November 2009 RFB&D Librarian's Choice Books

In honor of Daniel Boone's birthday in November (November 2, 1734), we're featuring books and lesson plans on Daniel Boone and on frontier and pioneer life.

There are lesson plans for the juvenile books at www.learningthroughlistening.org.

Juvenile Titles

JJ075
Black pioneers: an untold story (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Katz, William Loren. Atheneum Books for Young Readers c1999. 1st ed. [Grade 6 and up].

HY471
Caddie Woodlawn (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Brink, Carol Ryrie. Aladdin Paperbacks 2006, c1963. [Grades 2-7].

JJ898
Dandelions (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Bunting, Eve. Harcourt c1995. [Grades K-3].

GY242
Daniel Boone (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Nemerson, Roy. Baronet Books c1996. [Grades 3-7].

JM179
Daniel Boone's great escape (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Spradlin, Michael P. Walker & Co. c2008. [Grades 2-4].

JH810
Dear Levi: letters from the Overland Trail (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Woodruff, Elvira. Scholastic c1994. Grades 5-8.

HK745
Grasshopper summer (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Turner, Ann Warren. Aladdin Paperbacks 2000, c1989. 1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed. Grades 3-7.

JA873
Letters from the corrugated castle: a novel of gold rush California, 1850-1852 (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Blos, Joan W. Atheneum Books for Young Readers c2007. 1st ed. [Grades 5-9].

JC031
Little house in the big woods (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. HarperTrophy 2004. Full color collector's ed. Grades 3-6.

MM011
Little house on the prairie (Learning Through Listening lesson plan)
Wilder, Laura Ingalls. HarperTrophy 1971, c1963. 1st HarperTrophy ed. [Grades 2-7].

Adult/Teen Titles

HX079
American leviathan: empire, nation, and revolutionary frontier
Griffin, Patrick. Hill and Wang c2007. 1st ed.

JA944
Boone: a biography
Morgan, Robert. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill c2007. 1st ed.

JD658
The children's blizzard
Laskin, David. HarperPerennial 2005, c2004. 1st Harper Perennial ed.

GY109
The conquest: the story of a Negro pioneer
Micheaux, Oscar. Washington Square Press 2003.

JC142
Daniel Boone: the life and legend of an American pioneer
Faragher, John Mack. Holt 1993, c1992. 1st Owl book ed.

MP471
Frontier blood: the saga of the Parker family
Exley, Jo Ella Powell. Texas A & M University Press c2001. 1st ed.

MM015
O pioneers
Cather, Willa. Houghton Mifflin 1995, c1941.

JR049
Regeneration through violence: the mythology of the American frontier, 1600 - 1860
Slotkin, Richard. HarperPerennial c1996.

JB025
A son of the middle border
Garland, Hamlin. Borealis Books c2007.

JD734
These is my words: the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories : a novel
Turner, Nancy E. Harper Perennial 1999, c1998. 1st ReganBooks/HarperPerennial ed.