America Is Born: A History for Peter
by Gerald W. Johnson
Nonfiction · ages 8–12 · grades 3–7 · 720L · 1959
Why we'd hand it over
A 1959 classic that treats colonial and Revolutionary history as genuinely complicated—Johnson doesn't shy from moral ambiguity, which makes it feel more honest than many modern rewrites, though dated in voice and selective in whose stories appear.