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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2019

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Geography/Peoples/Places

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

A thousand beginnings and endings : 15 retellings of Asian myths and legends

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Self-Identity

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2018

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Ecology

Folktales

Pattan's pumpkin : a traditional flood story from southern India

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Women's History

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2017

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

First light, first life : a worldwide creation story

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2016

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

The crow's tale : a Lenni Lenape Native American legend

Geography/People/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Religion

Just for today

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2015

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Cinderella : 4 beloved tales

Geography/Peoples/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2014

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Geography/Peoples/Places, Culture

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2013

Biography

Contemporary Concerns

Environments/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Geography/People/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History & Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2012

Biography

Diego Rivera : his world and ours
Drawing from memory
First Girl Scout : the life of Juliette Gordon Low
The house Baba built : an artist's childhood in China
Irena Sendler and the children of the Warsaw Ghetto
Liberty's voice: the Emma Lazarus story
Me-- Jane
Marco Polo: history's great adventurer
Music was IT : young Leonard Bernstein
Nurse, soldier, spy : the story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero
Pablo Neruda : poet of the people
Queen of the Falls
Tillie the terrible Swede: how one woman, a sewing needle, and a bicycle changed history
Vincent van Gogh and the colors of the wind
Wideness and wonder: the life and art of Georgia O'Keefe
Wild women of the Wild West

Contemporary Concerns

Environment/Energy/Ecology

A storm called Katrina

Folktales

Geography/People/Places

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

Basketball belles: how two teams and one scrappy player put women's hoops on the map
Bootleg : murder, moonshine, and the lawless years of prohibition
Born and bred in the Great Depression
Chasing the Nightbird
Like the willow tree : the diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce
Flesh & blood so cheap : the Triangle fire and its legacy
Good fortune in a wrapping cloth
Heart and soul : the story of America and African Americans
Hurricane dancers : the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
Illegal
Jefferson's sons : a founding father's secret children
Kennedy through the lens: how photography and television revealed and shaped an extraordinary leader
The little black dress and zoot suits: Depression and wartime fashions from the 1930s to the 1950s
Lunch-box dream
Marching with Aunt Susan: Susan B. Anthony and the fight for women's suffrage
My name is not easy
A nation's hope : the story of boxing legend Joe Louis
Saga of the Sioux : an adaptation from Dee Brown's Bury my heart at Wounded Knee
Something to hold
The town that fooled the British: a War of 1812 story
Under the mambo moon
Witches! : the absolutely true tale of disaster in Salem
World War II: Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hirohito, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Reference

The great global puzzle challenge with Google Earth

Social Interactions/Relationships

The Berlin Boxing Club
Bronxwood
Charles Dickens and the street children of London
Dogtag summer
F is for friendship: a quilt alphabet
I am different! Can you find me?
I'm here
Leverage
A mango in the hand: a story told through proverbs
Phantoms in the snow
Wheels of change : how women rode the bicycle to freedom (with a few flat tires along the way)
Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures

World History & Cutlure

Before there was Mozart: the story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
Between shades of gray
Breaking Stalin's nose
Daughter of Xanadu
An elephant in the garden
The friendship doll
For the love of Mozart: the remarkable story of Maria Anna Mozart
The genius of Islam: how Muslims made the modern world
I will come back for you : a family in hiding during World War II
Inside out & back again
Megan's year: an Irish traveler's story
Mysterious bones : the story of Kennewick Man
Never forgotten
Ancient History
Out of shadows
Promise the night
Terezín : voices from the Holocaust
The third gift
Titanic sinks!
The watch that ends the night : voices from the Titanic
Words in the dust

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2011

Biography

Black Elk's vision : a Lakota story
The brave escape of Edith Wharton
Clemente!
The dreamer
Driven: a photobiography of Henry Food
The extraordinary Mark Twain (according to Susy)
Henry Aaron's dream
Jackie's gift
Janis Joplin : rise up singing
Kubla Khan: the emperor of everything
Lost boy: the story of the man who created Peter Pan
Lost boy, lost girl: escaping civil war in Sudan
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya
My Havana: memories of a Cuban boyhood
Odetta, the queen of folk
She sang promise: the story of Betty Mae Jumper, Seminole tribal leader
Soar, Elinor!
Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court Justice
Summer birds: the butterflies of Maria Merian
Under a red sky : memoir of a childhood in Communist Romania

