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1900s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
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
The Night Journey	Lasky, Katheryn	1981	UMG	Modern Age	1900	Russia	Russia	Russian Pogroms Immigration Jewish History	F	CB
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
All-of-a-Kind Family	Taylor, Syndey	1951	MG	Modern Age	1900	North America	United States	Jewish Life	F	CB
Chasing Secrets	Choldenko, Gennifer	2016	UMG	Modern Age	1900	North America	United States	Anti-Chinese Immigration Gilded Age	F	N
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
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
A Sky Full of Song	Meyer, Susan Lynn	2023	MG UMG	Modern Age	1905	North America	United States	Jewish Immigration Westward Expansion	F	CB
The Faithful Spy	Hendrix, John	2018	YA A	Modern Age	1906-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII German Occupation	NF Bio	GN
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
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
Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal	Engle, Margarita	2016	MG UMG	Modern Age	1906-1914	Central America	Panama	Panama Canal	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
Dragonwings	Yep, Lawrence	1993	UMG	Modern Age	1909	North America	United States China	Flight	F OV	N
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China	Chang, Jung	1991	A	Modern Age	1909-1978	Asia	China	Communist China	NF Bio	N
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

1910s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
The Hidden Palace	Wecker, Helene	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1910-1918	North America	United States	Immigrants Jewish History	HF	N
Journey to the River Sea	Ibbotson, Eva	2001	MG	Modern Age	1910	Amazon River	Brazil	Amazon River	F	CB
Pachinko	Lee, Min Jin	2017	YA A	Modern Age	1910-1989	Asia	Korea Japan	Korean War	F	N
The Davenports	Marquis, Krystal	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1910	North America	United States	African American History Great Migration Civil Rights	F	N
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
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
The Nerviest Girl in the World	Wiley, Melissa	2020	MG	Modern Age	1911	North America	United States	California Early Filmmaking	F	CB
Uprising	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1911	North America	United States	Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fires Labor Reform	F	CB
The Titanic: An Interactive History Adventure	Temple, Bob	2008	MG	Modern Age	1912	Atlantic Ocean	Great Britain	Titanic	NF	CB
History Smashers: The Titanic	Messner, Kate	2020	MG UMG	Modern Age	1912	Atlantic Ocean	Great Britain	Titanic	NF	B
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
A Million to One	Jaigirdar, Adiba	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic Heists LGBTQ+	F	N
The Watch that Ends the Night	Wolf, Allan	2013	YA A	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic	F	N
Escape This Book! Titanic	Doyle, Bill	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1912	Atlantic Ocean	Great Britain	Titanic	NF	B
Luck of the Titanic	Lee, Stacey	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic Chinese Immigration	F OV	N
Iceburg	Nielsen, Jennifer A.	2023	MG UMG	Modern Age	1912	Atlantic Ocean	Great Britain	Titanic	F	CB
You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Titanic	Stewart, David	2008	LE MG	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic	NF	PB
Kaspar the Titanic Cat	Morpurgo, Michael	2012	MG	Modern Age	1912	Europe	Great Britain	Titanic	F	CB
Angel on the Square	Whelan, Gloria	2001	UMG	Modern Age	1913-1918	Russia	Russia	Russian Revolution	F	CB
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
A Bend in the Stars	Barenbaum, Rachel	2019	YA A	Modern Age	1914	Russia	Russia	Russian Revolution Women in Science	F	N
War Horse	Morpurgo, Michael	1982	MG UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Great Britain	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
Like Water on Stone	Walrath, Dana	2015	UMG YA	Modern Age	1914-1915	Europe	Armenia	Armenian Genocide	F	N
The Singing Tree	Seredy, Kate	1939	MG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Hungary	WWI Hungary	F	CB
Things a Bright Girl Can Do	Nicholls, Sally	2017	YA A	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Great Britain	WWI Women's Suffrage	F	N
All Quiet on the Western Front	Remarque, Erich Maria	1929	YA A	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	F	N
At Battle in World War I: An Interactive Battlefield Adventure	Lassieur, Allison	2015	MG	Modern Age	1914-1918	World	Various	WWI	NF	CB
After the Dancing Days	Rostkowski, Margaret	1986	MG	Modern Age	1914-1918	North America	United States	WWI	F	CB
The Button War	Avi	2018	UMG	Modern Age	1914	Europe	Poland	WWI	F	CB
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
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
Truce	Murphy, Jim	2009	UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	NF	PB CB
