Immigration
Orphaned at Ellis Island by Elvira Woodruff
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Industrial Revolution
So Far from Home by Barry Denenberg
The Bobbin Girl by Emily Arnold McCully
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
City of Orphans by Avi
World War I
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
Great Depression
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Love From Your Friend, Hannah by Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
World War II
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Where the Ground Meets the Sky by Jacqueline Davies
War in the Pacific
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by
Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Early Suday Morning by Barry Deneberg
Internment
Journal of Ben Uchida by Barry Deneberg
Thin Wood Walls by David Patneaude
Civil Rights
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
The Hope Chest by Karen Schwabach
The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Starplace by Vicki Grove
A Friendship for Today by Patricia C. McKissack
Korean/Vietnam War
Parks Quest by Katherine Paterson
Cracker! by Cynthia Kadohata
Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Smith
Shooting the Moon by Frances O'Roark Dowell