 Curtis, Christopher Paul / The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 / Grades 4-up
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. Dear America series / Grades 5-up
The fictional diaries of different American girls from colonial times through the twentieth century.
Duey, Kathleen / Survival! series / Grades 3-6
Kids throughout America's history survive fires, hurricanes & more.
 Giff, Patricia Reilly / Lily’s Crossing / Grades 3-6
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily’s friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Girls of Many Lands series / Grades 4-up
Girls of many lands *and* centuries.
History Mysteries series / Grades 4-up
Intrigue for girls age ten and up!
 McCaughrean, Geraldine / The Kite Rider / Grades 5-up
In thirteenth-century China, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan.
My Name is America series / Grades 5-up
The fictional diaries of different American boys from colonial times through the twentieth century.
Park, Linda Sue / A Single Shard / Grades 5-up
Tree Ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics herself.
 Peck, Richard / A Long Way From Chicago / Grades 4-up
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Rees, Celia / Pirates! / Grades 5-up
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation, Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
The Royal Diaries series / Grades 5-up
The fictional diaries of princesses and queens of all nations, throughout the centuries.
 Spinelli, Jerry / Milkweed / Grades 5-up
A homeless young boy joins an unruly gang of Jewish street kids. The horrors of the Holocaust don't become apparent until Misha and his friends are rounded up and confined to the Warsaw ghetto.
Woodruff, Elvira / George Washington’s Socks / Grades 3-5
In the midst of a backyard campout, five children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war. |