The Harlem Hellfighters	Myers, Walter Dean	2006	UMG YA	Modern Age	1914-1919	North America Europe	Various	WWI	NF	B
You Wouldn't Want to Be a Polar Explorer	Green, Jen	2017	LE MG	Modern Age	1914-1916	Antarctica	Antarctica	Explorers	NF	PB
Where Poppies Grow	Granfield, Linda	2005	UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	World	Various	WWI	NF	PB
The War to End All Wars	Freedman, Russell	2013	UMG YA	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	NF	PB CB
Lines of Courage	Nielsen, Jennifer A.	2022	UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	various	WWI	F	CB
Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood	Hale, Nathan	2014	MG UMG	Modern Age	1914-1918	Europe	Various	WWI	NF	GN
Lovely War	Berry, Julie	2019	YA	Modern Age	1914-1945	Europe	France	WWI	F HF	N
Lone Women	LaValle, Victor	2023	A	Modern Age	1915	North America	United States	Horror Westward Expansion	HF	N
The Road From Home	Kherdian, David	1979	YA	Modern Age	1915-1923	Europe	Turkey	Armenian Genocide	F Bio	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 Foreshadowing	Sedgwick, Marcus	2005	YA	Modern Age	1915	Europe	Great Britain France	WWI	F HF	N
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear	Mattick, Lindsay	2015	LE MG	Modern Age	1915-1918	World	England Canada	WWI	NF	PB
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia	Fleming, Candace	2014	UMG YA	Modern Age	1917-1921	Russia	Russia	Russian Revolution	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
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
In the Shadow of Blackbirds	Winters, Cat	2014	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Influenza Epidemic	F	N
King Nyx	Bakis, Kirsten	2024	A	Modern Age	1918	North America	United States	gothic Feminism	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
Like the Willow Tree	Lowry, Lois	2011	MG UMG	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Influenza Epidemic	F	CB
The Postcard	Berest, Anne	2023	A	Modern Age	1918-2019	Europe	France	WWII Jewish Life antisemitism Holocaust Survivors	F	N
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918	Anderson, Laurie Halse	2019	UMG YA	Modern Age	1918	North America	United States	Plagues Influenza Epidemic	NF	GN
Beautiful Little Fools	Cantor, Jillian	2022	A	Modern Age	1918-1923	North America	United States	Jazz Age LGBTQ+	F	B
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918	Marrin, Albert	2018	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Influenza Epidemic	NF	B
Daughters of a Dead Empire	Tara O'Neil, Carolyn	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1918	Russia	Russia	Russian Revolution	F	N
A Death-Struck Year	Lucier, Makiia	2016	YA	Modern Age	1918-1919	North America	United States	Plagues Influenza Epidemic	F	N
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
Saving Savannah	Bolden, Tonya	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1919	North America	United States	African American History	F	N
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

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
Angel of Greenwood	Pink, Randi	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1921	North America	United States	Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights	F	N
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
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
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre	Boston Weatherford, Carole	2021	MG	Modern Age	1921	North America	United States	Tulsa Race Massacre Civil Rights	NF	PB
Ophie's Ghosts	Ireland, Justina	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1922	North America	United States	Jim Crow Ghosts Great Migration	F	CB
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
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
These Violent Delights	Gong, Clohe	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1926	Asia	China	Romeo and Juliet	HF	N
Joseph Stalin (A Wicked History 20th Century)	McCollum, Sean	2010	UMG YA	Modern Age	1927-1953	Asia	Russia	Soviet Union	NF Bio	CB
The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin	Hochschild, Adam	2003	YA A	Modern Age	1927-1953	Asia	Russia	Soviet Union	NF Bio	N
Our Violent Ends	Gong, Clohe	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1927	Asia	China	Romeo and Juliet	HF	N
Red Harvest	Cherkas, Michael	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1927-1933	Russia	Ukraine United States	Soviet Union Holodomor	F	GN
The Degenerates	Mann, J. Albert	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1928	North America	United States	Eugenics Institutionalization LGBTQ+	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
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
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
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

1930s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Out of the Dust	Karen Hesse	1998	MG	Modern Age	1930–1936	North America	United States	Great Depression Dust Bowl	F	CB
Audrey of the Outback	Aldrin, Buzz	2008	LE	Modern Age	1930	Australia	Australia	Australian Outback	F	CB
