Dialectic: The Modern Era: 1850 A.D. - Present
Timelines of World History by Jane Chisholm (Nonfiction/Five primary continents side-by-side--30,000 B.C.-2000 A.D.)
The Story of Scotland: Inspired by the Great Tapestry of Scotland by Allan Burnett (Nonfiction/Survey of people and events/fascinating!)
The Story of Exploration by Anna Claybourne (from 2270 B.C.-2003 A.D.)
Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way by Land, Sea, and Air by Stewart Ross and Stephen Biesty (Nonfiction/Cross-sections/Mechanics of exploration--340 B.C.-1969 A.D.)
History of Britain and Ireland by DK Publishing (Nonfiction/Survey--43-present)
Kings and Queens by Ruth Brocklehurst (Nonfiction/Survey of English monarchs-886-present)
Children's Encyclopedia of American History by David C. King [DK Smithsonian] (1000-2000 A.D.)
The Landmark History of the American People by Daniel J. Boorstin (Nonfiction--1620-1969)
The Industrial Revolution for Kids by Cheryl Mullenbach (Nonfiction--1791-1913)
The Complete Dickens retold by Anna Milbourne (Classic retellings--pub. between 1838-1861)
In the Shadow of Liberty by Kenneth C. Davis (Nonfiction/Founding Fathers/Slave Owners/Suggest reading concurrent with dates of latest subject--1850)
The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (Ojibwa/Lake Superior/Westward movement--1850)
Freedom Train: the story of Harriet Tubman by Dorothy Sterling (Underground railroad--1850s-1860s)
Traveling the Freedom Road: From Slavery and the Civil War Through Reconstruction by Linda Barrett Osborne (Nonfiction--1850s-1877)
Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War by Thomas B. Allen (Nonfiction/Civil War/New technologies used by the Union--1850-1865)
Pecos Bill: The Greatest Cowboy of All Time by Jamees Cloyd Bowman (Folktale/Cowboys/American west--c. mid-1800s)
Children of the Covered Wagon by Mary Jane Carr (Oregon Trail--mid-1800s)
Moccasin Trail by Eloise Jarvis McGraw (Novel/Crow Indians/Montana/Oregon--mid-1800s)
All Sail Set: A Romance of the Flying Cloud by Armstrong Sperry (Novel/Shipbuilding/Rounding Cape Horn--1851)
Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen (Arkansas/Oregon Trail--1852)
Mill by David Macaulay (Nonfiction/Industrial Revolution/Textile mill/Rhode Island--1852)
Jericho's Journey by G. Clifton Wisler (From Tennessee to Texas--1852)
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun by Rhoda Blumberg (Nonfiction - Japan--1853)
The Crimean War by Deborah Bachrach (Nonfiction/Causes/Survey--1853-1856)
The Great Trouble by Deborah Hopkinson (London, England/cholera/Broad Street Pump--1854)
Boston Jane by Jennifer L. Holm (Novel/Pacific Northwest/Chinook Indians/American traders--1854)
Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy by Rhoda Blumberg (Nonfiction - Japan--mid-1800s and on)
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Wisconsin--mid 1800s)
Jip: His Story by Katherine Paterson (Vermont/Fugitive slave--1855-1856)
Pasteur's Fight Against Microbes by Beverly Birch and Christian Birmingham (Nonfiction/Biography--around 1856)
Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven by Kathryn Lasky (Japanese princess--1858)
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson (Novel/Slavery/Maroon communities/Great Dismal Swamp/Siblings--1859)
Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall (Escaped slaves/Underground Railroad/Canada--1859)
Charles and Emma: The Darwin's Leap of Faith by Deborah Helligman (Nonfiction/Biography--1859)
The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr (Missouri to Colorado "turkey drive"--1860)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Texas hill country frontier--1860s)
A Nation Torn: The Story of How the Civil War Began Delia Ray (Nonfiction/Civil War/Make this your first book on the topic--1860-1865)
Behind Rebel Lines by Seymour Reit (Nonfiction - Female Civil War Spy--1861)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Classic/Civil War/sisterhood--likely 1861-1862)
Stonewall by Jean Fritz (Nonfiction/Biography/General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson/Mexican American War/Civil War--1846-1848 and 1861-1863)
The Split History of the Civil War by Stephanie Fitzgerald (Nonfiction - Dual perspectives--1861-1865)
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease by Gail Jarrow [Medical Fiascoes] (Nonfiction/Civil War/Medicine/Not for faint of stomach--1861-1865)
Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War by Jennifer Armstrong (Nonfiction/Civil War/Photography--1861-1865)
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy (Nonfiction--1861-1865)
Iron Scouts of the Confederacy by Lee McGiffin (Confederate Brothers--1861-1865)
Behind the Blue and the Gray: The Soldier's Life in the Civil War (Young Readers' History of the Civil War) by Delia Ray (Nonfiction - Firing on Ft. Sumter to War's End--1861-1865)
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (Illinois/Civil War--1861-1865)
The Perilous Road by William O. Steele (Novel/Civil War/Tennessee/Family divided--1861-1865)
Father Abraham: Lincoln and His Sons by Harold Holzer (Nonfiction/Biography--1861-1865)
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction/Biography--1861-1865)
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War by James M. Mcpherson (Nonfiction/Survey/Pulitzer Prize winning historian--1861-1865)
The Secret History of Evan Pao by Wendy Wan-Long Shang (Novel/Chinese American/Moving/Bullying/Chinese Civil War soldiers--1861-1865)
Cixi "The Dragon Empress" by Natasha Yim [The Thinking Girl's Treasury of Dastardly Dames series] (Biography/Dowager Empress Cixi/Qing Dynasty China--1861-1908)
Freedom from Slavery by Brianna Hall (Nonfiction - Causes and Effects: of the Emancipation Proclamation--1862)
1862: Fredericksburg: A New Look at a Bitter Civil War Battle by Karen Kostyal (Nonfiction/Civil War--1862)
The Story of the Monitor and the Merrimac by R. Conrad Stein (Nonfiction/Civil War/Iron naval vessels--1862)
Under Siege!: Three Children at the Civil War Battle for Vicksburg by Andrea Warren (Nonfiction/Civil War/Primary cources--1862-1863)
Otto Von Bismarck: Iron Chancellor of Germany by Kimberly Burton Heuston [A Wicked History] (Nonfiction/Biography/Prussia/Unified Germany/Born in 1815, active--1862-1890)
