Here are many of the books that
students have chosen in previous years:
- All Quiet on the Western Front: World War I, trench warfare
- A Long Way from Chicago: Great Depression, 1930's, Illinois
- A Thousand Never Evers: South during the Civil Rights Movement, 1963
- Across Five Aprils: Civil War, Southern Illinois
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Mississippi River town in the early 19th century
- All Capone Does My Shirts: Alcatraz, Great Depression, Al Capone, autism
- Assassin: John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Reconstruction
- Black Storm Comin': Pony Express, racial tensions, wagon trains, Civil War
- Book of the Lion: Crusades, King Richard
- Book Thief, The : World War II, Holocaust, Dachau
- Boy in the Striped Pajamas: World War II, Concentration Camps, Holocaust, Auschwitz
- Caged Eagles: Canada, World War II, Pearl Harbor, Japanese Internment
- Chains: slavery, Revolutionary War
- Charley Skedaddle: Civil War
- Charlotte's Rose: Mormon handcart pioneers
- Crossing the Wire: illegal aliens, border between U.S. and Mexico
- Deadly: Typhoid Mary
- Devil’s Arithmetic, The: Holocaust, World War II
- Devil's Paintbox: 1865, drought, Kansas, Seattle lumber camps, Oregon Trail, smallpox
- Doomed Queen Anne: Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII, England
- Elijah of Buxton: slavery, Buxton, Canada, slave catchers
- Emil and Karl: Holocaust, Vienna, World War II
- Fever, 1793: yellow fever, Philadelphia, epidemic
- Forge: Valley Forge, runaway slaves, Revolutionary War
- Friedrich: 1830's, Germany, Hitler, Jewish
- Help, The; Civil Rights, Medgar Evers The Help
- Hero’s Don’t Run: World War II, Pacific Theatre
- Honus and Me: Honus Wagner, baseball, baseball cards, 1909 World Series
- Jimmy Spoon: Old West, Shoshoni Indians, Chief Washakie
- Journal of Ben Uchida: Japanese-Americans, internment camps, World War II, Pearl Harbor http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/journal-ben-uchida-discussion-guide http://www.historyonthenet.com/WW2/japan_internment_camps.htm
- Light in the Forest: Pennsylvanian Colony, Lenni Lenape tribe, territorial wars
- Little House on the Prairie: The First Four Years: South Dakota prairie, pioneers, 1880's
- Lunch Box Dream: The Civil Rights Movement
- Matilda Bone: medieval English village, medicine in the Middle Ages, leech, barber-surgeon, apothecary, bonesetter
- Midwife's Apprentice: Middle Ages (Medieval), midwifery, medicine in the Middle Ages
- Moon Over Manifest: World War I, Great Depression, Ku Klux Klan, immigrants, coal mining
- Most Beautiful Place in the World, The: Guatemala, poverty
- My Brother Sam is Dead: Revolutionary War
- Nightjohn: slavery, 1850’s U.S. South, Civil War
- Numbering All the Bones: Civil War, slavery, Prisoner of War, Andersonville Prison, Clara Barton
- Number the Stars: Holocaust , World War II, Resistance
- Once by Morris Gleitzman: Poland, World War II
- Out of the Dust: Great Depression, Dust Bowl
- Rifles for Watie: Civil War, Cherokee Indian rebels
- Rilla of Ingleside: World War I, Canada, Red Cross
- River Between Us, The: beginning of Civil War, 1916, 1861, Camp Defiance, slavery
- Rumors of War: World War II
- Run Away Home: 1886, Apache Indians,Geronimo, reservations, African Americans
- Sacagawea: Girl of the Shining Mountains:
- Secret Life of Bees, The: South Carolina, 1964, racism,
- Shades of Gray: Civil War, Reconstruction
- Shakeress, The: Shakers, religious movements in the 1820s and '30s, orphans
- Shakespeare Stealer, Shakespeare’s Scribe, Shakespeare’s Spy: Shakespeare, Globe Theater, 1600’s, black plague, Elizabethan England
- Slave Dancer: 1840, slave ships, slavery, New Orleans, Africa
- Someone Named Eva: Lebensborn center in Poland, Nazi, World War II
- Sounder: Civil Rights, sharecroppers, early nineteenth century
- Steal Away. . . to freedom by Jennifer Armstrong: slavery
- Summer of My German Soldier: Nazi, prisoners of war (POW camp), internment camp
- True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The: 1832 transatlantic crossing, Puritans, mutiny
- Tucket's Travels: Mr. Tucket: Old West, Oregon Trail, Pawnee Indians
- Under the Blood Red Sun: World War II, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Japanese-Americans
- Vietnam #1: I Pledge Allegiance : Vietnam War, draft, U.S. Navy
- War Horse: World War I, cavalry, trench warfare War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
- Witch of Blackbird Pond, The: Colony of Connecticut in 1687, religious intolerance, Puritanism, Quakers
- Woods Runner: Revolutionary War, Hessians
- Words in the Dust: Afghanistan after the defeat of the Taliban
- Year of the Hangman, The : This is actually speculative fiction, grounded in our past history. It asks, what would have happened if the British had won the Revolutionary War?
