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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2009

Biograhpy

Contemporary Concerns

Economics

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Way up and over everything

Geography/People/Places

Afghan dreams : young voices of Afghanistan
The butter man
Chee-lin : a giraffe's journey
Emperors of the ice : a true story of disaster and survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
Fearless
How I learned geography
India
Monsoon afternoon
National Geographic United States atlas for young explorers
On a road in Africa
Sunrise over Fallujah
Beijing
The tree
The wakame gatherers
What the world eats

History/Life and Culture in the Americas

Reference

Social Interactions/Relationships

Traditional Lit./Myths

Mythological creatures : a classical bestiary : tales of strange beings, fabulous creatures, fearsome beasts, & hideous monsters from ancient Greek mythology

World History and Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2008

Biography

Civic Ideals and Practices

The cupcake thief

Contemporary Concerns

Economics

Lawn boy

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Folktales

Glass slipper, gold sandal : a worldwide Cinderella
Rough, tough Charley
Martina, the beautiful cockroach : a Cuban folktale
Martina, una cucarachita muy linda: un cuento cubano

Geography/People/Places

Battling in the Pacific: soldiering in World War II
Roman legions on the march: soldiering in the ancient Roman Army
Night of the howling dogs
The secret of Priest's Grotto : a Holocaust survival story
Ziba came on a boat

History/Life and Culture in the Americas

The brothers' war : Civil War voices in verse
Come look with me: Latin American art
D is for drinking gourd : an African American alphabet
Dadblamed Union Army cow
Diamonds in the shadow
Elijah of Buxton
Fire from the rock
Five little gefiltes
Gibson girls and suffragists : perceptions of women from 1900 to 1918
Flappers and the new American woman: perceptions of women from 1918 through the 1920s
Gidgets and women warriors: perceptions of women in the 1950s and 1960s
Ms. and the material girls: perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s
Rosie and Mrs. America: perceptions of women in the 1930s and 1940s
Greetings from planet earth
Harlem summer
Henry's freedom box
The impossible patriotism project
My dadima wears a sari
Old Penn Station
On my journey now : looking at African-American history through the spirituals
On the wings of heroes
Pappy's handkerchief
Presidential races : the battle for power in the United States
The real Benedict Arnold
Rudy rides the rails : a Depression era story
Seeing the elephant : a story of the Civil War
Sweet land of liberty
Tough times
The ultimate weapon : the race to develop the atomic bomb
Uprising
Useful fools
Who was first? : discovering the Americas
Why?
The world made new : why the Age of Exploration happened & how it changed the world

Social Interactions/Relationships

World History and Culture

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2007

Biography

The adventurous life of Myles Standish and the amazing-but-true survival story of Plymouth Colony
Adventurous women : eight true stories about women who made a difference
Akira to Zoltán: twenty-six men who changed the world
Berenice Abbott, photographer: an independent vision
The cat with the yellow star : coming of age in Terezin
Counting coup : becoming a Crow chief on the Reservation and beyond
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Good fortune: my journey to Gold Mountain
Gordon Parks : no excuses
I am Marc Chagall
Jane Addams : champion of democracy
Jim Thorpe : original All-American
John Muir : America's first environmentalist
Marvelous Mattie : how Margaret E. Knight became an inventor
A mind with wings: the story of Henry David Thoreau
Now & Ben : the modern inventions of Benjamin Franklin
Of numbers and stars : the story of Hypatia
Onward : a photobiography of African-American polar explorer Matthew Henson
Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium
Stompin' at the Savoy : the story of Norma Miller
Through Georgia's eyes
Viktor Frankl : a life worth living

Civic Ideals and Practices

My senator and me : a dog's eye view of Washington, D.C.

Contemporary Concerns

Angel City
Ask me no questions
Genocide: modern crimes against humanity
Hurricane hunters! : riders on the storm
Hurricane Katrina : aftermath of disaster
I remember Miss Perry
La línea
Little Mamá forgets
Over a thousand hills I walk with you
Prizefighter en Mi Casa
Small steps
Sold
Sparrow
Suicide bombers : [foot soldiers of the terrorist movement]
When I grow up, I will win the Nobel Peace Prize

Environment/Energy/Ecology

The North Pole was here : puzzles and perils at the top of the world
Oh, rats! : the story of rats and people
Tsunami : the true story of an April Fools' Day disaster
Wild lives: a history of the people & animals of the Bronx Zoo

Folktales

The best beekeeper in Lalibela: a tale from Africa
Tales our abuelitas told : a Hispanic folktale collection
Tunjur! Tunjur! Tunjur! : a Palestinian folktale

Geography/People/Places

Africa for kids : exploring a vibrant continent, 19 activities
Celebrate Diwali with sweets, lights, and fireworks
Celebrate Hanukkah with light, latkes and dreidels
Celebrate Ramadan and Eid al-fitr with praying, fasting, and charity
Celebrate Thanksgiving with turkey, family, and counting blessings
Forbidden City : China's imperial palace
Mia's story: a sketchbook of hopes and dreams
The Navajo year, walk through many seasons
Pompeii: lost and found
Small beauties: the journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara
Tour America : a journey through poems and art

