Contemporary American

The Journey to America

Klara's New World - Jeanette Winter (1–3) The Long Way to a New Land - Joan Sandin (1–3) The Long Way Westward - Joan Sandin (1–3) Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story - Eve Bunting (2–4) Agnes’s Rescue: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand (2–4) Anna’s Prayer: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand (2–4) Ida’s Witness: The True Story of an Immigrant Girl by Karl Beckstrand (2–4) Samuel Sailing: The True Story of an Immigrant Boy by Karl Beckstrand (2–4) Journey to Ellis Island - Carol Bierman (3–5)

Ellis Island and a New Home

Watch the Stars Come Out - Riki Levinson (1–3) Molly's Pilgrim - Barbara Cohen (2–4) When Jessie Came Across the Sea - Amy Hest (2–4) Peppe the Lamplighter - Elisa Bartone (2–4) Naming Liberty - Jane Yolen (2–4) If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island - Ellen Levine (3–5) Immigrant Kids - Russell Freedman (4–6) And Forever Free, by Joanne Williamson (6–8)

Family Life in the Early 1900s

Betsy-Tacy - Maud Hart Lovelace (2–4) The Hundred Dresses - Eleanor Estes (2–4) Homer Price - Robert McCloskey (2–4) Bright April, by Marguerite de Angeli (2–4) The Lion in the Box, by Marguerite de Angeli (2–4) Henner’s Lydia by Marguerite de Angeli (2–4) If You Lived 100 Years Ago, by Ann McGovern (2–4) Orphan Train, by Verla Kay (2–4) All-of-a-Kind Family - Sydney Taylor (3–5) The Moffats - Eleanor Estes (3–5) Ginger Pye - Eleanor Estes (3–5) Roller Skates - Ruth Sawyer (3–5) The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit (3–5) Copper-Toed Boots, by Marguerite de Angeli (3–5) Understood Betsy - Dorothy Canfield Fisher (4–6) The Good Master - Kate Seredy (4–6)

The Great Depression

Blue Willow - Doris Gates (4–6) A Long Way from Chicago - Richard Peck (5–7)

Ranch and Frontier Boyhood

Come on Sea Biscuit by Ralph Moody (4–6) Little Britches by Ralph Moody (5–7) Man of the Family by Ralph Moody (5–7)

Inventors and Leaders

The Groundbreaking, Chance-Taking Life of George Washington Carver and Science and Invention in America by Cheryl Harness (3–5) Theodore Roosevelt, Fighting Patriot, by Clara Ingram Judson (4–6) Samuel F.B. Morse, Jean Lee Latham (5–7)

The First World War

The Singing Tree - Kate Seredy (5–7)

The Second World War

Twenty and Ten - Claire Huchet Bishop (2–4) Whistle for the Crossing by Marguerite de Angeli (2–4) Wings Forever, by Verla Kay (2–4) The Little Riders - Margaretha Shemin (3–5) What Was D-Day? by Patricia Brennan Demuth (3–5) Number the Stars - Lois Lowry (4–6) Snow Treasure - Marie McSwigan (4–6) The Winged Watchman - Hilda van Stockum (5–7) Journey to Topaz - Yoshiko Uchida (5–7) I Am David - Anne Holm (5–7)

Faith Under Persecution

The Hiding Place (Young Reader's Edition) - Corrie ten Boom (5–7) The Story of the Trapp Family Singers - Maria Augusta von Trapp (6–8)