K-12 Books

The selected titles on this page, include children's illustrated books, and other works appropriate for K-12 students, focusing on Lewis and Clark and their discoveries during their exploration of the Louisiana Purchase territory.

The following materials include links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to digital content are included when available.

The Amazing Lewis and Clark Expedition by Jean F. Blashfield
Call Number: F592.7 .B54 2018 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781515771203
Published/Created: 2017
Readers follow the explorers as they make their way across the uncharted American interior to the Pacific Northwest.
Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent; William Muñoz (Illustrator)
Call Number: F592.7 .P37 2002
ISBN: 0395914159
Published/Created: 2002
They observed and documented scores of animals, including the Great Plains wolf, mule deer, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and salmon. Several species and subspecies of mammals, birds, and fish previously unknown to science were recorded for the first time.
Lewis and Clark by Jill K. Mulhall
Call Number: F592.7 .M85 2017 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781493838868
Published/Created: 2017
Primary source documents provide a glimpse into what life was like during the 1800s.
Lewis and Clark and Exploring the Louisiana Purchase by Alicia Z. Klepeis
Call Number: F592.7 .K57 2018 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781502626394
Published/Created: 2017
When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States. He dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore a territory that would include part or all of fifteen future states and to seek a water route to the West Coast.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Devon McKinney
Call Number: F592.7 .M347 2017 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781508149583
Published/Created: 2016
The Lewis and Clark expedition was an 8,000-mile journey that changed the United States forever.
Lewis and Clark Map the American West by Nel Yomtov
Call Number: F592 .Y66 2016 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781626172937
Published/Created: 2015
Lewis and Clark faced harsh conditions, unknown people, and untouched land, making them two of the world's greatest explorers.
Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark by Dorothy Hinshaw Patent; William Muñoz (Photographer)
Call Number: F592.7 .P376 2003
ISBN: 0618067760
Published/Created: 2003
When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on their landmark journey of discovery in 1804, President Thomas Jefferson directed them to notice "the soil and face of the country, its growth and vegetable productions".
The Story of Lewis and Clark by Jacqueline Morley; David Antram (Illustrator)
Call Number: F592.7 .M6769 2017 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781910706893
Published/Created: 2017
Learn what daily life was like and how they survived as strangers in a strange land.
William Clark by Jeff Smith
Call Number: F592.7 .S64 2016 CABIN BRANCH
ISBN: 9781612481784
Published/Created: 2016
William Clark is famous as one of the leaders on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, but he was also a soldier, a politician, and Indian agent.

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