History/Life and Culture in the Americas

5000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight from slavery
Abbie in stitches
Across the blue Pacific : a World War II story
The American story : 100 true tales from American history
Black duck
Blood on the river : James Town 1607
Bread and roses, too
Bread and roses, too
E-book
The buffalo soldier
Bushnell's submarine: the best kept secret of the American Revolution
Copper sun
Counting on Grace
Dancing with Katya
Dear Mr. Rosenwald
Desperate journey
First freedoms: a documentary history of First Amendment Rights in America
Florida, 1513-1821
Georgia, 1521-1776
New York, 1609-1776
Rhode Island, 1636-1776
Delaware, 1638-1776
California, 1542-1850
Freedom Riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of the civil rights movement
Freedom walkers : the story of the Montgomery bus boycott
Geronimo
The green glass sea
Hattie Big Sky
Hearts of stone
Journeys for freedom : a new look at America's story
Kids make history : a new look at America's story
Ladies first : 40 daring American women who were second to none
Landed
Monkey town: the summer of the Scopes trial
Moses : when Harriet Tubman led her people to freedom
My last skirt : the story of Jennie Hodgers, Union soldier
Night boat to freedom
Nobody gonna turn me 'round : stories and songs of the civil rights movement
Pop's bridge
Primary source accounts of the Vietnam War
The race for space : the United States and the Soviet Union compete for the new frontier
Remember Little Bighorn : Indians, soldiers, and scouts tell their stories
The roaring 20: the first cross-country air race for women
Salaam : a Muslim American boy's story
Saving the buffalo
Singing hands
The tragic tale of Narcissa Whitman and a faithful history of the Oregon Trail
Victory
Weedflower
The wonder kid
Yoon and the Christmas mitten

Reference

The Bill of Rights
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Mayflower Compact
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the High Middle Ages
The great circle : a history of the First Nations
Our Constitution
National Geographic our world: a child's first picture atlas

Social Interactions/Relationships

Bowery girl
A brief chapter in my impossible life
Jackie's bat
The killer's tears
Moving north : African Americans and the Great Migration, 1915-1930
Speaking out: the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1964
The patch
Pieces of Georgia
Ryan and Jimmy : and the well in Africa that brought them together
Sand dollar summer
Skin
Standing against the wind
Time's memory
Uncle Peter's amazing Chinese wedding
Vive la Paris
The weight of the sky
What a family! : a fresh look at family trees
What the moon saw

World History and Culture

Alphabet of dreams
The amazing story of Adolphus Tips
Behind the mask
The book thief
The braid
Christmas in the trenches
Emil and Karl
Escaping into the night
The foreshadowing
Lugalbanda : the boy who got caught up in a war
Megiddo's shadow
Pirates
The white ram: a story of Abraham and Isaac
The wicked history of the world : history with the nasty bits left in!
Yellow star

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2006

Biography

50 American heroes every kid should meet!
Amelia to Zora: twenty-six women who changed the world
America through the lens: photographers who changed the nation
American heroes
Anne Frank
Bach's Goldberg Variations
Back to year zero
The bus ride that changed history : the story of Rosa Parks
Celiz Cruz, queen of salsa
Dangerous crossing: the revolutionary voyage of John Quincy Adams
Delivering justice: W.W. Law and the fight for civil rights
Dreamer from the village: the story of Marc Chagall
The forbidden schoolhouse : the true and dramatic story of Prudence Crandall and her students
The founders: the 39 stories behind the U.S. Constitution
Georgia's bones
Good brother, bad brother : the story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
Gwendolyn Brooks: "poetry is life distilled"
Houdini: world's greatest mystery man and escape king
How high can we climb? : the story of women explorers
I could do that : Esther Morris gets women the vote
Jazz A-B-Z
Joe Louis : America's fighter
John Lennon : all I want is the truth : a photographic biography
The journey that saved Curious George: the true wartime escape fo Margret and H.A. Rey
Little green: growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Oskar Schindler: saving Jews from the Holocaust
Our Eleanor : a scrapbook look at Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable life
The perfect wizard: Hans Christian Andersen
Roberto Clemente : pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates
Sixteen years in sixteen seconds : the Sammy Lee story
The travels of Benjamin of Tudela: through three continents in the twelfth century
Wise guy: the life and philosophy of Socrates
The young Hans Christian Andersen
Young Thomas Edison

Contemporary Concers

The AIDS epidemic: disaster & survival
Americans who tell the truth
And Tango makes three
Carl the complainer
Helicopter man
Heroes and she-roes: poems of amazing and everyday heroes
Late modernism
The librarian of Basra : a true story from Iraq
Peace one day: the making of World Peace Day
Red hot salsa : bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States
Strong at the heart : how it feels to heal from sexual abuse
Theories of relativity
This is America: the American spirit in places and people

Environment/Energy/Ecology

Dust bowl!: the 1930s black blizzards

Folktales

Fairy trails
Kallaloo! a Caribbean tale
The Old African
A season for mangoes
Zen shorts

Geography, Peoples, & Places

Are we there yet? a journey around Australia
Chinese New Year
Going fishing
Going to school in India
Happy feet
Julio's magic
Recess at 20 below
Shackleton's stowaway
Sled dogs run
Tsunami: helping each other
You and me together: moms, dads, and kids around the world

History, Life, & Culture in the Americas

Abby takes a stand
Black storm comin'
Built to last : building America's amazing bridges, dams, tunnels, and skyscrapers
Catch a tiger by the toe
Code talker : a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Crooked river
Dad, Jackie, and me
Day of tears : a novel in dialogue
Dzání yázhí naazbaa = Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: a story of the Navajo Long Walk
The fight for peace: a history of antiwar movements in America
Freedom on the menu: the Greensboro sit-ins
The journey of the one and only Declaration of Independence
The king of Mulberry Street
Let it begin here!: Lexington & Concord: first battles of the American Revolution
Let me play : the story of Title IX : the law that changed the future of girls in America
Mudball
New boy
New Jersey, 1609-1776
Virginia, 1607-1776
The real revolution : the global story of American independence
Show way
Smiler's bones
A sweet smell of roses
Sweetgrass basket
Twenty-one elephants and still standing
Under a standstill moon
Willow Run
Worlds apart
A wreath for Emmett Till

Reference

Elizabeth I: the outcast who became England's queen
Galileo : the genius who faced the inquisition

Social Interactions & Relationships

The baby on the way
The center of the world
Eyes of the emperor
Hewitt Anderson's great big life
Let them play
Lunch money
Not exactly normal
Supergrandpa
Superabuelo
The tequila worm
Under the persimmon tree
We beat the street: how a friendship pact led to success
Where the great hawk flies

