BYL Booklist

Book recommendations contained in Build Your Library curriculum.

Level 0

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
A Boy Called Slow	Bruchac, Joseph	1998	LE MG	Age of Revolutions	1831	North America	United States	Sitting Bull Indigenous Americans	NF	PB
Linnea in Monet's Garden	Bjork, Christina	1985	LE MG	Industrial Age	1880	Europe	France	Monet	F	PB CB
Audrey of the Outback	Aldrin, Buzz	2008	LE	Modern Age	1930	Australia	Australia	Australian Outback	F	CB
The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest	Cherry, Lynne	1990	LE	Modern Age	1990	South America	Brazil	Amazon Rain Forest	F	PB
Snow in Jerusalem	Da Costa, Deborah	2008	LE	Modern Age	2000	Middle East	Israel	Jerusalem Life	F	PB
Africa Is Not a Country	Knight, Margy Burns	2002	LE	Modern Age	2000	Africa	Various	African Continent	NF	PB
Sophie Scott Goes South	Lester, Alison	2012	LE	Modern Age	2005	Antarctica	Various	Explorers	F	PB
Malala’s Magic Pencil	Yousafzai, Malala	2018	LE	Modern Age	2007	Middle East	Pakistan	Education Women's Rights	NF	PB

Level 1

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Hieroglyphs	Milton, Joyce	2000	LE	Early Civilization	3200 BCE-400 CE	Africa	Egypt	Hieroglyphs	NF	PB
The Golden Bull	Cowley, Marjorie	2008	MG	Early Civilization	3000 BCE	Western Asia	Middle East	Mesopotamia	F	CB
Gilgamesh the King (The Gilgamesh Trilogy)	Zeman, Ludmila	1998	LE	Early Civilization	2500 BCE	Western Asia	Middle East	Mesopotamia Gilgamesh	M F	PB
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 2	Pope Osborne, Mary	2010	MG	Classical Age	1184-1174 BCE	Europe	Greece	Trojan War	M	CB
Tales from the Odyssey, Part 1	Pope Osborne, Mary	2010	MG	Classical Age	1184-1174 BCE	Europe	Greece	Trojan War	M	CB
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth	Lasky, Kathryn	1994	LE	Classical Age	276-194 BCE	Europe	Greece	Mathematics Eratosthenes	NF Bio	PB
Pompeii... Buried Alive!	Kunhardt, Edith	1987	LE	Classical Age	79	Europe	Italy	Volcano Natural Disasters	NF	ER
Roman Diary	Platt, Richard	2009	MG	Classical Age	107	Europe	Italy Greece	Roman Slaves	F	CB
Mulan: Before the Sword	Lin, Grace	2020	MG UMG	Early Civilization	400	Asia	China	Mulan Han Dynasty Mythology	F	CB
One Beetle Too Many: The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin	Lasky, Kathryn	2009	MG	Age of Revolutions	1809-1882	Europe	Great Britain	Evolution Charles Darwin	NF Bio	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
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya	Napoli, Donna Jo	2010	LE	Modern Age	1977	Africa	Kenya	Environment	F	PB
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

Level 2

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
A Tail of Camelot	Leung, Julie	2016	MG UMG	Early Medieval	400	Europe	Great Britain	Arthurian Legends	M F	CB
The Genius of Islam: How Muslims Made the Modern World	Barnard, Bryn	2011	MG UMG	Early Medieval	622-750	Middle East	Various	Islamic History	NF	CB
Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan	Kang, Hildi	2011	MG	Early Medieval	630	Asia	China	Tang Dynasty	F	CB
Brush of the Gods	Look, Lenore	2013	LE	Early Medieval	689-758	Asia	China	Tang Dynasty Wu Daozi	NF B	PB
Odd and the Frost Giants	Gaiman, Neil	2008	MG	High Middle Ages	800	Scandinavia	Norway	Vikings	F M	PB CB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Viking Explorer	Langley, Andrew	2001	LE MG	High Middle Ages	800	Scandinavia North America	Norway	Vikings	NF	PB
Genghis Khan The Bravest Warrior Who Bridged East and West	Jian, Li	2016	LE	High Middle Ages	1158-1227	Asia	China	Genghis Khan Mongols	NF Bio	PB
The Mad Wolf's Daughter	Magras, Diane	2018	MG UMG	High Middle Ages	1210	Europe	Scotland	Scottish History Medieval Scotland	F	CB
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!	Schlitz, Laura Amy	2007	MG UMG	High Middle Ages	1255	Europe	Great Britain	Medieval Life	F	CB
Castle Diary	Platt, Richard	1999	MG	High Middle Ages	1285	Europe	Great Britain	Castles Medieval Life	F	CB
The Making of a Knight	O'Brien, Patrick	1998	LE	Renaissance	1400-1425	Europe	Great Britain	Knights	NF	PB
The Apprentice	Llorente, Pilar Molina	1989	MG	Renaissance	1400-1500	Europe	Italy	Art History	F	CB
Bard of Avon	Stanley, Diane Vennema, Peter	2015	UMG	Renaissance	1558-1616	Europe	Great Britain	Shakespeare	NF Bio	PB
The Shakespeare Stealer	Blackwood, Gary	1998	MG UMG	Renaissance	1558-1603	Europe	Great Britain	Shakespeare	F	CB

