Children's books of the year

  1. William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe Howard Peckham
  2. Events That Changed the Course of History: The Story of the Attack on Pearl Harbor 75 Years Later Kimberly Sarmiento
  3. People That Changed the Course of History: The Story of John F. Kennedy 100 Years After His Birth Kimberly Sarmiento
  4. People that Changed the Course of History: The Story of Frank Lloyd Wright 150 Years After His Birth Hannah Sandoval
    4
  5. Miles to Go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years Linda Barrett Osborne
  6. Ten Girls from History: Exploring the Lives of Inspiring Women Throughout History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
    4
  7. Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille Russell Freedman
    4
  8. China’s Long March: 6,000 Miles of Danger Jean Fritz
    4.1
  9. Uncover Exciting History: Revealing America’s Christian Heritage in Short, Easy Nuggets Amy Puetz
    4.5
  10. Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot Winifred Conkling
    4.3
  11. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance Jennifer Armstrong
  12. Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret
  13. Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony James Otis
    4
  14. Ten Great Adventurers: Biographies of Ten Amazing Explorers Kate Dickinson Sweetser
  15. Lew Wallace: Boy Writer Martha E. Schaaf
  16. American History Stories: 200 Elementary Stories of American History Mara L. Pratt
    3.8
  17. Votes of Confidence: A Young Person's Guide to American Elections Jeff Fleischer
  18. An Eye for an Eye: A Story of the Revolutionary War Peter Roop
  19. Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II Andrea Warren
    2
  20. Major Battles in U.S. History: All About the Battle of Gettysburg, Little Bighorn, Normandy and more Various
    1
  21. Victoria: Portrait of a Queen Catherine Reef
    4.2
  22. Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man Tonya Bolden
    5
  23. The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
    4.6
  24. The Declaration of Independence Peter Roop
  25. Susan B. Anthony Teri Kanefield
    4.3
  26. Ten Days in a Mad-House Nellie Bly
    4.1
  27. O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War Robert Burleigh
  28. I, Columbus: My Journal 1492-1493 Peter Roop
    3.3
  29. Terrible Typhoid Mary Susan Campbell Bartoletti
    4.4
  30. Four Great Americans: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln James Baldwin
    3
  31. The Action Bible: God's Redemptive Story
    3
  32. American Gothic Susan Wood
  33. Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender S. D. Nelson
    5
  34. Words That Built a Nation Marilyn Miller
  35. Ten Boys from History Kate Dickinson Sweetser
  36. Zen Pencils--Inspirational Quotes for Kids Gavin Aung Than
    3
  37. Castles / Castillos Xist Publishing
    5
  38. Raid of No Return (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #7): A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid Nathan Hale
    5
  39. The Story of Michael Collins for Children Iosold Dheirg
  40. Alexander Hamilton Teri Kanefield
    3
  41. Michael Collins Vincent McDonnell
  42. A Century of Immigration: 1820-1924: 1820–1924 James Lincoln Collier
    4
  43. Orphan Train Rider: One Boy’s True Story Andrea Warren
    4.1
  44. Clash of Cultures: Prehistory–1638 James Lincoln Collier
    3.7
  45. Creating the Constitution: 1787 James Lincoln Collier
    4.3
  46. The United States in World War II: 1941–1945 James Lincoln Collier
    3.5
  47. Karl der Große und der Feldzug der Weisheit Maria Regina Kaiser
  48. The American Revolution: 1763–1783 James Lincoln Collier
    3.8
  49. The French and Indian War: 1660–1763 James Lincoln Collier
    3.9
  50. The Changing Face of American Society: 1945–2000 James Lincoln Collier
    4.4