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Book recommendations pertaining to American History.
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Early America
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1 | Taylor, Alan | 2001 | YA | Age of Revolutions | 13000 BCE-1820 CE | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Colonial America | NF | B S |
Invincible Microbe | Murphy, Jim | 2012 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 10,000 BCE-2009 CE | North America Europe | United States | Plagues Tuberculosis | NF | CB |
What the Eagle Sees | Yellowhorn, Eldon Lowinger, Kathy | 2019 | UMG YA | High Middle Ages | 982-2019 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans | NF OV | CB |
Peacemaker | Bruchac, Joseph | 2021 | MG UMG | High Middle Ages | 1300 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Iroquois Nation | F Bio | CB |
Hiawatha and the Peacemaker | Robertson, Robbie | 2015 | MG LE | High Middle Ages | 1300 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Iroquois Nation | F Bio | PB |
All Out | Mitchell, Saundra | 2020 | YA | various | 1350-1999 | North America Europe | United States Mexico Great Britain France | LGBTQ+ | F | N |
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You | Reynolds, Jason Kendi, Ibram X. | 2020 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1415-2020 | North America | United States | Racism Civil Rights | NF OV | NF |
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding our Racial Divide | Anderson, Carol Bolden, Tonya | 2019 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1415-2020 | North America | United States | Racism | NF OV | NF |
Before Columbus | Mann, Charles C. | 2009 | UMG YA | Renaissance | 1491 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans | NF | CB |
Children of the Longhouse | Bruchac, Joseph | 1996 | MG | Renaissance | 1491 | North America | United States | Early America Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
Encounter | Yolen, Jane | 1996 | LE | Renaissance | 1492 | North America | Bahamas | Early America Indigenous Americans | F | PB |
Morning Girl | Dorris, Michael | 1992 | MG | Renaissance | 1492 | North America | Bahamas | Early America Indigenous Americans Colonization | F | CB |
Exploring the New World: An Interactive History Adventure | Herr, Melody | 2011 | MG | Renaissance | 1492-1682 | North America | United States | Explorers | NF | CB |
A Fire Among Clouds: Codex Black | Lozano, Camilo Moncada | 2023 | YA | Renaissance | 1493 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Mesoamerican Mythology | HF | GN |
A Queer History of the United States for Young People | Bronski, Michael and Chevat, Richie | 2019 | YA | various | 1500-2019 CE | North America | United States | LGBTQ+ | NF | B S |
You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Colonist | Morley, Jacqueline | 2013 | LE MG | Renaissance | 1575–1625 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF | PB |
Roanoke: The Lost Colony | Yolen, Jane | 2003 | MG UMG | Renaissance | 1587-1590 | North America | United States | Roanoke Colony Colonial America | NF | PB |
1600s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Race to the Truth: Colonization and the Wampanoag Story | Coombs, Linda | 2023 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1600-1660 | North America | United States | Colonial America Indigenous Americans Wampanoag Colonization | NF | CB |
Women of Colonial America: 13 Stories of Courage and Survival in the New World | Miller, Brandon Marie | 2016 | YA A | Enlightenment | 1600-1750 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF Bio | B |
Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | Walker, Sally M. | 2009 | UMG YA | Enlightenment | 1606-1750 | North America | United States | Jamestown Colonial America | NF | B |
Blood on the River | Carbone, Elisa | 2006 | UMG | Enlightenment | 1606-1610 | North America | United States | Jamestown Colonial America | F | CB |
1607: A New Look at Jamestown | Lange, Karen | 2007 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1607 | North America | United States | Jamestown Colonial America | NF | PB |
Colonial America: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2011 | MG | Enlightenment | 1607-1775 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF | CB |
A Lion to Guard Us | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 1981 | MG | Enlightenment | 1609-1613 | North America | United States | Colonial America Jamestown | F | CB |
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water | Hannah-Jones, Nikole Watson, Renee | 2021 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1619-2021 | North America Africa | United States | Geneology Civil Rights Atlantic Slave Trade | NF OV | PB |
Who's That Stepping on Plymouth Rock? | Fritz, Jean | 1975 | MG | Enlightenment | 1620-1741 | North America | United States | Plymouth Rock | NF | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Mayflower | Cook, Peter | 2013 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1620 | North America | United States | Mayflower Colonial America | NF | PB |
Mayflower 1620 | Arenstam, Peter, Kemp, John, and O'Neill Grace, Catherine | 2007 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1620 | North America | United States | Mayflower Colonial America | NF | PB |
Squanto's Journey | Bruchac, Joseph | 2000 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1620 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Thanksgiving Colonial America | NF Bio | PB |
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving | O'Neill Grace, Catherine Bruchac, Margaret M. | 2001 | MG UMG | Enlightenment | 1621 | North America | United States | Thanksgiving Colonial America | NF | PB |
Sarah Morton's Day | Waters, Kate | 1989 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1627 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF | PB |
Samuel Eaton's Day | Waters, Kate | 1989 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1627 | North America | United States | Colonial America | NF | PB |
Finding Wonders | Atkins, Jeannine | 2017 | MG | Enlightenment | 1647-1889 | Europe North America | Great Britain United States | Paleontology Astronomy Entemology Women in Science | NF | CB |
Hour of the Witch | Bohjalian, Chris | 2021 | A | Enlightenment | 1662 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | F | N |
Caleb's Crossing | Brooks, Geraldine | 2012 | YA A | Enlightenment | 1665 | North America | United States | Harvard College Wampanoag Tribe | F Bio | N |
You Wouldn't Want to be in the Great Fire of London | Pipe, Jim | 2016 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1666 | Europe | England | Great Fire of London Fires | NF | PB |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Speare, Elizabeth George | 1958 | UMG YA | Enlightenment | 1687 | North America | United States | Witch Trials Colonial America | F | N |
Dear America: I Walk in Dread | Fraustino, Lisa Rowe | 2011 | MG | Enlightenment | 1691 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | F | CB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Salem Witch | Pipe, Jim | 2009 | LE MG | Enlightenment | 1692–1693 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | NF | PB |
The Crucible | Miller, Authur | 1953 | UMG | Enlightenment | 1692-1693 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | NF | CB |
The Salem Witch Trials: An Interactive History Adventure | Doeden, Matt | 2011 | MG | Enlightenment | 1692 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | NF | CB |
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 2011 | UMG YA | Enlightenment | 1692–1693 | North America | United States | Witch Trials | NF | PB |
1700s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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In the Shadow of Liberty | Davis, Kenneth C. | 2019 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1705-1850 | North America | United States | Slavery | NF Bio | CB |
Ben and Me | Fritz, Jean | 1988 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1706-1790 | North America | United States | American Revolution Benjamin Franklin | F | PB |
What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? | Fritz, Jean | 1997 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1706-1790 | North America | United States | American Revolution Benjamin Franklin | NF Bio | PB |
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts | Hall, Rebecca | 2022 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1708-2002 | Africa North America | United States | Racism Atlantic Slave Trade Slave Revolts | NF | GN |
George Washington: Life Stories of Extraordinary Americans | Time | 2018 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1732-1799 | North America | United States | George Washington | NF Bio | CB |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? | Fritz, Jean | 1996 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1735-1810 | North America | United States | American Revolution Paul Revere | NF Bio | PB |
Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? | Fritz, Jean | 1997 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1736-1799 | North America | United States | American Revolution Patrick Henry | NF Bio | PB |
King George III: America's Enemy | Brooks, Philip | 2009 | YA UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1738-1820 | Europe | Great Britain | American Revolution King George III | NF Bio | CB |
Copper Sun | Draper, Sharon M. | 2006 | YA | Age of Revolutions | 1738 | North America | United States | Colonial America Atlantic Slave Trade | F | N |