Level 3

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Where Is the Taj Mahal?	Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas	2017	MG	Renaissance	1592-1666	Asia	India	Taj Mahal	NF	CB
A Lion to Guard Us	Bulla, Clyde Robert	1981	MG	Enlightenment	1609-1613	North America	United States	Colonial America Jamestown	F	CB
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
Out of Many Waters	Greene, Jacqueline	2002	UMG	Enlightenment	1654	Europe	Portugal	Portuguese Inquisition Sea Travel	F	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 Ghost in the Tokaido Inn	Hoobler, Dorothy Hoobler, Thomasy	2005	MG	Age of Revolutions	1735	Asia	Japan	Samurai	F	PB
The Ravenmaster's Secret	Woodruff, Elvira	2005	MG UMG	Age of Revolutions	1735	Europe	Great Britain	Tower of London	F	CB
The Matchlock Gun	Edmonds, Walter D.	1941	MG	Age of Revolutions	1756	North America	United States	13 Colonies	F	CB
Stowaway	Rabin, Staton	2002	UMG	Age of Revolutions	1768-1771	South Pacific	None	Explorers Sea Travel	F	N
Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution	Avi	2013	MG	Age of Revolutions	1776	North America	United States	American Revolution	F	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
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

Level 4

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Maggie's Door	Reilly Giff, Patricia	2005	UMG	Industrial Age	1850-1859	Europe North America	Ireland United States	Immigration	F	N
Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun	Blumberg, Rhoda	2003	UMG	Industrial Age	1852-1854	Asia	Japan	Trade	NF	PB
Bull Run	Fleischman, Paul	1995	MG	Industrial Age	1861	North America	United States	American Civil War	F	CB
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
Rodzina	Cushman, Karen	2003	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1881	North America	United States	Westward Expansion Orphan Trains	F	CB
Angel on the Square	Whelan, Gloria	2001	UMG	Modern Age	1913-1918	Russia	Russia	Russian Revolution	F	CB
The Singing Tree	Seredy, Kate	1939	MG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Hungary	WWI Hungary	F	CB
Lines of Courage	Nielsen, Jennifer A.	2022	UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	various	WWI	F	CB
The Button War	Avi	2018	UMG	Modern Age	1914	Europe	Poland	WWI	F	CB
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
The Water Horse	King-Smith, Dick	2007	MG	Modern Age	1930-1939	Europe	Scotland	Folk Tales	HF	CB
When My Name Was Keoko	Park, Linda Sue	2012	UMG	Modern Age	1940-1945	Asia	Korea	WWII	F	CB
Ahimsa	Kelkar, Supriya	2017	MG	Modern Age	1942	Asia	India	India Gandhi Indian Freedom Movement	F	CB
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	Coerr, Eleanor	1977	MG	Modern Age	1943-1955	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima	F	CB
Journey To Jo'Burg: A South African Story	Naidoo, Beverley	1985	MG	Modern Age	1980	Africa	South Africa	Apartheid	F	CB
Shooting Kabul	Senzai, N. H.	2011	UMG	Modern Age	2000-2001	North America Middle East	United States Afghanistan	9/11	F	N

