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Pennsylvania History Resources
It is required to study Pennsylvania history if you home school in Pennsylvania.
 
What better way can there be than through reading great books? These
Pennsylvania history resources can help.
If you like the literature unit study approach for studying Pennsylvania history,
then you will appreciate Susan Kemmerer's books. For grades 4 to 6 is the
Pennsylvania Keystones
unit study. Her Keystones 2 Curriculum
is for the junior high and senior high student.
On the other hand if you prefer the textbook approach, then
you should choose Guy Graybill's
Explore Our Past for the elementary grades or
Keystone, A
History of Pennsylvania for middle school.
Color Your Own Mary Cassatt Masterpieces Coloring Book
Dover Publications |
9780486410401 |
List $3.95 
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The Story of the Underground Railroad Coloring Book
Dover Publications |
9780486411583 |
List $3.95
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From Antietam to Gettysburg A Civil War Coloring Book
Dover Publications |
9780486244761 |
List $3.95
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Trees of the Northeast Coloring Book
Dover Publications |
Out of Print Quantity Limited
9780486237343 |
List $3.95
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Famous Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright Coloring Book
Dover Publications |
9780486293622 |
List $3.95
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State: The Facts, A Guide to Studying Your State
By Mary Ellen Tedrow, Laurelwood Books
Use this versatile study guide to study any of the 50 United States. Your
student will study and research the state in order to answer the questions and
complete the activities. The first task in the book is for the child to find
and record names, addresses, and phone numbers of people who
will help your child find information about your chosen
state. Along with the typical items included in a state
study, there are also pages for planning a trip, taxes,
finding books about your state and more. Written by a
homeschool mother for homeschoolers, this book is a great
value. Grades 4-6, though useable for any grade level. |
9780980041200 |
List $13.95 Sale $12.95
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By Genevieve Foster
Good news! Beautiful Feet Books republished The World of William Penn. Like her
other books, Genevieve Foster goes around the world during the life of William
Penn. You'll learn about the Sun King, the Great Wall of China, Peter the Great,
Sir Isaac Newton, the builder of the Taj Mahal and more.
196 pages, Trade PB, For ages 8 and up. |
9781893103306 |
List $14.95
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By Marguerite Henry
This lovely book has been republished at last
by Bradford Press. I love using this book for
Pennsylvania history when my children are in second grade! Makes a great
extra book for Pennsylvania Keystones! |
9780970561800 |
List $14.95 Sale $13.49
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Ben Franklin of Old Philadelphia
By Landmark Books |
9780394849287 |
List $5.99
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Benjamin Franklin, Young Printer
By Augusta Stevenson |
9780020419204 |
$5.99
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Brady
By Jean Fritz
Underground railroad
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9780698119376 |
List $6.99
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 Cabin Faced West
By Jean Fritz
Frontier girl in PA. |
9780698119369 |
List $5.99
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The Christmas Surprise
By Ruth Nolton Moore
Story of a young girl staying in the Moravian town of
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1775 during the French and Indian War. |
9780836134995 |
Out of Print
Out of Stock
List $6.99
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The Day It Rained Forever
Johnstown flood late 1880’s
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9780140345674 |
List $4.99
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Distant Thunder
By Ruth Nolton Moore
Story of intrigue, heroism, and self-sacrifice from 1777 to
1778, two of the most critical years of the Revolutionary War. Sequel to The
Christmas Surprise.
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Out of Print
9780836135572 |
Out of Print
Out of Stock
List $6.99
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Encounter at Easton
By Avi
Late 1700’s Pennsylvania
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9780380732418 |
List $5.99
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Gettysburg
Landmark Books
Civil war battle.
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9780394891811 |
List $5.99
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By Marguerite de Angeli
Henner's Lydia is the story of a young Amish girl who lives
on a farm near Lancaster. Lydia must finish her first “piece,” a small hooked
mat, before she can go to market with her father.
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9780836190939 |
List $14.99
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By John Jenkins and Mark Weaver, Reconciliation Press
"Josiah Washington, a sixteen-year old former slave longs to experience the true
meaning of freedom in 1870's Philadelphia. An act of kindness sets Josiah at
odds with Adam, the seventeen-year-old son of an influential white newspaperman
who is secretly plotting to bring the Ku Klux Klan into the North.
"The Invisible Empire is the first book in the Century War Chronicles of Freedom
Series. Josiah and Adam are but two in a line of young men and women who must
struggle into adulthood and triumph through the century-long spiritual conflicts
that have shaped our nation."
Grades 6 and up
More titles from Reconciliation Press at Lamp Post Homeschool Store:
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1888565039 |
List $7.95
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Miracles on Maple Hill
"Marly's father came back from the war a different man. Something inside him seems as cold and dead as the winter world outside. But when the family moves to Grandma's old house on Maple Hill, miracles begin to happen. The sap in the trees begins to rise, the leaves begin to turn, and Marly's father starts to bloom again, like the world around them."
Post WWII country life in Pennsylvania.
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9780152047184 |
List $6.99 Sale $5.95
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Night Journeys
By Avi
1768 Pennsylvania
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9780380732425 |
List $5.99
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Written and illustrated by James Daugherty, Republished by Beautiful Feet Books
A biography of Franklin written with a sweep and verve worthy of its subject and
brilliantly illustrated."--The New Yorker
This superb biography of the printer, statesman, author,
reformer, inventor and ambassador reveals a Benjamin Franklin, who in his time,
lived more lives than many men together. The brilliance and inexhaustible
ingenuity of mind that fascinated his contemporaries continues to charm us now
in Daugherty's work of perhaps America's most distinguished citizen and
interesting human being. As with all of Daugherty's books, his illustrations of
2 and 3 color compliment the meaty text of Poor Richard. 175 pages, Trade PB,
color
For ages 10 and up
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9781893103030 |
List $16.95
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By Marguerite de Angeli
Skippack School tells a treasured tale about a boy and the
praying pioneer schoolmaster, Christopher Dock, the first in America to write a
book on pedagogy.
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9780836191240 |
List $15.99
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By Dave and Neta Jackson
This book contains the text of each of the following Trailblazer novels; however, the original black and white illustrations are not included.
- Spy for the Night Riders about Martin Luther (1520s Germany)
- Attack in the Rye Grass about Marcus and Narcissa Whitman (Attack in the Rye Grass 1843-47
- Sinking the Dayspring about John Paton (1865-68 South Sea Islands)
- Hostage on the Nighthawk about William Penn (1699 Pennsylvania)
- The Runaway's Revenge about John Newton (England 1775)
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9780764207303
Replacement for Hostage on the Nighthawk |
List $14.99
Sale $13.50
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Yonie Wondernose
By Marguerite de Angeli
Seven-year old Yonie is a wondernose because he can’t keep
his nose out of anything.
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9780836190830 |
List $14.99
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A Young Patriot
By Jim Murphy
Life in the Revolutionary War.
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9780395900192 |
List $7.95
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