Book Lists by Genre

Mysteries
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/493.Best_Mysteries_for_Young_Readers

Newbery Winners

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal

Historical Fiction for 4th and 5th graders

http://thepbs.org/pages/4thhistfic.html

Historical Fiction for 6th and 7th graders

http://www.aadl.org/user/lists/35823

More Historical Fiction

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/middle-grade-historical-fiction
 Historical Fiction/Nonfiction Lists
Read an AR book that covers the same topic you are learning about in Social Studies!
*6th grade:
Topics Taught: The Middle Ages, Renaissance, Feudal Japan, Industrial revolution, Age of
Imperialism, World War 2, Cold War, Independence in India, Independence in Africa (1950s
to 1970s), and End of Colonial Rule in Southeast Asia, and the Pacific
Cold War List
http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Cold-War-history.html

The Renaissance Era

http://www.historicalnovels.info/Renaissance-YA.html

Industrial Revolution
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/6831.YA_historical_fiction_set_in_Colonial_Revolutio
nary_America

WWII
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2199.YA_Holocaust_WWII_Novels

*7th grade:
Topics Taught: Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, Westward expansion (Trail of Tears),
California Gold Rush, Mexican-American War, Early Women's rights movement,
Jacksonian Era (Corrupt Governments), The Civil War, Slavery and Reconstruction
War of 1812
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/92646.The_War_of_1812_in_YA_Middle_Grade_Hist
orical_Fiction

Westward Expansion
http://www.historicalnovels.info/Old-West-YA.html

Gold Rush
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/93427.YA_Middle_Grade_California_Gold_Rush_Fict
ion

Women's Rights Movement

http://www.bookshelvesofdoom.org/blog/2014/11/4/votes-for-women-seven-ya-books-
featuring-the-suffrage-movement
Civil War
www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/historical-fiction-teen-fiction/american-civil-war-teen-
fiction/_/N-29Z8q8Z1a2z

Slavery/Reconstruction
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/520582-american-historical-fiction

*8th grade:
Topics Taught: The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, The World War 2 Era, The
Cold War Era, The Civil Rights Movement and Cultural/Political Reforms of the 1960s,
Reaganomics, and Global Economy
WWII
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/520582-american-historical-fiction

The Roaring 20's

www.goodreads.com/list/show/80001.YA_set_in_the_1920s

The Great Depression

http://www.historicalnovels.info/1920s-and-1930s-YA.html

The Cold War

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/45212.Cold_War_Literature_for_Young_Adults

Civil Rights Movement/1960's

https://socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/civil-rights-teaching/classroom/