Level 5

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People	Yellowhorn, Eldon Lowinger, Kathy	2017	UMG YA	Prehistory	100,000 BCE-1491 CE	North America	United States	Indigenous Americans	NF OV	CB
Invincible Microbe	Murphy, Jim	2012	UMG YA	Age of Revolutions	10,000 BCE-2009 CE	North America Europe	United States	Plagues Tuberculosis	NF	CB
Children of the Longhouse	Bruchac, Joseph	1996	MG	Renaissance	1491	North America	United States	Early America Indigenous Americans	F OV	CB
Morning Girl	Dorris, Michael	1992	MG	Renaissance	1492	North America	Bahamas	Early America Indigenous Americans Colonization	F	CB
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
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
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
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
The Winter People	Bruchac, Joseph	2004	MG UMG	Age of Revolutions	1759	North America	United States	Abenaki Nation Indigenous Americans	F	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
Black Heroes of the American Revolution	Davis, Burke	1992	UMG MG	Age of Revolutions	1775-1783	North America	United States	American Revolution	NF	CB
Chains	Anderson, Laurie Halse	2008	UMG	Age of Revolutions	1776	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
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
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
Stone River Crossing	Tingle, Tim	2019	MG UMG	Age of Revolutions	1808	North America	United States	Choctaw Nation Indigenous Americans	F OV	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
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
The Birchbark House	Erdrich, Louise	2002	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1847	North America	United States	Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans Plagues	F OV	CB
Lyddie	Patterson, Katherine	1995	UMG	Industrial Age	1843-1846	North America	United States	Mill Girls	F	CB
The Game of Silence	Erdrich, Louise	2005	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1850	North America	United States	Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans	F OV	CB
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
Elijah of Buxton	Curtis, Christopher Paul	2009	UMG	Industrial Age	1860	North America	United States Canada	Slavery Underground Railroad	F	CB
El Deafo	Bell, Cece	2014	MG UMG	Modern Age	1970	North America	United States	American Life Disabilities	NF B	GN

Level 6

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
This Land Is Our Land	Barrett Osborne, Linda	2016	MG UMG	Age of Revolutions	1800-1965	North America	United States	Immigration	NF	B
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
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
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
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
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
March Towards The Thunder	Bruchac, Joseph	2009	UMG	Industrial Age	1864	North America	United States	American Civil War Abenaki Nation	F	N
Chickadee	Erdrich, Louise	2013	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1866	North America	United States	Ojibwe Nation Indigenous Americans	F OV	CB
Dragon's Gate	Yep, Lawrence	1993	UMG	Industrial Age	1867	North America	United States China	Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Immigration	F OV	N
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
Prairie Lotus	Park, Linda Sue	2020	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1880	Dakota Territory	United States	Prairie Life	F	CB
The Prairie Thief	Wiley, Melissa	2013	MG UMG	Industrial Age	1880-1889	North America	United States	Prairie Life	HF	CB
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
Chasing Secrets	Choldenko, Gennifer	2016	UMG	Modern Age	1900	North America	United States	Anti-Chinese Immigration Gilded Age	F	N
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal	Engle, Margarita	2016	MG UMG	Modern Age	1906-1914	Central America	Panama	Panama Canal	F	N
Hattie Big Sky	Larson, Kirby	2006	UMG YA	Modern Age	1917-1918	North America	United States	WWI Westward Expansion	F	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
Letters From Rifka	Hesse, Karen	2009	MG UMG	Modern Age	1919-1920	North America	United States	Jewish Immigration	F	CB
Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	1998	MG	Modern Age	1930–1936	North America	United States	Great Depression Dust Bowl	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
Stella by Starlight	Draper, Sharon M.	2015	UMG	Modern Age	1932	North America	United States	Great Depression Segregation	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
Finding Langston	Cline-Ransome, Lesa	2018	MG	Modern Age	1946	North America	United States	Great Migration	F	CB
90 Miles to Havana	Flores-Galbis, Enrique	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1960-1969	Carribean North America	Cuba United States	Immigration	F	CB
One Crazy Summer	Williams-Garcia, Rita	2010	MG UMG	Modern Age	1968	North America	United States	Civil Rights	F	CB
When You Reach Me	Stead, Rebecca	2009	MG UMG	Modern Age	1979	North America	United States	American Life Time Travel	HF	N

Level 7

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
The Well of Sacrifice	Eboch, Chris	1999	UMG YA	High Middle Ages	800-899	Central America	Guatemala	Mayans	NF	CB
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade	Wilson, Diane Lee	2010	UMG YA	High Middle Ages	1300-1399	Asia	China	Mongolia	F	CB
Journey to the River Sea	Ibbotson, Eva	2001	MG	Modern Age	1910	Amazon River	Brazil	Amazon River	F	CB
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft	Heyerdahl, Thor	1950	YA	Modern Age	1947	Pacific Ocean	United States	Ocean Travel	NF	B
While I Was Away	Brown, Waka T.	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1984	Asia	Japan	Japanese Culture	F	CB
A Long Walk To Water	Park, Linda Sue	2011	MG UMG	Modern Age	1985-2009	Africa	Sudan	Sudanese Civil War	F	CB
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban	Yousafzai, Malala	2015	YA	Modern Age	2012	Middle East	Pakistan	Education Women's Rights	NF	N