George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides | Schanzer, Rosalyn | 2007 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1738-1783 | Europe North America | Great Britain United States | American Revolution King George III George Washington | NF Bio | PB |
Someone Knows My Name | Hill, Lawrence | 2007 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1745-1802 | North America Africa Europe | United States Canada Sierra Leone Great Britain | American Revolution | F | N |
Escape to Gold Mountain: A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America | Wong, David H.Y. | 2012 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1750-2000 | North America | United States | Chinese Immigration | NF Bio | GN |
Can't You Make Them Behave, King George? | Fritz, Jean | 1977 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1751-1820 | Europe | United States Great Britain | American Revolution King George III | NF Bio | PB |
My Name is Phillis Wheatley | Cooper, Afua | 2021 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1753-1784 | North America | United States | Phillis Wheatley Slavery Poets and Writers | NF Bio | CB |
A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet | Lasky, Kathryn | 2017 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1753-1784 | North America | United States | Phillis Wheatley Slavery | NF Bio | ER |
Alexander Hamilton: From Orphan to Founding Father | Kulling, Monica | 2017 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1755-1804 | North America | United States | Alexander Hamilton | NF Bio | ER |
One Dead Spy | Hale, Nathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1755-1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution Nathan Hale | NF Bio | GN |
Alexander Hamilton: Life Stories of Extraordinary Americans | Time | 2018 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1755-1804 | North America | United States | Alexander Hamilton | NF Bio | CB |
Notorious Benedict Arnold | Sheinkin, Steve | 2013 | YA | Age of Revolutions | 1755-1801 | North America | United States | American Revolution Benedict Arnold | NF | B |
The Matchlock Gun | Edmonds, Walter D. | 1941 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1756 | North America | United States | 13 Colonies | F | CB |
The Winter People | Bruchac, Joseph | 2004 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1759 | North America | United States | Abenaki Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? | Fritz, Jean | 1996 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1760-1803 | North America | United States | American Revolution Sam Adams | NF Bio | PB |
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? | Fritz, Jean | 1997 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1761-1793 | North America | United States | American Revolution John Hancock | NF Bio | PB |
Independent Dames | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2008 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1765-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF Bio | PB |
Napoleon: Emperor and Conqueror | Heuston, Kimberley | 2009 | YA UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1769-1821 | Europe | France | French Empire | NF Bio | CB |
The Boston Massacre: An Interactive History Adventure | Raum, Elizabeth | 2016 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1770 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party | Cook, Peter | 2013 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1773 | North America | United States | American Revolution Boston Tea Party | NF | PB |
Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 1943 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1773-1775 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
The Boston Tea Party | Freedman, Russell | 2013 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1773 | North America | United States | American Revolution Boston Tea Party | NF | PB |
Never Caught, The Story of Ona Judge | Armstrong Dunbar, Erica | 2019 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1773-1802 | North America | United States | Colonial America Slavery Founding Fathers | NF Bio | CB |
Carry On, Mr. Bowditch | Latham, Jean Lee | 1955 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1773-1838 | North America | United States | Nathaniel Bowditch Sea Travel | F Bio | CB |
Homegoing | Gyasi, Yaa | 2016 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1775-2016 | Africa North America | United States | Racism African American History Atlantic Slave Trade Great Migration Civil Rights | F OV | N |
Black Heroes of the American Revolution | Davis, Burke | 1992 | UMG MG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
Guts & Glory: The American Revolution | Thompson, Ben | 2019 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
Paul Revere's Ride | Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | 1996 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1775 | Europe North America | United States | American Revolution Paul Revere | F Bio | PB |
Women Heroes of the American Revolution: 20 Stories of Espionage, Sabotage, Defiance, and Rescue | Casey, Susan | 2017 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF Bio | B |
My Brother Sam Is Dead | Collier, James Lincoln Collier, Christopher | 2005 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
The Battle of Bunker Hill: An Interactive History Adventure | Burgan, Michael | 2016 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1775 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
The Revolutionary War: An Interactive History Adventure | Raum, Elizabeth | 2016 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
Answering the Cry for Freedom | Woelfle, Gretchen | 2016 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | CB |
King George: What Was His Problem? | Sheinkin, Steve | 2005 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution King George III | NF | CB |
Toliver's Secret | Brady, Esther Wood | 1976 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1775-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
Chains | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2008 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
Attack of the Turtle | Carlson, Drew | 2007 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
1776 | McCullough, David | 2006 | YA A | Age of Revolutions | 1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF | B |
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution | Avi | 2013 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1776 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
Madam President: The Extraordinary, True (and Evolving) Story of Women in Politics | Thimmesh, Catherine | 2008 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1776-2007 | United States Great Britain Various | Activism Politics | NF Bio | PB | |
By the Light of Fireflies | Walsh, Jenni L. | 2021 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1777 | North America | United States | American Revolution Sybil Ludington Spies | F | CB |
Forge | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2010 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1777 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Mystery that Baffled All of France | Rockliff, Mara | 2017 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1778 | Europe | France | Scientific Discovery Benjamin Franklin | NF Bio | PB |
Susanna's Midnight Ride | McNamee, Libby Carty | 2018 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1781-1783 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | N |
Ashes | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2016 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1781 | North America | United States | American Revolution | F | CB |
Shh! We're Writing the Constitution | Fritz, Jean | 1997 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1787 | North America | United States | Constitutional Convention | NF Bio | PB |
Justin Morgan Had a Horse | Henry, Marguerite | 2006 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1791 | North America | United States | War of 1812 Morgan Horse | F | CB |
Lafayette! | Hale, Nathan | 2018 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1791-1792 | North America | United States | American Revolution | NF Bio | GN |
Fever 1793 | Anderson, Laurie Halse | 2000 | UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1793 | North America | United States | Plagues Yellow Fever | F | CB |
The Child Labor Reform Movement: An Interactive History Adventure | Otfinoski, Steven | 2014 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1799–1941 | North America | United States | Child Labor | NF | CB |
1800s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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This Land Is Our Land | Barrett Osborne, Linda | 2016 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1800-1965 | North America | United States | Immigration | NF | B |
Westward Expansion: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2016 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1803-1840 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | CB |
Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion | Sheinkin, Steve | 2015 | YA UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1803-1890 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | B |
Blades of Freedom | Hale, Nathan | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1803-1804 | North America | United States | Louisiana Purchase | NF | GN |
You Wouldn’t Want to Explore with Lewis and Clark | Morley, Jacqueline | 2013 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1803-1806 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Explorers | NF | PB |
