Using Fiction and Nonfiction Picture Books and Novels to Support
the Social Studies Frameworks: K-12
Friday, January 22, 2016
Derek Ivie, SCLS Youth Services Coordinator
BOOKLIST
U.S. History
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Black Dove White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary by Gail Jarrow
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Gingerbread for Liberty: How a German Baker Helped Win the American Revolution by Mara
Rockliff
Harlem Renaissance Party by Faith Ringgold
Iron Rails, Iron Men, and the Race to Link the Nation: The Story of the Transcontinental Railroad
by Martin W. Sandler
Most Dangerous by Steve Sheinkin
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
Rhythm Ride: A Road Trip through the Motown Sound by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights by Ann Bausum
The Story of Juneteenth: An Interactive History Adventure by Steven Otfinoski
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America by Susan Campbell
Bartoletti
Tommy: The Gun That Changed America by Karen Blumenthal
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
The Civil Rights Movement
Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein
Mahalia Jackson: Walking with Kings and Queens by Nina Nolan
March: Book Two by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful Integration of Huntsville, Alabama by Hester Bass
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston
Weatherford
World History
28 Days: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith
After the Ashes by Sara K. Joiner
Child Convicts by Net Brennan
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War by Jessica Dee Humphrey & Michel
Chikwanine
Chocolate: Sweet Science and Dark Secrets of the World's Favorite Treat by Kay Frydenburg
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey by Ozge Samanci
The Great War: Stories Inspired by Items from the First World War by David Almond
Historium by Richard Wilkinson and Jo Nelson
History of Women's Fashion by Natasha Slee and illustrated by Sanna Mander
Hold Tight, Don't Let Go by Laura Rose Wagner
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, retold and illustrated by Marcia Williams
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France by Mara Rockliff
WWII
Battle of the Bulge by Rick Atkinson
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pederson and The Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
Hitler's Last Days by Bill O'Reilly
The Prisoners of Breendonk: Personal Histories from a World War II Concentration Camp by
James M. Deem
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T.
Anderson
Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army by Georg Rauch
Famous Figures
Abe Lincoln: His Wit and Wisdom from A-Z by Alan Schroeder
Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle and illustrated by Rafael López
Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir by Margarita Engle
FDR and the American Crisis by Albert Marrin
Growing Up Pedro by Matt Tavares
Henry Aaron's Dream by Matt Tavares
My Name is Truth: The Life of Sojourner Truth by Ann Turner
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great by Jessie Hartland
Trombone Shorty by Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and illustrated by Bryan Collier
X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz the daughter of Malcolm X
In the News
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kelly
The Bullies of Wall Street by Sheila Bair
Doable: The Girl's Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything by Deborah Reber
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don Brown
Taking Aim, Power and Pain: Teens and Guns edited by Michael Cart
This Side of Home by Renee Watson
Violent Ends by Shaun David Hutchinson