Kids Book Index
Susan Zimet, Todd Hasak-Lowy
The United States of America is almost 250 years old, but American women won the right to vote less than a hundred years ago.And when the controversial nineteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution-the one granting suffrage to women-was finally ratified in 1920, it passed by a mere one-vote margin.The amendment only succeeded…
Boots on the Ground: America’s War in VietnamElizabeth Partridge★ "Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction."*America's war in Vietnam. In over a decade of bitter fighting, it claimed the lives of more than 58,000 American soldiers and beleaguered four US presidents.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
The Orphan Band of SpringdaleAnne NesbetWith the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices — and a huge family secret.It’s 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe.Nine to TwelveOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Sea PrayerKhaled HosseiniWatching over his sleeping son, the father reflects on the dangerous sea-crossing that lies before them. It is also a vivid portrait of their life in Homs, Syria, before the war, and of that city's swift transformation from a home into a deadly war zone.Twelve to FourteenOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details