World History & Culture

Bodies from the ash
The flag with fifty-six stars : a gift from the survivors of Mauthausen
Hidden child
Hitler Youth : growing up in Hitler's shadow
I will plant you a lilac tree : A memoir of a Schindler's list survivor
Mahjong all day long
Many ways: how families practice their beliefs and religions
Powder monkey: adventures of a young sailer
Remember World War II
The secret seder
Understanding the Holy Land : answering questions about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2005

Biography

Amazing Mr. Franklin, or, the boy who read everything
Andy Warhol : prince of pop
The boy on Fairfield Street : how Ted Geisel grew up to become Dr. Seuss
César : sí, se puede! yes, we can!
Escape from Saigon : a Vietnam War orphan becomes an American boy
Gargoyles, girders, and glass houses: magnificent master builders
George Washington : an illustrated biography
Grandma Moses
Hachiko : the true story of a loyal dog
Helen Keller: a determined life
Henry works
High as a hawk : a brave girl's historic climb
Knockin' on wood: starring Peg Leg Bates
Martin Luther King Jr.: dreaming of equality
Odd boy out : young Albert Einstein
The power of one : Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
The president is shot!: the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Sequoyah : the Cherokee man who gave his people writing
The Seuss, the whole Seuss, and nothing but the Seuss : a visual biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel
Squirrel and John Muir
The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and the struggle for equal rights
Walt Whitman : words for America
Where Washington walked
A woman for president : the story of Victoria Woodhull

Contemporary Concerns

Candy shop
A dream of freedom : the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968
First crossing : stories about teen immigrants
Genetic engineering
Global counterstrike: international counterterrorism
Hard hat area
A heart divided
Home
In your face: the culture of beauty and you
The Persian Gulf and Iraqi wars
Pete for president!
Real time
Remember, Grandma?
Spilled water
Thura's diary : my life in wartime Iraq
The trial of the police officers in the shooting death of Amadou Diallo: a headline court case

Folktales

Basho and the river stones
Don Quixote and the windmills
A fine St. Patrick's day
Kumak's fish: a tall tale from the far north
The people could fly : the picture book
A pride of African tales

Geography, Peoples, and Places

Antarctica: journeys to the South Pole
Be my neigbor
The coast mappers
Curse of the pharaohs: my adventures with mummies
Earthquake!: on a peaceful spring morning disaster strikes San Francisco
An elephant in the backyard
Hannah is my name
Poles apart: why penguins and polar bears will never be neighbors

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

Away to the goldfields!
The breaker boys
Building Liberty: a statue is born
Chinese in America
Circle unbroken : the story of a basket and its people
City of snow: the Great Blizzard of 1888
Clatter bash! : a Day of the Dead celebration
Devil on my heels
Dust to eat : drought and depression in the 1930's
Enemies of slavery
Exiled : memoirs of a camel
Fire in the hole!
George Washington, spymaster : how America outspied the British and won the Revolutionary War
Going North
Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance
Hear that train whistle blow!: how the railroad changed the world
How I found the Strong
Mable Riley : a reliable record of humdrum, peril, and romance
Miss Bridie chose a shovel
Mississippi morning
Powerful words : more than 200 years of extraordinary writing by African Americans
The quilt
Remember : the journey to school integration
Rosetta, Rosetta, sit by me!
With courage and cloth : winning the fight for a woman's right to vote
Yankee girl
York's adventures with Lewis and Clark : an African-American's part in the great expedition

Reference

Great discoveries & amazing adventures
Wonders and miracles: a Passover companion

Social Interactions and Relationships

Al Capone does my shirts
Bully blockers club
Henry and the kite dragon
Jackson Jones and Mission Greentop
The Milestones Project: celebrating childhood around the world
Monsoon summer
Private and confidential: a story about Braille
Say something
To be an artist

World History and Culture

African princess : the amazing lives of Africa's royal women
Archaeology
The cats in Krasinski Square
Escape to West Berlin
Hana in the time of the tulips
Impact of the Holocaust
John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise
Kazunomiya: prisoner of heaven
Petals in the ashes
Private Peaceful
Remember D-day : the plan, the invasion, survivor stories

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2004

Biography

Airborne: a photobiograpy of Wilbur and Orville Wright
Ben Franklin's almanac : being a true account of the good gentleman's life
Bicycle madness
Blind Boone: piano prodigy
Carl Sandburg : adventures of a poet
The daring Nellie Bly: America's star reporter
Demanding justice: a story about Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Dvorák in America: in search of the New World
Extraordinary Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
Facing the lion: growing up Maasai on the African savanna
Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
First flight: the story of the Wright brothers
Frederick Douglass: for the great family of man
George Washington's teeth
Hana's suitcase : a true story
Harvesting hope : the story of Cesar Chavez
Heading out: the start of some splendid careers
How Ben Franklin stole the lightning
Jack : the early years of John F. Kennedy
King of the mild frontier : an ill-advised autobiography
Leonardo, beautiful dreamer
Mahalia Jackson: the voice of gospel and civil rights
The man who made time travel
My brother Martin : a sister remembers growing up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Or give me death: a novel of Patrick Henry's family
Photography and the making of the American West
Portraits of African-Amerian heroes
Rabble rousers : 20 women who made a difference
Race for the sky: the Kitty Hawk diaries of Johnny Moore
Rachel : the story of Rachel Carson
Rider in the sky: how an American cowboy built England's first airplane
River boy : the story of Mark Twain
The sun, the rain, and the apple seed : a novel of Johnny Appleseed's life
Theodore Roosevelt : champion of the American spirit
To the top: the story of Everest
A voice of her own : the story of Phillis Wheatley, slave poet
The Wright sister: Katharine Wright and her famous brothers

