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Books for use in a Social Studies Classroom

From: Bob_Pettapiece@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Northern H.S., Detroit, Mi.

For those interested in my book list:

This is my updated version! The one transmitted to a few of you earli er had only half the entries. Again, the reading level varies, but almost all w ere suggested for use in class- in whole or in part. The authors w/o a title were suggestions of mine not chosen by my students in my Master's class. Enjoy!!


Achebe, Chinua; Man of the People, A
Achebe, Chinua; Things Fall Apart
Adams, John G. ; Without Precedent
Allen, Frederick; Only Yesterday
Angelou, Maya; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Ashe, Arthur; Days of Grace
Bachmann, Steven; US Constitution for Beginners Bell, Leland V.; In Hitler's Shadow, The Anatomy of American Nazism Bennet, Jack; Gallipoli
Blassingame, William; Slave Community
Bleoins, Winfred; Charbonneau, Man of Two Dreams Boiler, Paul F. ; A More Perfect Union-Documents in US. History Bosch, Martin; Last Testament of Lucky Luciano Brecher, Childs, Cutler; Global Visions, Beyond the New World Order Brent, Linda; Incidents in the Life of a Slave Brown, Flaven, Postel; Saving the Planet Brown, Larry; Dirty Work
Caputo, Philip; A Rumor of War
Carter, Jimmy; Talking Peace
Cisernos, Sandra; The House on Mango Street Clancy, Tom;
Clapp, Patricia; Witches Children
Coerr, Elanor; Sadako & the Thousand Paper Cranes Colgrove, Melba, etal.; How to Survive the Loss of a Love Collier, James; My Brother Sam is Dead Collier, Peter; Fords
Cook, Blanche Wiesen; Eleanore Rooseveldt, Vol.I Cox, Charles; Young Man in Vietnam
Crane, Stephen; The Red Badge of Courage Crichton, Michael;
Davis, Burke; Black Heros of the Am. Rev. Davis, Kenneth; Don't Know Much About History Delsman, Mary A.; Everything You Need to Know about ERA Douglas, Frederick; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas. Douglas, Frederick; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Eisenberg, Lisa; The Story of Sitting Bull, Great Sioux Chief Fast, Howard; April Morning
Fast, Howard; April Morning
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence; Coney Island of the Mind, A Finney, Jack; Time and Again: An Illustrated Novel. Forbes, Esther; Johnny Tremain
Force, R.; The American Indians
Forman, James; Horses of Anger
Freedman, Russell; Cowboys of the Wild West Ginsburg, Eugenia; Whirlwind Journey into the World Green, Hannah; I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Grisham, John; A Time to Kill
Gross, Robert A.; The Minutemen and Their World Haley, Alex; Malcolm X
Harlan, L.R.; Making of a Leader, Booker T. Washington Harrington, Michael; New American Poverty, The Harris, Eddy; Native Stranger: A Black American's Journey . . . Hawthorne, Nathaniel; Scarlet Letter
Hayden, Robert C.; Seven African American Scientists Hershey, John; Hiroshima
Hurmence, Belinda (Ed.); Before Freedom Jackson, Kenneth; Crabgrass Frontier
Jensen, Oliver; B. Catton's America
Johnson, James Weldon; Ex-Couloured Man Katz, William; The Black West
Katz, William Loren; The Black West
Kennealy, Thomas; Schindler's List
Kennedy, Robert F.; Thirteen Days, a Memoir of the Cuban Missle Crisis Kirst, Hans; Soldier's Revolt
Krass, Peter; Sojourner Truth, Antislavery Activist Lester, Julius; To Be A Slave
Levitin, Sonia; Journey to America
Limbaugh, Rush; See, I told You So
Livesay, Harold; Andrew Carnegie and the Rise of Big Business Mac Gregor, James; Roosevelt the Lion and the Fox Machiavelli, Niccolo; Prince, The
Machivelli, Nicols; The Prince
Manchester, William; World Lit Only By Fire, A Maruki, Toshi; Hiroshima No Pika
May, Elaine Tyler; Homeward Bound
Maya, Angelou; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings McCullough, David; Brave Companions: Portraits in History Mcluhan, T.C.; Touch the Earth: Self-Portrait of Indian Experience McSwigan, Marie; Snow Treasure
Michener, James A.; The Bridges at Toko-Ri Miklowitz, Gloria; The War Between the Classes Miller, Robert; Reflections of a Black Cowboy Miller, Sudish; Saddam Hussin & Crisis in the Gulf Miriam, Makeba; Makeba, My Story
Morgan, Edmund S.; The Puritan Dilemma Morimoto, Junko; My Hiroshima
Morrison, John; Boris Yeltsin-From Bolshevik to Democrat Niane, D.T.; Sundiata, Epic
Nichols, Roy F. ; Stakes of Power: 1845-1877, The Orwell, George; Animal Farm
Padover, Saul (Ed.); Thomas Jefferson on Democracy Peterson, Jacqueline; The People In Between Rink, Paul; In Defense of Freedom: Story of the Monroe Doctrine Rosenberg, Charles; The Cholera Years
Roth, David; Sacred Honor
Rouverol, Jean; Juarez: A Son of the People Rowen, Carl; Dream Makers, Dream Breakers Sampson, Anthony; The Seven Sisters
Shaara, Michael; The Killer Angels
Sillitoe, Alan; Sunday Morning, Saturday Night Sinclair, Upton; The Jungle
Smith, Wilbur; River God
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander; One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Steinbeck, John; The Grapes of Wrath
Stern, Ellen Morman; Elie Weisel & Witness for Life Sterne, Emma G.; The Slave Ship
Stiles, Bert; Serenade to the Big Bird Stoessinger, John; Crusaders and Pragmatists Stowe, Harriet B. ; Uncle Tom's Cabin Szasa, Margaret Connel; Between Indian & White Worlds Tannen, Deborah; You Just Don't Understand Taylor, A.J.P.; War Lords, The
Terkle, Studs;
Tuchman, Barbara; Zimmerman Telegram
Tyrthall, J.W.D.; El Caudillo-A Political Biography of Franco Van Duyn Southworth; Monarch and Conspirators: Wives . . . of Henry VIII VanDevanter, Lynda; Home Before Morning VanSertima, Ivan; They Came Before Columbus VanSertima, Ivan (Ed.); African Presecence in Early Am. Washington, Margaret; Narrative of Sojourner Truth Weisbrot, Robert; Father Divine
Weisel, Elie; The Forgotten
Wheeler, ; Immigrant Experience, The
Wickens, James F.; Themes in United States History Wiesel, Elie; Night
Wolf, Stephanie; As Various as Their Land Worth, Richard; Israel and Arab State
Wright, Richard; Black Boy
Yool, George M.; 1692 Witch Hunt

Please forgive a few double entries. This is the unedited version.

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