Contemporary Concerns

31 ways to change the world
Boys without names
Ostrich boys
Saraswati's way
Scrawl : a novel
Shooting Kabul
Watch this space: designing, defending, and sharing public spaces

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Here comes the garbage barge!
In the garden with Dr. Carver
Three rivers rising : a novel of the Johnstown flood

Folktales

Joha makes a wish: a Middle Eastern tale
The Little Red Hen and the Passover matzah
The spider's gift: a Ukrainian Christmas story

Geography/People/Places

The chiru of high Tibet : a true story
Every bone tells a story : hominin discoveries, deductions, and debates
The humblebee hunter: inspired by the life & experiments of Charles Darwin and his children
The life of rice: from seedling to supper
A long walk to water
A long walk to water
E-book
Una larga travesía hasta el agua
Spanish translation
Rain school
Thunder from the sea: adventure on board the HMS Defender
Walden then & now: an alphabetical tour of Henry Thoreau's pond
Where the streets had a name

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

90 miles to Havana
Ballet for Martha : making Appalachian Spring
Birmingham Sunday
Busing Brewster
The captivating, creative, unusual history of comic books
Climbing Lincoln's steps: the African American journey
Countdown
The cowgirl way : hats off to America's women of the West
Dave the potter : artist, poet, slave
The fences between us : the diary of Piper Davis
Efrain's secret
Farm
The firehouse light
Fort Mose : and the story of the man who built the first free black settlement in colonial America
The good, the bad, and the Barbie : a doll's history and her impact on us
The Hallelujah Flight
Liberty or death : the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the British during the American Revolution
Missing in action
Moon over Manifest
New York City
Off like the wind!: the first ride of the pony express
Peter Kent's city across time
The ride: the legend of Betsy Dowdy
Roots and blues : a celebration
Selling hope
Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down
Sky sailors : true stories of the balloon era
Skywalkers: Mohawk ironworkers build the city
Sources of light
Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network that tried to destroy the civil rights movement
Stable
Summer's bloodiest days: the Battle of Gettysburg as told from all sides
The taxing case of the cows : a true story about suffrage
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group
Threads and flames
Turtle in paradise
Unraveling freedom: the battle for democracy on the home front during World War I
When Molly was a Harvey girl
Woods runner

Reference

Trains
Wild animal atlas : Earth's astonishing animals and where they live
Virginia Hamilton: speeches, essays, and conversations

Social Interactions/Relationships

8th grade superzero
After ever after
Betti on the high wire
Cakes and miracles : a Purim tale
Candy bomber : the story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"
The cardturner
Everlasting now
The firefly letters : a suffragette's journey to Cuba
Half brother
The heart and the bottle
Livvie Owen lived here
Milo : sticky notes and brain freeze
Ninth Ward
Nothing
On the Blue Commet
Our grandparents: a global album
The other half of my heart
Stand straight, Ella Kate: the true story of a real giant
The things a brother knows
The water seeker

World History & Culture

Alchemy and Meggy Swann
Annexed
Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Manjiro Nakahama
Hidden teens, hidden lives: primary sources from the Holocaust
I feel better with a frog in my throat : history's strangest cures
If stones could speak : unlocking the secrets of Stonehenge
La Noche Buena: a Christmas story
Poop happened! : a history of the world from the bottom up
Refusing to crumble: the Danish resistance in World War II
Resistance. Book 1
Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery, freedom, and science
Vietnam: the bloodbath at Hamburger Hill
The war to end all wars : World War I
Young Zeus
Zen ghosts

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2010

Biography

Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream
Anne Frank : her life in words and pictures from the archives of the Anne Frank House
Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
Boy on the lion throne: the childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama
Bylines : a photobiography of Nellie Bly
Catherine the Great: Empress of Russia
The champion of children : the story of Janusz Korczak
Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
The daring Miss Quimby
Darwin
Django
Ernest Hemingway : a writer's life
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelle
Mind your manners, Alice Roosevelt!
My name is Henry Bibb: a story of slavey and freedom
Long walk to freedom
Obama: the historic journey
Young reader's edition
Open the door to liberty! : a biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture
The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy
The secret world of Walter Anderson
Sky high: the true story of Maggie Gee
Soldier's secret: the story of Deborah Sampson
The true adventures of Charley Darwin
You never heard of Sandy Koufax?!

