Series Booklist: You Wouldn't Want to

Book recommendations containing title from the You Wouldn't Want to... Book Series.

Series Information: This delightful series brings something unusual to the study of history: humor. The You Wouldn't Want to... series revels in the darker side of life in ancient times. The reader is on center stage as he or she gets a tour through life as a slave, warrior, explorer, and even a mummy! Hilarious illustrations, captions, and sidebars leave no doubt that you simply wouldn't want to be there.

Series Features: Perfect resource for reluctant readers with:

• humor and history tied to curriculum
• entertaining sidebars to pique reader's curiosity
• comprehensive glossary to support content
• index to make navigating subject matter easier

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Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter	Antram, David	2004	LE MG	Prehistory	13,000 BCE	Beringia	Various	Ice Age	NF	PB
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Sumerian Slave	Morley, Jacqueline	2007	LE MG	Early Civilization	3000 BCE	Western Asia	Middle East	Mesopotamia	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Egyptian Mummy	Stewart, David	2012	LE MG	Early Civilization	2600 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Mummies	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pyramid Builder	Morley, Jacqueline	2007	LE MG	Early Civilization	2589-2504 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Building Pyramids	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be Tutankhamen	Stewart, David	2017	LE MG	Early Civilization	1342-1325 BCE	Africa	Egypt	Tutankhamen	NF	PB
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Greek Athlete	Ford, Michael	2014	LE MG	Classical Age	776 BCE	Europe	Greece	Olympics	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Work on the Great Wall of China	Morley, Jacqueline	2017	LE MG	Early Civilization	770-206 BCE	Asia	China	Great Wall of China	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Slave in Ancient Greece	Macdonald, Fiona	2013	LE MG	Classical Age	500-401 BCE	Europe	Greece	Ancient Greece	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mayan Soothsayer	Matthews, Rupert	2007	LE MG	Early Civilization	300 BCE - 600 CE	Central America	Various	Mayans	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Roman Soldier	Stewart, Dave	2016	LE MG	Classical Age	113 BCE - 596 CE	Europe	Italy	Roman Legion	NF	PB
You Wouldn’t Want to Be a Roman Gladiator	Stewart, Dave	2016	LE MG	Classical Age	1-100	Europe	Italy	Roman Gladiators	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Live in Pompeii	Malam, John	2017	LE MG	Classical Age	79	Europe	Italy	Volcano Natural Disasters	NF	PB
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
You Wouldn't Want to Work on a Medieval Cathedral	Macdonald, Fiona	2013	LE MG	High Middle Ages	1370-1379	Europe	Great Britain	Medieval Cathedrals Building	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be an Inca Mummy	Hynson, Colin	2007	LE MG	High Middle Ages	1399–1500	South America	Peru	Medieval Peru Mummies	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Medieval Knight	Macdonald, Fiona	2013	LE MG	Renaissance	1400-1425	Europe	Great Britain	Knights	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be in a Medieval Dungeon	Macdonald, Fiona	2013	LE MG	High Middle Ages	1475-1499	Europe	Great Britain	Medieval Life	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be Ill in Tudor Times	Senior, Kathryn	2014	LE MG	Renaissance	1501-1599	Europe	Great Britain	Tudors Medicine	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be Married to Henry VIII	Senior, Kathryn	2014	LE MG	Renaissance	1501-1588	Europe	Great Britain	Tudors Henry VIII	NF	PB
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
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Samurai	Macdonald, Fiona	2009	LE MG	Enlightenment	1600–1699	Asia	Japan	Samurai	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
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
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
You Wouldn't Want to Be in the Forbidden City	Morley, Jacqueline	2008	LE MG	Age of Revolutions	1750	Asia	China	Beijing	NF	PB
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
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Convict Sent to Australia	Costain, Meredith	2016	LE MG	Age of Revolutions	1788-1868	Australia	Great Britain	English Colonies	NF	PB
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
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
You Wouldn't Want to be a Victorian Mill Worker	Malam, John	2007	LE MG	Industrial Age	1842	Europe	Great Britain	Victorian Era	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Victorian Miner	Malam, John	2014	LE MG	Industrial Age	1860	Europe	Great Britain	Victorian Era	NF	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
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
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
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
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
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
You Wouldn't Want to be a Victorian Schoolchild	Malam, John	2014	LE MG	Industrial Age	1880-1889	Europe	Great Britain	Victorian Era	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to be a Victorian Servant	MacDonald, Fiona	2016	LE MG	Industrial Age	1880-1889	Europe	Great Britain	Victorian Era	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Titanic	Stewart, David	2008	LE MG	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Polar Explorer	Green, Jen	2017	LE MG	Modern Age	1914-1916	Antarctica	Antarctica	Explorers	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be in the Trenches in World War One	Woolf, Professor Alex	2007	LE MG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Great Britain	WWI	NF	PB
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
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
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Secret Agent During World War II	Malam, John	2010	LE MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Great Britain France	WWII	NF	PB
You Wouldn't Want to Be a World War II Pilot	Graham, Ian	2009	LE MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Great Britain	WWII	NF	PB

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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