If You Lived at the Time of the Great San Francisco Earthquake-Ellen Levine
Earthquake: On a Peaceful Spring Morning Disaster Strikes San Francisco-Shelley Tanaka (A Day that Changed America)
Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906-Deborah Hopkinson
Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse-David Kelly
Mighty Jackie the Strike-Out Queen-Marissa Moss-In 1931, 17 year old Jackie Mitchell pitches against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game.
Home Run-Robert Burleigh-wordless picture book with amazing pictures
The Babe And I-David Adler-A young boy meets Babe Ruth in this fictional picture book.
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra-Andrea Davis Pinkney
First Flight: The Story of the Wright Brothers-Caryn Jenner
The Wright Brothers for Kids: How They Invented the Airplane: 21 Activities Exploring the Science and History of Flight-Mary Kay Carson
Airborne: A photobiography of Orville and Wilbur Wright-Mary Collins, National Geographic
Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore-Dan Gutman. This is a highly entertaining novel based on the true story of young Johnny Moore who has no interest in learning until he meets “those dingbats from Ohio.”
Henry Ford: Putting the World on Wheels-Dina El Nabli
Henry Ford-Jeffrey Zuhlke (History Maker Biographies)
Driven: A Photobiography of Henry Ford-Don Mitchell (National Geographic)
First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane-Peter Busby
We’ll Race You Henry: A Story about Henry Ford-Barbara Mitchell
In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae-Linda Granfield
Old Time Children’s Fashions-Ming Ju Sun
Dressed for the Occasion: What Americans Wore 1620-1970-Brandon Marie Miller
The Panama Canal: The Story of How a Jungle was Conquered-Elizabeth Mann
Panama Canal-Barbara Winkleman
War Game: Village Green to No Man’s Land-Michael Foreman
Archie’s War: My Scrapbook of the First World War-Marcia Williams
Beatrix’s Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny
The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit-Beatrix Potter
The Legend of the Teddy Bear-Frank Murphy
Other books on Teddy Roosevelt include:
Young Teddy Roosevelt-Cheryl Harness
You’re On Your Way Teddy Roosevelt-Judith St. George
The Velveteen Rabbit-Margery Williams (usually listed by Bianco)
Anne of Green Gables-adapted by Jennifer Dussling
Anne of Green Gables DVD-Sullivan Entertainment
Marven of the Great North Woods-Kathryn Lasky
Blackwater Ben-William Durbin-In 1898, a young boy drops out of school to work with his father at a logging camp in Minnesota.
UNIT 2
Colors of Israel-Laurie Grossman
Families of Israel-DVD-Arden Films
Israel-Martin Hintz (Enchantment of the World)
The Great Depression-Michael Burgan
Welcome to Kit’s World, 1934: Growing Up in America’s Great Depression-Harriet Brown
The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II-Louise Borden
Rosie the Riveter-Sean Price
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II-Penny Colman
Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart-Corrine Czabo
Amelia Earhart-Jane Sutcliffe (History Maker Biographies)
Amelia Earhart-Tonya Lee Stone (DK Biography)
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart-David Adler
Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride, based on a True Story-Pam Munoz Ryan
The Story of Anne Frank-Brenda Ralph Lewis (DK Reader)
A Picture Book of Anne Frank-David Adler
Who Was Walt Disney?-Whitney Stuart
Wallt Disney: Creator of Magical Worlds-Charnan Simon
The Butterfly-Patricia Polacco
Twenty and Ten-Clare Bishop-Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis in France during the second world war.
Hidden Child-Isaac Millman-In this picture book biography, Millman describes his childhood during the war.
The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge-Hildegarde Swift
Birdie’s Lighthouse-Deborah Hopkinson
Lightship-Brian Floca-Lightships were used before the lighthouse.
A New Coat for Anna-Harriett Ziefert
UNIT 3
India-Sunita Apte
Count Your Way Through India-James Haskins
Going to School in India DVD-Master Communications
Counting Your Way Through Korea-James Haskins
Families of Korea (DVD)-Arden Films
K is for Korea-Hyechong Cheung
Cracking the Wall: The Struggles of the Little Rock Nine-Eileen Lucas
Remember Little Rock: The Time, the Stories, the People-Paul Robert Walker
Godspeed John Glenn-Richard Hilliard
Liftoff! A Photobiography of John Glenn-Don Mitchell
If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King, Jr.-Ellen Levine
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-Doreen Rappaport (also available on DVD)
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King-David Adler
Spotlight on China-Robin Johnson
Families of China (DVD) Arden Films
Welcome to China-Karyn Jenner (DK Readers)
Shanghai Messenger-Andrea Cheng-In this novel, an eleven year old girl visits her extended family in China
Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam-Sherry Garland
In the Land of Small Dragon: A Vietnamese Folktale-Kha Dang Manh
The Empty Pot-Demi
The Donkey and the Rock-Demi, also a story from China
Horton Hears a Who-Dr. Seuss
A Grain of Rice-Demi
Gobble Gobble Slip Slop: The Tale of a Greedy Cat-Meilo So-another folk tale from India
Peacebound Trains-Haemi Balgassi
My Freedom Trip-Francis Park-A young girl escapes from North Korea
UNIT 4
You Wouldn’t Want to Be on Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Crisis in Space: Apollo 13-Mark Beyer
Bill Gates-Jonetha Brown
Bill Gates: Computer Legend-Sara Barton Wood
The Middle East-Phillip Steele
Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela-Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nelson Mandela-Laaren Brown-DK Biography
Sally Ride-Elizabeth Raum
Sally Ride: A Space Biography-Barbara Kramer
September 11-Mary Englar (We the People)
September 11, 2001: The Day that Changed America-Jill Wheeler
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers-Mordicai Gerstein-This Caldecott Honor Book is the story of Phillipe Petit who walked a high wire between the two towers in 1974. It’s a great story with amazing perspectives of New York City.
Fireboat: The Heroic Story Adventures of the John J. Harvey-An old fireboat is pressed into service after the attack of the twin towers.
Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and the Personal Computer-Donald Lemke
Steve Jobs & Steve Wozinak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers-Mike Venzia
The World Wide Web-Larry Brimner
The Incredible Story of Computers and the Internet-Greg Rosa
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