Contemporary Concerns

Boy meets boy
Buddha boy
Camp of the angel
The carpet boy's gift
Colibrí
Cuba 15
Finding our way : stories
Iqbal
Night is gone, day is still coming : stories and poems by American Indian teens and young adults
Out of bounds: seven sotries of conflict and hope
Rainbow high
September 11, 2001 : attack on New York City
Should we have pets?: a persuasive text
Vote!
Year of no rain

Environment and Ecology

America's mountains
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, what do you see?
Recycle every day!
Sparrow Jack

Folktales

Beautiful blackbird
Horse hooves and chicken feet : Mexican folktales
Kogi's mysterious journey
Moon's cloud blanket
Mrs. Chicken and the hungry crocodile
My grandmother's stories: a collection of Jewish folk tales
Mystic horse
When the chickens went on strike

Geography, People, and Places

Coming to America : a Muslim family's story
Education for all: floating schools, cave classrooms, and backpacking teachers
The war on hunger: dealing with dictators, deserts, and debt
Everybody works
The DK geography of the world
Grand Central Terminal: gateway to New York City
Half and half
It's back to school we go: first day stories from around the world
The Kingfisher geography encyclopedia
Minik's story
Murals : walls that sing
National Geographic world atlas for young explorers
Note: we do have the third edition
Niño's mask
Saba: under the hyena's foot
Uluru, Australia's Aboriginal heart
Who came first : new clues to prehistoric Americans

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

Aleutian sparrow
Alice Yazzie's year
America the beautiful
America's great disasters
American patriots: the story of Blacks in the military from the Revolution to Desert Storm
An American plague : the true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793
The opening of the West
Art is...
Blues journey
Buffalo : with selections from Native-American song-poems : illustrated with original paintings
Capital
Chig and the second spread
Cowboys & longhorns
Gettysburg: the legendary battle and the address that inspired a nation
Empire State Building: when New York reached for the skies
Enduring wisdom: sayings from Native Americans
Flight of the Fisherbird
The flyers
Freedom roads: searching for the Underground Railroad
Girl wonder: a baseball story in nine innings
A good night for freedom
The great expedition of Lewis and Clark: by Private Reubin Field, member of the Corps of Discovery
The home front during World War II in American history
Hour of freedom: American history in poetry
I dream of trains
In defense of liberty : the story of America's Bill of Rights
Inside the Alamo
Linda Brown, you are not alone: the Brown v. Board of Education decision
Mysteries of history
Paul Revere's ride: the landlord's tale
The picture book of Lewis and Clark
The printer
Seaward born
Shutting out the sky : life in the tenements of New York, 1880-1924
Skillet bread, sourdough, and vinegar pie: cooking in pioneer days
Society's sisters: stories of women who fought for social justice in America
Stars and stripes : the story of the American flag
A sweet year: a taste of the Jewish holidays
Touching the sky: the flying adventures of Wilbur and Orville Wright
The traitor : Golden Mountain chronicles, 1885
We are Americans : voices of the immigrant experience
We asked for nothing: the remarkable journey of Cabeza de Vaca
Welcome to Kaya's world, 1764: growing up in a Native American homeland
Whale snow
Witch-hunt : mysteries of the Salem witch trials

Reference

Children's world atlas
State-by-state atlas
Children's encyclopedia of American history

Social Interactions & Relationships

At the end of words: a daughter's memoir
Bluebonnet girl
The crying rocks
The first part last
Hallelujah Handel
Necessary noise : stories about our families as they really are
Old Turtle and the broken truth
Respecting others
Where in the world

World History & Culture

Archers, alchemists, and 98 other medieval jobs you might have loved or loathed
1500
Boxes for Katje
Buddhism
Castles & forts
Mummies
Creation
Daughter of the wind
The epic of Gilgamesh
How people live
How sweet it is (and was) : the history of candy
The impossible journey
It's a miracle!: a Hanukkah storybook
The Library of Alexandria
Milkweed : a novel
Mosque
The orphans of Normandy: a true story of World War II told through drawings by children
The Queen's progress: an Elizabethan alphabet
The Ravenmaster's secret : escape from the Tower of London
Remember the Lusitania
Room in the heart
Shakespeare's spy
Ship of fire
Tenzin's deer: a Tibetan tale
To the edge of the world
Voices of ancient Egypt
The warhorse
Who was the woman who wore the hat?

Economics

Globalize it!: the stories of the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and those who protest
The hard-times jar
Send it!

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2003

Biography

Ansel Adams: America's photographer
Champion: the story of Muhammad Ali
Confucius : the golden rule
Ella Fitzgerald: the tale of a vocal virtuosa
The fantastic journey of Pieter Bruegel
Far beyond the garden gate : Alexandra David-Neel's journey to Lhasa
Fruitlands: Louisa May Alcott made perfect
Girl in a cage
Inventing the future: a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison
John Lewis : from freedom rider to Congressman
Langston Hughes: American poet
The life and death of Adolf Hitler
Mahalia: a life in gospel music
One sky above us
Osama bin Laden : a war against the West
Peaceful protest: the life of Nelson Mandela
A picture book of Dwight David Eisenhower
Secrets from the rocks: dinosaur hunting with Roy Chapman Andrews
The signers : the 56 stories behind the Declaration of Independence
The sky's the limit : stories of discovery by women and girls
A strong right arm : the story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
Talkin' about Bessie : the story of aviator Elizabeth Coleman
Ten kings and the worlds they ruled
This land was made for you and me : the life and songs of Woody Guthrie
To fly : the story of the Wright brothers

Contemporary Concerns

911 : the book of help
After the death of Anna Gonzales
Amy
The Chicago Seven political protest trial: a headline court case
A corner of the universe
Double Dutch
Home at last
Left for dead: a young man's search for the USS Indianapolis
A life like mine: how children live around the world
Our Gracie Aunt
Patrol
Peanut's emergency
A perfect snow
The Recess Queen
Refugee boy
Shattered: stories of children and war
The teddy bear
This place I know : poems of comfort
Tulsa burning
Understanding September 11th : answering questions about the attacks on America
The Vietnam War : a history in documents
The White Swan express : a story about adoption