The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr | St. George, Judith | 2016 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1804 | North America | United States | Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr | NF Bio | CB |
Jefferson's Sons: A Founding Father’s Secret Children | Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly | 2016 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1806-1826 | North America | United States | Thomas Jefferson Slavery | F | CB |
Wolf by the Ears | Rinaldi, Ann | 1991 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1806-1826 | North America | United States | Thomas Jefferson Slavery | F | CB |
Stone River Crossing | Tingle, Tim | 2019 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1808 | North America | United States | Choctaw Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
Crossing Bok Chitto: A Chocktaw Tale of Friendshipe and Freedom | Tingle, Tim | 2008 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1808 | North America | United States | Choctaw Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | PB |
Lincoln: A Photobiography | Freedman, Russell | 1987 | UMG YA | Age of Revolutions | 1809-1865 | North America | United States | Abraham Lincoln | NF Bio | B |
Freewater | Luqman-Dawson, Amina | 2022 | MG | Industrial Age | 1810 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Slavery Maroon Community Escaped Slaves | F | CB |
Mill | Macaulay, David | 1989 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1810 | North America | United States | Building New England | F | PB |
The House is on Fire | Beanland, Rachel | 2023 | A | Industrial Age | 1811 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Disasters Escaped Slaves | F | N |
The Fossil Girl | Brighton, Catherine | 2007 | LE | Industrial Age | 1811 | Europe | Great Britain | Paleontology Women in Science | NF | PB |
The Oregon Trail: An Interactive History Adventure | Doeden, Matt | 2013 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1811-1840 | North America | United States | Oregon Trail Westward Expansion | NF | CB |
Riding Freedom | Muñoz Ryan, Pam | 1998 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1812-1879 | North America | United States | Charlotte Parkhurst | F | CB |
The White House is Burning | Sutcliffe, Jane | 2020 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1814 | North America | United States | War of 1812 Disasters | F | CB |
This Noble Woman: Myrtilla Miner and Her Fight to Establish a School for African American Girls in the Slaveholding South | Greenburg, Michael M. | 2016 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1815-1864 | North America | United States | Education Myrtilla Miner | NF Bio | B |
Kindred | Butler, Octavia E. | 1979 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1815-1976 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Slavery Racism Time Travel | HF | N |
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? | Fritz, Jean | 1995 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1815-1902 | North America | United States | Elizabeth Cady Stanton Voting | NF Bio | PB |
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship | Freedman, Russell | 2016 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1817-1879 | North America | United States | Abraham Lincoln Frederick Douglass | NF Bio | B |
Talking Leaves | Bruchac, Joseph | 2016 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1821 | North America | United States | Cherokee Alphabet Indigenous Americans Cherokee Nation | F | CB |
Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender | Marshall III, Joseph | 2017 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1822-1909 | North America | United States | Lakota Nation Indigenous Americans | NF OV | PB |
When a Ghost Talks, Listen | Tingle, Tim | 2019 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1824-2018 | North America | United States | Trail of Tears Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 | Freeman, Joshua | 2012 | YA | Industrial Age | 1830-1910 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | B |
How I Became A Ghost | Tingle, Tim | 2015 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1830 | North America | United States | Trail of Tears Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
Quiet Fire: Emily Dickinson's Life and Poetry | Dommermuth-Costa, Carol | 2022 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1830-1890 | North America | United States | Emily Dickinson Poets and Writers | NF Bio | B |
A Boy Called Slow | Bruchac, Joseph | 1998 | LE MG | Age of Revolutions | 1831 | North America | United States | Sitting Bull Indigenous Americans | NF | PB |
The Battle of the Alamo: An Interactive History Adventure | Leavitt, Amie Jane | 2016 | MG | Age of Revolutions | 1836 | North America | United States | Texas Revolution | NF | CB |
Alamo All-Stars | Hale, Nathan | 2019 | MG UMG | Age of Revolutions | 1836 | North America | United States | Texas Revolution | NF | GN |
You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer | Morley, Jacqueline | 2012 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1840-1859 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | PB |
The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams | Brown, David S. | 2020 | A | Industrial Age | 1838-1918 | North America | United States | Henry Adams Gilded Age | NF Bio | N |
Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers | Miller, Brandon Marie | 2013 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1841–1868 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Prairie Life | NF Bio | B |
Juba!: A Novel | Myers, Walter Dean | 2016 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1842-1854 | North America | United States | Dance William Henry Lane | F Bio | CB |
The Gods of Gotham | Faye, Lyndsay | 2012 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1845 | North America | United States | New York City Irish Immigration NYPD | F | B |
The Indifferent Stars Above | Brown, Daniel James | 2015 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1846–1847 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | B |
Donner Dinner Party | Hale, Nathan | 2013 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1846–1847 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Donner Party | NF Bio | GN |
Seven for a Secret | Faye, Lyndsay | 2014 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1846 | North America | United States | New York City Slavery NYPD | F | B |
The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep | Wolf, Allan | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1846–1847 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Donner Party | F | N |
The Birchbark House | Erdrich, Louise | 2002 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1847 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans Plagues | F OV | CB |
The Fatal Flame | Faye, Lyndsay | 2015 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1847 | North America | United States | New York City NYPD | F | B |
What Miss Mitchell Saw | Barrett, Hayley | 2019 | LE | Industrial Age | 1847 | North America | United States | Astronomy Women in Science | NF | PB |
The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure | Raum, Elizabeth | 2016 | MG | Industrial Age | 1848–1855 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion California Gold Rush | NF | CB |
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple | Cushman, Karen | 1996 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1849 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion California Gold Rush | F | CB |
The Underground Abductor | Hale, Nathan | 2014 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1849-1860 | North America | United States | Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Escaped Slaves | NF Bio | GN |
Lyddie | Patterson, Katherine | 1995 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1843-1846 | North America | United States | Mill Girls | F | CB |
The Corpse Queen | Herrman, Heather M. | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1850 | North America | United States | Grave Robbers Women in Science | F | N |
The Game of Silence | Erdrich, Louise | 2005 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1850 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
Bound for Oregon | Van Leeuwen, Jean | 1996 | MG | Industrial Age | 1852 | North America | United States | Oregon Trail Westward Expansion | F | CB |
The Porcupine Year | Erdrich, Louise | 2010 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1852 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
History Smashers: The Underground Railroad | Messner, Kate | 2022 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1854 | North America | United States | Underground Railroad Escaped Slaves | NF Bio | B |
Eliza's Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary | Nolen, Jerdine | 2017 | MG | Industrial Age | 1854 | North America | United States | Underground Railroad Escaped Slaves | F | CB |
Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure | Raum, Elizabeth | 2011 | MG | Industrial Age | 1854–1929 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Orphan Trains | NF | CB |
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War | Sheinkin, Steve | 2015 | YA UMG | Industrial Age | 1856-1865 | North America | United States | Abraham Lincoln American Civil War | NF | B |
She Caught the Light: Williamina Stevens Fleming: Astronomer | Lasky, Kathryn | 2021 | LE | Industrial Age | 1857-1911 | North America | Scotland United States | Science Space Williamina Fleming | NF Bio | PB |
