Part of your requirement for US History is to read about history. The books must come from the list provided. If you find something else in the library that you think will work, come have it approved by me first and I will also then be able to add it to the list for others to know about. There are nonfiction and historical fiction listed below.
Things to remember about the book requirement:
1.
At least 1 of your book choices must be a non fiction work.
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At least 1 of your book choices must be over 250 pages.
Do not be put off or limited by the page numbers, find something that interests you and the amount to read won’t seem that large!!
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers by Jim Dwyer
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Adrift: Seventy six days lost at sea by Steven Callahan
A Hero for Our Time by Ralph G. Martin
A Long Time From Home by Michael Costello
American Genesis by Alden T. Vaughan
American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Band of Sisters: American Women at War in Iraq by Kirsten Holmstedt
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Born to Fly by Shane Osborn
Brian Piccolo: A Short Season b Jeannie Morris
Buccaneers, The by Edith Wharton
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Children of the River by Linda Crew
City of Falling Angels, The by John Berendt
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero by David Maraniss
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Dear Miss Breed by JoAnne Oppenheim
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
Dust Bowl Diary by Ann Marie Low
Eleanor Roosevelt by J. Williams T. Young
Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper
Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
Four Hours in My Lai by Micheal Bilton
Ghost Girl by Torey L. Hayden
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
Girls Who Went Away, The by Ann Fessler
Glass Castle, The by Jeannette Walls
Goodnight Saigon by Charles Henderson
Great American Battles by Robert Leckie
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
Hear the Wind Blow by Mary Downing Hahn
Heat by Mike Lupica
Here Today by Ann Martin
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
Iacocca by Lee Iacocca
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien
Jackie After Jack by Christopher Andersen
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Let’s Roll by Lisa Beamer
Lies Across America by James W. Leowen
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lucky by Alice Sebold
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Adam Fairclough

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathanial Philbrick
Message from Nam by Danielle Steel
Middle of Everywhere, The by Mary Pipher
Military Intelligence Blunders by Colonel John Hughes Wilson
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home by Nando Parrado
One Child by Torey Hayden
October Sky by Homer Hickam
October Surprise by Gary Sick
Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids, The by Alexandra Robbins
Passionate Sage by Joseph Ellis
People of the Earth by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O Neal Gear
Petticoat Affair, The by John F. Marszalek
Quakertown by Lee Martin
Race For the Sky by Dan Gutman
Rachel’s Tears by Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott
Real All Americans, The by Sally Jenkins
Recon Scout by Fred H. Salter
Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig
Rickenbacker: An Autobiography by Eddie Rickenbacker
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Sitting Bull by Gary C. Anderson
Slave and Citizen by Nathan Irvin Huggins
Slave Dancer, The by Paula Fox
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Tecumseh by R. David Edmunds
There but for the Grace of God: Survivors of the 20 th Century’s Infamous Serial Killers by Fred Rosen
Things They Carried, The by Tim O’Brien
‘Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America’s Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang by
William Queen
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Harold G. Moore
Why Didn’t You Get Me Out? By Frank Anton
Witch of Blackbird Pond, The by Elizabeth George Speare
Worst Hard Time, The by Timothy Egan