NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People1981

Given by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)

Other Names: National Council for Social Studies Notable Children’s Book Award, NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies, Social Education notable children's trade book
102 Works 6,854 Books 171 Reviews ½ 3.8
The books that appear in these lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the show more Children's Book Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.

Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children in grades K-8. The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text. Each book is read by several reviewers, and books are included on the list by committee assent.

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Categories:
All, 3-5 (26), 3-8 (2), 6-8 (28), 9-12 (24), American Heritage (60), American History and Culture (25), Autobiography and Biography (12), Biography (28), Biography and Autobiography (34), Contemporary Concerns (26), Contemporary Concerns—Careers (5), Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps (7), Contemporary Concerns—Human Rights (5), Contemporary Concerns—Immigration (4), Contemporary Concerns—Minorities (5), Contemporary Concerns—Other (31), Contemporary Concerns—Special Children (4), Contemporary Concerns—The Environment (6), Contemporary Concerns—The Future (5), Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies (12), Contemporary Interests and Controversies (19), Environment, Energy, and Ecology (4), Folktales, Legends, and Religion (15), Folktales, Myths, and Legends (13), Geography, People and Places (27), History, Life and Culture in the Americas (62), K-2 (52), Kindergarten to Fifth Grade (13), Kindergarten to Second Grade (173), Language, Arts, and Crafts (13), Legends, Traditions, and Religions (33), Native Americans (26), Ninth to Twelfth Grade (69), Other Places and Cultures Today (34), Sixth to Eighth Grade (142), Sixth to Twelfth Grade (5), Third to Eighth Grade (5), Third to Fifth Grade (161), Understanding Oneself and Others (41), Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging (5), Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death (11), Understanding Oneself and Others—Family Relations (7), Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations (34), Understanding Oneself and Others—Other (5), World History (31), World History and Culture (14), [2016], Ninth to Twelfth Grade, 2016 (1), [2018], Ninth to Twelfth Grade, 2018 (1), [2019], Kindergarten to Second Grade, 2019 (2), No Category (2,645)
Years:
All, 2023 (143), 2022 (189), 2021 (145), 2020 (127), 2019 (160), 2018 (134), 2017 (132), 2013; Sixth to Eighth Grade, 2016 (1), 2016 (142), 2015 (126), 2014 (127), 2013 (75), 2012 (82), 2011 (119), 2002, 2010 (1), 2010 (138), 2001, 2009 (1), 2009 (132), 2008 (90), 2001, 2007 (1), 2007 (145), 2006 (117), 2005 (102), 2004 (168), 2003 (143), 2002 (204), 2001 (188), 2000 (207), 1999 (143), 1996 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1989 (1), 1985 (1), 1983 (107), 1982 (106), 1981 (102), 1981? (1), 1980 (100), 1979 (98), 1976 (1)
WorkCategoryYear
Coming to America: Immigrants from the British Isles by Shirley Blumenthal
American Heritage1981
Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow by Dee Brown
American Heritage1981
Ida Early Comes over the Mountain by Robert Burch
American Heritage1981
My Sister's Keeper by Beverly Butler
American Heritage1981
Alaska : Indians, Eskimos, Russians, and the rest by Cora Cheney
American Heritage1981
The Vietnam War (An Impact Book) by E.B. Fincher
American Heritage1981
The Hospitals (Nineteenth Century America) by Leonard Everett Fisher
American Heritage1981
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
American Heritage1981
Strange footprints on the land: Vikings in America by Constance H. Frick Irwin
American Heritage1981
The Chinese Americans by Milton Meltzer
American Heritage1981
The year of the apple by Michael New
American Heritage1981
Down to earth at Walden by Marilynne K. Roach
American Heritage1981
Flapdoodle, Pure Nonsense from American Folklore by Alvin Schwartz
American Heritage1981
She Never Looked Back: Margaret Mead in Samoa by Sam Epstein
Biography and Autobiography1981
Howl Like the Wolves: Growing Up in Nazi Germany by Max von der Grün
Biography and Autobiography1981
Joe Louis, the Brown Bomber by Bill Libby
Biography and Autobiography1981
Damien, the Leper Priest by Anne E. Neimark
Biography and Autobiography1981
An Eye on the World: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer by Beatrice Siegel
Biography and Autobiography1981
You think it's fun to be a clown! by David A. Adler
Contemporary Concerns—Careers1981
Finding your first job by Kenneth John Wilson Alexander
Contemporary Concerns—Careers1981
Working kids on working by Sheila Cole
Contemporary Concerns—Careers1981
Broadcasting for beginners by I. G. Edmonds
Contemporary Concerns—Careers1981
The team that runs your hospital by Mary Price Lee
Contemporary Concerns—Careers1981
Three cheers for Mother Jones! by Jean Bethell
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Kids Having Kids: The Unwed Teenage Parent by Janet Bode
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Doing time : a look at crime and prisons by Phyllis Elperin Clark
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
The Ku Klux Klan, America's recurring nightmare by Fred J. Cook
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Child Abuse by Edward F. Dolan
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Free Speech, Free Press, and the Law by Jethro Koller Lieberman
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Unbuilding by David Macaulay
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Maudie and Me and the Dirty Book by Betty Miles
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Junk Food, Fast Food, Health Food: What Americans Eat and Why by Lila Perl
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
A Boat to Nowhere by Maureen Crane Wartski
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
The School on Madison Avenue: 2 by Weiss
Contemporary Concerns—Other1981
Waiting for Johnny Miracle by Alice Bach
Contemporary Concerns—Special Children1981
My Friend Jacob: by Lucille Clifton
Contemporary Concerns—Special Children1981
What If They Knew by Patricia Hermes
Contemporary Concerns—Special Children1981
Through Grandpa's Eyes by Patricia MacLachlan
Contemporary Concerns—Special Children1981
Connecticut low by Bruce Boehm
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1981