Day of Tears | Lester, Julius | 2007 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1859 | North America | United States | Phillis Wheatley Slavery Atlantic Slave Trade | F | ER |
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease | Jarrow, Gail | 2020 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Medicine | NF | B |
Nurse, Soldier, Spy: The Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero | Moss, Marissa | 2016 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Sarah Edmond | NF Bio | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pony Express Rider | Ratliff, Tom | 2013 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1861 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | PB |
Pink and Say | Polacco, Patricia | 1994 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Railroad | Graham, Ian | 2013 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1860-1869 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Building | NF | PB |
Henry's Freedom Box | Levine, Ellen | 2007 | LE | Industrial Age | 1860-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Underground Railroad | NF Bio | PB |
Elijah of Buxton | Curtis, Christopher Paul | 2009 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1860 | North America | United States Canada | Slavery Underground Railroad | F | CB |
The Detective's Assistant | Hannigan, Kate | 2015 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1860 | North America | United States | Pinkerton Detectives | F | CB |
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse | Marshall III, Joseph | 2015 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1860-1877 | North America | United States | Lakota Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
The Woman They Could Not Silence | Moore, Kate | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1860-1897 | North America | United States | women's rights Institutionalization Asylums | NF | B |
James | Everett, Percival | 2024 | A | Industrial Age | 1861 | North America | United States | Antebellum South Slavery Escaped Slaves | F | N |
March | Brooks, Geraldine | 2005 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Abolition | F | N |
The Bloody Country | Collier, James Lincoln Collier, Christopher | 2005 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | CB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Nurse During the American Civil War | Senior, Kathryn | 2010 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1861–1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
Guts & Glory: The American Civil War | Thompson, Ben | 2015 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | CB |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Civil War Soldier | Ratliff, Thomas | 2013 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1861–1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
Fields of Fury: The American Civil War | McPherson, James M. | 2002 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | PB |
Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 1868 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | N |
The Boys' War | Murphy, Jim | 1993 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | CB |
Bull Run | Fleischman, Paul | 1995 | MG | Industrial Age | 1861 | North America | United States | American Civil War | F | CB |
This Republic of Suffering | Faust, Drew Gilpin | 2008 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | Death American Civil War | NF | B |
Big Bad Ironclad! | Hale, Nathan | 2012 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1861-1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War | NF | GN |
97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement | Ziegelman, Jane | 2010 | A | Industrial Age | 1863-1935 | North America | United States | Food | NF | B |
Last of the Name | Parry, Rosanne | 2019 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1863 | North America | United States | American Civil War Irish Immigration NYC Draft Riots | F | CB |
Crossing Ebenezer Creek | Bolden, Tonya | 2018 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1864 | North America | United States | American Civil War Sherman's March | F OV | CB |
March Towards The Thunder | Bruchac, Joseph | 2009 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1864 | North America | United States | American Civil War Abenaki Nation | F | N |
Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and the Black American Dream | Imani, Blair | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1865-1979 | North America | United States | Great Migration | NF | CB |
All Different Now: Junteenth, the First Day of Freedom | Johnson, Angela | 2014 | LE | Industrial Age | 1865 | North America | United States | American Civil War Emancipation | NF OV | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Live in a Wild West Town | Hicks, Peter | 2013 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1866-1879 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | NF | PB |
Chickadee | Erdrich, Louise | 2013 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1866 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
Makoons | Erdrich, Louise | 2013 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1866 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F OV | CB |
The Story of Marie Curie | Katz, Susan B. | 2020 | MG | Industrial Age | 1867-1934 | Europe North America | Poland United States | Chemistry Women in Science | NF | CB |
Coolies | Yin Soentpiet, Chris | 2003 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1867 | North America | United States China | Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Immigration | F OV | PB |
Gold Mountain | Yee, Betty G. | 2022 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1867-1869 | North America Asia | United States China | Westward Expansion Chinese Immigration Transcontinental Railroad | F | N |
Dragon's Gate | Yep, Lawrence | 1993 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1867 | North America | United States China | Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Immigration | F OV | N |
Major Impossible | Hale, Nathan | 2018 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1869 | North America | United States | Grand Canyon | NF Bio | GN |
Brothers | Yin Soentpiet, Chris | 2006 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1870 | North America | United States China | Chinese Immigration | F OV | PB |
The Great Fire | Murphy, Jim | 2006 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1871 | North America | United States | Fires | NF | CB |
Jane Against the World | Blumenthal, Karen | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1873-2018 | North America | United States France | Activism Reproductive Rights | NF Bio | B |
Water Street | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2008 | UMG | Industrial Age | 1875 | North America | United States | New York City | F | N |
Lincoln's Grave Robbers | Sheinkin, Steve | 2018 | YA | Industrial Age | 1875-1876 | North America | United States | Abraham Lincoln | NF | N |
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Worker on the Statue of Liberty | Malam, John | 2017 | LE MG | Industrial Age | 1875-1886 | Europe North America | France United States | Monuments | NF | PB |
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers | Lewis, Anna M. | 2014 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1876-1980 | North America | United States | Building | NF Bio | B |
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom | Macy, Sue | 2017 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1876-1902 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Bicycles | F | PB |
One Big Open Sky | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | 2024 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1879 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion | F P | CB |
Dread Nation | Ireland, Justina | 2018 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction LGBTQ+ | HF | N |
Immigrant Kids | Freedman, Russell | 1995 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1880-1920 | North America | United States | Immigration | NF | PB |
Inventing Victoria | Bolden, Tonya | 2020 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction | F OV | CB |
Prairie Lotus | Park, Linda Sue | 2020 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1880 | Dakota Territory | United States | Prairie Life | F | CB |
Deathless Divide | Ireland, Justina | 2020 | YA | Industrial Age | 1880 | North America | United States | Reconstruction | HF | N |
The Prairie Thief | Wiley, Melissa | 2013 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1880-1889 | North America | United States | Prairie Life | HF | CB |
Rodzina | Cushman, Karen | 2003 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1881 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Orphan Trains | F | CB |
The Legend of Auntie Po | Khor, Shing Yin | 2021 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1885-1886 | North America | United States | Logging Town Chinese Immigration Tall Tales and Legends LGBTQ+ | F OV | GN |
Alice Paul and the Fight for Women's Rights | Kops, Deborah | 2017 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1885-1920 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting | NF Bio | B |
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote | Messner, Kate | 2020 | UMG MG | Industrial Age | 1885-1920 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting | NF Bio | B |
The Last Days of Night | Moore, Graham | 2016 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1888-1896 | North America | United States | Technology Thomas Edison George Westinghouse Nikolas Tesla Gilded Age | F | N |
Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery | Fishbane, Melanie J. | 2017 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1889-1892 | North America | Canada | L.M. Montgomery | F Bio | N |
These Shallow Graves | Donnelly, Jennifer | 2015 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1890 | North America | United States | Gilded Age | F | N |
The Devil in the White City | Larson, Erik | 2016 | A | Industrial Age | 1890-1895 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Chicago World's Fair | F | N |
Ellis Island: An Interactive History Adventure | Burgan, Michael | 2014 | MG | Industrial Age | 1892-1954 | North America | United States | Immigration | NF | CB |
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain | Freedman, Russell | 2016 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1892-1940 | North America | United States China | Chinese Immigration | NF | B |
Jackaby | Ritter, William | 2015 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1892 | North America | United States | Gilded Age | F HF | N |
The City Beautiful | Polydoros, Aden | 2021 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1893 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Jewish Immigration Chicago World's Fair | F | N |
The Klondike Gold Rush | Shepherd, Donna Walsh | 1998 | MG UMG | Industrial Age | 1896 | North America | United States | Westward Expansion Alaska Gold Rush | NF | PB |
Audacity | Crowder, Melanie | 2016 | UMG YA | Industrial Age | 1898-1950 | North America | United States | Gilded Age Activism | F | N |
The Golem and the Jinni | Wecker, Helene | 2013 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1899 | North America | United States | Immigrants Gilded Age Jewish History | HF | N |
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Kelly, Jacqueline | 2011 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1899-1900 | North America | United States | Evolution Botany Women in Science | F | N |
1900s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Chasing Secrets | Choldenko, Gennifer | 2016 | UMG | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | United States | Anti-Chinese Immigration Gilded Age | F | N |
All-of-a-Kind Family | Taylor, Syndey | 1951 | MG | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | CB |
She Takes a Stand: 16 Fearless Activists Who Have Changed the World | Ross, Michael Elsohn | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1900-2015 | North America | United States France | Activism | NF Bio | B |
Gittel's Journey: An Ellis Island Story | Newman, Lesléa | 2019 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1900-1920 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Ellis Island | F | PB |
Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix | Dimaline, Cherie | 2023 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1900 | North America | Canada | Metis Nation Retelling Indigenous Americans LGBTQ+ | F | N |
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes | Hochschild, Adam | 1999 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1903-1933 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Rose Pastor Stokes | NF Bio | N |
A Sky Full of Song | Meyer, Susan Lynn | 2023 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1905 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration Westward Expansion | F | CB |
Stone Fox | Gardiner, John Reynolds | 19801 | MG | Modern Age | 1905 | North America | United States | Dogsled Racing Shoshone Tribe Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
The Gilded Girl | Coleman, Alyssa | 2021 | MG | Modern Age | 1905-1907 | North America | United States | Gilded Age magic | HF | CB |
The Many Faces of Josephine Baker: Dancer, Singer, Activist, Spy | Caravantes, Peggy | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1906-1975 | North America | United States France | Josephine Baker | NF Bio | B |
The Earth Dragon Awakes: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Yep, Lawrence | 2008 | UMG | Modern Age | 1906 | North America | United States | San Francisco Earthquake | F | N |
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team | Sheinkin, Steve | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 1907 | North America | United States | Football | NF | B |
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 | Carson, Mary Kay | 2013 | LE | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States | Clara Lemlich Labor Strike | NF | PB |
The Color Purple | Walker, Alice | 1982 | YA A | Modern Age | 1909-1949 | North America | United States | African American History Jazz Age LGBTQ+ | F | N |
Dragonwings | Yep, Lawrence | 1993 | UMG | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States China | Flight | F OV | N |
1910s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Davenports | Marquis, Krystal | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1910 | North America | United States | African American History Great Migration Civil Rights | F | N |
The Hidden Palace | Wecker, Helene | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1910-1918 | North America | United States | Immigrants Jewish History | HF | N |
Uprising | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | F | CB |
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy | Marrin, Albert | 2011 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1911 | North America | United States | Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform | NF | CB |
Women Aviators: 26 Stories of Pioneer Flights, Daring Missions, and Record-Setting Journeys | Gibson, Karen Bush | 2013 | YA A | Modern Age | 1911-2000 | North America | United States | Aviation Women's Aviation | NF Bio | B |
The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry | Johnson, Anna Rose | 2024 | UMG | Modern Age | 1912 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
Seized by the Sun: The Life and Disappearance of World War II Pilot Gertrude Tompkins | Atwood, Kathryn J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1912-1944 | Asia | Various | WWII Women's Aviation | NF Bio | B |
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks: Young Readers' Edition | Theoharris, Jeanne | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1913-1997 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Segregation Resistance | NF Bio | CB |
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna | Dobbs, Alda P. | 2021 | UMG | Modern Age | 1913 | North America | Mexico | Mexican Revolution | F | CB |
The Other Side of the River | Dobbs, Alda P. | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1913 | North America | United States | Mexican Revolution Mexican Immigration | F | CB |
Women Heroes of World War I: 16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics | Atwood, Karen J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1914-1918 | Europe | Various | WWI | NF Bio | B |
After the Dancing Days | Rostkowski, Margaret | 1986 | MG | Modern Age | 1914-1918 | North America | United States | WWI | F | CB |
The Star that Always Stays | Johnson, Anna Rose | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1914 | North America | United States | Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion | Hochschild, Adam | 2012 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1914-1918 | Europe | Various | WWI | NF Bio | N |
The Harlem Hellfighters | Myers, Walter Dean | 2006 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1914-1919 | North America Europe | Various | WWI | NF | B |
Lone Women | LaValle, Victor | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1915 | North America | United States | Horror Westward Expansion | HF | N |
The Sinking of the Lusitania: An Interactive History Adventure | Otfinoski, Steven | 2014 | MG | Modern Age | 1915 | Atlantic Ocean | United States | Lusitania | NF | CB |
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women | Moore, Kate | 2017 | YA A | Modern Age | 1917-1938 | North America | United States | Toxicology | NF Bio | N |
The Radium Girls: Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark | Moore, Kate | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1917-1938 | North America | United States | Toxicology | NF Bio | CB |
Hattie Big Sky | Larson, Kirby | 2006 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1917-1918 | North America | United States | WWI Westward Expansion | F | CB |
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 | Brown, Don | 2019 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1918 | North America | United States | Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic | NF | GN |
Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 | Becker, Helaine | 2018 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1918-1969 | North America | United States | Space Math Space Race | NF Bio | PB |
A Death-Struck Year | Lucier, Makiia | 2016 | YA | Modern Age | 1918-1919 | North America | United States | Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic | F | N |
The Harlem Renaissance: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2013 | MG | Modern Age | 1918-1935 | North America | United States | Harlem Renaissance | NF | CB |
In the Shadow of Blackbirds | Winters, Cat | 2014 | YA | Modern Age | 1918-1919 | North America | United States | Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic | F | N |
King Nyx | Bakis, Kirsten | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1918 | North America | United States | gothic Feminism | F | N |
Beautiful Little Fools | Cantor, Jillian | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1918-1923 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ | F | B |
