Grade+4

Steamburg, NY : Signature Series Books, c. 2004.
 * Topic || Book || Web Sites ||
 * Native Americans || Bardeau, Phyllis. __**The Standing Pot.**__

Kalman, Bobbie. __**Life in a Longhouse Village.**__ 2001. Koestler-Grack, Rachel. __**The Iroquois: Longhouse Builders.**__ 2003. Malaspina, Ann. **__The Iroquios: a Proud People__.** 2005. Randolph, Joanne. __**The Iroquois League**.__2003. Roza, Greg. __**The Iroquois of New York.**__ 2003.

St. Lawrence,Genevieve. __**The Iroquois and their History.**__ 2006 Takacs, Stefanie. __**The Iroquois.**__ 2003. Wilcox, Charlotte. __**The Iroquois.**__ 2007. ||  || Blashfield, Jean. **__Cartier: Jacques Cartier in Search of the Northwest Passage__** **.** Minneapolis, MN: Compass Pt. Books, 2002 Donaldson-Forbes, Jeff. **__Jacques Cartier__**. NY: PowerKids Press, 2006.
 * Early European Explorers || Abnett, Dan. **__Christopher Columbus and the Voyage of 1492.__** 2007.

Mattern, Joanne. **__The Travels of Henry Hudson__**.Austin, TX:Steck-Vaughn, 2000. Otfinoski, Steven. **__Henry Hudson: in Search of the Northwest Passage.__** NY: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007 Smalley, Carol. **__Henry Hudson.__** Hockessin, DE: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2007. St. George, Judith. **__So You Want to be an Explorer?__** NY: Philomel Books, 2005.

West, David. **__Christopher Columbus: the Life of a Master Navigator and Explorer.__** 2005. Yolen, Jane. **__Encounter.__** New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. || [] [] || Period in NY || **__The colony of New York : a primary source history__** by Melody S. Mis (2007)
 * Colonial America


 * __The history of early New York__** by Jeremy Thornton (2003)

Karen Bush Gibson (2007) || [] [] || Period in NY || Abnett, Dan. __**George Washington and the American Revolution.**__ NY: PowerKids Press, 2007.
 * __New Netherland : the Dutch settle the Hudson Valley__** by
 * Revolutionary War

Amstel, Marsha. __**Sybil Ludington's midnight ride.**__ 2000.

Burgan, Michael. __**The Battle of Bunker Hill : an interactive history adventure**.__ 2008.

Burgan, Michael. __**Benedict Arnold : American hero and traitor.**__ 2007.

Burke, Rick. __**Deborah Sampson.**__ 2003.

Burke, Rick. __**Paul Revere.**__ 2003.

Cheney, Lynne V. __**When Washington crossed the Delaware : a wintertime story for young patriots**.__ 2004.

Duden, Jane. __**Betsy Ross.**__ 2002.

Fontes, Justine. __**George Washington : soldier, hero, president.**__ New York: DK, 2001.

Fritz, Jean. __**And then what happened, Paul Revere?**__ 1996.

Glaser, Jason. __**Molly Pitcher : young American patriot.**__ 2006.

Harness, Cheryl. __**The revolutionary John Adams.** 2003.__

Mader, Jan. __**Molly Pitcher.**__ 2007.

Mara, Wil. __**Betsy Ross.**__ New York: Children's Press, 2005.

Mara, Wil. __**George Washington.**__ New York: Children's Press, 2002.

Mara, Wil. __**Paul Revere.**__ New York: Children's Press, 2004.

Moss, Marissa. __**Emma’s Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl.**__ San Diego, CA: Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2001.

Olson, Kay Melchisedech. __**Betsy Ross and the American flag.**__ 2006.

Olson, Nathan. __**Nathan Hale : revolutionary spy.**__ 2006.

Rockwell,Anne. F. __**They called her Molly Pitcher.**__ 2002.

Schanzer, Rosalyn. __**George vs George: The Revolutionary War as Seen from Both Sides.**__ National Geographic Children's Books, 2004.

Shea, Pegi Deitz. __**Patience Wright : America's first sculptor and revolutionary spy.**__ 2007.

St. George, Judith. __**Take the lead, George Washington.**__ New York : Philomel Books, 2005.

West, David. __**George Washington : the life of an American patriot.**__ New York: Rosen, 2005.

Whitehurst, Susan. __**The Colony of New York**.__ New York, NY: Rosen Publishing Group, 2001. ||||||||||  || Fingeroth, Danny. **__Cartoon Nation Presents the U.S. Supreme Court.__** 2009.
 * Government-National || Fein, Eric. **__Cartoon Nation Presents the U.S. Congress__** **.** 2008.

Glesecke, Ernestine. **__National Government__**. 2000.

Peterson, Christine. **__Cartoon Nation Presents the U.S. Constitution.__** 2009. Peterson, Christine.**__The U.S. Constitution__**. 2009.

Skog, Jason.**__Citizenship__**. 2008.

St. George, Judith. **__The Journey of: the one and only Declaration of Independence__**. 2005. || [] [] || State || **__The State Governor__** by Mary Firestone (2004)
 * Government-

**__New York: the Empire State__** by Jacqueline Ball (2002) ||   || Local || **__Local Government__** by Ernestine Giesecke (2000)
 * Government-

* **__Government How Local, State, and Federal Government Works__** by Mark Friedman (2005) //Note:// ebook ||   ||
 * Transportation || **__The Erie Canal__** by Linda Thompson (2005)

__**The Erie Cana**l__ by Andrew Santella (2005)

Kimmel, Eric. **__The Erie Canal Pirates__** (2002)

**__What Difference Could a Waterway Make?__** By Susan Aller (2011)

**__New York__** by Ann Heinrichs (2006)

**__Our Transportation Systems__** by Dorothy Francis (2002) || [] ||
 * Inventors || **__Click: a Story about George Eastman__** by Barbara Mitchell

**__George Eastman__** by Jennifer Gillis (2004)

**__Thomas Edison a Brilliant Inventor__** by Lisa deMauro (2005)

**__Benjamin Franklin: an Amerian Genius__** by Kay Olson (2006)

**__Alexander Graham Bell__** by Wil Mara (2002)

**__Benjamin Franklin: a Man with Many Talents__** by Kathryn Satterfield (2005) ||   ||
 * Child Labor || *Ansary, Mir Tamim. __**Labor Day**__. 2007.

Freedman, Russell. **__Kids at Work__** .1994

Hiatt, Joan. **__Joshua's Song__**. 2003. ||  ||
 * Women in NY || Cheney, Lynne. __**A is for Abigail : an almanac of amazing American women**__. 2003.

Christensen, Bonnie. __**The daring Nellie Bly : America's star reporter**.__ 2003. || http://kids.nationalgeographic.com ||

Above are a few suggestion of books that may be incorporated into your social studies lessons. There are many more titles in our libraries. Please search through your on-line catalog for more titles. If you have any questions please ask your librarian.