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Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 1999

Biography

Annie Oakley: legendary sharpshooter
Arthur Ashe
Louisa May Alcott
Madeleine Albright
Beatrix Potter
Black whiteness : Admiral Byrd alone in the Antarctic
Boss of the plains : the hat that won the West
The Dalai Lama : a biography of the Tibetan spiritual and political leader
Duke Ellington : the piano prince and his orchestra
First in the field: baseball hero Jackie Robinson
In care of Cassie Tucker
Isadora dances
Joan of Arc
King Arthur
A Little house reader : a collection of writings
Leonardo da Vinci for kids: his life and ideas: 21 activities
Margaret Bourke-White: racing with a dream
Pioneer girl : growing up on the prairie
Pioneer girl : the story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Seeing lessons : the story of Abigail Carter and America's first school for the blind
Story painter: the life of Jacob Lawrence
Within reach: my Everest story
Women of hope : African Americans who made a difference

Contemporary Concerns

Bad
If I forget, you remember
Iqbal Masih and the crusaders against child slavery
Joyride
Junebug and the Reverend
The king of dragons
Listen to us: the world's working children
Lost in the war
Marianthe's story: painted words and spoken memories
Neale S. Godfrey's ultimate kids' money book
Outspoken : role models from the lesbian and gay community
The safe zone : a kid's guide to personal safety
Some frog!
Something beautiful
The storyteller's beads

Environment, Energy, and Ecology

A Christmas tree in the White House
Grand Canyon: exploring a natural wonder
Hidden under the ground : the world beneath your feet
To save the earth: the American environmental movement

Folktales, Myths, and Legends

Animal dreaming: an aboriginal dreamtime story
The bronze cauldron
The cow of no color : riddle stories and justice tales from around the world
The crane wife
Doctor Bird: three lookin' up tales from Jamaica
The enormous carrot
Feleciana meets d'Loup Garou: a Cajun tall tale!
Follow the stars
The girl who wore too much: a folktale from Thailand
The illustrated book of fairy tales : spellbinding stories from around the world
Magic words
Play me a story : nine tales about musical instruments
Ten suns: a Chinese legend
When I first came to this land

Geography, People and Places

African beginnings
Aggie's home
David's search
Lucy's wish
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Children of the midnight sun : young native voices of Alaska
Chinese New Year
Crocodiles, camels & dugout canoes: eight adventurous episdoes
From slave ship to freedom road
Grandfather's work: a traditional healer in Nigeria
Hurricane
Just Juice
Knots in my yo-yo string : the autobiography of a kid
Mark Twain and the queens of the Mississippi
A mission for the people: the story of La Purisima
Old Jake's skirts
Our earth
An outlaw Thanksgiving
The piano man
Polar exploration : journeys to the Arctic and the Antarctic
Castle at war: the story of a siege
Pompeii: the day a city was buried
Tutankhamun: the life a death of a Pharaoh
Prairie willow
Rachel's journal : the story of a pioneer girl
The shaman's apprentice : a tale of the Amazon rain forest
Thank you, Mr. Falker
This big sky

History, Life and Culture in the Americas

All around town: the photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts
An Amish wedding
Amistad rising : a story of freedom
Annushka's voyage
The arrow over the door
Art of the Far North : Inuit sculpture, drawing, and printmaking
Barrio : el barrio de José
The beaded moccasins : the story of Mary Campbell
Black, blue & gray: African Americans in the Civil War
Black cowboy, wild horses : a true story
Breaking ground, breaking silence : the story of New York's African burial ground
Calling me home
The chief's blanket
Children of the settlement houses
Come all you brave soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War
Daily life on a southern plantation, 1853
Diary of a drummer boy
Down in the subway
Forty acres and maybe a mule
Foster's war
A gift for Abuelita : celebrating the Day of the Dead = Un regalo para Abuelita : en celebración del Día de los Muertos
Goodbye, Charles Lindbergh: based on a true story
The great turkey walk
I have heard of a land
I love my hair!
It is a good day to die : Indian eyewitnesses tell the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Jewels
The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier
Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American internment camps
New Jersey v. T.L.O.: drug searches in schools
Listening for Leroy
The lost temple of the Aztecs : what it was like when the Spaniards invaded Mexico
Mary on horseback : three mountain stories
Money
Mud matters: stories from a mud lover
My town
North by night: a story of the Underground Railroad
The other side : Shorter poems
The Panama Canal
Raising Yoder's barn
Return to Hawk's Hill : a novel
The sacrifice
Shadow spinner
Shake rag: from the life of Elvis Presley
Sister Anne's hands
So far from the sea
Soft Rain: a story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
Sol a sol : bilingual poems
Soldier's heart : a novel of the Civil War
Spirit of the cedar people : more stories and paintings of Chief Lelooska
Standing in the light : the diary of Catharine Carey Logan
Dreams in the golden country : the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl
West into a land of plenty: the diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi
A story to tell: traditions of a Tlingit community
This land is your land
Those courageous women of the Civil War
Together in Pinecone Patch
Trick or treat, smell my feet
Under the royal palms : a childhood in Cuba
Walks Alone
Which way to the Revolution? : a book about maps
The wild West

Reference

Alphabetical order: how the alphabet began
Big book of trains
The Eighteenth and Twenty-first Amendments : alcohol, prohibition, and repeal
Extraordinary Jewish Americans
The kids' business book
The kids' volunteering book
The kids' invention book
The New York Public Library kid's guide to research

Social Interactions and Relationships

Best friends
The big book of games
The chicken salad club
Daily life in a Victorian house
Faraway summer
Halinka
If you could be my friend: letters of Mervet Akram Sha'ban and Galit Frank
I remember papa
Joey Pigza swallowed the key
Just kids: visiting a class for children with special needs
Lacrosse : the national game of the Iroquois
Lolo & red-legs
Mama & Papa have a store
Once upon a company: a true story
The Shakespeare stealer
Standing up to Mr. O
We had a picnic this Sunday past
Your move
Zebra and other stories

World History and Culture

The American Wei
Art of Japan: wood-block color prints
Be not far from me
A child's eye view of history
Cool melons--turn to frogs! : the life and poems of Issa
The double V campaign : African Americans and World War II
The golden bracelet
The golden sandal : a Middle Eastern Cinderella
Greater than angels
The Holocaust survivors
The Holocaust camps
The Holocaust ghettos
The Holocaust heroes
The Holocaust overview
The king's swift rider: a novel on Robert the Bruce
Knights & castles : 50 hands-on activities to experience the Middle Ages
Let's dance!
Masada: the last fortress
Master weaver from Ghana
Miriam's cup: a Passover story
My father's boat
My freedom trip: a child's escape from North Korea
No more strangers now : young voices from a new South Africa
On the home front: growing up in wartime England
On the wings of eagles: an Ethiopian boy's story
The storytellers
A street through time: a 12,000 year walk through history
Ten queens: portraits of women of power
Thanks to my mother
To every thing there is a season : verses from Ecclesiastes
A traitor among us
Water for one, water for everyone: a counting book of African animals
Witnesses to war: eight true-life stories of Nazi persecution
A young person's guide to philosophy : "I think, therefore I am"

Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 1998

Anthologies, Poetry, and Story Collections

Biographies and Diaries

Contemporary Issues

Environment and Ecology

Folktales, Legends, and Myths

Geography, People, and Places

Africa

Asia

Global

North America

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

19th and Early 20th Century Life

African American

Across the lines
A chance to make good : African Americans, 1900-1929
Freedom's gifts : a Juneteenth story
I have a dream
I was born a slave : the story of Harriet Jacobs
Leon's story
Ma Dear's aprons
My home is over Jordan
My name is York
North star to freedom : the story of the Underground Railroad
A place called Freedom
Sarny, a life remembered
The strength of these arms : life in the slave quarters

Native American

Reference Works

American journalists : getting the story
American journalists : getting the story
E-book
Ancient Greeks : creating the classical tradition
E-book
The illustrated book of ballet stories
Junior chronicle of the 20th century
Scholastic encyclopedia of presidents and their times
A soldier's life: a visual history of soldiers through the ages
The world in one day

Religion and Bible Stories

Social Interactions and Relationships

World History and Culture

Ancient Egypt

The gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt
I am the mummy Heb-Nefert
A place in the sun
Pryamids! 50 hands-on activities to experience ancient Egypt

Pre-, During-, and Post-World War II

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1997

Biographies, Memoirs, Diaries

Anastasia's album
Bill Pickett: rodeo-ridin' cowboy
Buddha
Eleanor
The FDR way
The Lincoln way
The Reagan way
First facts about American heroes
Hidden music : the life of Fanny Mendelssohn
The ingenious Mr. Peale : painter, patriot, and man of science
A journey to the New World : the diary of Remember Patience Whipple
When will this cruel war be over? : the diary of Emma Simpson
The winter of red snow : the Revolutionary War diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
Leonardo da Vinci
The life and death of Crazy Horse
Mandela: from the life of the South African statesman
Nobody owns the sky: the sory of "brave Bessie" Coleman
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei
Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author
Young Abe Lincoln: the frontier days, 1809-1837

Contemporary Issues

The bone detectives : how forensic anthropologists solve crimes and uncover mysteries of the dead
Clown
Dear Mrs. Parks: a dialogue with today's youth
Dear Oklahoma City, get well soon: America's children reach out to the people of Oklahoma
One April morning : children remember the Oklahoma City bombing
Our beckoning borders : illegal immigration to America
Us and them : a history of intolerance in America
Voices from the streets: young former gang members tell their stories
When dinosaurs die : a guide to understanding death
Why?
Note: we do have the revised edition

Folktales, Legends, and Myths

Ahaiyute and Cloud Eater
Between earth & sky: legends of Native American sacred places
The dragon's tale and other animal fables of the Chinese zodiac
Eagle boy: a traditional Navajo legend
The fiddler of the Northern Lights
Journey of the nightly jaguar
Marushka and the month brothers: a folktale
The one-eyed giant: and other monster from the Greek myths
Remaking the earth: a creation story from the Great Plains of North America
The return of the buffaloes : a Plains Indian story about famine and renewal of the earth
Sam and the tigers : a new telling of Little Black Sambo
The story of Little Babaji

Geography, People, and Places

Africa

The day Gogo went to vote: South Africa, April 1994
Gift of the sun: a tale from South Africa
Monomotapa, Zulu, Basuto: Southern Africa
Oyo, Benin, Ashanti: the Guinea coast
Ogbo: sharing life in an African village

Asia

In the heart of the village: the world of the Indian Banyan tree
Peacebound trains
Sweet dried apples: a Vietnamese wartime childhood
Yoshiko and the foreigner

Central and South America

Europe

Black horses for the king
Breaking into print: before and after the invention of the printing press
The fall of the red star
There will be wolves

Global

The adventures of Tom Sawyer
Around the world in eighty days
Call of the wild
Heidi
The jungle book
Treasure Island
The grandchildren of the Vikings
Great crystal bear
The king's giraffe
Market!
My house has stars
O Christmas tree
On board the Titanic
SOS Titanic
Talking walls: the stories continue
Tomorrow's alphabet
Where will this shoe take you?: a walk through the history of footwear

North America

Buffalo sunrise: the story of a North American giant
In a different light: growing up in Yup'ik Eskimo village in Alaska
Peter's place
Sugaring
Tiktala

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

African American

The Harlem Renaissance
Honor to the hills
Just listen to this song I'm singing: African-American history through song
Second daughter : the story of a slave girl
True north : a novel of the Underground Railroad
The wagon

Americana

The flag we love
Texas traditions: the culture of the Lone Star state

Civil War Era

Civil War
Inventors
Weep not for me, dear mother
When this cruel war is over : the Civil War home front

Immigration

American too
Coming to America : the story of immigration
Dia's story cloth
The hand-me-down horse
A Russian Jewish family
A Guatemalan family

Native American

Children of the longhouse
North American Indians
People of salmon and cedar
Powwow summer: a family celebrates the circle of life
Red Bird
Stories in stone : rock art pictures by early Americans
Stories on stone: rock art, images from the ancient ones
Tapenum's day: a Wampanoag Indian boy in pilgrim times

19th and Early 20th Century Life

The apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
The ballad of Lucy Whipple
Beyond the western sea: the escape from home
Beyond the western sea: Lord Kirkle's money
The cowboy's handbook: how to become a hero of the wild West
Growing up in coal country
Leah's pony
Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
Pony Express!
Purely Rosie Pearl
The seasons sewn : a year in patchwork
The West : an illustrated history for children
The gold rush
People of the West
The year of the ranch

Women's History

The ballot box battle
Big Annie of Calumet: a true story of the Industrial Revolution
The bobbin girl
Scholastic encyclopedia of women in the United States
We shall not be moved: the women's factory strike of 1909

Poetry and Story Collections

The best of the Brownies' book
Earth always endures: Native American poems
Festivals
The inner city Mother Goose
My Mexico = México mío
Sacred places
A suitcase of seaweed & more
2019 edition
Originally published as "A suitcase of seaweed and other poems"
A symphony for the sheep
'Twas the night b'fore Christmas : an African-American version