The Split History of the Battle of Gettysburg (Nonfiction - Told from both North and South viewpoint/Pennsylvania--1863)
Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor (Civil War/Pennsylvania--1863)
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel by C. M. Butzer (Nonfiction/Title is misleading-this is nonfiction--1863)
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by Martin W. Sandler (Nonfiction/Railroad History/American West--1863-1869)
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H. L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (Nonfiction - South Carolina--1864)
An Island Far From Home by John Donahue (Novel/Civil War/Death of a father/Friendship between two boys/Massachusetts--1864)
George Washington Carver, what do you see? by Janet and Geoff Benge (Biography/African American scientist--1864-1943)
The Mystery of the Periodic Table by Benjamin Wiker (Nonfiction/Survey--I suggest 1864, concurrent with Mendeleev)
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell (Navajo relocation/Arizona and New Mexico--1864)
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink (Wisconsin frontier--1864)
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (1865)
Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson (Nonfiction--1865)
Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder (Virginia--1865)
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Nonfiction/Racism/Hate groups--1865)
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman (Switzerland/Mountaineering--1865)
More Stories from Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson (Michigan--post-Civil War-around 1865)
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson (Texas--late 1860s)
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriet Gillem Robinet (Reconstruction/Freedom/Prejudice--1865-1877
The Story of Peter Tchaikovsky by Opal Wheeler (Nonfiction/Biography/Composer--1865-1893)
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor (Deep South/Mixed race/Race relations--late 1860s-1870s) **Prequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Worth by A. LaFaye (Nebraska/Orphan Train--late 1800s)
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich (Great Plains/Lake Superior/Ojibwa--1866)
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep (Sierra Nevada/Transcontinental Railroad--1867)
Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts by Janet and Geoff Benge (Nonfiction/Biography/Medical missionary/India--roughly 1867)
The Story of Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins (Nonfiction/Biography/Scientist/Active years--1877-1930)
Secret Subway: The Fascinating Tale of an Amazing Feat of Engineering by Martin W. Sandler (Nonfiction/New York City--1869)
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad by Martin W. Sandler (Nonfiction/U.S. History/Railroad--1869)
The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction/Active--1869-1908)
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Florida--1870s)
What is the Panama Canal? Janet B. Pascal (1870-1914)
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Wisconsin/Frontier life/1st in series--1871)
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne [Classic Starts] (1872)
Around the World in 80 Days - BBC Worldwide TV production with Michael Palin; 1989 recreation of Phileas Fogg's journey
Mr. Blue Jeans: A Story About Levi Strauss by Maryann N. Weidt (Nonfiction/Biography/Immigrant/Inventor--1874)
Remember Little Bighorn: Indians, Soldiers, and Scouts Tell Their Stories by Paul Robert Walker (Nonfiction - Montana Territory--1874-1876)
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery (Classic/Prince Edward Island--1876-1881)
Gauguin by Mike Venezia [Series: Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists] (Nonfiction/Art history/Impressionist/Years active--1876-1903)
Vostaas: White Buffalo's Story of Plains Indian Life by William White Buffalo (Nonfiction/modern Cheyenne--late 1800s on)
I am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer, illustrated by Gillian Newland (Picture book based on true story - Ontario/Indigenous Residential School Systems--late 19th-late 20th centuries)
Boston Jacky: Being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business by L. A. Meyer (Boston/Irish immigrants/temperance movement--mid to late 1800s)
Bonanza Girl by Patricia Beatty (Idaho/mining town--1880)
Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson (Strong woman/deaf/blind--1880-1968)
Ambushed: The Assassination Plot Against President Garfield by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction/United States/Charles Guiteau--1881)
Carry a Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt by George Grant (Nonfiction/Biography/Years of service--1882-1909)
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene Du Bois (Pacific and Atlantic Oceans/Krakatoa--1883)
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman (Switzerland--late 1800s)
Sticks Across the Chimney by Nora Burglon (Denmark/Viking lore--late 1800s)
City of Grit and Gold by (Maud Macrory Powell (Novel/Chicago/Labor movement/Haymarket Riot--1886)
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West by Candace Fleming (Nonfiction/American West/Buffalo Bill's Wild West show--1887)
Belle Epoque by Eleiazbeth Ross (Novel/Bohemian Paris--1888-1889)
The Terrible Wave by Marden Dahlstedt (Historical fiction/Megan Maxwell story/Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood--1889)
Edvard Munch by Jim Whiting [Art Profiles for Kids] (Nonfiction/Art History/Expressionist--1889-1944)
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Yee (Novel/Atlanta/Chinese-American/Secret advice columnist--1890)
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly (Novel/New York/Mystery/Gender & Class boundaries--1890s)
Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland by W. B Yeats (Folklore/Myths--1892)
The Great Wheel by Robert Lawson (World's Columbian Exposition/Chicago--1893)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (Classic/India--pub. 1894)
The Pullman Strike of 1894 by Michael Burgan (Nonfiction/Labor movement/Chicago--1894)
