Social Studies

This is a booklist to support the teaching of Social Studies.
Books are listed by Grade Level, and within each grade level, alphabetically by title.
Some books are appropriate for more than one grade level.
If a book is available in the Custer Hill Library, the Dewey Decimal number is given.
New books are being purchased so please check back often.

2nd Grade
A chair for my mother	Williams	E W
A day's work	Bunting	E B
A Fourth of July on the plains	VanLeeuwen	E V
A more perfect union	Maestro	342.73 MAE
A new coat for Anna	Ziefert	E Z
A very important day	Herold
A weed is a flower	Aliki	B CAR
Abuela	Dorros	E D
Abuela's weave	Castaneda
Across the wide dark sea	VanLeeuwen	E V
All in a day	Anno	E A
And then what happened, Paul Revere?	Fritz	B REV
Chicken Sunday	Polacco	E P
Chinatown	Low
Climbing Kansas mountains	Shannon	E S
Coming to America	Maestro	304.8 MAE
Dakota dugout	Turner	E T
Dear Benjamin Banneker	Pinkney	B BAN
Dinner at Aunt Connie's house	Ringgold	E R
Dumpling soup	Rattigan
Eleanor	Cooney, B.	B ROO
Evan's corner	Hill	F HIL
Family pictures	Lomas	306.85 LOM
For the love of the game	Greenfield
Galimoto	Williams	E W
Giving thanks	Swamp	299 SWA
Gracias the Thanksgiving story	Cowley	E C
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Happy birthday, Martin Luther King, Jr.	Marzollo	B KIN
Home place	Dragonwagon	E D
How my family lives in America	Kuklin	305.8 KUK
How my parents learned to eat	Friedman	E F
Jalapeno bagels	Wing	E W
Johnny Appleseed	Kellogg	B KEL
Kente colors	Chocolate	391 CHO
Laura Ingalls Wilder	Wallner	B WIL
Lion dancer	Waters	394.2 WAT
Mama is a miner	Lyon	E L
Mama Provi and the pot of rice	Rosa-Casa	E R
Many nations	Bruchac	970 BRU
Market!	Lewin	381 LEW
Milk from cow to carton	Aliki	637 ALI
Miss Malarkey doesn't live in . . .	Finchler	E F
Miss Nelson is missing!	Allard	E A
Miss Rumphius	Cooney, B.	E C
Mrs. Katz and Tush	Polacco	E P
Music, music for everyone	Williams	E W
My house has stars	McDonald
Not so fast Songololo	Daly
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Old Henry	Blos
Ox-cart man	Hall	E H
Pedrito's day	Garay	E G
Picture book/Louis Braille	Adler	B BRA
Police patrol	Winkleman
Radio Man	Dorros
Rosa Parks	Greenfield
Ruth Law thrills a nation	Brown, D.	B LAW
Sam and the lucky money	Chinn	E C
Sitti's secrets	Nye
Smoky night	Bunting	E B
Stringbean's trip to the shining sea	Williams	E W
The always prayer shawl	Oberman
The desert is my mother	Mora	811 MOR
The flag we love	Ryan	929.9 RYA
The garden of happiness	Tamar	E T
The giant jam sandwich	Lord	E L
The house on Maple Street	Pryor	E P
The judge	Zemach	811 ZEM
The keeping quilt	Polacco	E P
The legend of the Indian paintbrush	DePaola	398.2 DEP
The milkman's boy	Hall	E H
The Seven Gods of luck	Kudler	E KUD
The Thanksgiving story	Dalgliesh	394.26 DAL
The tortilla factory	Paulsen	641.8 PAU
The tower to the sun	Thompson
The wonderful towers of Watts	Zelver
Tom Edison's bright ideas	Keller
Tonight is Carnaval	Dorros	E D
Uncle Zed's barbershop	Mitchell
Voting and elections	Fradin	324.9 FRA
Wilma unlimited	Krull	B RUD
Young Abe Lincoln	Harness
Zora Thurston and the . . .	Miller
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Kindergarten	1st Grade	2nd Grade
3rd Grade	4th Grade	5th Grade