Reference Works

Boats and ships
The history of making books
Water, the source of life : glaciers, springs, oceans, tide pools, lakes, swamps, rivers, and oases
The DK geography of the world
Note: we do have the 2004 edition
The DK visual timeline of the 20th century
The Kingfisher young people's book of music
The outdoor adventure handbook
The ultimate book of cross-sections

Social Interactions and Relationships

Belle Prater's boy
Bonjour, Lonnie
The dream jar
Far North
The friends
The garden of happiness
Good moon rising
Gracias, the Thanksgiving turkey
Jalapeño bagels
Keep smiling through
Language of doves
Leo the Magnificat
The long season of rain
Mimi's tutu
The mommy book
The baby book
The daddy book
Old pig
One Christmas dawn
The paperboy
Ribbons
Sitting down to eat
The snake-stone
The village basket weaver

World History and Culture

Ancient

Ancient China
The Incas
Pyramids
Note: we do have the 2004 edition

Art and Music History

The Beatles and the sixties
Alexander and his times
A child's book of play in art
I spy a freight train: transportation in art
Murals : cave, cathedral, to street

Religion and Bible Stories

David and Goliath
Milk and honey: a year of Jewish holidays
One world, many religions : the ways we worship
Out of the ark: stories from the world's religions
Song of the Magdalene
The story of religion
When I left my village

World War II

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1996

Biographies, Memoirs, Diaries

Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
The American eye : eleven artists of the twentieth century
Anna Pavlova: genius of the dance
A fire in her bones: the story of Mary Lyon
Frederick Douglass, in his own words
Gandhi
Isaac Johnson : from slave to stonecutter
Keeping secrets: the girlhood diaries of seven women writers
Marian Wright Edelman : fighting for children's rights
Mark Twain: America's humorist, dreamer, prophet
Martin Luther King
More than anything else
Mother Jones: one woman's fight for labor
A pioneer woman's memoir : based on the journal of Arabella Clemens Fulton
Talking with artists
Volume 2 is the only volume to receive the award
Thurgood Marshall: civil rights champion
Walt Whitman
You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Contemporary Issues

AIDS: Examining the crisis
The bomb
Crews: gang members talk to Maria Hinojosa
Ethnic conflicts in schools
Racism: divided by color
Genocide: the systematic killing of a people
Hate groups
Homosexuality
Teen violence: out of control
How do you spell God? : answers to the big questions from around the world
The journey out: a guide for and about lesbian, gay and bisexual teens
Junebug
The kid's guide to service projects : over 500 service ideas for young people who want to make a difference
Mary Wolf
My dad
My two uncles
Peace crane
Red ribbon
The rifle
Somebody somewhere knows my name
Talking peace : a vision for the next generation
Note: we do have the first edition

Environment, Energy, Ecology

Folktales and Myths

The eagle's song: a tale from the Pacific Northwest
The gift of a traveler
Her stories : African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales
The illustrated book of myths : tales & legends of the world
The new king
Night visitors
Pulling the lion's tale
The story of the Milky Way : a Cherokee tale
When jaguars ate the moon : and other stories about animals and plants of the Americas

Geography, People, Place

Alexander, who's not (Do you hear me? I mean it!) Going to move
Bebop-a-do-walk!
Boundless Grace
Bread is for eating
Children just like me
Dance on a sealskin
Dandelions
The distant talking drum
Feliciana Feydra Leroux: a Cajun tall tale
The girl-son
Homeplace
Isla
People
New hope
Papa's Christmas gift : around the world on the night before Christmas
A people apart
Sacred river
Tchaikovsky discovers America
Thunder cave
The true adventure of Daniel Hall
Wherever home begins : 100 contemporary poems
The whispering cloth : a refugee's story
The world in grandfather's hands

History, Life, Culture in the Americas

African American

Black eagles: African Americans in aviation
Black frontiers : a history of African American heroes in the Old West
Black stars in orbit: NASA's African American astronauts
Black women of the Old West
Bound for the promised land: the great black migration
Going home to Nicodemus : the story of an African American frontier town and the pioneers who settled it
Kwanzaa : a family affair
Kwanzaa karamu : cooking and crafts for a Kwanzaa feast
Leagues apart: the men and times of the Negro baseball league
The National Civil Rights Museum celebrates everyday people
One more river to cross : an African American photograph album
Red-tail angels: the story of the Tuskegee airmen of World War II
Sound the jubilee
The story of Ruby Bridges

Civil War Era

The Gettysburg address
An island far from home
Mary Lincoln's dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's remarkable rise from slave to White House confidante
The underground railroad

Early American Life

The American Revolution: how we fought the War of Independence
Archaeology for young explorers : uncovering history at Colonial Williamsburg
Pilgrim voices : our first year in the New World
Thunder from the clear sky

Immigration

I was dreaming to come to America : memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project
Immigrants
Presidents
Lupe and me
Tonight, by sea
A very important day

Latino American

Exploration into Latin America
An island like you : stories of the barrio
Spirit of the Maya: a boy explore his people's mysterious past
The tree is older than you are : a bilingual gathering of poems & stories from Mexico with paintings by Mexican artists

Native American

A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
Dancing moons
Did you hear wind sing your name? : an Oneida song of spring
The ghost dance
The Hopis
The Iroquois
Navajo : visions and voices across the Mesa
The reservations
Singing America
The tried and the true: Native American women confronting colonization

19th Century American Life

Reference Works

Airplane
Fire truck
Truck
Architecture and construction
The art of sculpture : stone, wood, plaster, and bronze : from small statuettes to cathedrals
The history of movie making: animation and live-action, from silent to sound, black-and-white to color
The story of flight: early flying machines, balloons, blimps, gliders, warplanes, and jets
The world of theater
Dictionary of the earth
Herstory: women who changed the world
My fellow Americans : a family album
Strike! the bitter struggle of American workers from colonial times to the present
Woodlore
A young person's guide to music

Social Interactions and Relationships

Been to yesterdays : poems of a life
The Christmas menorahs : how a town fought hate
Fireflies, peach pies, & lullabies
From the notebooks of Melanin Sun
The glass bottle tree
Heroes
The last dragon
Like sisters on the homefront
Miss Malarkey doesn't live in room 10
On the day I was born
One yellow daffodil: a Hanukkah story
Papa tells Chita a story
Passover magic
Rainbow Fish to the rescue!
El pez arco iris al rescate!
Spanish translation
Running out of time
Sad underwear : and other complications, more poems for children and their parents
The storm
Tanya's reunion
The tie man's miracle: a Chanukah tale
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
The well : David's story
When pigs fly