Call of the Wild by Jack London (Novel/Yukon Territory/Klondike Gold Rush--1896)
Ten Days a Madwoman: The Daring Life and Turbulent Times of the Original "Girl" Reporter, Nellie Bly by Deborah Noyes (Nonfiction/Biography/Investigative reporting--1897-1895)
Boxers by Gene Luan Yang (Graphic novel/China/Boxer Rebellion/Book one of duology--1898)
Spanish-American War by Michael Golay (Nonfiction/Cuba/Puerto Rico/Philippines--1898)
Saints by Gene Luan Yang (Graphic novel/China/Boxer Rebellion/Female Christian/Book two of duology--1898)
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly (Novel/Texas/Family/Naturalists--1899)
The Boer War by Louise Chipley Slavicek (Nonfiction/Africa--1899-1902)
A Journey Through Everlasting Time by Harriet Clay (Novel/Africa/Boer War--1899-1902)
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Tibet and India--early 1900s)
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry (Polynesia--early 1900s)
All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (New York/sisters/Jewish family life--early 1900s)
Li Lun, Lad of Courage by Carolyn Treffinger (China--early 1900s)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry (Novel/United States/Grand Canyon--early 1900s)
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction/Epidemic/Public health--1900)
The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing by Suzanne Jurmain (Nonfiction/Finding cause and cure/Walter Reed--1900-1901)
Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt! by Jean Fritz (Nonfiction/Biography--1901-1909)
Marie Curie's Search for Radium by Beverly Birch and Christian Birmingham (Nonfiction/Biography--1902)
Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill by Maud Hart Lovelace (Minnesota/cultures and heritage--1902)
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction/Science/United States/Hookworm/Search for a cure--1902-1914)
The Wright Brothers, pioneers of American Aviation by Quentin Reynolds (Ohio--1903)
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia by Candace Fleming (Nonfiction/Tsar Nicholas II--1903-1918)
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Novel/Published--1904)
What is the Panama Canal? by Janet B. Pascal (Central America--1904-1914)
Bud & Me by Alta Abernathy (Hobo journey of two young brothers--1905-1911)
The Disappearing Stranger by Lois Walfrid Johnson (Minnesota/1st in series--1906)
Little Britches by Ralph Moody (Colorado ranching--1906)
Deadly by Julie Chibbaro (Novel/Mystery/Typhoid Mary--1907)
Diego: Bigger Than Life by Carmen T. Bernier-Grand (Nonfiction/Biography in poems/Artist--1907-1957)
After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance by Anne Sibley O'Brien (Nonfiction/Survey--1908-2003)
White Stallion of Lipizza by Marguerite Henry (Vienna, Austria/Spanish Riding School--1910s)
Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (Classic, London--1910)
Mary Teresa of Calcutta by D. Jeanene Watson (Biography/Mother Teresa--1910-1997)
Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor by Michael Burgan (Nonfiction - Captured History series--1911)
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz (Novel/Baltimore/Jewish--1911)
Manor of Secrets by Katherine Longshore (Novel/England/Upstairs, Downstairs type plot--1911)
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (Nonfiction - New York--1911)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (Classic fantasy novel--pub. 1911)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Classic/India/England--pub. 1911)
Roald Amundsen: The Conquest of the South Pole by Julie Karner [Oxford University Press: In the Footsteps of Explorers Series] (Nonfiction/Polar Exploration/Active 1897-1928--1911)
To the South Pole by Valerie Bodden (Nonfiction/Roald Amundsen/Polar Exploration--1911)
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster by Deborah Hopkinson (Nonfiction/Maritime disaster/First person voices--1912)
The Good Master by Kate Seredy (Hungary--before World War I)
Angel on the Square by Gloria Whelan (St. Petersburg--1914)
Introduction to the First World War by Ruth Brocklehurst, et al. (Nonfiction--1914-1918)
The First World War by Conrad Mason (Nonfiction/Survey--1914-1918)
The War To End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction/Various locales/Fabulous!--1914-1918)
The Yanks Are Coming: The United States in the First World War by Albert Marrin (Nonfiction - Europe--1914-1918)
Top Secret Files: World War I: Spies, Secret Missions, & Hidden Facts by Stephanie Bearce (Nonfiction--1914-1918)
Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics by Kathryn Atwood (Nonfiction - Various locales--1914-1918)
The Red Baron: The Graphic History of Richthofen's Flying Circus and the Air War in WWI by Wayne Vansant (Nonfiction/Biography/Graphic history/Combat aviation/World War II--1914-1918)
The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy (Hungary--1914-1918)
Babe Ruth by Wilborn Hampton (Nonfiction/Biography/Baseball/Active--1914-1935)
The World Wars by Ruth Brocklehurst and Paul Dowswell (Nonfiction/Combines two books: Introduction to the First World War [above] and Dowswell's Introduction to the Second World War--1914-1918 & 1939-1945)
The World Wars by Paul Dowswell, et. al. (World Wars I and II--1914-1945)
Sir Charlie: Chaplin, the Funniest Man in the World by Sid Fleischman (Nonfiction/Biography/Actor/Comedian/Active--1914-1957)
Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I by Ann Bausum (Nonfiction/WWI-9.11/Comparative history/Home front--1914-2001)
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting by Jim Murphy (Nonfiction/WWI/Christmas truce/Western Front--1914)
The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick (Novel/WWI/France/Nurse--1915)
Remember the Lusitania! by Diana Preston (Nonfiction/Passenger liner/Naval disaster/World War I--1915)
The Panama Canal by Cobblestone (Nonfiction/Magazine/Articles trace history of canal/Opened--1915)
The Road from Home:: The Story of an Armenian Girl by David Sheridan (Fictionalized biography/Armenian Massacres--1915-1923)
Who Was Louis Armstrong? by Yona Zeldis McDonough (Nonfiction/Biography/New Orleans/Jazz legend--1915-1969)
Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917 by Sally M. Walker (Nonfiction/WWI/Maritime explosion--1917)
Sergeant York and the Great War by Tom Skeyhill (Nonfiction/WWI/based on journal--1917-1919)
Simple History: The Russian Revolution by Daniel Turner (Nonfiction--1917-1923)
Cameron Townsend: Good News in Every Language by Geoff and Janet Benge (Nonfiction/Biography/Christian Missionary/Wycliffe Bible Translators--missionary from 1917 to 1982)
A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier (Novel/Spanish Flu/Oregon--1918)
Wilderness and Wonder: The Life and Art of Georgia O'Keeffe by Susan Goldman Rubin (Nonfiction/Biography/American artist--1918-1972)
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan (British East Africa/Kenya--1919)
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield (Nonfiction--1919)
Strongmen: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy by Kenneth C. Davis (Nonfiction/Mussolini/Stalin/Hitler/Mao/For upper-Grammar--1919-2003)
Bo at Ballard Creek by Kirkpatrick Hill (Alaska/Orphan/Post Gold Rush--1920s)
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (China--1920s)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Classic/Ozark Mountains/Great Depression--1920s)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (Classic--1920s)
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz (U.S. women's suffrage--1920)
Moonshiner's Son by Carolyn Reader (Novel/Prohibition/Virginia/Blue Ridge Mountains--1920-1933)
The Brave Escape of Edith Wharton by Connie Nordhielm Woolridge (Nonfiction/Biography/American author/First woman to win Lit Pulitzer Prize--1921)
The Fire House Girl by Kay Honeyman (Novel/San Francisco/Chinese immigrants--1923)
First Flight Around the World: The Adventures of the American Fliers Who Won the Race by Tim Grove (Nonfiction/Aviation--1924)
Mary on Horseback: Three Mountain Stories by Rosemary Wells (Biographical fiction/Mary Breckinridge/Appalachia/Frontier Nursing Service--1925)
Homesick by Jean Fritz (China--mid 1920s)
Emily's Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary (Oregon/Public libraries--mid-1920s)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Nonfiction--1926-1945)
Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal (Nonfiction--1929)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Alabama--early 1930s)
Lumber Camp Library by Nancy Kinsey-Warnock (Western United States/Lumberjacks--early 1930s)
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (Florida--early 1930s)
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright (Wisconsin--1930s)
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Russia--1930s)
My Heart Lies South: The Story of My Mexican Marriage by Elizabeth Borton de Trevino (Nonfiction - Mexico--1930s)
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Oklahoma/Depression/Dust Bowl--1930s)
Blue Willow by Doris Gates (Novel/Itinerant farm workers/"Grapes of Wrath for Children"--1930s)
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley (Nonfiction/Oklahoma/Building a school--1930s)
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck (Illinois--1930s-1940s)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Maine farm--1930s or 40s)
Some Pig!: The Story of E. B. White by Melissa Sweet (Nonfiction/Biography/Writer, lived 1899-1985/Good tandem read with Charlotte's Web, set around--1930s-1940s)
Going Solo by Roald Dahl (Nonfiction - Africa/Europe/Middle East--1930s-1940s)
Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime by Janet and Geoff Benge (China/Christian missionary/Biography--1930s-1970)
Empire State Building: When New York Reached for the Skies by Elizabeth Mann (Nonfiction/Great Depression/Engineering/New York City--1931)
Years of Dust: The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin (Nonfiction/Great Depression/Drought/Great Plains farms--1931-1939)
FDR's Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, 1932-1939 by Tonya Bolden (Nonfiction/Franklin D. Roosevelt/Economic policy/Social conditions--1932-1939)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (southern U.S.A.--1933)
Katie Daynes (Nonfiction/Biography/Germany/In power--1920-1945, best studied during years as chancellor: 1933-1945)
The Holocaust by Zanna Davidson (Nonfiction/Jews/WWII--1933-1945)
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bertoletti (Nonfiction - Germany--1933-1945)
Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan (Germany-1933/Pennsylvania-1935/California-1942/New York City-1951)
China's Long March: 6000 Miles Of Danger by Jean Fritz (China--mid 1930s)
King of the Mound: my summer with Satchel Paige by Wes Tooke (Baseball/polio/North Dakota--1935)
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (California--1935)
Radioactive: How Irene Curie & Lise Meitner Revolutionized Science and Changed the World by Winifred Conkling (Nonfiction/Biography/Science/Nuclear fission/Nobel laueate in--1935)
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis (Michigan--1936)
The Berlin Boxing Club by Robert Sharenow (Novel/Berlin/Holocaust/Max Schmeling--1936)
Games of Deception: The True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany by Andrew Moraniss (Nonfiction/WWII/Sports--1936)
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown (Washington state/Berlin Olympics/Crew)
A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper (Novel/Spanish royals/post-Spanish Civil War/Rise of Nazis--1936)
Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War by Mónica Montañés (Historical fiction/Spain/Francisco Franco/Venezuela/Refugees/Siblings--1936-1939)
Inside the Hindenburg by Mireille Majoor [Giant Cutaway Book] (Nonfiction/Aerial disaster--1937)
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming (Nonfiction/Aviation/Female pilot/Generally studied when her plane went down--1937)
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (rural Illinois--1937)
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan (Graphic novel/Kansas/Dust Bowl--1937)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (Classic novel/Fantasy/First in series--1937)
Hitch by Jeanette Ingold (Great Depression/Montana/Civilian Conservation Corps--late-1930s)
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong (China--1937-1945)
Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World by Marilyn Nelson (Nonfiction/Biography/Female jazz musicians--1937-1949)
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America by Gail Jarrow (Nonfiction/Orson Welles/Radio Drama--1938-39)
Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (Nonfiction/WWII/Science/Atomic bomb--1938-1945)
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II by Lia Levi (Nonfiction/Biographical/Italy/Jewish experience--1938-1945)
Leaving China: An Artist Paints His World War II Childhood by James McMullan (Nonfiction/Memoir - Various locales--late 1930s-1940s)
The Second World War by Conrad Mason (Nonfiction/WWII/Causes, wars, aftermath--1930s-1940s)
The Story of the Second World War by Paul Dowswell (Nonfiction/WWII/Causes, wars, aftermath--1930s-1940s)
The World Wars by Ruth Brocklehurst and Paul Dowswell (Nonfiction/Combines two books: Introduction to the First World War by Brocklehurst and Dowswell's Introduction to the Second World War--1914-1918 & 1939-1945)
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (Novel/Warsaw/Jews/WWII/Nazis--1939)
Introduction to the Second World War by Paul Dowswell (Nonfiction/Survey--1939-1945)
It Began with a Parachute by William R. Rang (Novel/World War II/Dutch Resistance--1939-1945)
Daughter of the Mountains by Louise Rankin (Tibet/Himalayas--not specified, but perhaps 1940s)
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck (Japan/tsunamis--not specified, but perhaps 1940s)
World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today by Richard Maybury (Nonfiction--1940s)
White Stallion of Lipizza by Marguerite Henry (Historical fiction/World War II/Viennese riding school--1940s)
The Land I Lost: adventures of a boy in Vietnam by Huynh Quang Nhuong (Nonfiction - Vietnam--1940s)
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli (Venetian boy/abduction/forced labor--early 1940s)
Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev (Poland/countryside--early 1940s)
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson (Chesapeake Bay--early 1940s)
Choosing Courage: Inspiring Stories of What It Means to Be a Hero by Peter Collier (Various locales/WWII to Present--1940s-Present)
Torpedoed by Deborah Heligman (Nonfiction/WWII/Naval disaster/"The Children's Ship"--1940)
Girls at War by Ann Turnbull (Novel/London Blitz/WWII--1940-1941)
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (Warsaw Ghetto/Poland--1940-1944)
Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (Nazi occupied France--May 1940-June 1944)
A Garden of Thorns: My Memoir of Surviving World War II in France by Roger de Anfrazio (Nonfiction/Memoir - German occupation/Dijon, France--1940-1944)
The Winged Watchman by Hilda Van Stockum (Nazi occupied Netherlands--1940-1944)
The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin (Nazi occupied Netherlands--1940-1944)
Odette's Secrets by Maryann MacDonald (Nazi occupied Paris--1940-1945)
Top Secret Files: World War II: Spies, Secret Missions, & Hidden Facts by Stephanie Bearce (Nonfiction--1940-1945)
Winston Churchill: Soldier, Statesman, Artist by John B. Severance (Nonfiction - focuses primarily on the war years--1940-1945)
The MIssing: The True Story of My Family in World War II by Michael Rosen (Nonfiction/Family history/Jews in Poland and France/author famous children's author and poet--1940-1945)
Shadow on the Mountain by Margi Preus (Norway/based on true story/Grades 7-8--1940-1945)
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (France/based on true story/young spy--1940)
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (Norway/based on true story/Grades 5-6--1940)
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Battle of Dunkirk/Battle of Britain/Evacuation of children--1940)
Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan (Nove/Russia/German invasion/Leningrad--1941)
Paddle-to-the-Sea by Holling C. Holling (Fiction/Journey from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean/Geography--pub. 1941)
The Earth is Singing by Vanessa Curtis (Novel/Riga, Latvia/Nazi occupation--1941)
The Winter Horses by Philip Kerr (Novel/Ukraine/Nazi Occupation/great for horse lovers--1941)
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (Novel/WWII/WASP corp/African Americans--1941)
Air Raid -- Pearl Harbor! The Attack that Stunned the World by Theodore Taylor (Nonfiction/World War II/United States/Japan/Info from both sides--1941)
Pearl Harbor Attack by Edwin P. Hoyt (Nonfiction/World War II/United States/Japan/Sterling Point History/Info from both sides--1941)
Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii 1941 by Barry Denenberg (Epistolary novel/World War II/United States/Japanese attack/Dear America Series--1941)
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific by Mary Cronk Farrell (Nonfiction/World War II/Philippines--1941-1945)
Great Battles for Boys: WW2 Europe by Joe Giorello (Nonfiction/Survey--1941-1945)
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thomson (Nonfiction/WWII/Theresienstadt/Concentration camp/Primary sources--1941-1945)
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (Nonfiction - Siberia--1941-1945)
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Philip Hoose (Nonfiction/WWII/Danish Resistence/Sabotage--1941-1945)
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won by Stephen E. Ambrose (Nonfiction/Survey--1941-1945)
Once by Morris Gleitzman (Warsaw/Imagination vs. Reality--1942)
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (Poland/Siberia--1942)
Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams (Germany/Hitler Youth--1942)
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Novel/Helmuth Hübener/Biographical fiction/Anti-Hitler youth--1942)
Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier (Poland--1942)
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle (Rhode Island/Nazi submarines/German Americans--1942)
Lost in the Pacific, 1942: Not a Drop to Drink by Tod Olson (Nonfiction - Pacific Ocean/survival--1942)
The Darkest Hour by Caroline Tung Richmond (Novel/WWII/Women in espionage--c. 1942)
Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska's WWII Invasion by Samantha Seiple (Nonfiction/WWII/Aleutian Campaign--1942-1943)
Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust by Jennifer Roy (Nonfiction/Poland/Resistance workers--1942-1943)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (Nonfiction/Journal/WWII/Jewish Girl/Netherlands--1942-1944)
Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House by Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol (Nonfiction/WWII/Jewish Girl/Netherlands--1942-1944)
Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng (Nonfiction - WWII/Pacific theatre/Marines/American Indian code--1942-1945)
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac (1942-1945)
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (Grades 7/8--Japanese-American Internment--1942-1945)
Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II by Martin W. Sandler (Nonfiction--1942-1945)
Dash by Kirby Larson (Grades 5/6--Japanese-American Internment--1942-1946)
The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child by Francisco Jimenez (Nonfiction/Biography/Migrant agricultural workers/Mexican American workers--1943)
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Kluges (Los Alamos, New Mexico--1943)
The Great Escape: Tunnel to Freedom (Sterling Point Books) by Mike Meserole (Nonfiction - Germany/Stalag Luft III prison camp--1943)
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Denmark/Nazi Occupation/Resistance--1943)
Three Days at the Brink: FDR's Daring Gamble to Win World War II by Bret Baier [Young Readers' Edition] (Nonfiction/WWII/Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin/Formation of Allied powers--1943)
Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles: America's First Black Paratroopers by Tanya Lee Stone (Nonfiction--1943-1947)
Music was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein by Susan Goldman Rubin (Nonfiction/Biography/Composer/Music history/Active--1943-1990)
Under a War-Torn Sky by L. M. Elliott (Novel/France/WWII/Downed American pilot--1944)
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott (Novel in verse/WWII/Auschwitz/friendship--1944)
The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix (Nonfiction/WWII/Graphic Biography/Plot to assassinate Hitler--1944)
Tamar by Mal Peet (Novel/WWII/Dutch Resistance--1944)
Behind Enemy Lines: A Young Pilot's Story by H. R. Demallie (Nonfiction/Memoir/World War II/Holland--1944)
The Chestry Oak by Kate Seredy (Novel/World War II/Nazi occupation/Hungary--1944)
D-Day by Henry Brook (Nonfiction/WWII--1944)
Remember D-Day: The Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories by Ronald J. Drez (Nonfiction/World War II--1944)
Allies: D-Day. One Chance to Unite. Everything to Lose by Alan Gratz (Novel/World War II/D-Day--1944)
Invasion: The Story of D-Day by Bruce Bliven, Jr. (Nonfiction/World War II/Sterling Point History--1944)
Code Talkers by Joseph Bruchac (WWII/Navajo language/Guam/Iwo Jima/Okinawa--1944-1945)
Navajo Code Talkers: America's Secret Weapon in World War II by Nathan Aaseng (Nonfiction/WWII/Navajo language/Guam/Iwo Jima/Okinawa--1944-1945)
Invasion by Walter Dean Myers (Novel/WWII/Racism/war psychology--1944-1945)
Raoul Wallenberg: The Man Who Stopped Death by Sharon Linnea
(Nonfiction/Biography/Hungary/Swedish diplomat saves Jews--1944-1945)
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman (Novel/British India/Gender roles/Towards the end of WWII--c. 1944-1945)
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (Korea--1945)
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Peter Nelson (Nonfiction - WWII/Pacific theatre--1945)
The Girl with the White Flag by Tomiko Higa (Nonfiction/Memoir - Okinawa--1945)
Flags of our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima (Young Readers Adaption) by James Bradley (Nonfiction - WWII/Pacific theatre/Iwo Jima--1945)
I Escaped the World's Deadliest Shark Attack: The USS Indianapolis Disaster (WWII/Pacific/Naval--1945)
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (Novel/World War II/East Prussia/Refugees/Naval disaster-Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff--1945)
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren (Novel/Sweden--pub. 1945)
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis (Nonfiction/Graphic Memoir/Czechoslovakia--1945-1992)
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson (Nonfiction - Japan--1945-2005)
Eva Perón: First Lady of Argentina by Darlene Ruth Stille [Signature Lives: Modern World] (Nonfiction/Biography/Argentina/First Lady--1946-1952)
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry (Classic/Wild horses--1947)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord (New York--1947)
A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master (India/Partition--1947)
Blacklisted!: Hollywood, the Cold War, and the First Amendment by Larry Dane Brimner (Nonfiction/House Committee on Un-American Activities/McCarthyism/Communism/Prejudice--1947)
The Cold War: The 20th Century by Wendy Conklin [Primary Source Readers] (Nonfiction/Survey--1947-1991)
Cold War Leaders: The 20th Century by Wendy Conklin [Primary Source Readers] (Nonfiction/Survey--1947-1991)
Top Secret Files: The Cold War: Secrets, Special Missions, and Hidden Facts about the CIA, KGB, and MI6 by Stephanie Bearce [Top Secret Files of History] (Nonfiction/Survey--1947-1991)
The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill (Alaska/Athabascan--1948)
Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot" by Michael O. Tunnell (Nonfiction/Operation Little Vittles--1948-1949)
The Berlin Airlift by Michael Burgan (Nonfiction--1948-1949)
I. M. Pei: Architect of Time, Place, and Purpose by Jill Rubalcaba (Nonfiction/Biography/Architect/Chinese American--1948-2019)
Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom: a biography by Barry Denenberg (Nonfiction - South Africa--1940s-1990s)
Keeping Score by Linda Sue Park (Brooklyn Dodgers/Korean War--1950)
The Korean War by Michael Burgan (Historical fiction/You Choose Series-interactive multiple story plot lines--1950)
The Inn-Keeper's Apprentice by Allen Say (Japan--1950s)
The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Novel/Puerto Rico/culture clash--1950s)