Like the Willow Tree | Lowry, Lois | 2011 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1918-1919 | North America | United States | Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic | F | CB |
As Bright As Heaven | Meissner, Susan | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1918-1926 | North America | United States | Plagues Spanish Influenza epidemic | F | N |
Letters From Rifka | Hesse, Karen | 2009 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1919-1920 | North America | United States | Jewish Immigration | F | CB |
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition | Blumenthal, Karen | 2013 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1919-1933 | North America | United States | Prohibition | NF | CB |
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up | Atkins, Laura Yogi, Stan | 2017 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1919-2005 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | NF Bio | CB |
Saving Savannah | Bolden, Tonya | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1919 | North America | United States | African American History | F | N |
1920s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Chicago Gangster | Matthews, Rupert | 2007 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1920-1929 | North America | United States | Gangsters | NF | PB |
How Women Won the Vote | Campbell Bartoletti, Susan | 2020 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1909 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting Activism | NF | PB |
Pop! The Invention of Bubble Gum | McCarthy, Meghan | 2010 | LE | Modern Age | 1920s | North America | United States | Inventions Food | NF | PB |
A Book, Too, Can Be a Star | Jones Voiklis, Charlotte | 2022 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1920-1962 | North America | United States | Madeleine L'Engle Poets and Writers | NF Bio | PB |
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" | Caravantes, Peggy | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1921-1983 | North America | United States | Ada Blackjack Explorers | NF Bio | B |
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre | Boston Weatherford, Carole | 2021 | MG | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | NF | PB |
Angel of Greenwood | Pink, Randi | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | F | N |
The Paragon Hotel | Faye, Lyndsay | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Prohibition | F | B |
The Burning (Young Readers Edition) | Beard, Hilary Madigan, Tim | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1921 | North America | United States | Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights | NF | B |
Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix | McLemore, Anna-Marie | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Jazz Age LGBTQ+ Retelling | F | N |
Ophie's Ghosts | Ireland, Justina | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Jim Crow Ghosts Great Migration | F | CB |
Ring Shout | Clark, P. Djeli | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1922 | North America | United States | Racism Jim Crow | HF | B |
Classified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross | Sorell, Traci | 2021 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1925-2008 | North America | United States | WWII Cherokee Nation Indigenous Americans Space Race Women in Science | NF | PB |
The Degenerates | Mann, J. Albert | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1928 | North America | United States | Institutionalization LGBTQ+ eugenics Asylums | F | N |
Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America | Sheinkin, Steve | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 1929 | North America | United States | Aviation Women's Aviation | NF | B |
Martin's Big Words | Rappaport, Doreen | 2007 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1929-1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. | NF | PB |
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.? | Levinson, Cynthia | 2008 | MG | Modern Age | 1929-1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. | NF | CB |
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression | Ziegelman, Jane Cole, Andrew | 2016 | A | Modern Age | 1929–1939 | North America | United States | Great Depression Food | NF | B |
1930s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | 1998 | MG | Modern Age | 1930–1936 | North America | United States | Great Depression Dust Bowl | F | CB |
Children of the Dust Bowl | Stanley, Jerry | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1930–1936 | North America | United States | Great Depression Dust Bowl | NF | CB |
Tru & Nelle | Neri, G. | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1930 | North America | United States | Great Depression | F | CB |
The Great American Dust Bowl | Brown, Don | 2017 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1930–1936 | North America | United States | Great Depression Dust Bowl Disasters | NF | GN |
Esperanza Rising | Muñoz Ryan, Pam | 2002 | UMG | Modern Age | 1930 | North America | Mexico United States | Mexican Immigration Great Depression | F | CB |
The Dust Bowl: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1930–1936 | North America | United States | Great Depression Dust Bowl | NF | CB |
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek | Richardson, Kim Michele | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1930 | North America | United States | Great Depression | F | N |
Hidden Roots | Bruchac, Joseph | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1930–1949 | North America | United States | Abenaki Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
Reaching for the Moon | Aldrin, Buzz | 2005 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1930-1969 | North America | United States | Space Moon Landing Buzz Aldrin Space Race | NF | PB |
You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Hoover Dam | Graham, Ian | 2012 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1931-1936 | North America | United States | Building | NF | PB |
Stella by Starlight | Draper, Sharon M. | 2015 | UMG | Modern Age | 1932 | North America | United States | Great Depression Segregation | F | CB |
Two Roads | Bruchac, Joseph | 2019 | UMG | Modern Age | 1932 | North America | United States | Muscogee Nation Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
Women Heroes of World War II―the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival | Atwood, Kathryn J. | 2016 | YA A | Modern Age | 1932-1945 | Asia | Various | WWII | NF Bio | B |
X, Y & Z: The Real Story of How Enigma Was Broken | Turing, Dermot | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1932-1942 | Europe | Poland Great Britain | WWII Enigma Machine | F | B |
Sweet Home Alaska | Estby Dagg, Carole | 2019 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1934-1935 | North America | United States | Alaska Great Depression | F | CB |
Betty Before X | Shabazz, Ilyasah | 2018 | UMG | Modern Age | 1934-1948 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF Bio | CB |
Echo Mountain | Wolk, Lauren | 2020 | UMG | Modern Age | 1934 | North America | United States | Great Depression | F | CB |
Could You Escape Alcatraz?: An Interactive Survival Adventure | Braun, Eric Mark | 2019 | MG | Modern Age | 1934-1963 | North America | United States | Alcatraz | NF | CB |
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War | Hochschild, Adam | 2017 | YA A | Industrial Age | 1936–1939 | Europe | United States Spain | Spanish Civil War | NF Bio | N |
Leonora in the Morning Light | Carter, Michaela | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1937-1940 | Europe | France Great Britain | WWII Art | F | B |
West with Giraffes: A Novel | Rutledge, Lynda | 2018 | YA | Modern Age | 1938 | North America | United States | Great Depression | NF | B |
Atomic Women: The Untold Story of the Scientists Who Helped Create the Nuclear Bomb | Montillo, Roseanne | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1938-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Atomic Bomb | NF | B |
Bomb: The Race to Build --and Steal-- the World's Most Dangerous Weapon | Sheinkin, Steve | 2018 | YA | Modern Age | 1938 | North America | United States | WWII Atomic Bomb | NF | B |
Love is Loud: How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement | Wallace, Sandra Neil | 2023 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1938–1967 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF | PB |
Genevieve's War | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2017 | MG | Modern Age | 1939 | Europe | France | WWII | F | N |
Code Girls (Young Readers Edition) | Mundy, Liza | 2019 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Code Breakers | NF | B |
Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent | Cornioley, Pearl Witherington | 2015 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | Europe | France Great Britain | WWII | NF Bio | B |
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice | Hoose, Phillip | 2010 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1939-2005 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Segregation Resistance | NF Bio | CB |
Guts & Glory: World War II | Thompson, Ben | 2017 | UMG | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | World | Various | WWII | NF | CB |
Yonder | Standish, Ali | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1939 - 1943 | North America | United States | WWII | F | CB |
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II | Mundy, Liza | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Code Breakers | NF | B |
Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II | Mullenbach, Cheryl | 2013 | YA A | Modern Age | 1939-1945 | North America | United States | WWII | NF Bio | B |
1940s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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Wish Upon a Crawdad | Condon, Curtis W. | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1940 | North America | United States | electricity Great Depression | F | CB |
The Attack on Pearl Harbor: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1941 | United States | United States Japan | WWII Pearl Harbor | NF | CB |
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor | Gratz, Alan | 2024 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1941 - 1941 | North America | United States | WWII Pearl Harbor | F | N |
Island War | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1941-1945 | Aleutian Islands | United States | WWII | F | N |
Stealing Home | Torres, J | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1941-1945 | North America | Canada | WWII Japanese Internment | F GN | GN |
Within These Lines | Morrill, Stephanie | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | N |
Weedflower | Kadohata, Cynthia | 2009 | UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | CB |
Baseball Saved Us | Mochizuki, Ken | 1993 | MG LE | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | PB |
No-No Boy | Okada, John | 1957 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F OV | N |
Great or Nothing | McCullough, Joy Tung Richmond, Caroline Sharpe, Tess Spotswood, Jessica | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1942-1943 | North America Europe | United States Great Britain | WWII American Home Front Little Women Retelling | F | N |
When the Emperor Was Divine | Otsuka, Julie | 2003 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | N |
Paper Wishes | Sepahban, Lois | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | CB |
They Called Us Enemy | Takei, George | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | NF Bio OV | GN |
Raid of No Return | Hale, Nathan | 2019 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942 | North America | United States | WWII Doolittle Raid Pearl Harbor | NF | GN |
Code Talker | Bruchac, Joseph | 2006 | UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1954 | North America | United States | WWII Navajo Nation Indigenous Americans | F | N |
Displacement | Hughes, Kiku | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | HF | GN |
The Boy with the Star Tattoo | Carner, Talia | 2024 | A | Modern Age | 1942-1969 | Europe Middle East | France Israel | Jewish Life kibbutz Youth Aliyah | F | N |
The Bracelet | Uchida, Yoshiko | 1996 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F OV | PB |
On the Horizon: World War II Reflections | Lowry, Lois | 2020 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America Asia | United States Japan | WWII | F | CB |
Farewell to Manzanar | Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki | 1973 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | NF Bio OV | B |
We Are Not Free | Chee, Traci | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F OV | N |
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet | Ford, Jamie | 2009 | YA A | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | N |
Sylvia & Aki | Conkling, Winifred | 2011 | MG | Modern Age | 1942-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment Segregation | F | CB |
The Port Chicago 50 | Sheinkin, Steve | 2017 | YA | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | WWII Civil Rights | NF | N |
Willow Run | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 2005 | MG | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | WWII | F | N |
The War Outside | Hesse, Monica | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944-1945 | North America | United States | WWII Japanese Internment | F | N |
Mare's War | Davis, Tanita S. | 2009 | YA | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | WWII Women's Army Corps | NF | N |
For Lamb | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | Segregation lynching Great Migration Jim Crow | F | N |
Lily's Crossing | Reilly Giff, Patricia | 1999 | MG | Modern Age | 1944 | North America | United States | WWII | F | N |
In The Shadow of the Moon | Cherrix, Amy | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1945–1980 | North America | United States Soviet Union | Space Space Race Operation Paperclip Soviet Union | NF | CB |
Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown | Sheinkin, Steve | 2021 | YA | Modern Age | 1945-1985 | North America | United States | Cold War | NF | B |
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors | Stanton, Doug | 2003 | YA A | Modern Age | 1945 | South Pacific | Japan United States | WWII USS Indianapolis | NF | BN |
American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 | Freeman, Joshua | 2012 | YA | Modern Age | 1945-2000 | North America | United States | American Economy | NF | B |
Finding Langston | Cline-Ransome, Lesa | 2018 | MG | Modern Age | 1946 | North America | United States | Great Migration | F | CB |
Not Our Kind | Zeldis, Kitty | 2019 | A | Modern Age | 1947 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | N |
1950s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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The Reformatory | Due, Tananarive | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States | Segregation Civil Rights Great Migration Jim Crow | HF | N |
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Reid, Taylor Jenkins | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1950-2018 | North America | United States | Hollywood LGBTQ+ | F | N |
Cold War Correspondent | Hale, Nathan | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1950 | North America | United States North Korea | Korean War | NF Bio | GN |
Keeping Score | Park, Linda Sue | 2010 | MG | Modern Age | 1951-1953 | North America | United States | Baseball Korean War | F | PB |
Lavender House | Rosen, Lev AC | 2023 | YA A | Modern Age | 1952 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War LGBTQ+ | F | N |
Red Scare: A Graphic Novel | Walsh, Liam Francis | 2022 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1953 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War | HF | GN |
And We Rise | Martin, Erica | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1954-1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF P | B |
Freedom's Children | Levine, Ellen S. | 2000 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1954-1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Segregation Resistance | NF Bio | CB |
The Civil Rights Movement: An Interactive History Adventure | Adamson, Heather | 2016 | MG | Modern Age | 1954–1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF | CB |
Last Night at the Telegraph Club | Nichols Lo, Malinda | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1954 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War Chinese American Immigrants LGBTQ+ | F OV | N |
Courageous Women of the Vietnam War: Medics, Journalists, Survivors, and More | Atwood, Karen J. | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1955-1975 | Asia | Vietnam | Vietnam War | NF Bio | B |
The Best We Could Do | Bui, Thi | 2018 | YA A | Modern Age | 1955-1979 | Southeast Asia | Vietnam | Vietnam War | NF Bio | GN |
Midnight Without a Moon | Williams Jackson, Linda | 2017 | UMG | Modern Age | 1955 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | F | CB |
Boycott Blues: How Rosa Parks Inspired a Nation | Pinkney, Andrea Davis | 2008 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1955–1956 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF | PB |
The Race to the Moon: An Interactive History Adventure | Lassieur, Allison | 2014 | MG | Modern Age | 1957–1966 | North America | United States Soviet Union | Space Space Race | NF | CB |
Indian No More | McManis, Charlene Willing | 2019 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1957 | North America | United States | Umpqua Nation Civil Rights Indigenous Americans | F | CB |
11/22/63 | King, Stephen | 2012 | A | Modern Age | 1958-1963 | North America | United States | JFK Assassination | AH | N |
Commie Pinko | Nichols Lynch, Janet | 2017 | YA | Modern Age | 1958-1960 | North America | United States | McCarthyism Cold War | F | N |
In the Neighborhood of True | Kaplan Carlton, Susan | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1958 | North America | United States | Jewish Life | F | N |
Margot | Cantor, Jillian | 2019 | YA A | Modern Age | 1959 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Holocaust Holocaust Survivors | F | N |
1960s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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90 Miles to Havana | Flores-Galbis, Enrique | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1960-1969 | Carribean North America | Cuba United States | Immigration | F | CB |
Before We Were Free | Alvarez, Julia | 2018 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1960-1961 | North America | Dominican Republic United States | Immigration | F | N |
My Name is Not Easy | Edwardson, Debby Dahl | 2011 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1960-1965 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Inupiaq Nation Alaska | F | N |
The Story of Ruby Bridges | Coles, Robert | 1995 | LE | Modern Age | 1960-1961 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Ruby Bridges | NF | PB |