World History and Culture

Child of the Warsaw ghetto
A fence away from freedom : Japanese Americans and World War II
First World War
Flying against the wind : the story of a young woman who defied the Nazis
Hiroshima
On the wings of peace
Parallel journeys
The river that went to the sky : twelve tales by African storytellers
Shin's tricycle
Theodoric's rainbow
Tombs and treasures
Forts and castles
We are witnesses : five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust
When plague strikes : the Black Death, smallpox, AIDS
A world in our hands: in honor of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1995

Biography

Coming home : from the life of Langston Hughes
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Dorothea Lange
Escape from slavery : the boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his own words
Keep on singing: a ballad of Marian Anderson
Master of mahogany: Tom Day, free black cabinetmaker
Deep blues: Bill Traylor, self-taught artist
Mathew Brady: his life and photographs
Mother Jones and the march of the mill children
A picture book of Sojourner Truth
Shadow catcher : the life and work of Edward S. Curtis
What I had was singing : the story of Marian Anderson
What makes a Cassatt a Cassatt?
The will and the way: Paul R. Williams, architect
Women of peace : Nobel Peace Prize winners

Contemporary Concerns

Hearing us out: voices from the gay and lesbian community
I hadn't meant to tell you this
I hadn't meant to tell you this
I see the moon
Jerusalem mosaic : young voices from the Holy City
My brother has AIDS
Please don't cry, Mom
Rage in the streets: mob violence in America
Remember the red-shouldered hawk
Respecting our differences : a guide to getting along in a changing world
Rite of passage
Roe v. Wade: the abortion question
Engel v. Vitale: seperation of church and state
Miranda v. Arizona: rights of the accused
See ya, Simon
Tears of a tiger
Tiger flowers
Way home
Who cares? : millions do ; a book about altruism

Environment, Energy, and Ecology

California Blue
The earth atlas
Everglades : Buffalo Tiger and the river of grass

Folktales

Adopted by the eagles : a Plains Indian story of friendship and treachery
Note: Original award list has this listed as "Adopted by the tigers"
The bossy gallito = El gallo de bodas ; a traditional Cuban folktale
Cloud Eyes
Crocodile! Crocodile! stories told around the world
Dreamtime: aboriginal stories
The Firebird
The foot warmer and the crow
The great ball game: a Muskogee story
The headless haunt and other African-American ghost stories
John Henry
The last tales of Uncle Remus
The magic weaver of rugs : a tale of the Navajo
Misoso : once upon a time tales from Africa
Owl eyes
The singing man : adapted from a West African folktale
Sootface : an Ojibwa Cinderella story
Swamp Angel
The wave of the Sea-Wolf

Geography, Peoples, and Places

All the places to love
Caribbean alphabet
Dancing to America
Door of no return: the legend of Gorée Island
Feliz Nochebuena, Feliz Navidad : Christmas feasts of the Hispanic Caribbean
Lewis and Clark : explorers of the American West
Not so very long ago: life in a small country village
A passion for danger : Nansen's Arctic adventures
The piñata maker = El piñatero
The reindeer people
Russian girl : life in an Old Russian Town
Sovietrek: a journey by bicycle across Russia
Under the moon

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

African American

African-American inventors
Black diamond : the story of the Negro baseball leagues
The captive
Creative fire: African American voices of triumph
The Glory Field
Mississippi chariot
Our people
Our song, our toil : the story of American slavery as told by slaves
The story of Negro league baseball

Americana

Celebrate America : in poetry and art
The dream keeper and other poems
Hand in hand : an American history through poetry
Lifelines: a poetry anthology patterned on the stages of life
75 years of Children's Book Week posters: celebrating great illustrators of American children's books
Turn of the century: our nation one hundred years ago
Who invented the game?
25 great moments

Civil War Era: Before, During, and After

Christmas in the big house, Christmas in the quarters
Pink and Say
Reconstruction: America after the Civil War
Till victory is won: Black soldiers in the Civil War
Steal away home
Unconditional surrender : U.S. Grant and the Civil War
Virginia's general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War
With every drop of blood

Early American Life

By the dawn's early light : the story of the Star spangled banner
Clouds of terror
Cowboy : an album
Cowboys
Pioneers
If you were there in 1776
Shaker boy
Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626

Japanese American

Latino American

Cool salsa : bilingual poems on growing up Latino in the United States
Day of the dead : a Mexican-American celebration
Latino rainbow : poems about Latino Americans
The other side: how kids live in a California Latino neighborhood

Native America

Battlefields and burial grounds : the Indian struggle to protect ancestral graves in the United States
Doesn't Fall Off His Horse
Eagle drum: on the powwow trail with a young grass dancer
The girl who married the Moon : tales from Native North America
Itse selu: Cherokee harvest festival
A Native American feast
The Nez Perce
The Seminoles

Reference Works

Social Interactions and Relationships

All the colors of the Earth
The always prayer shawl
By the dawn's early light
Casey over there
A day's work
Don't forget
Family reunion
The frozen waterfall
Gold star sister
Grand mothers: poems, reminiscences, and short stries about the keepers of our traditions
Gregory Cool
In America
It takes a village
Jafta - the homecoming
Julie
Lights on the river
Mama is a miner
Looking for Atlantis
May'naise sandwiches & sunshine tea
My brother, my sister, and I
My wartime summers
Seminole diary: remembrances of a slave
Sing to the stars
Sitti's secrets
Tikvah means hope
Zora Hurtson and the chinaberry tree

World History and Culture

Ancient History

The African mask
Ancient Greece
Industrial revolution
The children's atlas of civilizations
Pyramid
Ancient China
Archeology
Desert
Viking
The royal kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay : life in medieval Africa
The sad night: the story of an Aztec victory and a Spanish loss
Castle
The tombs of the pharaohs: a three-dimensional discovery
Tutankhamen's gift
The visual dictionary of ancient civilizations

Reference Works

The Dorling Kindersley history of the world
Smithsonian visual timeline of inventions

Vietnam

Grandfather's dream

World War II

Echoes of World War II
Hilde and Eli: children of the Holocaust
The shadow children
Tell them we remember : the story of the Holocaust

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Biography

Along the Santa Fe Trail: Marion Russell's own story
Eleanor Roosevelt : a life of discovery
Faith Ringgold
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harry S. Truman, president
Jackie Robinson
Lincoln, in his own words
Malcolm X : by any means necessary : a biography
Ruth Law thrills a nation
Ruth Law thrills a nation
Sequoyah's gift: a potrait of the Cherokee leader
A woman unafraid: the achievements of Frances Perkins

Contemporary Issues

Common Concerns

It's our world, too! Stories of young people who are making a difference
Talking peace : a vision for the next generation
Whatever happened to Janie?

