The following authors will be guest speakers during the 2004 2-week summer session.

James Cross Giblin:

• Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Scholastic, 2000.
  (focus book for institute)
• The Century That Was: Reflections on the Last One Hundred Years. New York: Atheneuem, 2000.
• Charles A. Lindberg: A Human Hero. New York: Clarion, 1997.
• George Washington, a Picture Book Biography. New York: Scholastic, 1997.
• The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler. New York: Clarion, 2002 (Sibert Winner)
• The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones and How It Was Solved. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
• When the Plague Strikes: the Black Plague, Smallpox, Aids. New York: HarperTrophy, 1997.

Giulio & Betsy Maestro: (website)

• The New Americans: Colonial Times 1620-1689. New York: HarperCollins,1998. (focus book for the institute)
• Struggle for a Continent: The French and Indian Wars 1689-1763. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. (focus book for the institute)
• Coming to America: the Story of Immigration. New York: Scholastic, 1996.
• A More Perfect Union: the Story of Our Constitution. Upper Saddle Rive, NJ: Scott Foresman, 1990.
• The Story of Clocks and Calendars. New York: HarperCollins, 1999.
• The Story of Religion. New York: Clarion, 1996.
• The Voice of the People: American Democracy in Action. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Jim Murphy (website)

• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793. New York: Clarion, 2003. (focus book for institute)
• Blizzard: the Storm that Changed America. New York: Scholastic, 2000. (Sibert Honor Book)
• The Great Fire. New York: Scholastic, 1995. (Newbery Honor Book)
• Inside the Alamo. New York: Delacorte, 2003.
• The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Soldier, Virginia 1865. New York: Scholastic, 1998.
• My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska 1881. New York: Scholastic, 2001.
• A Young Patriot: the American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1998.

Ann Turner (website)

• Love Thy Neighbor, The Diary of Prudence Emerson, A Tory Girl.
  New York: Scholastic, 2003. (focus book for institute)
• Abe Lincoln Remembers. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
• Grasshopper Summer. New York: Aladdin,2000.
• Learning to Swim. New York: Scholastic, 2000.
• Secrets from the Dollhouse. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
• Shaker Hearts. Boston: Godine, 2002.
• What Did I Know of Freedom. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.