Thomas Jefferson
Illustrator: Michael Dooling
Genre: Nonfiction and Biography
Awards: None
Grade Level: 4th-7th
This book accurately shares the story of Thomas Jefferson.
Starting when he was a little boy, afraid to speak up in class, all the way through his life until he passed in 1826. In Thomas Jefferson, many details of the hardships that the Jefferson family had to face were included. Events such as Thomas Jefferson almost losing everything he had worked for and his presidency offers readers an insight into the life of one of our founding fathers.
Although this book is too long to use as a read aloud, I would split it up and read parts of it to my class at a time. This book offers an insight to history that is crucial to understanding it all. I would have older students use this for research purposes.
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