Black Dove White Raven	Wein, Elizabeth	2015	YA A	Modern Age	1930-1936	Africa North America	Ethiopia	Italo-Ethiopian War African History	F	N
Children of the Dust Bowl	Stanley, Jerry	2016	MG	Modern Age	1930–1936	North America	United States	Great Depression Dust Bowl	NF	CB
Esperanza Rising	Muñoz Ryan, Pam	2002	UMG	Modern Age	1930	North America	Mexico United States	Mexican Immigration Great Depression	F	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
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek	Richardson, Kim Michele	2019	A	Modern Age	1930	North America	United States	Great Depression	F	N
The Water Horse	King-Smith, Dick	2007	MG	Modern Age	1930-1939	Europe	Scotland	Folk Tales	HF	CB
Hidden Roots	Bruchac, Joseph	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1930–1949	North America	United States	Abenaki Nation Indigenous Americans	F	CB
The German Wife	Rimmer, Kelly	2022	A	Modern Age	1930-1950	Europe North America	Germany United States	WWII Operation Paperclip	F	N
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
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
The Night Tiger	Choo, UYangsze	2019	A	Modern Age	1931	Asia	Malaysia	Malaysian Folklore	HF	N
The Invention of Hugo Cabret	Selznick,Brian	2007	MG	Modern Age	1931	Europe	France	Train Stations Early Filmaking	F	CB
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
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
Two Roads	Bruchac, Joseph	2019	UMG	Modern Age	1932	North America	United States	Muscogee Nation Indigenous Americans	F	CB
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
Stella by Starlight	Draper, Sharon M.	2015	UMG	Modern Age	1932	North America	United States	Great Depression Segregation	F	CB
Flowers in the Gutter	Gaddy, K. R.	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1932-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	NF	B
Adolf Hitler (A Wicked History 20th Century)	Price, Sean Stewart	2010	UMG YA	Modern Age	1933-1945	Europe	Germany	Nazi Germany	NF Bio	CB
The Lost Year	Marsh, Katherine	2023	UMG	Modern Age	1933	Russia	Russia United States	Soviet Union Holodomor	F	CB
Betty Before X	Shabazz, Ilyasah	2018	UMG	Modern Age	1934-1948	North America	United States	Civil Rights	NF Bio	CB
The Impossible Journey	Whelan, Gloria	2003	UMG	Modern Age	1934	Russia	Russia	Soviet Union	F	CB
All the Light We Cannot See	Doerr, Anthony	2014	YA A	Modern Age	1934-2014	Europe	France Germany	WWII	F	N
Sweet Home Alaska	Estby Dagg, Carole	2019	MG UMG	Modern Age	1934-1935	North America	United States	Alaska 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
Echo Mountain	Wolk, Lauren	2020	UMG	Modern Age	1934	North America	United States	Great Depression	F	CB
White Rose	Wilson, Kip	2019	YA A	Modern Age	1935-1943	Europe	Germany	WWII	F	N
Maus I	Spiegelman, Art	1986	YA A	Modern Age	1935-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	HF F	GN
The Last Queen: Elizabeth II	Irving, Clive	2021	A	Modern Age	1936-2020	Europe	Great Britain	Elizabeth II	NF Bio	B
When the World Was Ours	Kessler, Liz	2021	UMG YA	Modern Age	1936-1945	Europe	Austria	WWII Holocaust	F	N
Maus II	Spiegelman, Art	1992	YA A	Modern Age	1935-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	HF F	GN
Leonora in the Morning Light	Carter, Michaela	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1937-1940	Europe	France Great Britain	WWII Art	F	B
Anya's War	Alban, Andrea	2011	YA	Modern Age	1937-1945	Asia	China	WWII Jewish Immigration	F	N
The Library of Legends	Chang, Janie	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1937-1945	Asia	China	WWII	F	N
Atomic Anna	Barenbaum, Rachel	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1938-1992	Europe North America	Russia United States	Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union	HF	N
West with Giraffes: A Novel	Rutledge, Lynda	2018	YA	Modern Age	1938	North America	United States	Great Depression	NF	B
My Name is Selma	van de Perre, Selma	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	Netherlands	Holocaust Jewish Resistance	NF	M
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
Just a Girl: A True Story of World War II	Levi, Lia	2022	MG	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	Italy	WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation	NF	CB
Stars of the Night: The Courageous Children of the Czech Kindertransport	Stelson, Caren	2023	LE MG	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	Czechoslovakia	Holocaust Kindertransport	F	PB
Four Perfect Pebbles	Blumenthal Lazan, Marion	1996	UMG	Modern Age	1938-1948	Europe	Germany Holland	Holocaust	NF Bio	CB
Out of Hiding	Gruener, Ruth	2020	MG	Modern Age	1938-2019	Europe	Poland United States	Holocaust Immigration Jewish Refugees	NF	M
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
The Island of Sea Women	See, Lisa	2020	A	Modern Age	1938-2008	Asia	Korea	Korea	F	N
Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken	Tyndall, Nita	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII LGBTQ+	F	N
The Blood Years	Arnold, Elana K.	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	Romania	Holocaust	F	N
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