Environment and Ecology

A cool drink of water
Smokejumpers one to ten

Folktales

Adelita : a Mexican Cinderella story
All the way to Lhasa: a tale from Tibet
Can you guess my name? : traditional tales around the world
Jack outwits the giant
Kumak's house : a tale of the far north
Lost in the labyrinth
The nightingale
Sense Pass King: a story of Cameroon
The twins and the Bird of Darkness: a hero from the Caribbean
What about me?
Yonder mountain: a Cherokee legend

Geographym Peoples, and Places

A basket of bangels: how a business begins
Celebrating a Quinceañera : a Latina's fifteenth birthday celebration
Chang and the bamboo flute
Daisy comes home
Everest : reaching for the sky
A full hand
If the world were a village : a book about the world's people
The kite rider
The Maori of New Zealand
Monkey for sale
My Chinatown: one year in poems
Of beetles and angels: a boy's remarkable journey from a refugee camp to Harvard
On the town : a community adventure
One leaf rides the wind : counting in a Japanese garden
Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex
In the heart of the sea : the true story of the whaleship Essex
Originally published under the title "Revenge of the whale : the true story of the whaleship Essex"
Tenement : immigrant life on the Lower East Side
We are the many : a picture book of American Indians

History, Life, & Culture in the Americas

American Revolution
Shakespeare
Ashes of roses
Before we were free
Big Jimmy's Kum Kau Chinese take out
Chaco Canyon
Civil War A to Z: a young readers' guide to over 100 people, places, and points of importance
Crossing the panther's path
The daring escape of Ellen Craft
Rescue on the Outer Banks
Fields of fury: the American Civil War
Flight to freedom
The great horse-less carriage race
The great serum race : blazing the Iditarod Trail
Growing up in revolution and the new nation, 1775 to 1800
Hands of the Maya: villagers at work and play
Headin' for better times : the arts of the great depression
Henry David's house
The house in the mail
Indian shoes
The man with the silver oar
Mississippi trial, 1955
No More!: stories and songs of slave resistance
Numbering all the bones
Paul Revere's midnight ride
The place at the edge of the earth
Red midnight
Remember the bridge: poems of a people
Samuel Adams : son of liberty, father of revolution
Note: we do have the e-book
Six days in October : the stock market crash of 1929
Sparks fly upward
Togo
When the circus came to town
When Marian sang : the true recital of Marian Anderson : the voice of a century
Where the ground meets the sky
The winter people

Reference

Social Interactions & Relationships

World History & Culture

Ancient Egypt revealed
Auschwitz
A brave soldier
Crispin : the cross of lead
Doomed Queen Anne
The emperor's silent army: terracotta warriors of ancient China
Everyday life in the ancient world
Feed the children first : Irish memories of the Great Hunger
Galen: my life in imperial Rome: an ancient world journal
Magnificent voyage : an American adventurer on Captain James Cook's final expedition
One love, one heart : a history of reggae
Quiver
Seven wonders of the ancient world
The village that vanished
When my name was Keoko
Where the action was: women war correspondents in World War II
Zulu dog

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2002

Biography

After the Holocaust
Alone across the Arctic: one woman's epic journey by dog team
B. Franklin, printer
Bad boy : a memoir
Born in the breezes: the seafaring life of Joshua Slocum
Brave Harriet
Breaking through
Bulls-eye : a photobiography of Annie Oakley
Carver, a life in poems
Columbus Day : celebrating a famous explorer
Countdown to independence : a revolution of ideas in England and her American colonies : 1760-1776
Despite all obstacles: La Salle and the conquest of the Mississippi
A long and uncertain journey: the 27,000 mile voyage of Vasco da Gama
The dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins : an illuminating history of Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins, artist and lecturer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : The Right Is Ours
Note: we do have the e-book
Roger Williams : Prophet of Liberty
Note: we do have the e-book
First ladies
World War I
Fly high! : the story of Bessie Coleman
The great unknown
Handel, who knew what he liked
Hatshepsut, his majesty, herself
Helen Keller
Benjamin Franklin
Helen Keller : rebellious spirit
Heroine of the Titanic : the real unsinkable Molly Brown
Hokusai : the man who painted a mountain
The holy twins: Benedict and Scholastica
How I became an American
John and Abigail Adams: an American love story
Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, and the French Revolution
Margaret Knight : girl inventor
Martin's big words : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
On my way
Our country's presidents
Rescued images: memories of a childhood in hiding
Robert E. Peary : to the top of the world
Shakespeare : his work & his world
Shipwrecked! : the true adventures of a Japanese boy
Shooting for the moon: the amazing life and times of Annie Oakley
Standing like a stone wall
Theodore Roosevelt: letters from a young coal miner
Tomboy of the air: daredevil pilot Blanche Stuart Scott
Vincent van Gogh : portrait of an artist
Woody Guthrie : poet of the people
The world at her fingertips : the story of Helen Keller

Contemporary Concerns

Environment and Ecology

Folktales

The Black Bull of Norroway : a Scottish tale
Crocodile and hen: a Bakongo folktale
Fiesta femenina : celebrating women in Mexican folktale
How animals saved the people: animal tales from the South
How Chipmunk got his stripes: a tale of bragging and teasing
The lady of ten thousand names: goddess stories from many cultures
The master swordsman and the magic doorway: two legends from ancient China
Monkey King
Petite Rouge: a Cajun Red Riding Hood
The seeing stone
Storm Maker's tipi
The Story Tree: tales to read aloud
The wolf of Gubbio

