Books to use with Social Studies

These books are not sorted by grade level.
Some are picture books, some are novels.

Ancient Egypt The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 14th Century England - Peasant Revolt Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi American Revolution The Fighting Ground by Avi Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier Salem Witch Trials A Break With Charity by Ann Rinaldi Yellow Fever Epidemic Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson An American Plague by Jim Murphy Civil War Bull Run by Paul Fleischman Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Month of Seven Days by Shirley Climo Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen Moon Over Tennessee by Craig Crist Evans The River Between Us by Richard Peck Three Against the Tide by D. Anne Love Slavery 47 by Walter Moseley Day of Tears by Julius Lester Amos Fortune by Elizabeth Yates Many Thousand Gone by Virginia Hamilton Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman Westward Movement / Pioneers Dandelions by Eve Bunting Native Americans (19th century) The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Canyons by Gary Paulsen Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell World War I Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson Great Depression / Dust Bowl Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse The Truth About Sparrows by Marian Hale World War II Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac (Navajo Marines) Soldier X by Don Wulffson (soldier experience) Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War by Yukio Tsuchiya Holocaust Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting Erika's Story by Ruth Vander Zee Number the Stars by Lois Lowry Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbits by Judith Kerr Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems by Hana Volavkova Daniel's Story by Carol Matas Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy Gideon by Chester Aaron Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker The Island of Bird Street by Uri Orlev Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman Japanese American Internment Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata Journey to Topaz: A Story of the Japanese-American Evacuation by Yoshiko Uchida Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse Immigrants Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff A House of Tailors by Patricia Reilly Giff A Day's Work by Eve Bunting Going Home by Eve Bunting The Circuit by Francisco Jimenez Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez La Mariposa by Francisco Jimenez Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Muñoz Ryan Civil Rights / Racism Walking to the Bus Rider Blues by Harriette Gillem Robinet Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals Mississippi Trial 1955 by Chris Crowe Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor Witness by Karen Hesse Prejudice Music From a Place Called Half Moon by Jerrie Oughton Vietnam War The Wall by Eve Bunting Cracker! The Best Dog in Viet Nam by Cynthia Kadohata Guatemalan Genocide Tree Girl by Ben Mikaelsen Red Midnight by Ben Mikaelsen Patriotism / Citizenship Nothing But the Truth by Avi

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