Hidden Hope	Boxer, Elisa	2023	LE MG	Modern Age	1938-1945	Europe	France	Holocaust Jewish Resistance	F	PB
World War II Infantrymen: An Interactive History Adventure	Otfinoski, Steven	2013	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	CB
Parallel Journeys	O'Brien, Tim	2000	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII Auschwitz	F	B
Max in the House of Spies: A Tale of World War II	Gidwitz, Adam	2024	MG UMG	Modern Age	1939	Europe	Great Britain Germany	WWII Kindertransport Espionage	F	CB
Genevieve's War	Reilly Giff, Patricia	2017	MG	Modern Age	1939	Europe	France	WWII	F	N
Upon the Head of the Goat	Siegal, Aranka	2003	UMG	Modern Age	1939-1944	Europe	Hungary	Holocaust Hungary	NF Bio	CB
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
The Last Checkmate: A Novel	Saab, Gabriella	2021	YA	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Poland Germany	WWII Chess Auschwitz	F	N
World War II Spies: An Interactive History Adventure	Burgan, Michael	2013	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	CB
Guts & Glory: World War II	Thompson, Ben	2017	UMG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	CB
The Underground Library	Ryan, Jennifer	2024	A	Modern Age	1939-1941	Europe	Great Britain	WWII	F	N
The War That Saved My Life	Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly	2015	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Great Britain	WWII	F	CB
The Berlin Boxing Club	Sharenow, Robert	2012	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	F	N
Beyond Courage	Rappaport, Doreen	2014	UMG YA	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Germany	Holocaust	F	B
We'll Soon Be Home Again	Bab Bonde, Jessica	2020	UMG YA	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Various	Holocaust	F Bio	GN
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
World War II Naval Forces: An Interactive History Adventure	Raum, Elizabeth	2013	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	CB
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million	Mendelsohn, Daniel	2013	A	Modern Age	1939-1945	Eastern Europe	Ukraine	Holocaust	NF	N
We Were the Lucky Ones	Hunter, Georgia	2018	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1946	Europe	Poland	WWII	F	N
The War I Finally Won	Brubaker Bradley, Kimberly	2018	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Great Britain	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
World War II: The Definitive Visual History	DK	2009	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	B
Under the Broken Sky	Smith, Sherri L.	2019	UMG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Asia	Japan China	Manchuria WWII	F	N
Yonder	Standish, Ali	2022	MG UMG	Modern Age	1939 - 1943	North America	United States	WWII	F	CB
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
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War	Lobel, Anita	2008	UMG YA	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	NF Bio	CB
The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus	2007	YA UMG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Europe	Germany	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
World War II Pilots: An Interactive History Adventure	Burgan, Michael	2013	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF	CB
World War II: Kids Who Survived Tell Their Stories	Nicholson, Dorinda	2015	UMG	Modern Age	1939-1945	World	Various	WWII	NF Bio	PB
The Girl Who Sang	Nadel, Estelle Savos, Sammy Strout, Bethany	2024	MG UMG	Modern Age	1939-1951	Europe	Poland	Holocaust Nazi Occupation	NF	GN
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
The House of Sixty Fathers	DeJong, Meindert	1956	MG	Modern Age	1939-1945	Asia	China	WWII	F	CB
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
Names in a Jar	Gold, Jennifer	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1939-1987	Europe	Poland	Holocaust WWII	F	N

1940s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
When My Name Was Keoko	Park, Linda Sue	2012	UMG	Modern Age	1940-1945	Asia	Korea	WWII	F	CB
The Librarian of Auschwitz	Iturbe, Antonio	2012	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance	F Bio	N
Salt to the Sea	Sepetys, Ruta	2017	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	East Prussia	WWII	F	N
Between Shades of Gray	Sepetys, Ruta	2012	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Lithuania Russia	WWII	F	N
Esfir is Alive	Simon, Andrea	2016	UMG YA	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F Bio	N
Night	Wiesel, Elie	1958	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Romania	Holocaust Auschwitz	NF Bio	N
Twenty and Ten	Bishop, Claire Hutchet	1952	MG	Modern Age	1940-1944	Europe	France	WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation	F	CB
Snow Treasure	McSwigan, Marie	2006	MG	Modern Age	1940	Europe	Norway	WWII	F	CB
The Little Riders	Shemin, Margaretha	1993	MG	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Holland	WWII Nazi Occupation	F	CB
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler	Hoose, Phillip	2015	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Denmark	WWII German Occupation	NF	N