Geography, Peoples, and Places

Building a new land: African Americans in Colonial America
Desert town
Desert trek: an eye-opening journey through the world's driest places
Exploring the Ice Age
Girl of Kosovo
Gold rush dogs
I live in Tokyo
Katie and the sunflowers
Let's go to the beach
Mississippi
Nutik, the wolf pup
Rediscovering Easter Island
King Arthur
Supermarket
Traveling man : the journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
The wolf girls: an unsolved mystery from history

History, Life, & Culture in the Americas

Abe Lincoln remembers
American Indian cooking before 1500
California Gold Rush cooking
Amish horses
Attack on Pearl Harbor : the true story of the day America entered World War II
Belle Teal
Born to be a cowgirl : a spirited ride through the old West
Bound for America : the story of the European immigrants
The Brooklyn Bridge
A bus of our own
Children of the Indian boarding schools
Children of the orphan trains
Christmas after all: the Great Depression diary of Minnie Swift
The Christmas promise
Clem's chances
The cod's tale
The Cold War: a history in documents
The Civil War: a history in documents
Conjure times: Black magicians in America
Earthquake
Failure is impossible! : the history of American women's rights
Fair weather
Freedom school, yes!
Freedom's wings
Ghost towns of the American West
Giving thanks: the 1621 harvest feast
Growing up in slavery
Harvest
Henry's first-moon birthday
A humble life: plain poems
In the days of the vaqueros : America's first true cowboys
In the shadow of the Alamo
James Towne: struggle for survival
The journey
The lamp, the ice, and the boat called Fish
The land
The minstrel's melody
Circle of fire
Mountain men: true grit and tall tales
My family shall be free: the life of Peter Still
The other dog
The other side
The other side
10th Anniversary Edition
Pearl
Places in time : a new atlas of American history
Religion in twentieth century America
Remember Pearl Harbor : American and Japanese survivors tell their stories
Rent party jazz
Rose's journal : the story of a girl in the Great Depression
Scholastic book of world records 2002
Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers
Stories from where we live. The California coast
Story of the Titanic
Tattered sails
They came from the Bronx : how the buffalo were saved from extinction
Those building men
Those extraordinary women of World War I
We rode the orphan trains
We were there, too! : young people in U.S. history
Weave little stars into my sleep : Native American lullabies
When Esther Morris headed West : women, Wyoming, and the right to vote
When Johnny went marching: young Americans fight the Civil War
Who really discovered America?: unraveling the mystery & solving the puzzle
William's house
Words with wings : a treasury of African-American poetry and art
Wounded knee

Reference

The Civil War at sea
Flag lore of all nations
Journeys in time : a new atlas of American history
The kid who invented the trampoline: more surprising stories about inventions
National Geographic student atlas of the world
Red, white, blue, and Uncle who? : the stories behind some of America's patriotic symbols
Remember the ladies: 100 great American women
Scholastic atlas of the world
The Usborne book of people of the world

Social Interactions & Relationships

Becoming little women: Louisa May at Fruitlands
Betty Doll
Bluebird summer
Circus girl
Chipper
Family
Happy birthday, Mr. Kang
The Harlem Nutcracker: based on the ballet
The hickory chair
Just the two of us
Love to mamá: a tribute to mothers
Lucy's family tree
Racing the past
Rivka's first Thanksgiving
Sailing home: a story of a childhood at sea
Stepping out with Grandma Mac
Thicker than water: coming-of-age stories by Irish and Irish-American writers
Tiger's fall
Trapped
The war

World History & Culture

Angel on the square
Anne Frank in the world, 1929-1945
The belly gunner
Black potatoes : the story of the great Irish famine, 1845-1850
Displaced persons: the liberation and abuse of Holocaust survivors
Children of the slaughter: young people of the Holocaust
Emperors and gladiators
A farm through time
Footnotes: dancing the world's best-loved ballets
The Jacob ladder
Leonardo's horse
Lord of the Nutcracker men
Mansa Musa : the lion of Mali
Mummies of the pharaohs: exploring the Valley of the Kings
The orphan singer
The other side of truth
Slavery : bondage throughout history
Soldier X
Surviving Hitler : a boy in the Nazi death camps
There goes the neighborhood: ten buildings people loved to hate
Under a war-torn sky

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2001

Biography

Alice Walker: freedom writer
The amazing life of Benjamin Franklin
America's champion swimmer : Gertrude Ederle
Author talk : conversations with Judy Blume ... [and others]
Carter G. Woodson : the man who put "Black" in American history
George Washington Carver
Ida B. Wells : mother of the civil rights movement
John Blair and the great Hinckley fire
Lives of extraordinary women : rulers, rebels (and what the neighbors thought)
The longitude prize
Mae Jemison
Malcolm X : a fire burning brightly
Michelangelo
Norman Rockwell : storyteller with a brush
Paul Laurence Dunbar: portrait of a poet
Betty Shabazz: sharing the vision of Malcolm X
Nikki Giovanni: poety of the people
Pick & shovel poet : the journeys of Pascal D'Angelo
A picture book of Sacagawea
Satchel Paige
Seeker of knowledge: the man who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs
Sitting Bull and his world
Spellbinder: the life of Harry Houdini
Triumph on Everest : a photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary
Uncommon traveler : Mary Kingsley in Africa
Vision of beauty : the story of Sarah Breedlove Walker

Contemporary Concerns

Dancing Wheels
Do you remember the color blue? : and other questions kids ask about blindness
Dream freedom
First Mate Tate
Grandpa's corner store
McKendree
Mommy far, Mommy near : an adoption story
Outbreak : disease detectives at work
Rainy day
Smiling for strangers

Environment, Energy and Ecology

Blizzard : the storm that changed America
Henry hikes to Fitchburg
Hurry!
River friendly, river wild
Sergio and the hurricane

