Lists and Suggestions for Kids

List: OFB 2022--Exploring History

Shamsi, Shirin.

A young girl leaves her beloved doll behind when she must make the journey from India to Pakistan i... More

Holt, Hannah.

From Paleolithic loincloths to Henry VIII's wives wearing underwear on their heads and beyond,... More

Goodluck, Laurel.

Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara... More

Tokuda-Hall, Maggie.

"Set in an incarceration camp where the United States cruelly detained Japanese Americans duri... More

Kincaid-Rolle, Sojourner.

"Deeply emotional, evocative free verse by poet and activist Sojourner Kincaid Rolle traces th... More

Weatherford, Carole Boston.

The popular spiritual, Standing in the need of prayer, has been reworked to chronicle the milestone... More

Cocca-Leffler, Maryann.

In the 1970s an important disability rights law, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, was... More

Jules, Jacqueline.

Told in verse, fourth grader Trudie Hamburger feels out of place in 1964 America due to her immigra... More

Castellanos, Alexis.

"A wordless graphic novel in which twelve-year-old Marisol must adapt to a new life 1960s Broo... More

Walker, Sally M.

Tells the story of the 1909 coal mine disaster in Cherry, Illinois, that killed hundreds of men, le... More