The Paper Girl of Paris	Taylor, Jordyn	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	France	WWII	F	N
The Bookseller of Dachau	Ryan, Shari J.	2021	A	Modern Age	1940-2018	Europe	Germany United States	WWII	F	N
The Last Rose of Shanghai: A Novel	Dai Randel, Weina	2021	A	Modern Age	1940	Asia	China	WWII Jewish Immigration	F	N
Wish Upon a Crawdad	Condon, Curtis W.	2022	MG UMG	Modern Age	1940	North America	United States	electricity Great Depression	F	CB
28 Days: A Novel of Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto	Safier, David	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust Auschwitz Jewish Resistance	F	N
Catherine's War	Billet, Julia	2020	UMG	Modern Age	1942-1945	Europe	France	WWII Jews in Hiding Nazi Occupation	F	GN
The Woman With the Cure	Cullen, Lynn	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1940-1963	North America	United States	History of Science Women in Science Vaccines	F	N
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust	Shusterman, Neal	2023	UMG YA	Modern Age	1940-1945	Europe	various	Holocaust Jewish Resistance	HF	GN
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
Island War	Reilly Giff, Patricia	2020	MG	Modern Age	1941-1945	Aleutian Islands	United States	WWII	F	N
History Smashers: Pearl Harbor	Messner, Kate	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1941	United States	United States Japan	WWII Pearl Harbor	NF	B
Stealing Home	Torres, J	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1941-1945	North America	Canada	WWII Japanese Internment	F GN	GN
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor	Gratz, Alan	2024	UMG YA	Modern Age	1941 - 1941	North America	United States	WWII Pearl Harbor	F	N
The Devil's Arithmetic	Yolen, Jane	1988	UMG YA	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F HF	CB
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Frank, Anne	1947	UMG YA	Modern Age	1942-1945	Europe	Netherlands	Holocaust	NF Bio	CB
Baseball Saved Us	Mochizuki, Ken	1993	MG LE	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	PB
Paper Wishes	Sepahban, Lois	2016	MG	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	CB
We Are Not Free	Chee, Traci	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F OV	N
Raid of No Return	Hale, Nathan	2019	MG UMG	Modern Age	1942	North America	United States	WWII Doolittle Raid Pearl Harbor	NF	GN
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
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
Weedflower	Kadohata, Cynthia	2009	UMG	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	CB
When the Emperor Was Divine	Otsuka, Julie	2003	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	N
Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust	Dauvillier, Loïc	2014	MG UMG	Modern Age	1942	Europe	France	Holocaust	F	GN
Displacement	Hughes, Kiku	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	HF	GN
Farewell to Manzanar	Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki	1973	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	NF Bio OV	B
Sylvia & Aki	Conkling, Winifred	2011	MG	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment Segregation	F	CB
No-No Boy	Okada, John	1957	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F OV	N
They Called Us Enemy	Takei, George	2019	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	NF Bio OV	GN
The Bracelet	Uchida, Yoshiko	1996	LE MG	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F OV	PB
Briar Rose	Yolen, Jane	2016	YA A	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F	N
Once	Gleitzman, Morris	2013	MG UMG	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F	N
Then	Gleitzman, Morris	2013	MG UMG	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F	N
Within These Lines	Morrill, Stephanie	2019	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	N
Code Talker	Bruchac, Joseph	2006	UMG	Modern Age	1942-1954	North America	United States	WWII Navajo Nation Indigenous Americans	F	N
Mapping the Bones	Yolen, Jane	2018	YA A	Modern Age	1942-1945	Europe	Poland	Holocaust	F Bio	N
Stone Angel	Yolen, Jane	2015	LE	Modern Age	1942-1945	Europe	France	Holocaust	F	PB
The Shadow War	Smith, Lindsay	2020	YA	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Germany	WWII	HF	N
Ahimsa	Kelkar, Supriya	2017	MG	Modern Age	1942	Asia	India	India Gandhi Indian Freedom Movement	F	CB
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
The Kitchen Front	Ryan, Jennifer	2022	A	Modern Age	1942	Europe	Great Britain	WWII	F	N
The Songbird and the Rambutan Tree	Abendanon, Lucille	2024	UMG YA	Modern Age	1942-1945	Asia	Indonesia	WWII	F	N
Code Name Verity	Wein, Elizabeth	2013	YA	Modern Age	1943	Europe	Great Britain France	WWII	F	N
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes	Coerr, Eleanor	1977	MG	Modern Age	1943-1955	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima	F	CB
Girl in the Blue Coat	Hesse, Monica	2017	YA A	Modern Age	1943-1945	Europe	Netherlands	WWII Nazi Occupation	F	N
I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz	Kor, Eva Mozes	2022	MG	Modern Age	1943-2019	Europe	Romania	Holocaust Nazi Occupation Auschwitz	NF	CB
