Books

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1. __Benjamin Franklin__ by: Edmund Morgan

2. __American Tycoons__ by: Carl Green

3. __The Wright Brothers: pioneers of flight__ by: John McMahon

4. __Carver: a life in poems__ by: Marilyn Nelson

5. __Inventors__ by: Martin Sandler

I chose these five books to use in my unit because I needed references for my students to use while writing a persuasive piece on one of the following inventors: Henry Ford, George Washington Carver, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, and the Wright brothers. *For more details, see my persuasive writing example.*

Other books that I included in my unit were:

6. __Immigrants__ by: Martin Sandler

7. __Pioneers__ by: Martin Sandler

8. __Cowboys__ by: Martin Sandler