Monday, June 1, 2009

8th grade Historical Book List

Europe in the Nineteenth Century

Abraham Lincoln's World by Foster
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle (older)
Charles Dickens by Stanley
Country Doctor by Balzac (older)
Cure of Ars by Windeatt (older)
Dash for Khartoum (1885) by GA Henty (older)
Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever by Hill 1860 (Landmark) (medium)
Emma by Austin (older)
Facing Death: Welsh mines by GA Henty (older)
First Transatlantic Cable by Nathan 1854 (Landmark) (medium)
Florence Nightingale 1839-1856 (Landmark) (medium)
Florence Nightingale: God's Servant at the Battlefield by Collins
French Foreign Legion by Wyatt Blassingame 1815+ (Landmark) (medium)
Garibaldi: Father of Modern Italy by Marcia Davenport e.1800 (Landmark) (medium)
General Brock and Niagra Falls (War of 1812) (Landmark) (medium)
George Washington's World by Foster
In Search of Honor by Hess (very good!)
King's Giraffe by Collier (medium)
Lord Nelson Hero of Trafalgar by A. B. C. Whipple 1805 (Landmark) (medium)
Man Who Changed China: The Story of Sun Yat-sen by Buck 1866+ (Landmark) (medium)
Michael Strogoff by Verne 19th century (older)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C.S. Forester (or get the A&E movie it's wonderful)
Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner (a great story) (older)
Napoleon & the Battle of Waterloo 1815 (Landmark) (medium)
Napoleon by Carroll (SL)
Picture Book of Florence Nightingale by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Louis Braille by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Simon Bolivar by David Adler (easy)
Queen Victoria by Noel Streatfeild 1819-1901 (Landmark) (medium)
Rose Round by Trevor (older)
Royal Canadian Mounted Police by Richard L. Neuberger 1874 (Landmark) (medium)
Russians series by Pella 19th century (older)
Secret of the Ruby Ring by Yvonne MacGrorry (Ireland) (older)
Seeing Fingers Louis Braille by de Gering (older)
Simon Bolivar the Great Liberator by Arnold Whitridge 1820 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of Scotland Yard by Laurence Thompson e.1800 (Landmark) (medium)
Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes (older)
Victoria by Chiflet (older)
Wilberforce by Pollock (older)
Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Aiken (older)

Civil War

Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to Whitehouse by Sterling North (Landmark) (medium)
Abe Lincoln Goes to Washington by Cheryl Harness
Abe Lincoln's Hat (easy)
Abraham Lincoln by D'Aulaire (easy)
Across Five Aprils (SL)
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad by Marlene Brill (easy)
Among the Camps: Young People’s Stories of the War by Thomas Nelson Page (older)
Battle of Gettysburg by Col. Frank A. Haskell (older)
Be Ever Hopeful Hannalee by Patricia Beatty (older)
Billy Yank: The Union Soldier in the Civil War (easy)
Boys' War, The, by Jim Murphy (older)
Brady by Fritz (medium)
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman (VP)(older)
Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee by J. Steven Wilkins
Captured by a Spy by L. Travis
Charley Skedaddle by Patricia Beatty (GL)
Commander in Chief: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by Albert Marrin
Drinking Gourd, The, by F. N. Monjo (easy)
Drummer Boy's Battle, The, by Dave & Neta Jackson
Freedom Crossing by Margaret Goff Clark
Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor (Landmark) (medium)
Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman (easy)
Golden Book of the Civil War (great maps, photos, etc.)
Good Morning Mr. President: A story About Carl Sandburg by Barbara Mitchell (easy)
Grace's Letter to Lincoln (easy)
Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence (easy)
Harriet and the Runaway Book by Johanna Johnston (easy)
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz
If You Grew Up With Abraham Lincoln by Ann McGovern (easy)
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War by Kay Moore (easy)
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine (easy)
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry in American history by R. Conrad Stein (easy)
Johnny Reb: The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War (easy)
Just a Few Words, Mr. Lincoln : the Story of the Gettysburg Address by Fritz (easy)
Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Barbara Greenwood
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman (older)
Long Journey Home by Julius Lester
Long Road to Gettysburg by Jim Murphy (VP GL)
Meet Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Cary (easy)
Perilous Road, The, by William O. Steele (older)
Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Frederick Douglass by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Harriet Tubman by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Robert E. Lee by David Adler (easy)
River of Fire by Bettie Wilson Story
Robert E. Lee by Carol Greene (easy)
Runaway to Freedom by Barbara Smucker
Slave Dancer by Paula Fox (older)
Slave Ship, The, by Emma Gelders Sterne
Slopes of War (older)
Story of the Battle of Bull Run by Zachary Kent (COF) (medium)
Story of the Battle of Shiloh by Zachary Kent (COF) (medium)
Story of the Gettysburg Address by Kenneth Richards (COF) (medium)
Story of the Surrender at Appomattox Court House by Zachary Kent (COF) (medium)
Story of the Underground Railroad by R. Conrad Stein (medium)
Thief from Five Points by L. Travis
Thunder at Gettysburg by Patricia Lee Gauch (easy)
To Be A Slave by Julius Lester (older)
Undying Glory by Clinton Cox
Value of Helping : The Story of Harriet Tubman by Ann Donegan (easy)
Vicksburg Veteran by F.N. Monjo (easy)
War Comes to Willy Freeman
(V. 1 in a series) by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier (older)
Who Comes With Cannons? by Patricia Beatty
With Lee in Virginia by G.A. Henty (older)

