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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2024

Biography

All rise : the story of Ketanji Brown Jackson
A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School
Boundless
Brave Volodymyr : the story of Volodymyr Zelensky and the fight for Ukraine
Cantora : Mercedes Sosa, the voice of Latin America
Contenders : two Native baseball players, one World Series
Cut! : how Lotte Reiniger and a pair of scissors revolutionized animation
Sonia Sotomayor
Rosa Parks & Claudette Colvin : civil rights heroes
Jackie Ormes draws the future : the remarkable life of a pioneering cartoonist
Jovita wore pants : the story of a Mexican freedom fighter
Kati's tiny messengers : Dr. Katalin Karikó and the battle against COVID-19
Ketanji : justice jackson's journey to the u.s. supreme court
Ketanji Brown Jackson : a justice for all
Lift every voice and change
American dreams
Loud and proud : the life of Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm
Major Taylor : world cycling champion
Make way : the story of Robert McCloskey, Nancy Schön, and some very famous ducklings
Masked hero : how Wu Lien-teh invented the mask that ended an epidemic
Milloo's mind : the story of Maryam Faruqi, trailblazer for women's education
Muzoon : a Syrian refugee speaks out
The presidents decoded : a guide to the leaders who shaped our nation
Put your shoes on & get ready!
She kept dancing : the true story of a professional dancer with a limb difference
This Indian kid : a Native American memoir
The trailblazing life of Viola Desmond : a civil rights icon
Voices of the people : introduction to famous indigenous leaders
We are your children too : Black students, White supremacists, and the battle for America's schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia
What your ribbon skirt means to me : Deb Haaland's historic inauguration

Contemporary Concerns

Ajay and the Mumbai Sun
All you have to do
The artivist
Borderless
Calling the moon : 16 period stories from BIPOC authors
Cape
Dark testament : blackout poems
Door by door
Finding Papa
The great banned-books bake sale
A hero like me
I'm an American
Mascot
Promise boys
Stand as tall as the trees : how an Amazonian community protected the rain forest
Stand up and speak out against racism
Swimming toward a dream : Yusra Mardini's incredible journey from refugee to Olympic swimmer
That flag
Too small Tola gets tough
Top story
Warrior girl unearthed
Your plantation prom is not okay

Folktales

Eagle drums

Global Connections

The walking school bus

Geography/Peoples/Places

Amazing : Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who inspire us all
Ancestory : the mystery and majesty of ancient cave art
From here : a memoir
Lei and the fire goddess
Marvelous maps : the world as you have never seen it before
Colonization and the Wampanoag story
Rise up and sing! : power, protest, and activism in music
The walk
All aboard the schooltrain : a little story from the Great Migration
America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history
An American story
Dear yesteryear
Doomed : Sacco, Vanzetti, and the end of the American dream
Family style : memories of an American from Vietnam
Farewell Cuba, mi isla
Christopher Columbus and the Taino people
How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Kin : rooted in hope
A long time coming : a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
More than a dream : the radical march on Washington for jobs and freedom
My red, white, and blue
Parachute kids
Slavery and the African American story
The secret pocket
Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation
Young readers edition
What was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921?

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

The carpet : an Afghan family story
A dupatta is ...
Hanukkah upside down
Hope against hope
Last flight
The little match girl strikes back
The lost year
Mama Shamsi at the bazaar
Run and hide
Stars of the night : the courageous children of the Czech Kindertransport
The witness trees
A year of Black joy : 52 Black voices share their life passions
The yellow áo dài
Yukie's island : my family's World War II story

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2023

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Carrimebac : the town that walked

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Identity

Pink, blue, and you! : questions for kids about gender stereotypes

Power, Authority, Governance

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2022

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Geography/People/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interaction/Relationships

World History & Cultures

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2021

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

A wish in the dark

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Science, Technology & Society

Atomic women : the untold stories of the scientists who helped create the nuclear bomb

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Other (Civics)

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2020

Biography

Contemporary Conerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Riding a donkey backwards : wise and foolish tales of Mulla Nasruddin

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Women's History