Just finished MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE this past weekend. Enjoyed it. You might take a look at DAISY AND THE DOLL by Michael Medearis and Angela Shelf Medearis, both locals.
Amazing bunch of lists, Chris! Thanks so much for putting them all together. Will link to them as soon as I can manage it (I hope tonight)...
Not really for seven-year-olds either -- unless you do what we do sometimes and skip most of the text and read instead the picture captions : ) -- but maybe in a year or two...
"Civil War & Reconstruction" by David C. King (from American Heritage's "American Voices" series) and also "Fields of Fury" by James MacPherson, who won the Pulitzer for "Battle Cry of Freedom". A great kids' book, though again for those a bit older (and even, and sometimes especially, their parents).
Also, I haven't looked in here for a while but have it bookmarked for us for next year,
http://rememberingslavery.si.edu/res3.html
You are truly sharing the "story" in "history" with your boys.
Wagon Wheels by Brenner, I believe is post-Civil War.
Chris, thank you for your great lists!
Although it starts in the 1830's, the picture book "George Crum and the Saratoga Chip," fits into your time slot. New one from Lee & Low about the inventor of the potato chip. Nice context about what meant to be a black/Native American chef working during the Vanderbilt era.
You might try Virgie Goes to School With Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard. I just read it to my kids and it deals with the opportunities in education that opened up after emancipation.
And thank you for sharing your lists! I'm a homeschooling mom and I'm always looking for read-alouds to match what we're studying in history.
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