Summer Reading 2026: Celebrate Our 250th Anniversary with Our Founders

Here are four eBooks about our founders written at a variety of grade levels. These free ebooks have not been banned from classrooms. Rather, they are not available because administrators in state education departments do not believe that the volume of reading matters to high school students. They demand textbooks that students find boring and don’t read. Other administrators don’t have the budgets for books, and have not yet turned to free eBooks.

Guardians of Liberty: Sam Adams and John Hancock by Olga Hall-Quest
Reading Level is 9.0

Founding Fathers by Kenneth Umbreit
Reading Level is 10.0

James Madison: Father of the Constitution by Alfred Steinberg
Reading Level is 11.7.

Patrick Henry: Firebrand of the Revolution by Nardi Campion
Reading Level is 5.6.

This link has short descriptions of each book. You can see longer descriptions of each book and other titles at History for Everyone: Build a Nation of Readers with Free Ebooks.