Environment

The big book for our planet
Dear world: how children around the world feel about our environment
Giants in the land
I celebrate nature
The prince and the salmon people
Sato and the elephants
World water watch
The year of fire

Folktales, Legends, and Myths

Agassu : legend of the leopard king
Babushka Baba Yaga
Bamboo hats and a rice cake
The boy who lived with the seals
Buffalo dance : a Blackfoot legend
Cut from the same cloth : American women of myth, legend, and tall tale
Dream peddler
The first strawberries : a Cherokee story
The golden carp, and other tales of VietNam
How the sea began: a Taino myth
Inunguak the little Greenlander
The king and the tortoise
The Korean Cinderella
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Cinderella around the world”
The legend of the cranberry : a Paleo-Indian tale
The lost children : the boys who were neglected
Mermaid tales from around the world
Muwin and the magic hare
Of swords and sorcerers: the adventures of King Arthur and his knights
Peboan and Seegwun
Punga the goddess of ugly
Queen of the May
The shell woman and the king: a Chinese folktale
Sir Whong and the golden pig
Spotted Eagle & Black Crow : a Lakota legend
The woman who fell from the sky : the Iroquois story of creation

Geography, Peoples, Places

Africa

A is for Africa

America

Across America on an emigrant train
Amish home
Down Buttermilk Lane
The earliest Americans
The ice horse
Off the map : the journals of Lewis and Clark
Racing the Iditarod Trail
Shannon: an Ojibway dancer
Ininatig's gift of sugar: traditional native sugarmaking
Kinaalda: a Navajo girl grows up
Voices from the fields : children of migrant farmworkers tell their stories
A whole new ball game : the story of the all-American girls professional baseball league

Canada

O Canada

Central America

The little painter of Sabana Grande
My two worlds

Europe

The land and people of Norway
Twist of gold

Indonesia

Warriors, wigmen, and the crocodile people: journeys in Papua New Guinea

Global

Ancient Greece
Ancient Egypt
Middle Ages
The Renaissance
The backyard
The children of Mauritania: days in the desert and by the river shore
The children of India
The Eeyou: people of eastern James Bay
The Efe: people of the Ituri rain forest
The Penan: people of the Borneo jungle
Journey

Social Interactions and Relationships

Calvin's Christmas wish
Dear Willie Rudd
Dumpling soup
The gingerbread doll
The giver
The giver; with related readings
El dador
Spanish translation
Grandfather's lovesong
Grandmother five baskets
Great grandfather's house
Hue boy
I got a family
I want to be
Kinda blue
Lester's dog
Mayfield Crossing
Niki's little donkey
The oxboy
Pot luck
Shizuko's daughter
The storyteller
The Sunita experiment
Sworn enemies
Timothy of the cay
Too many tamales
Uncle James
Uncle Jed's barbershop
William and the good old days
Winners and losers
The wishing chair

U.S. History, Culture, and Life

African-American History

Dinner at Aunt Connie's house
The great migration : an American story
Lift every voice and sing
The Negro leagues: the story of Black baseball
Stitching stars: the story quilts of Harriet Powers
Starting home : the story of Horace Pippin, painter

Civil War Era: Before and After

Between two fires: Black soldiers in the Civil War
Bull Run
The forgotten heroes : the story of the Buffalo Soldiers
Get on board : the story of the Underground Railroad
Nightjohn
Now let me fly : the story of a slave family
One nation again: a sourcebook on the Civil War
1863: the crucial year: a sourcebook on the Civil War
The First battles: a sourcebook on the Civil War
Prelude to war: a sourcebook on the Civil War
Sheridan's ride
Sweet Clara and the freedom quilt

Civil and Equal Rights Issues

Bloomers!
Freedom's children : young civil rights activists tell their own stories
The March on Washington
Tinker vs. Des Moines: student rights on trial
The Alger Hiss trial
Witnesses to freedom: young people who fought for civil rights

Native American History

First houses : Native American homes and sacred structures
From the earth to beyond the sky : Native American medicine
The gift of changing woman
Powwow

Pioneer Life

Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters : the story of the cattle kingdom
Frontier home
Grandma Essie's covered wagon
Here comes the mystery man
Who'd believe John Colter?

World War II: Before and After

The bracelet
The disaster of the Hindenburg: the last flight of the greatest airship ever built
Sadako

General Reference

The founding presidents: a sourcebook on the U.S. presidency
Presidents of a divided nation: a sourcebook on the U.S. presidency
Presidents of a young republic: a sourcebook on the U.S. presidency
Photos that made U.S. History. Volume 1: from the Civil War era to the Atomic Age
Photos that made U.S. History. Volume 2: from the Cold War to the Space Age

World History, Culture, and Life

Holocaust Studies

Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance
Behind the secret window : a memoir of a hidden childhood during World War Two
Daniel's story
The hidden children
Jacob's rescue: a Holocaust story
A picture book of Anne Frank
Young people speak: surviving the Holocaust in Hungary

Immigration and Emigration

Reference Works

Be seated : a book about chairs
Man-of-war
Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought)
Mummies and their mysteries
Mummy
Aztec, Inca, and Maya
Book
Knight
Ranch dressing : the story of western wear
A short walk around the Pyramids and through the world of art
The story of money

Story and Poetry Collections

Brown honey in broomwheat tea : poems
Christmas Gif': an anthology of Christmas poems, songs, and stories
Note: we do have an earlier edition with a different illustrator
From sea to shining sea : a treasury of American folklore and folk songs
The future-telling lady and other stories
Pass it on : African-American poetry for children
Sky legends of Vitenam
Spirit walker
Stories by firelight

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1993

Anthropology

The Aztecs
Ancient Rome
Clambake--a Wampanoag tradition
The sacred harvest : Ojibway wild rice gathering
Eskimo boy: life in an Inupiaq Eskimo village
Fiesta! : Mexico's great celebrations
Houses and homes
Huskings, quiltings, and barn raisings: work-play parties in early America
Rising voices : writings of young Native Americans
Since 1920
The store that Mama built
The Vikings

Biography

Against all opposition: Black explorers in America
Dear Dr. Bell... your friend, Helen Keller
Famous Asian Americans
Flying free : America's first Black aviators
Frank Thompson: her Civil War story
George Washington: a picture book biography
George Washington's mother
I am somebody!: a biography of Jesse Jackson
I have a dream : the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: woman of courage
Nat Turner and the Southampton revolt of 1831
Jump at de sun: the story of Zora Neale Hurston
Li'l Sis and Uncle Willie : a story based on the life and paintings of William H. Johnson
Madam C.J. Walker: self-made millionaire
Photographing the world: Margaret Bourke-White
Mary Cassatt
My great-aunt Arizona
One more river to cross: the stories of twelve Black Americans
The pigman & me
Snowshoe Thompson
Theodore Roosevelt takes charge
Thurgood Marshall: a life for justice
A twilight struggle: the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A weekend with Degas
Where the broken heart still beats : the story of Cynthia Ann Parker