US in the Late 19th & Early 20th Century

Call of the Wild (SL) (older)
Alaska Gold Rush by McNeer 1897 (Landmark) (medium)
Alexander Graham Bell by Leonard Evrett Fisher
Along Came the Model T! How Henry Ford Put the World on Wheels by Quackenbush (easy)
Andrew Carnegie by Shippen 1847 (Landmark) (medium)
Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr (easy)
Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush by Barthe Clements (medium)
Bobbin Girl by EA McCully (Lowell cotton mills)(picture book)
Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show by Havighurst 1860 (Landmark) (medium)
Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad by Nathan (Landmark) (medium)
Carolina’s Courage by Elizabeth Yates (easy)
Clara and the Bookwagon (easy)
CLICK! : A Story about George Eastman by Barbara Mitchell (older)
Conquest of the North and South Poles by Owen 1884 (Landmark) (medium)
Copper Kings of Montana by Place 1876 (Landmark) (medium)
Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman (older)
The Day it Rained Forever by Virginia T Gross (medium) (Johnstown)
Dear America/So Far From Home by B Denenberg (Irish immigration)(older)
Disaster at Johnstown by Dolson 1889 (Landmark) (medium)
Dragon’s Gate (older)
Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco by Kathleen Kudlinski (med)
Ellis Island Series by Joan Lowery Nixon (Immigrant stories)
George Washington Carver by White 1861 (Landmark) (medium)
Golden Age of Railroads by Holbrook 1830 (Landmark) (medium)
Golden Spike by R. Conrad Stein (easy)
Great Fire; The by Jim Murphy (medium)
Great Wheel by Lawson (medium)
Here a Plant.There a Plant.Everywhere a Plant Plant!: A Story of Luther Burbank by Robert Quackenbush
(easy)
Hero of the Titanic by Joan Blos
Hooray for Oklahoma by Carolyn Kirschstein
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
If You Lived 100 Years Ago Today by Ann McGovern (easy)
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine (easy)
If You Lived in the Alaska Territory by Nancy Levinson (easy)
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine (easy)
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman (older)
In the Heart of the Rockies by G.A. Henty (older)
It's Only Goodbye: An Immigrant Story by Virginia T. Gross (easy)
Julie by Catherine Marshall (older) (railroads, Johnstown, unions)
Journey to Ellis Island by Carol Bierman (easy)
Kate Shelly and the Midnight Express by Margaret Wettorer (easy)
Lily and Miss Liberty by Carla Stevens (easy)
Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin (easy)
Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness (medium)
Mark Twain by Clinton Cox
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone by Shippen 1870 (Landmark) (medium)
Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein (Lerner Bio) by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (medium)
Orphan Train Quartet by Joan Lowery Nixon (1856; 4 books in a series)
Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison by David Adler (easy)
Pocketful of Goobers : a story about George Washington Carver by Barbara Mitchell (Lerner Bio) (medium)
Redskin and the Cow-Boy; A Tale of Western Plains by G.A. Henty (older)
Rooftop Astronomer (Maria Mitchell) by Stephanie McPherson (easy)
Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack (Apache boy 1888 in Alabama)
Shoes for Everyone: A Story About Jan Matzeliger by Barbara Mitchell (medium)
Story of Oklahoma by Tinkle 1803 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the Naval Academy by Riesenberg 1845 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the Secret Service by Kuhn 1875 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of Thomas Alva Edison: Wizard of Menlo Park by Davidson (medium)
Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington by Stephen Mansfield
Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins (Landmark) (medium)
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting about the orphan trains
Up the Trail from Texas by Dobie 1865 (Landmark) (medium)
We'll Race You Henry: A Story About Henry Ford by Barbara Mitchell (easy)
Wild Bill Hickock Maryann Weidt (easy)
Wild Bill Hickok by Holbrook 1840 (Landmark) (medium)
Will and Orv by Walter Schulz
Willie Jasper’s Golden Eagle by F.N. Monjo (easy)
Wizard of Sound: A story about Thomas Edison by Barbara Mitchell (med)
World's Greatest Showman by Bryan 1834 (Landmark) (medium)
Wyatt Earp by Holbrook 1875 (Landmark) (medium)
You Want Women to Vote Lizzie Stanton? By Jean Fritz (medium)
Young Mark Twain by Kune 1843 (Landmark) (medium)