Through My Eyes | Bridges, Ruby | 1999 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1960-1963 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Segregation Ruby Bridges | NF Bio | PB |
Cuba in my Pocket | Cuevas, Adrianna | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1961-1962 | North America | Cuba United States | Immigration | F | CB |
The Red Umbrella | Diaz Gonzalez, Christina | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 1961-1962 | North America | Cuba United States | Immigration | F | N |
We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | Levinson, Cynthia | 2015 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1963 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | NF | CB |
Women in Space: 23 Stories of First Flights, Scientific Missions, and Gravity-Breaking Adventures | Gibson, Karen Bush | 2014 | YA A | Modern Age | 1963-2012 | North America | United States | Space | NF Bio | B |
Root Magic | Royce, Eden | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1963 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | F M | CB |
I Have a Dream | Nelson, Kadir | 2012 | LE MG | Modern Age | 1963 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Martin Luther King, Jr. | NF | PB |
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War | Sheinkin, Steve | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 1964 | North America | United States | Vietnam War | NF | B |
Bad Girls Never Say Die | Mathieu, Jennifer | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1964 | North America | United States | Social Classes Feminism | F | N |
Lillian's Right to Vote | Winter, Jonah | 2015 | LE | Modern Age | 1965 | North America | United States | Women's Suffrage Voting Civil Rights | NF | PB |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965: An Interactive History Adventure | Burgan, Michael | 2015 | MG | Modern Age | 1965 | North America | United States | Voting Civil Rights | NF | CB |
Boots on the Ground | Partridge, Elizabeth | 2018 | YA | Modern Age | 1965-1975 | Southeast Asia | Vietnam | Vietnam War | NF | N |
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy | Warren, Andrea | 2004 | YA | Modern Age | 1966-1995 | North America | United States Vietnam | Vietnam War Orphans | NF | B |
The Lucky Ones | Williams Jackson, Linda | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1967 | North America | United States | Civil Rights poverty | F | CB |
One Crazy Summer | Williams-Garcia, Rita | 2010 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights | F | CB |
Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth | O'Connor, Sheila | 2019 | UMG | Modern Age | 1968 | North America | United States | Vietnam War | F | N |
The Rock and the River | Magoon, Kekla | 2009 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1968 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Black Panthers | F OV | N |
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots | Bongiovanni, Archie Andrews, A. | 2022 | YA | Modern Age | 1969 | North America | United States | Stonewall Riots Activism LGBTQ+ | F | GN |
I Love You, Michael Collins | Baratz-Logsted, Lauren | 2017 | MG | Modern Age | 1969 | North America | United States | Apollo 11 Moon Landing Space Space Race | F | CB |
The Things They Carried | O'Brien, Tim | 2009 | A | Modern Age | 1969-1971 | Asia | Vietnam | Vietnam War | F | N |
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music | Grohl, Dave | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 1969-2020 | North America | United States | Dave Grohl Musicians | NF Bio | B |
1970s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
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El Deafo | Bell, Cece | 2014 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1970 | North America | United States | American Life Disabilities | NF B | GN |
Kent State | Wiles, Deborah | 2020 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 1970 | Southeast Asia North America | United States | Vietnam War Activism | F | CB |
The Taste of Ginger: A Novel | Shah, Mansi | 2022 | YA A | Modern Age | 1970-2020 | Southeast Asia North America | India United States | Immigration | F | N |
Inside Out and Back Again | Lai, Thanhhà | 2011 | MG | Modern Age | 1971-1980 | Southeast Asia North America | Vietnam United States | Vietnam War Immigration | F | CB |
Looking for Jane | Marshall, Heather | 2023 | A | Modern Age | 1971-2017 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
Take My Hand | Perkins-Valdez, Dolen | 2022 | A | Modern Age | 1973-2016 | North America | United States | Civil Rights Reproductive Rights | F | N |
The Prince of Steel Pier | Nockowitz, Stacy | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1975 | North America | United States | Jewish Life Atlantic City Mobsters | F | N |
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel | Dumas, Firoozeh | 2017 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1977-1979 | North America | Iran United States | Immigration | F | N |
When You Reach Me | Stead, Rebecca | 2009 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1979 | North America | United States | American Life Time Travel | HF | N |
1980s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Last Days of John Lennon | Patterson, James | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1980 | North America | United States | John Lennon Musicians | NF Bio | N |
Planet Earth is Blue | Panteleakos, Nicole | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 1986 | North America | United States | Space Space Shuttle Challenger | F | CB |
Dream Annie, Dream | Brown, Waka T. | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 1987-1988 | North America | United States | Immigration American Dream | F | CB |
Like a Love Story | Nazemian, Abdi | 2020 | YA A | Modern Age | 1989 | North America | United States | Immigration LGBTQ+ AIDs Crisis | F OV | N |
1990s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Riot Baby | Onyebuchi, Tochi | 2020 | A | Modern Age | 1992 | North America | United States | LA Riots | HF | N |
Troublemaker | Cho, John | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 1992 | North America | United States | LA Riots prejudice and racism | F | CB |
Concrete Rose | Thomas, Angie | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 1998-1999 | North America | United States | Modern Age | F | N |
2000s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shooting Kabul | Senzai, N. H. | 2011 | UMG | Modern Age | 2000-2001 | North America Middle East | United States Afghanistan | 9/11 | F | N |
All We Have Left | Mills, Wendy | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 2001 | North America | United States | 9/11 | F | N |
Towers Falling | Parker Rhodes, Jewell | 2018 | MG | Modern Age | 2001 | North America | United States | 9/11 | F | N |
War in Afghanistan: An Interactive Modern History Adventure | Hoena, Blake | 2014 | MG | Modern Age | 2001-2014 | Middle East | Afghanistan United States | War in Afghanistan | NF | CB |
Ground Zero | Gratz, Alan | 2021 | UMG YA | Modern Age | 2001-2019 | North America Asia | United States Afghanistan | 9/11 Afghanistan War | F | N |
A Very Large Expanse of Sea | Mafi, Tahereh | 2019 | YA | Modern Age | 2002 | North America | United States | 9/11 | F | N |
Firekeeper's Daughter | Boulley, Angeline | 2021 | YA A | Modern Age | 2004 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Ojibwe Nation drug abuse | F | N |
Hurricane Katrina: An Interactive Modern History Adventure | Hoena, Blake | 2014 | MG | Modern Age | 2005 | North America | United States | Hurricanes Natural Disasters | NF | CB |
Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan | Gerszak, Rafal | 2011 | MG | Modern Age | 2008-2010 | Middle East | Afghanistan United States | War in Afghanistan | NF | PB |
2010s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Fight for Midnight | Solomon, Dan | 2023 | YA | Modern Age | 2013 | North America | United States | Reproductive Rights | F | N |
Mission to Pluto: The First Visit to an Ice Dwarf and the Kuiper Belt | Carson, Mary Kay | 2020 | MG | Modern Age | 2015 | North America | United States | Space Pluto | NF | PB |
The Hate U Give | Thomas, Angie | 2017 | YA A | Modern Age | 2017 | North America | United States | Black Lives Matter | F | N |
New From Here | Yang, Kelly | 2022 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2019-2020 | North America Asia | United States Hong Kong | Asian Americans COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues | F | CB |
2020s
Topics include
Book Title | Author | PubDate | Reading Age | Time Period | Time Frame | Geographic Area | Country | Topic | Genre | Format |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rez Dogs | Bruchac, Joseph | 2021 | MG UMG | Modern Age | 2020 | North America | United States | Indigenous Americans Wabanaki Nation COVID-19 Pandemic Plagues | F | CB |
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel | Doerr, Anthony | 2021 | A | Modern Age | 2020 | Asia North America | Turkey United States | Historical Fiction | HF | N |
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy | Leali, Michael | 2022 | UMG | Modern Age | 2021-2022 | North America | United States | History Erasure LGBTQ+ American Civil War | F |
2030s
To Be Determined
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Reading Age | Genre | Format |
LE = lower elementary MG = middle grade (8-12 yrs.) UMG = upper-middle grade (11-14 yrs.) YA = young adult (14+) A = adult (18+) |
NF - non fiction F = fiction Bio = biography HF = historical fantasy AH = alternate history OV - own voices M = mythology S = spine book |
PB = picture book GN = graphic novel ER = early reader CB = chapter book B = book (NF) N = novel M = memoir |