Level 8

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
The Golden Goblet	Jarvis McGraw, Eloise	1961	UMG YA	Early Civilization	1400 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Ancient Egypt	F	N
Alexander the Great: Master of the Ancient World	Bendick, Jeanne	2010	UMG YA	Classical Age	356-323 BCE	Europe	Greece	Macedonia Alexander the Great	NF Bio	CB
The Sand-Reckoner	Bradshaw, Gillian	2001	YA A	Classical Age	287-212 BCE	Europe	Greece	Mathematics	F	N
Archimedes and the Door of Science	Bendick, Jeanne	1995	UMG	Classical Age	287-212 BCE	Europe	Greece	Mathematics	NF Bio	CB
The Middle Ages: A Graphic History	Janega, Eleanor	2021	YA A	Early Medieval High Middle Ages	476-1500	Europe	Various	Medieval Life	NF	GN
The Second Mrs. Gioconda	Konigsburg, E.L.	1998	UMG YA	Renaissance	1450-1459	Europe	Italy	Leonardo da Vinci	F	CB
Shakespeare: His Work & His World	Rosen, Michael Ingpen, Robert	2001	UMG YA	Renaissance	1558-1616	Europe	Great Britain	Shakespeare	NF Bio	PB
Along Came Galileo	Jeanne Bendick, Jeanne	1999	MG UMG	Renaissance	1564-1642	Europe	Italy	Galileo	NF Bio	CB
A Parcel of Patterns	Paton Walsh, Jill	1992	YA A	Enlightenment	1665-1666	Europe	Great Britain	Plagues Bubonic Plague	F	N
Longitude	Sobel, Dava	2007	YA A	Age of Revolutions	1715-1776	Europe	Great Britain	Sea Travel	NF Bio	N
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
The True Adventures of Charley Darwin	Meyer, Carolyn	2011	UMG YA	Age of Revolutions	1809-1882	Europe	Great Britain	Evolution Charles Darwin	F Bio	N
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
West with Giraffes: A Novel	Rutledge, Lynda	2018	YA	Modern Age	1938	North America	United States	Great Depression	NF	B
Code Talker	Bruchac, Joseph	2006	UMG	Modern Age	1942-1954	North America	United States	WWII Navajo Nation Indigenous Americans	F	N

Level 9

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Raptor Red	Bakker, Robert T.	1996	YA A	Prehistory	120,000,000 BCE	North America	United States	Utahraptor Cretaceous Period Dinosaurs	F	N
The Kin	Dickinson, Peter	1998	MG YA	Prehistory	200,000 BCE	Africa	Various	Stone Age Ancient Africa	F	N
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols	Von Petzinger, Genevieve	2016	A	Prehistory	30,000 BCE	Europe	various	Stone Age Cave Art	NF	B
The Clan of the Cave Bear	Auel, Jean M.	1980	YA A	Prehistory	18,000 BCE	Southern Europe	Various	Ice Age	F	N

Level 10

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Gilgamesh the King	Silverberg, Robert	1984	YA A	Early Civilization	2500 BCE	Western Asia	Middle East	Mesopotamia Gilgamesh	F M	N
The Woman Who Would Be King	Cooney, Kara	2014	YA A	Early Civilization	1508-1458 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Hatshepsut	NF	N
Mara, Daughter of the Nile	Jarvis McGraw, Eloise	1953	UMG YA	Early Civilization	1478-1458 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Hatshepsut	F	N
24 Hours in Ancient Egypt	Ryan, Donald P.	2022	YA A	Early Civilization	1414 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Ancient Egypt	NF	B
The Song of Achilles	Miller, Madeline	2012	YA A	Classical Age	1200 BCE	Europe	Greece	Achilles LGBTQ+ Greek Mythology	M	N
Mother of the Believers: A Novel of the Birth of Islam	Pasha, Kamran	2009	YA A	Early Medieval	613-678	Middle East	Iraq	Islamic History	F	N
Norse Mythology	Gaiman, Neil	2017	YA A	High Middle Ages	790-1100	Scandinavia	Norway	Vikings	M	N
1066 The Year of the Conquest	Howarth, David	1977	YA A	High Middle Ages	1066	Europe	Great Britain	Norman Invasion	NF	B
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog	Gidwitz, Adam	2016	UMG	High Middle Ages	1242	Europe	France	Medieval Life	HF	CB
A Distant Mirror	Tuchman, Barbara W.	1978	YA A	High Middle Ages	1300-1399	Europe	Various	Medieval Life	NF	B