Hidden Figured (Young Readers' Edition) by Margot Lee Shetterly (Nonfiction/Mathematicians/Female/African American/NASA--1950s)
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary (American suburbia--1950s)
Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (War related PTSD/Pennsylvania--1950s)
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Stalin/Soviet Union/political persecution--1950s)
DK Biography: Mother Teresa by Maya Gold (Nonfiction - India--1950s-1990s)
The Finest Hours: The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (Young Readers Adaptation) by Michael J. Tougias (Cape Cod/Coast Guard--1952)
God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew (Eastern Europe--1955)
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr (Japan/Hiroshima--1955)
One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue by Takayuki Ishii (Nonfiction/Biography/Japan/Hiroshima child atomic sickness death/National Peace Statue--1955)
Simeon's Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till by Simeon Wright (Nonfiction/Mississippi/African Americans/Racism/Lynching--1955)
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement by Angela Joy (Nonfiction/Picture book/Hate crime--murder/Difficult subject matter handled sensitively--1955)
The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis (Novel/Fantasy/First in Chronicles of Narnia series--pub. 1955)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose (Nonfiction/Segregation/Civil Rights/15 year old activist--1955)
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (Nonfiction - Alabama--December 1955-December of 1956)
The Vietnam War by Katie Daynes (Nonfiction/Causes, war, public opinion, peace--1955-1975)
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network That Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers (Nonfiction/Segregation--1956-1977)
The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Equal Education (A Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement) by Gary Jeffrey (Nonfiction/graphic retelling/racism/school integration--1957)
Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper (Novel/Racism/riots/school integration--1957)
The Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesentthal's Search for the Truth by Susan Goldman Rubin (Nonfiction/Holocaust/Anne Frank denier--1958)
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone (Nonfiction/Discrimination against women/Project Mercury 13--1959)
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry (Morocco, France, England--mid 1900s)
Water Sky by Jean Craighead George (Alaska--mid 1900s)
Tikta'liktak: An Inuit-Eskimo legend by James Houston (North American/Inuit--mid 1900s)
The Big Wave by Pearl S. Buck (Japan--mid 1900s)
It's a Jungle Out There by Ron Snell (Nonfiction/Peru/Mission kid stories--mid 1900s)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (Long Island, New York--1960s)
Dragonfly Eyes by Cao Wenxuan (Novel/China/Cultural Revolution/Mixed-race families/Grandparents--1960s)
The Vietnam War by Michael Burgan (Historical fiction/You Choose Series-interactive multiple story plot lines--1960s)
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip Through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney (Nonfiction/Music History/Soul music/African Americans/Civil Rights--1960s)
Harper Lee by Kerry Madden (Nonfiction/Biography/Suggest reading when To Kill a Mockingbird was published--1960)
Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez (Novel/Dominican Republic/Dictatorship--1960)
Enchanted Air by Enchanted Engle (Nonfiction/Cuba/Bay of Pigs--1961)
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Novel/Berlin Wall/Divided family/Escape from East Berlin--1961)
Children of the Storm by Natasha Vins (Nonfiction/Biography/Christians in the Soviet Union--1961)
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961 by Larry Dane Brimmer (Nonfiction/United States/Bus segregation protest--1961)
Boots on the Ground by Elizabeth Partridge (Nonfiction/Vietnam War--1961-1975)
Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (Pennsylvania--1962)
Listening to Crickets by Candice Ransom (Nonfiction/Biography/Rachel Carson--approx. 1962, when Silent Spring was published)
Janis Joplin: Rise Up Singing by (Nonfiction/Biography/Rock musician--1962-1970)
Who Was Bob Marley? by Katie Ellison (Nonfiction/Biography/Reggae musician--1962-1981)
The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis (Novel/African Americans/Car trip from Michigan to Alabama--1963)
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson (Nonfiction/Civil Rights Movement--1963)
March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin (Nonfiction/Graphic Autobiography/Civil Rights Movement/Congressman John Lewis/Trilogy/Spans Lewis's life, recommend studying in--1963)
"The President Has Been Shot!": The Assassination of John F. Kennedy by James L. Swanson (Nonfiction--1963)
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman (Novel/Northern girl in Mississippi/Racism--1964)
The Land I Lost by Quang Nhuong Huynh (Vietnam/United States--mid 1960s)
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children, and Don't You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (Nonfiction/Civil Rights/Selma to Montgomery Rights March--1965)
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of th 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery (Nonfiction/Memoir/Civil Rights March/Youngest member--1965)
We Are Not Beasts of Burden: Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike by Stuart A. Kallen (Nonfiction/California/Labor issues--1965-1970)
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang (Nonfiction - Memoir/Chinese Cultural Revolution--1966)
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (Nonfiction/Memoir/Kenya--1968-1986)
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia (California/Civil Rights Movement/Black Panthers--1968)
The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon (Novel/Chicago/Racism/Civil Rights Movement/Black Panthers--1968)
The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano by Sonia Manzano (Fiction/Harlem/Puerto Rican protests--1969)