US in the Late 19th & Early 20th Century

Call of the Wild (SL) (older)
Alaska Gold Rush by McNeer 1897 (Landmark) (medium)
Alexander Graham Bell by Leonard Evrett Fisher
Along Came the Model T! How Henry Ford Put the World on Wheels by Quackenbush (easy)
Andrew Carnegie by Shippen 1847 (Landmark) (medium)
Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr (easy)
Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush by Barthe Clements (medium)
Bobbin Girl by EA McCully (Lowell cotton mills)(picture book)
Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show by Havighurst 1860 (Landmark) (medium)
Building of the First Transcontinental Railroad by Nathan (Landmark) (medium)
Carolina’s Courage by Elizabeth Yates (easy)
Clara and the Bookwagon (easy)
CLICK! : A Story about George Eastman by Barbara Mitchell (older)
Conquest of the North and South Poles by Owen 1884 (Landmark) (medium)
Copper Kings of Montana by Place 1876 (Landmark) (medium)
Cowboys of the Wild West by Russell Freedman (older)
The Day it Rained Forever by Virginia T Gross (medium) (Johnstown)
Dear America/So Far From Home by B Denenberg (Irish immigration)(older)
Disaster at Johnstown by Dolson 1889 (Landmark) (medium)
Dragon’s Gate (older)
Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco by Kathleen Kudlinski (med)
Ellis Island Series by Joan Lowery Nixon (Immigrant stories)
George Washington Carver by White 1861 (Landmark) (medium)
Golden Age of Railroads by Holbrook 1830 (Landmark) (medium)
Golden Spike by R. Conrad Stein (easy)
Great Fire; The by Jim Murphy (medium)
Great Wheel by Lawson (medium)
Here a Plant.There a Plant.Everywhere a Plant Plant!: A Story of Luther Burbank by Robert Quackenbush
(easy)
Hero of the Titanic by Joan Blos
Hooray for Oklahoma by Carolyn Kirschstein
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
If You Lived 100 Years Ago Today by Ann McGovern (easy)
If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake by Ellen Levine (easy)
If You Lived in the Alaska Territory by Nancy Levinson (easy)
If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine (easy)
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman (older)
In the Heart of the Rockies by G.A. Henty (older)
It's Only Goodbye: An Immigrant Story by Virginia T. Gross (easy)
Julie by Catherine Marshall (older) (railroads, Johnstown, unions)
Journey to Ellis Island by Carol Bierman (easy)
Kate Shelly and the Midnight Express by Margaret Wettorer (easy)
Lily and Miss Liberty by Carla Stevens (easy)
Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin (easy)
Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi by Cheryl Harness (medium)
Mark Twain by Clinton Cox
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone by Shippen 1870 (Landmark) (medium)
Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein (Lerner Bio) by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson (medium)
Orphan Train Quartet by Joan Lowery Nixon (1856; 4 books in a series)
Picture Book of George Washington Carver by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison by David Adler (easy)
Pocketful of Goobers : a story about George Washington Carver by Barbara Mitchell (Lerner Bio) (medium)
Redskin and the Cow-Boy; A Tale of Western Plains by G.A. Henty (older)
Rooftop Astronomer (Maria Mitchell) by Stephanie McPherson (easy)
Run Away Home by Patricia McKissack (Apache boy 1888 in Alabama)
Shoes for Everyone: A Story About Jan Matzeliger by Barbara Mitchell (medium)
Story of Oklahoma by Tinkle 1803 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the Naval Academy by Riesenberg 1845 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the Secret Service by Kuhn 1875 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of Thomas Alva Edison: Wizard of Menlo Park by Davidson (medium)
Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington by Stephen Mansfield
Thomas Alva Edison by Margaret Cousins (Landmark) (medium)
Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting about the orphan trains
Up the Trail from Texas by Dobie 1865 (Landmark) (medium)
We'll Race You Henry: A Story About Henry Ford by Barbara Mitchell (easy)
Wild Bill Hickock Maryann Weidt (easy)
Wild Bill Hickok by Holbrook 1840 (Landmark) (medium)
Will and Orv by Walter Schulz
Willie Jasper’s Golden Eagle by F.N. Monjo (easy)
Wizard of Sound: A story about Thomas Edison by Barbara Mitchell (med)
World's Greatest Showman by Bryan 1834 (Landmark) (medium)
Wyatt Earp by Holbrook 1875 (Landmark) (medium)
You Want Women to Vote Lizzie Stanton? By Jean Fritz (medium)
Young Mark Twain by Kune 1843 (Landmark) (medium)