Wrath Becomes Her	Polydoros, Aden	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1943	Europe	Lithuania	WWII Jewish Resistance	HF	N
The Port Chicago 50	Sheinkin, Steve	2017	YA	Modern Age	1944	North America	United States	WWII Civil Rights	NF	N
An Elephant in the Garden	Morpurgo, Michael	2010	MG	Modern Age	1944	Europe	Germany	WWII	F	CB
Mare's War	Davis, Tanita S.	2009	YA	Modern Age	1944	North America	United States	WWII Women's Army Corps	NF	N
A Whale in Paris	Presley, Daniel Polders, Claire	2019	MG	Modern Age	1944-1945	Europe	France	WWII Nazi Occupation	F	CB
The War Outside	Hesse, Monica	2018	YA A	Modern Age	1944-1945	North America	United States	WWII Japanese Internment	F	N
Lily's Crossing	Reilly Giff, Patricia	1999	MG	Modern Age	1944	North America	United States	WWII	F	N
Willow Run	Reilly Giff, Patricia	2005	MG	Modern Age	1944	North America	United States	WWII	F	N
Light Perpetual	Spufford, Francis	2021	A	Modern Age	1944	Europe	Great Britain	WWII	F	N
The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story	Birnbaum, Nechama	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1944	Europe	Romania Germany	Holocaust Auschwitz	F	N
For Lamb	Cline-Ransome, Lesa	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1944	North America	United States	Segregation lynching Great Migration Jim Crow	F	N
They Went Left	Hesse, Monica	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Poland Germany	Holocaust	F	N
Year of Impossible Goodbyes	Sook Nyul Choi	1991	UMG	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Korea	Korean War	F	N
The Blossom and the Firefly	Smith, Sherri L.	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Japan	WWII	F	CB
The Dollmaker of Krakow	Romero, R. M.	2016	UMG	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Poland	WWII	F HF	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
The Search	Heuvel, Eric	2009	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Netherlands	Holocaust	F	GN
Barefoot Gen 1	Nakazawa, Keiji	2004	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima	F OV	GN
Barefoot Gen 2	Nakazawa, Keiji	2004	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima	F OV	GN
Barefoot Gen 3	Nakazawa, Keiji	2005	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
Kursed	Smith, Lindsay	2015	YA	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Soviet Union	WWII	HF	N
My Long List of Impossible Things	Barker, Michelle	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Germany	WWII	F	N
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
Number the Stars	Lowry, Lois	2011	MG	Modern Age	1945	Europe	Denmark	WWII	F	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
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
Finding Langston	Cline-Ransome, Lesa	2018	MG	Modern Age	1946	North America	United States	Great Migration	F	CB
Idi Amin (A Wicked History 20th Century)	Dougherty, Steve	2010	UMG YA	Modern Age	1946-2003	Africa	Uganda	Ugandan Army	NF Bio	CB
Dawn	Wiesel, Elie	1960	YA A	Modern Age	1946-1948	Europe	Palestine	Holocaust Post WWII	NF Bio	N
A Place to Belong	Kadohata, Cynthia	2019	UMG YA	Modern Age	1946	Asia	Japan	WWII Hiroshima Japanese Internment	F	N
The Night Diary	Hiranandani, Veera	2019	UMG	Modern Age	1947	Asia	India Pakistan	Partition of India	F	N
Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft	Heyerdahl, Thor	1950	YA	Modern Age	1947	Pacific Ocean	United States	Ocean Travel	NF	B
Not Our Kind	Zeldis, Kitty	2019	A	Modern Age	1947	North America	United States	Jewish Life	F	N
Mao (A Wicked History 20th Century)	Price, Sean Stewart	2017	UMG YA	Modern Age	1949-1976	Asia	China	People's Republic of China Communist China	NF Bio	CB

1950s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
Brother's Keeper	Lee, Julie	2020	UMG	Modern Age	1950	Asia	North Korea	Korean War Escaping North Korea	F	N
Cold War Correspondent	Hale, Nathan	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1950	North America	United States North Korea	Korean War	NF Bio	GN
Day	Wiesel, Elie	1961	YA A	Modern Age	1950	North America	United States	Holocaust Post WWII	NF Bio	N
The Korean War: An Interactive Modern History Adventure	Burgan, Michael	2014	MG	Modern Age	1950-1953	Asia	North Korea South Korea	Korean War	NF	CB
Miss Benson's Beetle	Joyce, Rachel	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1950	Oceania	Great Britain New Caledonia	History of Science Women in Science	F	N
Breaking Stalin's Nose	Yelchin, Eugene	2011	MG	Modern Age	1950	Asia	Russia	Soviet Union	NF Bio	CB
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo	Reid, Taylor Jenkins	2018	YA A	Modern Age	1950-2018	North America	United States	Hollywood LGBTQ+	F	N
The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel	Starling, Caitlin	2021	A	Modern Age	1950	Europe	Great Britain	Gothic Fantasy Victorian Era	HF	N
The Reformatory	Due, Tananarive	2023	YA A	Modern Age	1950	North America	United States	Segregation Civil Rights Great Migration Jim Crow	HF	N
Keeping Score	Park, Linda Sue	2010	MG	Modern Age	1951-1953	North America	United States	Baseball Korean War	F	PB
In the Tunnel	Lee, Julie	2023	UMG	Modern Age	1952	Asia	North Korea	Korean War Escaping North Korea	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