Contemporary Issues

Common Concerns

Home : a collaboration of thirty distinguished authors and illustrators of children's books to aid the homeless
Kids still having kids: people talk about teen pregnancy
Single-parent families

Environment

The air around us
Celia's island journal
The cherry tree
Come back, salmon: how a group of dedicated kids adopted Pigeon Creek and brought it back to life
The forgotten forest
Letting Swift River go
The missing 'gator of Gumbo Limbo : an ecological mystery
The paper bag prince
Prince William
Recycle! : a handbook for kids
A river ran wild : an environmental history
Save my rainforest
The seashore book
Note: we do have the redesigned 25th anniversary edition

Folktales

Anansi finds a fool : an Ashanti tale
And in the beginning...
Bury my bones by keep my words: African tales for retelling
The dark-thirty : Southern tales of the supernatural
First snow, magic snow
The fortune-tellers
How the stars fell into the sky : a Navajo legend
Love flute
A million fish-- more or less
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”African-Americans”
Moon was tired of walking on air
Peace tales : world folktales to talk about
A promise to the sun: an African story
Salt : a Russian folktale
The samurai's daughter : a Japanese legend
Sundiata : lion king of Mali
Thirteen moons on turtle's back : a Native American year of moons
Why the sky is far away : a Nigerian folktale
The willow pattern story

Geography

Antarctica: the last unspoiled continent
The great St. Lawrence Seaway
Kanu of Kathmandu: a journey in Nepal
Mountains
This is my house
This is my house
Big book
Townsend's warbler

Life and History

Africa

Sing to the sun

United States and Canada

Ahyoka and the talking leaves
Ajeemah and his son
The amazing potato : a story in which the Incas, Conquistadors, Marie Antoinette, Thomas Jefferson, wars, famines, immigrants, and french fries all play a part
Arctic hunter
At the crack of the bat
Becca's story
A boy becomes a man at Wounded Knee
Calico and tin horns
Children of the Dust Bowl : the true story of the school at Weedpatch Camp
Dreamcatcher
Earthquake at dawn
A break with charity : a story about the Salem witch trials
An Ellis Island Christmas
Great-grandma tells of threshing day
An Indian winter
The long road to Gettysburg
Mush: across Alaska in the world's longest sled-dog race
The Tainos : the people who welcomed Columbus
V is for victory: the American home front during World War II
Working cotton
The year they walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Asia

A to Zen : a book of Japanese culture
The moon lady

Europe

Bard of Avon : the story of William Shakespeare
The big lie : a true story
Buried in ice
Into the mummy's tomb
Children of Bach
The Holocaust lady
The lily cupboard

The Middle East

Against the storm
The land and people of Pakistan

World History

Hopscotch around the world
The world in 1492

Political Science: Government and Politics

AK
A capital capital city, 1790-1814
Crocodile burning
Hiawatha : messenger of peace
Kiss the dust
Little brother
Sami and the time of the troubles
They took my father: a story of idealism and betrayal
Thunder rolling in the mountains

Reference Works

Film
Boat
Costume
The visual dictionary of military uniforms

Sociology

Human Relations

Chicken Sunday
Just like Martin
Maizon at Blue Hill
The man who loved clowns
The memory box
Mother's blessing
Mrs. Katz and Tush
The old, old man and the very little boy
Riches
The snow goose
Song of the buffalo boy
Summer wheels
The wreck of the barque Stefano off the north west cape of Australia in 1875

Personal Awareness/Family

An angel for Solomon Singer
Back home
Blue skin of the sea : a novel in stories
The bridges of summer
Bringing the farmhouse home
Down in the piney woods
Drifting snow: an Arctic search
Elijah's angel : a story for Chanukah and Christmas
Emmy
Family of strangers
A forever family
Hoang Anh : a Vietnamese-American boy
A migrant family
Rachel Parker, kindergarten show-off
Where does the sky end, grandpa?
You're my Nikki

Values and Beliefs

An island Christmas
Neighborhood odes
No tigers in Africa
A peddler's dream
Somewhere in Africa
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Who comes with cannons?

Songbooks and Folk Songs

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1992

Biography

Bully for you, Teddy Roosevelt!
Diego
Duke Ellington
Georgia O'Keeffe
Rosa Bonheur
Mozart tonight
Napoleon and the Napoleonic wars
Native American doctor : the story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte
Outward dreams: Black inventors and their inventions
A picture book of Eleanor Roosevelt
The remarkable voyages of Captain Cook
A restless spirit: the story of Robert Frost
Robert E. Lee
John F. Kennedy: young people's president
Thomas Jefferson, the revolutionary aristocrat
The Wright brothers : how they invented the airplane

Contemporary Concerns

Fly away home
Freedom songs
Growing older: what young people should know about aging
Helping hands: how monkeys assist people who are disabled
The leaves in October
Monkey island
My friend's got this problem, Mr. Candler
Nothing but the truth : a documentary novel
Uncle Willie and the soup kitchen

Environment, Energy, and Ecology

And still the turtle watched
Antler, bear, canoe : a northwoods alphabet year
Brother eagle, sister sky : a message from Chief Seattle
Note: This book is also part of the kit "Native Americans"
Cartons, cans, and orange peels : where does your garbage go?
The dragon in the cliff : a novel based on the life of Mary Anning
The empty lot
The land of gray wolf
The old ladies who liked cats
On the day you were born
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”On the day you were born : creative arts enrichment curriculum”
Our endangered planet: rivers and lakes
Our endangered planet. Groundwater
Our endangered planet. Population growth
Panther dream : a story of the African rainforest
Sierra
The Sierra Club book of weatherwisdom
The stream
Surrounded by sea: life on a New England fishing island
Window

Folktales

All of you was singing
American tall tales
American tall tales
Book on CD
Borreguita and the coyote : a tale from Ayutla, Mexico
Note: this book is also part of the kits ”Mexico” and ”Scholastic guided reading program. Level O”
Cyclops
Days of awe: stories for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The diamond tree: Jewish tales from around the world
The dwarf giant
The greatest of all: a Japanese folktale
The journey of Meng
The sword in the stone
The legend of El Dorado : a Latin American tale
A letter to the king
Oom razoom, or, Go I know not where, bring back I know not what : a Russian tale
The orphan boy
Raven's light: a myth from the people of the Northwest coast
Raw head, bloody bones: African American tales of the supernatural
The sea lion
Tam Lin
The three brothers: a German folktale
Tower to Heaven
Traveling to Tondo : a tale of the Nkundo of Zaire
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”

