Are you looking for some high-interest books for your secondary Social Studies classroom? Would you like to read to your classes? Read this post about the books teachers recommend the most!
A Long Walk to Water
This book has very short chapters, sure to keep their interest and great for reading about ten minutes a day. It's about two children living in Sudan and the long walks they take to get what they need to survive.
A Long Walk to Water
This book has very short chapters, sure to keep their interest and great for reading about ten minutes a day. It's about two children living in Sudan and the long walks they take to get what they need to survive.
Refugee
A newer edition, and another book that has multiple viewpoints telling the story. This time, it's refugee children from Nazi Germany, Cuba, and Syria. All are trying to find a safe home.
A Moment Comes
Based on the Partition of India in 1947, this book shows covers the event through three teens from very different backgrounds (Muslim, Sikh, and British).
Bamboo People
Bamboo people is longer but it gets their attention because they are kidnapped and made into child soldiers in Burma.
Bamboo people is longer but it gets their attention because they are kidnapped and made into child soldiers in Burma.
The Bread Winner series by Debra Ellis
This series is about families coming together to take care of each other under Taliban rule. The heroine of the story is Afghani girl, who must pretend to be a boy so she can work to make money for her family.
This series is about families coming together to take care of each other under Taliban rule. The heroine of the story is Afghani girl, who must pretend to be a boy so she can work to make money for her family.
This is set in 1966 Communist China, and how it impacted the life of young Ji-Li and her family as they try to survive under Mao Ze-dong's Cultural Revolution.
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
This is a memoir by a child survivor of the Holocaust. It details how the main character and his family were saved by Schindler's List.
The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
This is a memoir by a child survivor of the Holocaust. It details how the main character and his family were saved by Schindler's List.
My Brother Sam is Dead
This is a story about a family divided by the Revolutionary War.
Newsela Social Studies
Be sure to come back next week for the second part of the series: Read-Aloud Books for the Secondary Science Classroom!
This is a story about a family divided by the Revolutionary War.
Newsela Social Studies
For nonfiction leveled texts that you can either read aloud or have students read on their own.
Be sure to come back next week for the second part of the series: Read-Aloud Books for the Secondary Science Classroom!
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