World War I

America's First World War: General Pershing by Henry Castor 1915 (Landmark) (medium)
Bold Leaders of World War I, by Col. Red Reider, (Landmark) (medium)
Flying Aces of World War I by Gene Gurney 1915 (Landmark) (medium)
Gay Neck, Story of a Pigeon (a Newberry about a carrier pigeon)
House on Walenska Street by Herman
Lawrence of Arabia by MacLean 1915 (Landmark) (medium)
Medal of Honor Heroes, (Landmark) (medium)
Story of Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965 (Landmark) (medium)

US in the 20th Century Until World War II .

Ahoy! Ahoy! Are You There?: A Story of Alexander Graham Bell by Robert Quackenbush
Along Came the Model T! How Henry Ford Put the World on Wheels by Quackenbush
America I Hear You: A Story About George Gershwin by Barbara Mitchell
Arctic Explorer: A Story of Matthew Henson (1866-1955 Lerner Bio) by Jeri Ferris
Between Two Worlds: A Story About Pearl Buck by Barbara Mitchell
Bud & Me: The True Adventures of the Abernathy Boys by Alta Abernathy (older)
Bully for You Teddy Roosevelt by Jean Fritz
Carry A Big Stick: The Uncommon Heroism of Theodore Roosevelt by George Grant
Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
Cheaper by the Dozen (SL) (older)
Child Star by Lydia Weaver (medium)(talkies)
Children of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp by Jerry Stanley.
Clear the Cow Pasture I'm Coming in for a Landing!: A Story of Amelia Earhart by Robert Quackenbush
Clyde Tombough and the Search for Planet X (Pluto) by Margaret Wetterer
Doctors Who Conquered Yellow Fever (Landmark) (medium)
Dragonwings (SL)(SF Earthquake) (older
Early Days of Automobiles by Janeway (Landmark) (medium)
Endurance: Shakleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (older)
Exploring the Titanic by Robert Ballard
FBI by Reynolds 1924 (Landmark) (medium)
Fire at the Triangle Factory by Holly Littlefield
Fire! by Barbara Goldin (medium)(Triangle fire, unions)
General Pershing and World War I (Landmark) (medium)
Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships by Robert Ballard
Hard Times by Nancy Artley
Hero of the Titanic by Joan Blos
Hero Over Here by Kudlinski (easy) (WWI, flu epidemic)
Loner; The (older)
Long Way to Go by Zibby Oneal (medium) (Women's Suffrage)
Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky. (E)
Matter of Pride (dustbowl) by Emily Crofford
Medal of Honor Heros by Reeder 1914 (Landmark) (medium)
Moonshiner’s Son by Carolyn Reader (older)
My Daddy Was a Soldier by Deborah Ray
Nothing to Fear (depression) (older)
One Bad Thing About Father (T. Roosevelt) by F.N. Monjo (easy)
Panama Canal (Landmark) (medium)
Panama Canal by Considine
Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Helen Keller by David Adler (easy)
Raggin': A Story About Scott Joplin by Barbara Mitchell
Remarkable Ride of the Abernathy Boys by Robert B. Jackson (?)
Sergeant York and the Great War ed. Tom Skeyhill (GL)
Sergeant York: His Life Legend and Legacy by John Perry (GL)
Seventeenth Swap (SL) (older)
Story of the U. S. Air Force by Loomis 1903 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the U.S.Coast Guard by Rachlis 1915 (Landmark) (medium)
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski (medium)
Stubby; Brave Soldier Dog by Richard Glendinning (WWI) (easy)
Take Me Out to the Airfield!: How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane by Robert Quackenbush
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders by Castor 1890 (Landmark) (medium)
Titanic Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly
U.S. Border Patrol by Hellyer 1924 (Landmark) (medium)
Will and Orv by Walter Schulz
Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman

World War II

Battle for Iwo Jima by Leckie WWII 1944 (Landmark) (medium)
Battle for the Atlantic by Williams WWII 1944 (Landmark) (medium)
Battle for the Bulge by Toland WWII 1944 (Landmark) (medium)
Battle of Britain by Quentin Reynolds 1940 (Landmark) (medium)
Ben-Gurion and the Birth of Israel 1940's (Landmark) (medium)
Chestry Oak by Seredy (I read this book and just loved it)
Combat Nurses of World War II by Wyatt Blassingame 1941 (Landmark) (medium)
Commandos of World War II by Hodding Carter 1940 (Landmark) (medium)
Escape from Warsaw by Serraillier (SL)
Flat Top Aircraft Carriers by Castillo 1910 (Landmark) (medium)
Flying Tigers by Toland WWII 1941 (Landmark) (medium)
From Casablanca to Berlin by Bliven WWII 1942 (Landmark) (medium)
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Bliven WWII 1941 (Landmark) (medium)
Great American Fighter Pilots of World War II by R. Loomis 1941 (Landmark) (medium)
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis 1945 (Landmark) (medium)
Hiroshima by John Hersey (VP)
JFK and the PT-109 by Tregaskis WWII 1942 (Landmark) (medium)
Medical Corps Heros of World War II by Blasingame WWII 1941 (Landmark) (medium)
Midway: Battle for the Pacific by Castillo WWII 1942 (Landmark) (medium)
North to Freedom (SL)
Number the Stars (SL)
Pearl Harbor is Burning by Kudlinski (medium)
Picture Book of Anne Frank by David Adler (easy)
Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer 1945 (Landmark) (medium)
Seabees of World War II by Castillo WWII 1942 (Landmark) (medium)
Sinking of the Bismarck by William L. Shirer 1940 (Landmark) (medium)
Snow Treasure by McSwigen (SL)
Story of Atomic Energy 1940's (Landmark) (medium)
Story of D Day by Bliven WWII 1944 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of D-Day (Landmark) (medium)
Story of Submarines by Weller 1850 (Landmark) (medium)
Story of the Paratroops by Weller (Landmark) (medium)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Lawson WWII 1940 (Landmark) (medium)
Twenty and Ten (SL)
U.S. Frogmen of WWII by Blasingame WWII 1944 (Landmark) (medium)
Winston Churchill by Reynolds England 1874 (Landmark) (medium)
Young Underground Series by Robert Elmer (WW II; Christian; 10 or more books in the series)


The World Since 1945

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (older)
Exploring the Himalayas by William O. Douglas (Landmark) (medium)
The Good Master, by Seredy (SL)
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (older)
Plague by Carol Balizet sci-fi (older)
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (Canada)(older)
Red Scarf Girl, by ?? (about the Korean War)
United Nations in War and Peace by Fehrenbach WWII 1945 (Landmark) (medium)
War in Korea 1950's (Landmark) (medium)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (older)
Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfezer & Jack Galvin (older)

US After World War II

Americans in Orbit by Gurney America 1955 (Landmark) (medium)
Boy Who Dreamed of Rockets; The (Robert Goddard) by Robert Quackenbush
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine by Eileen Lucas
Dwight D Eisenhower by Moos America (Landmark) (medium)
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made by Paul Brand and P. Yancy (older)
First Circle by Solzhenitsyn (older)
Gifted Hands by Ben Carson (older)
Green Book; The sci-fi (older)
I Can be an Astronaut by June Behrens
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King by Ellen Levine
If You Lived With the Circus by Ann McGovern
Johnny Hong of Chinatown by Bulla
Journey to Jericho by Scott O'Dell
Korean War Soldier at Heartbreak Ridge by Carl R. Green and William R. Sanford (medium)
Korean War: The Forgotten War by Stein
Neil Armstrong Space Pioneer by Paul Westman
New Americans : Vietnamese Boat People by James Haskins
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn (older)
Paper Caper; The (computer program theft) by Caroline Cooney
Picture Book of John F. Kennedy by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Martin Luther King Jr. by David Adler (easy)
Picture Book of Rosa Parks by David Adler (easy)
President is Dead; The by Virginia Gross
Riders of the Pale Horse by T. Davis Bunn (older)
Run Baby Run (SL) (older)
Sally Ride Astronaut : An American First by June Behrens
Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis (older)(preview)
Spacebusters: The Race to the Moon (Lerner Bio) by Philip Wilkinson
Stateswoman to the World : a story about Eleanor Roosevelt by Maryann N. Weidt
Thurgood Marshall : First African-American Supreme Court Justice by Carol Greene
To Kill a Mockingbird (SL) (older)
Walk in Space by Gurney America 1965 (Landmark) (medium)
Wall of Names : the story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Judy Donnelly
Wrinkle in Time (SL)(sci-fi)(older)
Young Rosa Parks Civil Rights Heroine by Anne Benjamin

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