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
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 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
The Vietnam War: An Interactive Modern History Adventure	Burgan, Michael	2014	MG	Modern Age	1955-1975	Asia	Vietnam	Vietnam War	NF	CB
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
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
Wolf By Wolf	Graudin, Ryan	2016	YA A	Modern Age	1956	Europe Asia	Germany Japan	Hypothetical Axis Victory	AH	N
Blood For Blood	Graudin, Ryan	2017	YA A	Modern Age	1956	Europe Asia	Germany Japan	Hypothetical Axis Victory	AH	N
This Rebel Heart	Locke, Katherine	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1956	Europe	Hungary	Revolution Hungarian Revolution LGBTQ+	F	N
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
The Fountains of Silence	Sepetys, Ruta	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1957	Europe	Spain	Spanish Civil War	F	N
Indian No More	McManis, Charlene Willing	2019	MG UMG	Modern Age	1957	North America	United States	Umpqua Nation Civil Rights Indigenous Americans	F	CB
Commie Pinko	Nichols Lynch, Janet	2017	YA	Modern Age	1958-1960	North America	United States	McCarthyism Cold War	F	N
11/22/63	King, Stephen	2012	A	Modern Age	1958-1963	North America	United States	JFK Assassination	AH	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
90 Miles to Havana	Flores-Galbis, Enrique	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1960-1969	Carribean North America	Cuba United States	Immigration	F	CB
Through My Eyes	Bridges, Ruby	1999	MG UMG	Modern Age	1960-1963	North America	United States	Civil Rights Segregation Ruby Bridges	NF Bio	PB
Before We Were Free	Alvarez, Julia	2018	UMG YA	Modern Age	1960-1961	North America	Dominican Republic United States	Immigration	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
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
A Night Divided	Nielson, Jennifer A.	2015	UMG	Modern Age	1961	Europe	East Germany	Cold War Berlin Wall	F	N
The Red Umbrella	Diaz Gonzalez, Christina	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1961-1962	North America	Cuba United States	Immigration	F	N
The Berlin Wall: An Interactive Modern History Adventure	Doeden, Matt	2014	MG	Modern Age	1961-1989	Europe	Germany	Berlin Wall	NF	CB
Cuba in my Pocket	Cuevas, Adrianna	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1961-1962	North America	Cuba United States	Immigration	F	CB
The Berlin Letters	Reay, Katherine	2024	A	Modern Age	1961-1989	Europe North America	Germany United States	Berlin Wall Spies Cold War	F	N
The Man in the High Castle	Dick, Philip K.	1962	A	Modern Age	1962	North America	United States	Hypothetical Axis Victory	AH	N
Root Magic	Royce, Eden	2021	MG UMG	Modern Age	1963	North America	United States	Civil Rights	F M	CB
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
Sekret	Smith, Lindsay	2015	YA	Modern Age	1963	Europe	Soviet Union	Cold War	HF	N
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
Skandal	Smith, Lindsay	2016	YA	Modern Age	1964	North America	Soviet Union United States	Cold War	HF	N
Bad Girls Never Say Die	Mathieu, Jennifer	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1964	North America	United States	Social Classes Feminism	F	N
Boots on the Ground	Partridge, Elizabeth	2018	YA	Modern Age	1965-1975	Southeast Asia	Vietnam	Vietnam War	NF	N
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
Lillian's Right to Vote	Winter, Jonah	2015	LE	Modern Age	1965	North America	United States	Women's Suffrage Voting Civil Rights	NF	PB
Revolution is Not a Dinner Party	Compestine, Ying Chang	2009	MG UMG	Modern Age	1966-1976	Asia	China	Cultural Revolution	F	CB
Bronze and Sunflower	Wenxuan, Cao	2019	MG UMG	Modern Age	1966-1976	Asia	China	Cultural Revolution	F OV	CB
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
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
History Comics: The Stonewall Riots	Bongiovanni, Archie Andrews, A.	2022	YA	Modern Age	1969	North America	United States	Stonewall Riots Activism LGBTQ+	F	GN

1970s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
The Witch Who Came in from the Cold	Smith, Lindsay	2017	YA	Modern Age	1970	Europe	Czechoslovakia	Cold War	HF	N
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
Orange for the Sunsets	Athaide, Tina	2020	MG UMG	Modern Age	1972	Africa	Uganda	Immigration	F	N
Cub	Copeland, Cynthia L.	2020	MG UMG	Modern Age	1972	North America	USA	Writing Journalism	F	GN
Take My Hand	Perkins-Valdez, Dolen	2022	A	Modern Age	1973-2016	North America	United States	Civil Rights Reproductive Rights	F	N
First They Killed My Father	Ung, Loung	1999	YA A	Modern Age	1975-1979	Africa	Cambodia	Cambodian Genocide	NF Bio	B
The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel	Shafak, Elif	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1975-2015	Europe	Cyprus Great Britain	Postcolonial Cyprus	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
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya	Napoli, Donna Jo	2010	LE	Modern Age	1977	Africa	Kenya	Environment	F	PB
