for history and a hefty Lunchtime Read Aloud list for the year!
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And, certainly do not forget about the beginning of Mary's Chronological Picture Book Compilation!!!!!
Enjoy some as a family, some as fun-independent-reading....BUT, so many of them are wonderful "assigned and narrated books." Keep them off to the side, so they are savored and narrated the first time around.
17th Century
Pilgrim Cat (Carol Peacock)
Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving (Joseph Bruchac)
People of the Breaking Day (Marcia Sewall)
Pilgrims of Plimouth (Marcia Sewall)
The First Thanksgiving (Jean Craighead George)
The Thanksgiving Story (Alice Dalgliesh)
Hana in the Time of the Tulips (Deborah Noyes) - Holland, tulipmania
18th CENTURY
Colonial, Pre-Revolution:
Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak (Liz Winter)
Yankee Doodle America (Wendall Minor)
Voyageur's Paddle (Kathy-jo Wargin) - French traders, North Woods
French & Indian Wars (1698-1740?)
Malian's Song (Marge Bruchac)
Evangeline (
Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars: 1689-1763 [URL"> (Betsy Maestro)
Malian's Song (Marge Bruchac) - French and Indian War, 1754-68
Revolutionary War:
Fourth of July Story (Alice Dalgliesh)
The Boston Tea Party (Steven Kroll)
The Boston Tea Party (Pamela Duncan Edwards)
Twice a Hero (Dirk Wales) - Polish Heroes
Sleds on Boston Common (Loiuse Borden)
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (Stephen Krensky)
Paul Revere's Ride (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ill. by Ted Rand)
Dangerous Crossing: The Revolutionary Voyage of John and John Quincy Adams (Stephen Krensky)
Samuel’s Choice (Richard Berleth)
The Boston Tea Party(Pamela Edwards)
Let it Begin Here: Lexington & Concord (Dennis Fradin)
Scarlet Stockings Spy (Trinka Hakes Noble)
Sybil’s Night Ride (Karen Winnick)
This Time, Tempe Wicke? (Patricia Gauch)
They Called Her Molly Pitcher (Anne Rockwell)
Katie’s Trunk (Ann Turner)
Phoebe the Spy (Judith Griffin)
When Washington Crossed the Delaware (Lynne Cheney)
Daniel Boone's Great Escape (Michael Spradlin)
Post-Revolution:
The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington's Slave Finds Freedom (Emily Arnold McCully)
Duel: Burr and Hamilton's Deadly War of Words (Dennis Fradin)
Tricking the Tallyman (Jacqueline Davis) - 1790 Census, Colonial
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