Geography, Peoples, and Places

Alaska: pioneer stories of a twentieth-century frontier
America's first elephant
The Amish
Appalachia : the voices of sleeping birds
The cataract of Lorde : a poem
The children of Egypt
Daily life: a sourcebook on colonial America
Flight : the journey of Charles Lindbergh
The grandchildren of the Incas
Himalaya: vanishing cultures
Sahara: vanishing cultures
The land and people of Canada
Maps: getting from here to there
On the pampas
On top of the world: the conquest of Mount Everest
The place of lions
Prince Charlie's year
Tonight is Carnaval
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”South America”

History, Life, and Culture in the Americas

Exploration/Columbus

Discovering Christopher Columbus: how history is invented
The discovery of the Americas
Explorer
Bible lands
Invention
Follow the dream
If you were there in 1492
Westward with Columbus: set sail on the voyage that changed the world

Immigration

Coal mine peaches
The explorers and settlers: a sourcebook on Colonial America
Journey of the sparrows
Mary McLean and the St. Patrick's Day parade
My grandmother's journey
Onion tears
The star fisher
Tongues of jade

Slavery, Abolitionism, and Civil Rights

Escape from slavery : five journeys to freedom
Jayhawker
Powerful days: the Civil Rights photography of Charles Moore

Social History

The Arts and sciences: a sourcebook on colonial America
Brooklyn Dodger days
Children of the fire
Eating the plates : a pilgrim book of food and manners
Everything from a nail to a coffin
Governing and teaching: a sourcebook on colonial America
Lyddie
Prairie visions : the life and times of Solomon Butcher

U.S. History and Government

Eight hands round : a patchwork alphabet
The president's cabinet and how it grew
Public defender: lawyer for the people
The story of the White House

Wars

Battles in a new land: a sourcebook on colonial America
Behind the blue and gray : the soldier's life in the Civil War
A separate battle : women and the Civil War
1941: American goes to war
1942: America fights the tide
Red Cap
The Revolutionary War: a sourcebook on colonial America
The Spanish-American War
Undying glory: the story of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment

Human Relations

Families

Abuela
All those secrets of the world!
As far as Mill Springs
The auction
Aunt Flossie's hats (and crab cakes later)
The borning room
Christmas tree memories
Daisy
Dancing with the Indians
Dancing with the Indians
Big book
Evan's corner
Four of a kind
Go fish
Grandpa's song
Jamal's busy day
Journey
Night on Neighborhood Street
Pueblo storyteller
Some of the pieces
Stars for Sarah
Tar Beach
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”African-Americans”
Tar Beach
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”African-Americans”
Tree of cranes

Understanding Oneself and Others

Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
Braille and print edition
Among the volcanoes
The clay marble
Colt
A fire in my hands : a book of poems
The gold coin
Hannah
I am Regina
The last princess: the story of Princess Ka'iulani of Hawai'i
Matthew and Tilly
Note: this book is part of the kit ”Opening the world of learning : a comprehensive literacy program ”
A place to claim as home
The potato man
Pueblo boy : growing up in two worlds
The rag coat

World History and Culture

African

European

Captain of innocence: France and the Dreyfus affair
A knight's book
On their toes: a Russian ballet school
Paris underground
The sailor who captured the sea: a story of the Book of Kells
The secrets of Vesuvius

World War II

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1991

North American History, Culture, and Life

The American Frontier (including The Revolutionary War)

The Civil War and the African-American Experience

The ballad of Belle Dorcas
Further tales of Uncle Remus: the misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and other creatures
Mississippi bridge
A nation torn : the story of how the Civil War began
The road to Memphis
Teammates
Thank you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr!
Underground man

The Vietnam Conflict

Portrait of a tragedy: America and the Vietnam war
Vietnam, why we fought: an illustrated history
The wall

Public Policy Issues

American women : their lives in their words : a documentary history
The Bill of Rights: how we got it and what it means
Crime in America
The dream is alive
We have AIDS
Who's to know?: information, the media, and public awareness

North American People and Places

Arctic memories
Beacons of light : lighthouses
The buck stops here : the presidents of the United States
The city girl who went to the sea
Lion dancer : Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year
Moon glows
Nessa's fish
Sugaring season: making maple syrup
Time to go
Totem Pole
Train song
Trucker
Wake up, City!
We keep a store
When autumn comes
The White House: cornerstone of a nation

American Immigration

The cat who escaped from steerage : a bubbemeiser
Ellis Island: new hope in a new land
Hector lives in the United States now: the story of a Mexican-American child
Tales from Gold Mountain: stories of the Chinese in the New World

World War II

Code name Kris
Hear O Israel: a story of the Warsaw Ghetto
The journey: Japanese Americans, racism, and renewal
My daddy was a soldier: a World War II story
The other victims : first-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis
Shanghai passage
Tug of war

World History and Culture

The button box
The button box
Big book
Chain of fire
The day of Ahmed's secret
The dragon's boy
Galimoto
Good Queen Bess : the story of Elizabeth I of England
How we learned the Earth is round
The land and people of Turkey
The land and people of Argentina
The land and people of Bolivia
The land and people of Finland
The land and people of Mongolia
The land and people of Scotland
The land and people of South Africa
The land and people of Zimbabwe
Loving
Money
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Rome
Rehema's journey: a visit in Tanzania
The riddle of the Rosetta Stone: key to Ancient Egypt
The sandal
Showa: the age of Hirohito
Talk about English: how words travel and change
The village of blue stone

Folktales, Myths, Legends, Fables, and Stories

Creation Tales

The boy who found the light: Eskimo folktales
How the guinea fowl got her spots : a Swahili tale of friendship
Land of the long white cloud: Maori myths, tales, and legends
Sky dogs
Song of the chirimia: a Guatemalan folktale = La música de la chirimía: folklore Guatemalteco
The story of light
Why does it always rain on Sukkot?