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
Journey To Jo'Burg: A South African Story	Naidoo, Beverley	1985	MG	Modern Age	1980	Africa	South Africa	Apartheid	F	CB
The Last Days of John Lennon	Patterson, James	2020	A	Modern Age	1980	North America	United States	John Lennon Musicians	NF Bio	N
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women	Brooks, Geraldine	1994	YA A	Modern Age	1980-1994	Middle East	Various	Women in Islam	NF	B
Banned Book Club	Kim, Hyun Sook	2020	YA	Modern Age	1983-2016	Asia	South Korea	Banned Books Resistance Activism	F	GN
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
Nya's Long Walk: A Step at a Time	Park, Linda Sue	2019	LE	Modern Age	1985-2009	Africa	Sudan	Sudanese Civil War	F	PB
Bee-Bim Bop!	Park, Linda Sue	2005	LE	Modern Age	1985-2005	Asia	Korea	Korean Cooking	F	PB
Planet Earth is Blue	Panteleakos, Nicole	2020	MG	Modern Age	1986	North America	United States	Space Space Shuttle Challenger	F	CB
The Blackbird Girls	Blankman, Anne	2020	UMG	Modern Age	1986	Europe	Ukraine Russia Uzbekistan	Chernobyl Communism Soviet Union	F	CB
Dream Annie, Dream	Brown, Waka T.	2022	MG UMG	Modern Age	1987-1988	North America	United States	Immigration American Dream	F	CB
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane	See, Lisa	2017	A	Modern Age	1988-1995	Asia	China	China	F	N
The Story That Cannot Be Told	Kramer, J. Kasper	2019	UMG	Modern Age	1989	Europe	Romania	Cold War Communism	F	CB
Cloud and Wallfish	Nesbet, Anne	2018	UMG	Modern Age	1989	Europe	Germany	Berlin Wall	F	N
Like a Love Story	Nazemian, Abdi	2020	YA A	Modern Age	1989	North America	United States	Immigration LGBTQ+ AIDs Crisis	F OV	N
I Must Betray You	Sepetys, Ruta	2022	YA A	Modern Age	1989	Europe	Romania	Cold War Communism	F	N

1990s

Topics include

Book Title	Author	PubDate	Reading Age	Time Period	Time Frame	Geographic Area	Country	Topic	Genre	Format
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
The Cellist of Sarajevo	Galloway, Steven	2009	A	Modern Age	1992-1995	Eastern Europe	Bosnia	Bosnian War	F	N
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
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
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families	Gourevitch, Philip	1999	YA A	Modern Age	1994	Africa	Rwanda	Rwandan Genocide	NF	B
Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda	Combres, Elisabeth	2011	UMG	Modern Age	1994	Africa	Rwanda	Rwandan Genocide	F	N
Every Falling Star	Lee, Sungju McClelland, Susan Elizabeth	2016	YA A	Modern Age	1994-2011	Asia	North Korea	Escaping North Korea	NF Bio	N
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak	Hatzfeld, Jean	2006	A	Modern Age	1994	Africa	Rwanda	Rwandan Genocide	NF	B
Life Laid Bare: The Survivors in Rwanda Speak	Hatzfeld, Jean	2007	A	Modern Age	1994	Africa	Rwanda	Rwandan Genocide	NF	B
When Stars Are Scattered	Jamieson, Victoria Mohamed, Omar	2020	UMG	Modern Age	1996-2011	Africa	Somalia Kenya	Somalian Civil War Kenyan Refugee Camp	NF Bio OV	GN
People of the Book	Brooks, Geraldine	2008	YA A	Modern Age	1996	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo Haggadah	F	N
Concrete Rose	Thomas, Angie	2021	YA A	Modern Age	1998-1999	North America	United States	Modern Age	F	N
The Day of the Pelican	Paterson, Katherine	2010	YA	Modern Age	1998-2001	Eastern Europe	Kosovo	Kosovo War Anti-Muslim Sentiment	F	N
An Uninterrupted View of the Sky	Crowder, Melanie	2019	UMG YA	Modern Age	1999	South America	Bolivia	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
Africa Is Not a Country	Knight, Margy Burns	2002	LE	Modern Age	2000	Africa	Various	African Continent	NF	PB
Snow in Jerusalem	Da Costa, Deborah	2008	LE	Modern Age	2000	Middle East	Israel	Jerusalem Life	F	PB
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
The Red Pencil	Davis Pinkney, Andrea	2015	MG UMG	Modern Age	2003-2011	Africa	Sudan	Sudanese Refugees	F	N
The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide	Hatzfeld, Jean	2010	A	Modern Age	2003	Africa	Rwanda	Rwandan Genocide	NF	B
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
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
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
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes	Abawi, Atia	2019	YA	Modern Age	2010-2019	Middle East	Syria	Syrian Refugees	F	N
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
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World	Yousafzai, Malala	2016	MG	Modern Age	2012	Middle East	Pakistan	Education Women's Rights	NF	CB
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights	Yousafzai, Malala	2018	LE	Modern Age	2012	Middle East	Pakistan	Education Women's Rights	NF	CB
Now	Gleitzman, Morris	2013	MG UMG	Modern Age	2013	Australia	Australia	Holocaust Post WWII	F	N
The Fight for Midnight	Solomon, Dan	2023	YA	Modern Age	2013	North America	United States	Reproductive Rights	F	N
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree	Nwaubani, Adaobi Tricia	2020	YA A	Modern Age	2014	Africa	Nigeria	Boko Haram	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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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