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pumpkinmom
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Posted: Dec 16 2013 at 7:30pm \| IP Logged

I'm working on making a book list for our history for the last half of the school year. We are to the Renaissance era. I need books for my 9 yo and (will be) 13 yo. Mostly looking for independent read so, I would prefer to go under average reading level and avoid too challenging books.

I know I saw a book the other day somewhere about explorers and now I can't remember where I saw it and I didn't save it to my Amazon wishlist.

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Posted: Dec 16 2013 at 9:02pm \| IP Logged

I don't have much time, but I wanted to recommend Jim Weiss' audiobook Masters of the Renaissance quickly. Columbus also lived during the time of the Renaissance. The DAulaire book about him might be good to read. I know that my children like the book.

Was it Columbus and the Renaissance Explorers that you saw?

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Posted: Dec 17 2013 at 2:53pm \| IP Logged

Christine wrote:

Masters of the Renaissance has been added. Thanks! I don't think that was the book I was thinking. I went back to the website I thought I might have seen it and didn't find anything. Still looking.

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Posted: Dec 17 2013 at 5:59pm \| IP Logged

Cassie, one of the books my ds enjoyed at around 10 or 11 was The World's Most Daring Explorers: 38 men who opened up the world

It covers several important explorers of the Renaissance era and also more modern explorers (such as the Polar explorers). It is written in a narrative style with drawings in the margins that reminded me of the Holling C. Holling books (Paddle-to-the-Sea, etc.). Each chapter is a different explorer.

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