Level 11

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
The Tudor Tutor	Alexander, Barb	2015	YA A	Renaissance	1485-1603	Europe	Great Britain	Tudors	NF Bio	B
The Gold Eaters	Wright, Ronald	2015	YA	Renaissance	1532-1541	Western South America	Peru	Spanish Conquistadors Inca Empire	F	N
Queen's Own Fool	Yolen, Jane Harris, Robert J.	2001	UMG YA	Renaissance	1542-1587	Europe	Great Britain Scotland	Tudors Mary Stuart	F Bio	N
Shakespeare: The World as Stage	Bryson, Bill	2016	YA A	Renaissance	1558-1603	Europe	Great Britain	Shakespeare	NF Bio	CB
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love	Sobel, Dava	2011	YA A	Enlightenment	1600-1634	Europe	Italy	Galileo Scientists	NF Bio	N
The Lost King of France	Cadbury, Deborah	2002	YA A	Age of Revolutions	1758-1794	Europe	France	French Revolution	NF Bio	B
Rebel Queen	Moran, Michelle	2015	YA A	Industrial Age	1840–1919	Asia	India Great Britain	Queen Lakshmi	F	N
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa	Hochschild, Adam	1999	YA A	Industrial Age	1885-1908	Africa	Belgium Congo	Congo Free State Leopold II	NF Bio	N
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
Like Water on Stone	Walrath, Dana	2015	UMG YA	Modern Age	1914-1915	Europe	Armenia	Armenian Genocide	F	N
The War to End All Wars	Freedman, Russell	2013	UMG YA	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	NF	PB CB
All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich Maria	1929	YA A	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	F	N
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
Night	Wiesel, Elie	1958	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Romania	Holocaust Auschwitz	NF Bio	N
The Librarian of Auschwitz	Iturbe, Antonio	2012	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance	F Bio	N
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler	Hoose, Phillip	2015	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Denmark	WWII German Occupation	NF	N
Barefoot Gen 1	Nakazawa, Keiji	2004	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima	F OV	GN
Hiroshima	Yep, Lawrence	1995	UMG	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Japan	Hiroshima	F OV	CB
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party	Compestine, Ying Chang	2009	MG UMG	Modern Age	1966-1976	Asia	China	Cultural Revolution	F	CB
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea	Demick, Barbara	2009	YA A	Modern Age	1993-2008	Asia	North Korea	Escaping North Korea	NF Bio	B

Level 12

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
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
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
The Witch of Blackbird Pond	Speare, Elizabeth George	1958	UMG YA	Enlightenment	1687	North America	United States	Witch Trials Colonial America	F	N
The Crucible	Miller, Authur	1953	UMG	Enlightenment	1692-1693	North America	United States	Witch Trials	NF	CB
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
1776	McCullough, David	2006	YA A	Age of Revolutions	1776	North America	United States	American Revolution	NF	B
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
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
This Republic of Suffering	Faust, Drew Gilpin	2008	YA A	Industrial Age	1861-1865	North America	United States	Death American Civil War	NF	B
Little Women	Alcott, Louisa May	1868	UMG YA	Industrial Age	1861-1865	North America	United States	American Civil War	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 Color Purple	Walker, Alice	1982	YA A	Modern Age	1909-1949	North America	United States	African American History Jazz Age LGBTQ+	F	N
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
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
The Hate U Give	Thomas, Angie	2017	YA A	Modern Age	2017	North America	United States	Black Lives Matter	F	N

Unit Studies

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
When the Whales Walked	Dixon, Dougal	2019	LE MG	Prehistory	400,000,000-50,0000 BCE	World	Various	Evolution	NF	PB
Maroo of the Winter Caves	Turnbull, Ann	1984	MG	Prehistory	8,000 BCE	Europe	France	Ice Age	F	CB
World War II: The Definitive Visual History	DK	2009	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	B
The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus	2007	YA UMG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	F	N
The Devil's Arithmetic	Yolen, Jane	1988	UMG YA	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F HF	CB
Year of Impossible Goodbyes	Sook Nyul Choi	1991	UMG	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Korea	Korean War	F	N

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List of abbreviations:
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