The Wave by Todd Strasser (Novel/Based on actual event/Classroom experiment designed to show why citizens follow tyrants/Shows the perils of group-think/Experiment quickly spun out of control--1969)
Rickshaw Girl by Mitali Perkins (Bangledesh--late 1900s)
Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story by Beverly Naidoo (South Africa--late 1900s)
Chain of Fire by Beverly Naidoo [Sequel to Journey to Jo'burg] (South Africa--late 1900s)
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska (Spain--late 1900s)
The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac (New Hampshire/Pennacook reservation--late 1900s
Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach (Novel/Fable--pub. 1970)
The Smell of Other People's Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock (Novel/Alaska/Poverty/Friendship--1970s)
Ali and the Golden Eagle by Wayne Grover (Saudi Arabia--1970s)
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye (Arab-Israeli conflict/West Bank--1970s)
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry (Nevada/Based on life of Velma Bronn Johnston/Wild Free Roaming Horses and Burros Act--1971)
Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX: The Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America by Karen Blumenthal (Nonfiction/Equal Opportunity--1972)
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights: From the Vote to the Equal Rights Amendment by Deborah Kops (Nonfiction/Anti-women's discrimination/Most popular amendment never passed/Closest it ever came--1972)
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Nonfiction/Memoir/Vietnam/Immigrant--1975)
Who Is Bono? by Pam Pollack [Who Was? series] (Nonfiction/Biography/Musician/Philanthropist--1976-present)
Chu Ju's House by Gloria Whelan (China/post-Cultural Revolution--late 1970s)
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (New York City--1978-1979)
Water Sky by Jean Craighead George (Whaling/Eskimos/Alaska--not specified, but perhaps around 1980s)
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer (Mozambique/Zimbabwe--1981)
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech (Nonfiction/Africa--1983-2005)
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (Sudan, Africa--1985)
The Distance Between Us (Young Reader Edition) by Reyna Grande (Nonfiction/Child illegal immigrant--1985)
On Two Feet and Wings by Abbas Kazerooni (Nonfiction/Memoir - Iran-Iraq War/Istanbul, Turkey--1987-1990s)
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee (Nonfiction/Autobiography--1987-present)
The Tiananmen Square Massacre by Will Mara [Cornerstones of Freedom series] (Nonfiction/China/Student uprising--1989)
Tank Man: How a Photograph Defined China's Protest Movement by Michael Burgan (Nonfiction/China/Student uprising--1989)
Who Will Shout If Not Us?: Student Activists and the Tiananmen Square Protest, China, 1989 by Ann Kerns [Civil Rights Struggles Around the World] (Nonfiction/China/Student uprising--1989)
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys (Novel/Romania/Revolution/Dictatorship/spies--1989)
52 Days by Camel: My Sahara Adventure by Lawrence Raskin (Nonfiction - North Africa--1990s)
The Turning by Gloria Whelan (Russia/Leningrad/ballet/defection--1991)
My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary by Nadja Halilbegovich (Nonfiction/Memoir - Sarajevo/Teenager's perspective--1992-1995)
Nelson Mandela: A Photographic Story of a Life by Lenny Hort and Laaren Brown [DK Biography] (Nonfiction/Biography/South Africa/Apartheid/Active 1949-2013/President of South Africa--1994-1999)
Basher Five-Two by Scott O'Grady (Nonfiction/Memoir - Bosnia/survival--1995)
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince (Nonfiction/Memoir/War Orphan/Ballerina--1995-present)
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis (Afghanistan/Taliban rule--1996-2001 & 2012-present)
The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner (Nonfiction/Tyrone Hayes/Biologist/Effects of pesticides--1997-present)
What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau (Mexico--early 21st century)
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer (Wisconsin--2000)
Red Sand, Blue Sky by Cathy Applegate (Australian Outback--around 2000)
Shooting Kabul by N. H. Senzai (Novel/Afghan Refugees/California--2001)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans by Don Brown (Nonfiction/Graphic format/Doesn't pull punches -- maybe a bit harsh for some kids -- recommend ages 12+--2005)
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan (India/arranged, child marriage--time not specified, likely modern time)
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal (Nonfiction/Biography/Best book on subject for age group, but please, please, for the love of all things holy, point out to your kiddos that even editors can make a major miss and the title should be Thought Differently/Set in the framework of his Stanford Commencement Address, so read for--2015)
I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Malala Yousafzai (Nonfiction/Memoir - Pakistan--2009-Present)
The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor (Nonfiction/Supreme Court/Female Justice/Hispanic/suggest reading concurrent with her assuming her seat on the Court--2009
Make it Messy: My Perfectly Imperfect Life by Marcus Samuelsson (Nonfiction/Swedish-Ethiopian/Chef/Very long, storied career/His first restaurant, Red Rooster Harlem, opened--2010)
Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-ending War by Deborah Ellis (Nonfiction - Afghanistan/Preteen and teen lives--2011)
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian by Yusra Mardini (Nonfiction/Syrian boat refugee/Maritime disaster/Olympian--2015)
Ice Dogs by Terry Lynn Johnson (Novel/Sled Dogs/Wilderness survival--2015)
Proud: Living My American Dream (Young Reader Edition) by Ibtihaj Muhammad (Nonfiction/Muslim American woman/Olympic fencing--2016)
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration by Ann Bausum (Nonfiction/Survey/Suggest reading along as part of late modern history, as the issue is ongoing)
This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne (Nonfiction/Survey/Suggest reading along as part of late modern history, as the issue is ongoing)