Contemporary Concerns

Cold hands, warm heart
If I grow up
If I had a hammer: building homes and hope with Habitat for Humanity
Listen to the wind : the story of Dr. Greg and Three cups of tea
Muchacho : a novel
No!
Peace, Locomotion
Positively
Purple Heart
Return to sender
Three cups of tea
Young reader's edition

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Hands of the rain forest: the Emberá people of Panama
Heroes of the environment
Our world of water : children and water around the world
We are the weather makers: the history of climate change

Folktales

Geography/People/Places

Follow that map! : a first look at mapping skills
One world, one day
River of dreams : the story of the Hudson River
London
When the whistle blows

History/Life & Culture in the Americas

1776: a new look at revolutionary Williamsburg
Blessing's bead
Change has come
Chasing George Washington
The crimson cap
Denied, detained, deported : stories from the dark side of American immigration
The devil's paintbox
Duck for Turkey Day
The Dust Bowl through the lens : how photography revealed and helped remedy a natural disaster
Ellis Island
Finding Lincoln
Flygirl
The giant-slayer
The Great Death
Home on the range: John A. Lomax and his cowboy songs
How to get rich on the Oregon Trail: my adventures among cows, crooks & heroes on the road to fame and fortune : writing journal of--Master William Reed: Portland, Oregon 1852
If America were a village: a book about the people of the United States
In our mothers' house
January's sparrow
Keep on!: the story of Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole
Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary
Mare's war
The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg
Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker: the unlikely friendship of Elizabeth Keckley and Mary Todd Lincoln
My name is Sangoel
A new nation: the United States, 1783-1815
Newsgirl
On Viney's mountain
Remember Little Rock: the time, the people, the stories
Road to revolution!
Ron's big mission
A savage thunder: Antietam and the bloody road to freedom
A season of gifts
The secret of the yellow death : a true story of medical sleuthing
Sweethearts of rhythm : the story of the greatest all-girl swing band in the world
Trains
Tricking the Tallyman
We troubled the waters
Written in bone : buried lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
The Yankee at the seder
Years of dust : the story of the Dust Bowl
You and me and home sweet home

Reference

A gift of days : the greatest words to live by
National Geographic kids almanac, 2010
Slavery: real people and their stories of enslavement
National Geographic student atlas of the world
Note: we do have a previous edition

Social Interactions/Relationships

All the world
Also known as Harper
Anything but typical
Autism and me: sibling stories
Bystander
Catching fire
El barrio
The enemy : a book about peace
Erika-san
Extra credit
Family reminders
Going bovine
Homegrown house
I call my grandma Nana
I call my grandpa Papa
Marcelo in the real world
Paulie Pastrami achieves world peace
Quicksand: HIV/AIDS in our lives
Shine, coconut moon
Ten things I hate about me
When you reach me
You are here

World History & Culture

14 cows for America
After Gandhi: one hundred years of nonviolent resistance
After the train
Alive in the killing fields: surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide
Atlas of ancient worlds
Barbarians!
Before Columbus : the Americas of 1491
Burn my heart
Chinese history stories: stories from the Zhou Dynasty, 1122-221 BC
Chinese history stories: stories from the Imperial Era, 221BC-AD1912
Faith
A family secret
A faraway island
The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust
Nasreen's secret school : a true story from Afghanistan
Neo Leo : the ageless ideas of Leonardo da Vinci
The other half of life : a novel based on the true story of the MS St. Louis
Pharaoh's boat
Pippo the Fool
Roman diary: the journal of Iliona of Mytilini, who was captured by pirates and sold as a slave in Rome, A.D. 107
Tropical secrets : Holocaust refugees in Cuba
A troubled peace
Truce : the day the soldiers stopped fighting
Tutankhamun
Waiting for the owl's call
War games: a novel based on a true story