Folk Tales, Myths and Legends

Aesop's fables
Callie Ann and Mistah Bear
The eagle and the wren
The first Olympic games : a gruesome Greek myth with a happy ending
Gershon's monster : a story for the Jewish New Year
In the Rainfield: who is the greatest?
The king & the three thieves : a Persian tale
Lord of the cranes : a Chinese tale
Manu and the talking fish
Mariana and the merchild: a folk tale from Chile
Mother Goose remembers
Noodlehead stories : world tales kids can read & tell
Not one damsel in distress : world folktales for strong girls
Only one cowry
Philipok
The secret of the stones
Sherwood : original stories from the world of Robin Hood
Sweet land of story : thirty-six American tales to tell
Tales from old Ireland

Geography, People and Places

Africa is not a country
The amazing pop-up geography book
Atlantis: the legend of a lost city
The century that was : reflections on the last one hundred years
The Christmas gift = El regalo de Navidad
Cuban kids
Dinosaurs at the ends of the earth : the story of the Central Asiatic Expeditions
Easter Island : giant stone statues tell of a rich and tragic past
Made in Mexico
Mapping Penny's world
Mississippi River: a journey down the father of waters
On the same day in March : a tour of the world's weather
National Geographic our world
Photo odyssey : Solomon Carvalho's remarkable Western adventure, 1853-54
Rebel: a Tibetan odyssey
The shaman's nephew: a life in the far North
Stories from where we live. The North Atlantic coast
Why on this night? a Passover haggadah for family celebration

History, Life and Culture in the Americas

Accept no substitutes! : the history of American advertising
Stop this war! : American protest of the conflict in Vietnam
Adaline Falling Star
An Amish year
The Black soldier : 1492 to the present
Bluestem
Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves
The boxer
Charley Waters goes to Gettysburg
Children of the Emancipation
Children of the dust days
Children of the relocation camps
Immigrant children
Civil War
Presidents
World War II
Free at last! : the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A coal miner's bride : the diary of Anetka Kaminska
Color me dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North
Conestoga wagons
Crazy horse's vision
Daisy and the doll
The two brothers
A Maya
Esperanza rising
Fighting for honor : Japanese Americans and World War II
The first decade : curtain going up
The 1920s: luck
The 1930s: direction
The second decade: voyages
Freedom river
Give me liberty! : the story of the Declaration of Independence
Hannah's journal : the story of an immigrant girl
Hannah's winter of hope
Hurry freedom : African Americans in Gold Rush California
Imagine that!
In the hollow of your hand : slave lullabies
Jefferson's children : the story of one American family
Jingle dancer
Loving v. Virginia: interracial marriage
Momma, where are you from?
Mountain town
My brother's keeper : Virginia's diary
North star to freedom : the story of the Underground Railroad
Osceola : memories of a sharecropper's daughter
Our strange new land : Elizabeth's diary
Picturing Lincoln : famous photographs that popularized the president
Religion in nineteenth century America
Alternative American religions
Run the blockade
Sacajawea : the story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Salsa stories
Shy Mama's Halloween
Skyscrapers : how America grew up
The sound that jazz makes
Squanto's journey : the story of the first Thanksgiving
Struggle for a continent: the French and Indian Wars, 1689-1763
Sybil Ludington's midnight ride
Uptown
The valiant women of the Vietnam War
Virgie goes to school with us boys
Voices of the Alamo

Reference

American women's history: a student companion
Chldren's illlustrated encyclopedia
Colonial times, 1600-1700
American Revolution, 1700-1800
Extraordinary people of the Harlem Renaissance
Extraordinary women athletes
Gods, goddesses, and monsters: an encyclopedia of world mythology
A history of basketball for girls and women : from bloomers to big leagues
The story of the incredible orchestra
Toothworms and spider juice: an illustrated history of dentistry
Toys! : amazing stories behind some great inventions
Uncle Sam and Old Glory : symbols of America

Social Interactions and Relationships

The blessing of the animals
Brooklyn, Bugsy, and me
The color of my words
The copper tin cup
Faraway home
Faraway home
E-book
Halmoni's day
The last book in the universe
The legend of Freedom Hill
Extraordinary friends
Milo and the mysterious island
To dinner, for dinner
When they fight
Where is Grandpa?

World History and Culture

Alexander the Great: the legend of a warrior king
The butterfly
Darkness over Denmark : the Danish resistance and the rescue of the Jews
Fireflies in the dark : the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin
Forging freedom
Great wonders of the world
Matilda Bone
My secret camera : life in the Lodz ghetto
Nazi Germany: the face of tyranny
Martyrs to madness: the victims of the Holocaust
Nzingha: warrior queen of Matamba
Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess
Isabel: jewel of Castilla
Marie Antoinette: princess of Versailles
One boy from Kosovo
Parables : stories Jesus told
The playmaker
Queen's own fool: a novel of Mary Queen of Scots
Seven spools of thread : a Kwanzaa story
A special fate: Chiune Sugihara, hero of the Holocaust
Torn thread
Welcome to the Globe! : the story of Shakespeare's theater
The yellow star : the legend of King Christian X of Denmark

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2000

Biography

Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell : an inventive life
Always inventing : a photobiography of Alexander Graham Bell
Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride : based on a true story
Andrew Carnegie: steel king and friend to libraries
Anna of Byzantium
At her majesty's request: an African princess in Victorian England
Babe Didrikson Zaharias : the making of a champion
Beyond the sea of ice: the voyages of Henry Hudson
A boy named Giotto
The boy who loved to draw : Benjamin West
Cal Ripken, Jr.: play ball!
Carl Sandburg: a biography
Clara Schumann : piano virtuoso
Einstein : visionary scientist
Elizabeth I, red rose of the House of Tudor
Extraordinary women of the American West
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
John F. Kennedy
Ice story : Shackleton's lost expedition
Jacob Lawrence
Jesse Owens
John Glenn
Mother Teresa
Johannes Brahms
The journal of Sean Sullivan : a Transcontinental Railroad worker
The journal of Joshua Loper, a Black cowboy
The journal of Ben Uchida, citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp
The lightbulb
The telephone
Lives: poems about famous Americans
Mary Anning and the sea dragon
Mary, Bloody Mary
Molly Bannaky
Ralph Bunche: winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
Rare treasure : Mary Anning and her remarkable discoveries
Robert Fulton: from subbmarine to steamboat
Sebastian: a book about Bach
Tallchief : America's prima ballerina
Who were they really? : the true stories behind famous characters
Why not Lafayette?
William Bradford: rock of Plymouth
William Shakespeare & the Globe

Contemporary Concerns

Alida's song
Century farm : one hundred years on a family farm
The colors of us
Grandfathers: reminiscences, poems, recipes, and photos of the keepers of our traditions
Hope
Lena
Schenck v. United States: restrictions of free speech
What are you? : voices of mixed-race young people
What have you lost?

