Recommended Social Studies Reading List
GRADE 8
JAPAN
Blumberg Rhonda
Commodore Perry in the land of the shogun
Blumberg Rhonda
Shipwrecked!: the true adventures of a Japanese Boy
Gratz Alan
Samurai Shortstop
Haugaard Erik Christian
The boy and the Samurai
Haugaard Erik Christian
The revenge of the forty-seven samurai
Haugaard Erik Christian
Samurai's Tale
Hoobler Dorothy
The demon in the teahouse
Hoobler Dorothy
The Sword that cut the burning grass: a samurai mystery
Kimmel Eric. A
Sword of the samurai: adventure stories from Japan
Lasky Kathryn
Kazunomiya: prisoner of heaven
Namioka Lensey
The samurai and the long- nosed devils
Paterson Katherine
Master Puppeteer
RENAISSANCE
Avi
Crispin: the cross of lead
Avi
Midnight magic
Blackwood Gary. L
The Shakespeare Stealer
Bolognese Don
The warhorse
Cheany J.B
The playmaker
Cheany J.B
The true prince
Cooper Susan
King of Shadows
Dyer K.C
Secret of light
Gardner Sally
I, Coriander
Grey Christopher Peter
Leonardo's shadow, or My astonishing life as Leonardo da Vinci's servant
Hoffman Mary
The falconer's knot: a tale of friars, fear and foul play
Kernaghan Elieen
The alchemist's daughter
Konigsburg E.L
The second Mrs. Giaconda
Meyer Carolyn
Beware, Princess Elizabeth
Meyer Carolyn
Duchessina in a novel of Catherine de' Medici
Meyer Carolyn
Isabel: Jewel of Castilla
Meyer Carolyn
Loving will Shakspeare
Meyer Carolyn
Mary, Bloody mary
Napoli Donna Jo.
Daughter of Venice
AZTEC
Danticat Edwidge
Anacaona: Golden Flower
Dorris Michael
Morning Girl
Lewin Waldtraut
Freedom beyond the sea
Little Melanie
The apprentice's masterpiece: a story of medieval Spain
O'Dell Scott
The captive
Recommended Social Studies Reading List
GRADE 9
Alma Ann
Skateway to freedom
Burtinshaw Julie
Freedom of Jenny
Mikaelsen Ben
Touching spirit bear
Moss Marissa
Vote 4 Amelia
Paperny Myra
The greenies
Prince Bryan
I came as a stranger: the underground railroad
Ryan Pam Munoz
Esperanza rising
Schwartz Viginia Frances
If I just had two wings
Skrypuch Marsha Forchuk
Prisoners in the promised land: the Ukrainian interment diary of Anya Soloniuk
Sterling Shirley
My name is Seepeetza
Walters Eric
Caged Eagles
Recommended Social Studies Reading List
GRADE 11
Alvarez, Julia
Before we were free
Alvarez, Julia
In the time of butterflies
Bandami, Anita Rau
Can you hear the nightbird call?
Bagdasarian, Adam
Forgotten Fire
Blatchford, Christie
Fifteen days: stories of bravery, friendship, life and death froam inside the new Canadian arm
Bock, Dennis
The ash garden
Boraks, Jagna
The old brown suitcase: a teenager's story of war and peace
Boyne, John
The boy in the striped pajamas
Bruchac, Joseph
Code Talker: a novel about the Navjo marines of WWII
Cardinal, Tantoo
Our story
Chen, Da
China's son: growing up in the Cultural Revolution
Cheng, Terrace
Sons of heaven
Chotjewitz, David
Daniel half human:and the good Nazi
Crew, Linda
Chidlren of the river
Cumyn, Alan
The sojourn
Engle, Margarita
The surrender tree: poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom
Fine, Anne
Road of bones
Gardner, Sally
The red necklace: a story of the French Revolution
Gibbons, Alan
Caught in the crossfire
Hamamura, John
Color of the sea
Harper, Kenn
Give me my father's body
Harrison, Charles
Generals die in bed
Hiullen, Ernest
The way of a boy
Jansen, Hanna
Over a thousand hills I walk with you
Jarman, Julia
Peace weavers
Jiang, Ji-li
Red Scarf Girl
Kositsky, Lynne
The thought of high windows
Lahiri Jhumpa
The Namesake
Lawerence, Ian
B is for Buster
Levitin, Sonia
The return
Mah, Adeline
Falling leaves: the true story of an Unwated Chinese daughter
May, Steve
One chance
Morpurgo, Michael
Private Peaceful
Nanji, Shenaaz
Child of dandelions
Napoli, Donna Jo
Fire in the hills
Opdyke, Irene
In my hands: Memories of Holocaust resucer
Oerteit, Henry
Unbroken chain: My journey through the Nazi Holocaust
Pausewang, Gudrun
Traitor
Pazira, Nelofer
A bed of red flowers: In search of my Afghanistan
Sender, Ruth:
The cage
Sheth, Kashmira
Keeping cage
Sijie, Dai
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress
Skrypuch, Marsha
Daughter of war
Skrypuch, Marsha
Hope's war
Spillebeen, Geert
Kipling's Choice
Szpilman, Wladyslaw
The pianist
Temple, Francis
A taste of salt
Ung, Loung
First they killed my father: a daughter of Cambodia remembers
Walters, Eric
Walters, Eric
War of the eagles
When elephants fight: the lives of chidlren in conflict in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Suda
Uganda
Whelan, Gloria
The disappeared
Wilson, John
Flames of the tiger
Wilson, Leslie
Last train from Kummersdorf
Wiseman, Eva
Kanada
Wulffson, Don
Soldier X
Wiesel, Elie
Night
Ye, Ting-xing
My name is number 4
Zusak, Markus
The book thief