Western Tales

Belling the cat and other Aesop's fables
Buried moon
Dream wolf
Elfwyn's saga
My grandmother's stories: a collection of Jewish folk tales
The Nemean lion

Eastern Tales

The bird who was an elephant
The empty pot
The empty pot
Fortune
Grandfather Tang's story
The seven Chinese brothers
A song of stars
The tale of the mandarin ducks
Three strong women: a tall tale from Japan

Biography

Americans

El Chino
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harriet Tubman
Benazir Bhutto
W.E.B. Du Bois
Julia Morgan: architect of dreams
Frances Hodgson Burnett: beyond the Secret Garden
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The many lives of Benjamin Franklin
Pinkerton: America's first private eye
Richard Allen: religious leader and social activist

Explorers

Christopher Columbus : voyager to the unknown
Columbus, and the world around him
I, Columbus: my journal, 1492-3
Prince Henry the Navigator
The travels of Marco Polo
The voyages of Captain Cook

Environment

Going green: a kid's handbook to saving the planet
Greening the city: the story of community gardens
Just a dream
My place in space
One day in the tropical rain forest
Riverkeeper
Seeing Earth from space
A tale of Antarctica
Volcanoes and earthquakes
Yellowstone fires: flames and rebirth

Peace

Families

The bread winner
Cousins
The day we met you
Families: a celebration of diversity, commitment, and love
The final tide
Hattie and the wild waves : a story from Brooklyn
Just like Max
Littlejim
Mom can't see me
Moxie
My great grandpa
Through moon and stars and night skies
The trading game
When I am old with you
White Peak Farm

Understanding Oneself and Others

All I am
Armien's fishing trip
Babushka's doll
Coconut kind of day: island poems
Daddy has a pair of striped shorts
Good morning, river!
Halsey's pride
Home place
Jenny
Osa's pride
Regina's big mistake
The ring and the window seat
The search for the ten-winged dragon
Walden
Winter holding spring

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1990

North American History, Culture and Life

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War
American politics: how it really works
Arly
Aurora means dawn
Behind the headlines: the story of American newspapers
The birth of a nation: the early years of the United States
Chita's Christmas tree
Counting America : the story of the United States census
The Crow
The day of the rainbow
El Güero : a true adventure story
Gold: the Klondike adventure
Grasshopper summer
Have a happy-- : a novel
The homeless: profiling the problem
How proudly they wave : flags of the fifty states
In two worlds: a Yup'ik Eskimo family
Jenny of the Tetons
The Lincoln Brigade: a picture history
A long hard journey : the story of the pullman porter
Miranda and the movies
Mr. Jordan in the park
My Daniel
No star nights
An old-fashioned Thanksgiving
The old synagogue
On Granddaddy's farm
The other 1492: Jewish settlement in the New World
Penny in the road
Sarah Morton's day : a day in the life of a pilgrim girl
Silver days
Spanish pioneers of the Southwest
Sweetgrass
Voices from the Civil War : a documentary history of the great American conflict
The White House

World History and Cultures

Bread, bread, bread
The Calypso alphabet
The chalk doll
The chalk doll
A Children's chorus : celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Declaration of the rights of the child
Exploring the past: the Middle Ages
Exploring the past: Ancient Egypt
Flag
The forty-third war
The four questions
The inside-outside book of London
Is anybody up?
The land and people of Afghanistan
The land and people of China
The land and people of France
The land and people of Kenya
Lisa's war
My name is not Angelica
Number the stars
Once upon a horse: a history of horses - and how they shaped our history
Panama Canal: gateway to the world
The season of secret wishes
Shabanu : daughter of the wind
The story of Hanukkah
Terrible Things : an allegory of the Holocaust
The Wailing Wall
Walter Dragun's town: crafts and trade in the Middle Ages
We remember the Holocaust
Women in the Third World

Biography

Arctic explorer : the story of Matthew Henson
Ché!: Latin America's legendary guerilla leader
The great little Madison
Healing warrior : a story about Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Helen Keller: a light for the blind
Jesse Jackson : a biography
The King's day: Louis XIV of France
Louis Armstrong
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michelangelo's world
A picture book of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a walk in their shoes
Tiberius Claudius Maximus: the cavalryman
Tiberius Claudius Maximus: the legionary

The Examination of Origins

Ancient Indians : the first Americans
The hunters of prehistory
Wolf child
Writing it down
Feeding yourself
Getting dressed
Keeping clean

Rural and Business Life

The American family farm
Born to the land: an American portrait
The fortunate fortunes
Better mousetraps
The problem solvers
The rejects
The unsung heroes
Frannie's fruits
Heartland
If you made a million
Marge's diner
My cousin Katie
Sam goes trucking

Environment

National Geographic's guide to the national parks of the United States
The animal rights controversy
Can the whales be saved? : questions about the natural world and the threats to its survival answered by the Natural History Museum
Heron street
High in the mountains
The secret of the seal
Shark beneath the reef
Stranded

Folktales, Myths, Legends, Fables, and Stories

The adventures of High John the Conqueror
Anno's Aesop : a book of fables
The arrow and the lamp : the story of Psyche
Awful aardvark
Beyond the ridge
Earthmaker's tales
The Egyptian Cinderella
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Cinderella around the world”
Favorite Greek myths
Feathers like a rainbow: an Amazon Indian tale
Hershel and the Hanukkah goblins
How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants ; and other tales of the Maritime Indians
How many spots does a leopard have? and other tales
The hydra
John Tabor's ride
Jump on over! : the adventures of Brer Rabbit and his family
Ladder to the sky : how the gift of healing came to the Ojibway Nation : a legend retold
The little snowgirl : an old Russian tale
Llama and the great flood: a folktale from Peru
Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China
Book on CD
Monkey creates havoc in Heaven
The prince in the golden tower
Proud knight, fair lady : the twelve laïs of Marie de France
Rabbit makes a monkey of lion : a Swahili tale
The rainbow people
Robin Hood
The shining princess and other Japanese legends
The sorcerer's apprentice
The talking eggs : a folktale from the American South
Tattercoats
The three little pigs and the fox : an Appalachian tale
Tillie and the wall
Tony's bread: an Italian folktale
The true story of the 3 little pigs
The twelve dancing princesses
Twelve dancing princesses
Under Vova's tree
The warrior and the wise man
Why there is no arguing in Heaven: a Mayan myth

Poems and Songs

All God's critters got a place in the choir
The ballad of Biddy Early
Caribbean canvas
Dancing teepees : poems of American Indian youth
The Diane Goode book of American folk tales & songs
Hey world, here I am!
Lord of the dance: an African retelling
My father
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet : Selections from the People Pieces
Note: we do have the e-book
Valentine & Orson : re-created as a folk play in verse and paintings
Who killed Cockatoo?

Understanding Oneself and Others

And one for all
Anna in charge
Bearstone
The believers
The best present
The black snowman
The Canada geese quilt
The Christmas cup
A country far away
Elmer
Emotional illness in your family: helping your relative, helping yourself
Family pose
Freya's fantastic surprise
The great ancestor hunt : the fun of finding out who you are
Harpoon Island
Hedgehog for breakfast
Here comes the cat! = сюда идет кот! = Si︠u︡da idet kot!
How pizza came to Queens
Julian
The magic fan
Magical hands
The midnight eaters
The night call
The ninth issue
No kidding
Once there were giants
Pocket change
Sarah Bear & Sweet Sidney
School isn't fair!
A song for Uncle Harry
Tall enough to own the world
They're all named Wildfire
The ups and downs of Carl Davis III