Environment, Energy, and Ecology

A blizzard year : Timmy's almanac of the seasons
Fire in their eyes: wildfires and the people who fight them
Gorilla walk
Great ice bear: the polar bear and the eskimo
Legends of landforms: Native American lore and the geology of the land
Nilo and the tortoise
Stretch your wings: famous Black quotations for teens

Folktales, Myths, and Legends

At the wish of the fish: a Russian folktale
The barefoot book of mother and son tales
Celtic fairy tales
The crystal mountain
The drums of Noto Hanto
The emerald lizard : fifteen Latin American tales to tell in English and Spanish = La lagartíja esmeralda : quince cuentos tradicionales latinoamericanos
Exodus
Grandmothers' stories: wise woman tales from many cultures
Journeys with Elijah : eight tales of the Prophet
The legend of the lady slipper : an Ojibwe tale
The little match girl
My dear Noel: the story of a letter from Beatrix Potter
O'Sullivan stew
The peddler's gift
The quiltmaker's gift
The rabbit's tail: a story from Korea
The troll with no heart in his body and other tales of trolls from Norway
White tiger, blue serpent

Geography, People, and Places

A is for the Americas
All kinds of children
The alphabet atlas
The barefoot book of father and son tales
The barefoot book of stories from the opera
Basket moon
A big cheese for the White House
Boys of the deeps
Brian's return
Building the book Cathedral
Butterfly house
Children of the Tlingit
Children of the trail west
The geography of hope: Black exodus from the South after Reconstruction
The good liar
The house book
Iron horses
Lakota hoop dancer
Next stop, Grand Central
Pioneer church
Rio Grande: from the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico
The saga of Lewis & Clark : into the uncharted West
South Africa
China
Kenya
Vietnam
The stars in my Geddoh's sky
A symphony of whales
Traditions from the Caribbean
The ugly vegetables
The world turned upside down : George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown
Yukon gold: the story of the Klondike Gold Rush

History, Life and Culture in the Americas

The Babe & I
The birchbark house
Black pioneers: an untold story
Bud, not Buddy
Daily life in a Plains Indian village, 1868
A day with a Chumash
Flags
Granddaddy's street songs
Hurray for Three Kings' Day!
In the time of the drums
Indian school : teaching the white man's way
Jason's gold
Kids on strike!
Kindle me a riddle: a pioneer story
Las Posadas : an Hispanic Christmas celebration
A letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Letters from Vinnie
A light in the storm : the diary of Amelia Martin
The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West
The girl who chased away sorrow: the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl
Locomotive : building an eight-wheeler
Love as strong as ginger
The Manhattan Project
Mranda's last stand
The Navajo
No man's land : a young soldier's story
Nowhere to call home
A personal tour of Monticello
A picnic in October
Rushmore
Santa who?
Scholastic encyclopedia of the Civil War
Silent thunder : a Civil War story
Slavery and abolition in American history
Stagecoach: the ride of a century
Streets of gold
Summertime from Porgy and Bess
A Thanksgiving wish
Through my eyes
Through the eyes of your ancestors
Thunder Bear and Ko: the Buffalo nation and Nambe Pueblo
Tree of hope
Turtle Island: tales of the Algonquian nations
Vicksburg: the battle that won the Civil War
The way things never were: the truth about the "good old days"
When the rain sings : poems by young Native Americans
Note: we do have the revised edition
The wild Colorado: the true adventures of Fred Dellenbaugh, age 17, on the second Powell Expedition into the Grand Canyon
Woodrow for president: a tail of voting, campaigns, and elelctions

Reference

Ancient medicine: from sorcery to surgery
The century for young people
DK space encyclopedia
Emergency!
Olympic Games
Football
Titanic
The Kingfisher history encyclopedia
Note: we do have the updated edition
Moon landing: the race for the moon
Aztecs: the fall of the Aztec capital
The story of clocks and calendars : marking a millennium

Social Interactions and Relationships

A to Z, do you ever feel like me? : a guessing alphabet of feelings, words, and other cool stuff
The cello of Mr. O
Farolitos for Abuelo
The Garden of Eden Motel
Goodbye, Walter Malinski
Gowanus dogs
I look like a girl
Little Cliff and the portch people
The mats
Mei-Mei loves the morning
Our only May Amelia
Strong to the hoop
To be a kid
Extraordinary girls
True heart
Unbroken
Under the lemon moon

World History and Culture

Angels of mercy: the Army nurses of World War II
Anson's way
Bedtime!
Castle diary : the journal of Tobias Burgess, page
DK illustrated book of great adventurers
Eleanor's story : an American girl in Hitler's Germany
Elizabethan England
Good night, Maman
The history of counting
The Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi Germany
The house of wisdom
In search of the spirit : the living national treasures of Japan
Leaving Vietnam: the true story of Tuan Ngo, a boat boy
The memory coat
My bridges of hope: searching for life and love after Auschwitz
The mystery of the mammoth bones: and how it was solved
Secrets of the mummies: uncovering the bodies of ancient Egyptians
The treasury of saints and martyrs
When the soldiers were gone