The Fox in the Ball Park by Harold S. Longman
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1981
Lives at Stake: The Science and Politics of Environmental Health (Science for Survival Series) by Laurence P. Pringle
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1981
The watch on Patterick Fell by Fay Sampson
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1981
Girls can be anything they want by Patricia Foote
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
Golden Girls: True Stories of Olympic Women Stars by Carli Laklan
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
Sojourner Truth by Aletha Jane Lindstrom
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
A Friend of China by Joyce Milton
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
The Picture Story of Nancy Lopez by Betty Lou Phillips
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
Flora Tristan : feminist, Socialist, and free spirit by Joyce Anne Schneider
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin by Florence Meiman White
Contemporary Concerns—Women's Studies1981
Beat the Story-Drum, Pum-Pum by Ashley Bryan
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
Children of the Sun by Jan R. Carew
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
Liang and the Magic Paintbrush by Demi
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
The Nine Crying Dolls: A Story from Poland by Anne Pellowski
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
The Rise of Islam (Modern Knowledge Library - for children) by Anton Powell
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
The Purim Goat by Yuri Suhl
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
Two Pairs of Shoes by P. L. Travers
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1981
Homeward the Arrow's Flight by Marion Marsha Brown
Native Americans1981
The Adventures of Nanabush: Ojibway Indian Stories by Emerson Coatsworth
Native Americans1981
Yellow Fur and Little Hawk by Wilma Pitchford Hays
Native Americans1981
This Song Remembers: Self-Portraits of Native Americans in the Arts by Jane B. Katz
Native Americans1981
Chief Sarah: Sarah Winnemucca's Fight for Indian Rights by Dorothy Nafus Morrison
Native Americans1981
A Hunter Comes Home by Ann Warren Turner
Native Americans1981
Where Children Live by Thomas B. Allen
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
India, now and through time by Catherine A. Galbraith
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
Growing Up in France by Sabra Holbrook
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
Go well, stay well by Toeckey Jones
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
South Africa, Coming of Age Under Apartheid by Jason Laure
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
The Rainforest Children by Margaret Pittaway
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
My sister, the panther by Djibi Thiam
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
Count on Your Fingers African Style by Claudia Zaslavsky
Other Places and Cultures Today1981
The Empty Window by Eve Bunting
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
Emma by Wendy Kesselman
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
Who Killed Christopher? by Irina Korschunow
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
Young People Talk About Death by Mary McHugh
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
Grandpa, a Young Man Grown Old by Harriet Langsam Sobol
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
Pop's Secret by Maryann Townsend
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1981
How Did We Find Out About Oil by Isaac Asimov
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Leroy and the Old Man by W. E. Butterworth
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
We be warm till springtime comes by Lillie D. Chaffin
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
8 Plus 1 by Robert Cormier
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
A Mouse Called Junction by Julia Cunningham
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Grandmama's Joy by Eloise Greenfield
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
The Gift-Giver by Joyce Hansen
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Jemmy by Jon Hassler
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Harry's Song by Lillian Hoban
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Tough Tiffany by Belinda Hurmence
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Sometimes My Mom Drinks Too Much by Kevin Kenny
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
The Language of Goldfish by Zibby Oneal
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Leaving home by Arlene Richards
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Breakfast With My Father by Ron Roy
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
A Family by Lennart Rudström
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Harper's Mother by Wendy Simons
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Howard by James Stevenson
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
The Liberation of Tansy Warner by Stephanie S. Tolan
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Maggot by Mary Alexander Walker
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1981
Cave Beyond Time by Malcolm J. Bosse
World History1981
A Russian farewell by Leonard Everett Fisher
World History1981
Lost City in the Clouds: The Discovery of MacHu Picchu by Elizabeth Gemming
World History1981
The battlement garden : Britain from the Wars of the Roses to the Age of Shakespeare by C. Walter Hodges
World History1981
Secrets from the Past (Books for World Explorers) by Gene S. Stuart
World History1981
Pearl in the Egg: A Tale of the 13th Century by Dorothy Van Woerkom
World History1981

Descriptions

The books that appear in these lists were evaluated and selected by a Book Review Committee appointed by National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and assembled in cooperation with the Children's Book Council (CBC). NCSS and CBC have cooperated on this annual bibliography since 1972.

Books selected for this bibliography are written primarily for children in grades K-8. The selection committee looks for books that emphasize human relations, represent a diversity of groups and are sensitive to a broad range of cultural experiences, present an original theme or a fresh slant on a traditional topic, are easily readable and of high literary quality, and have a pleasing format and, when appropriate, illustrations that enrich the text. Each book is read by several reviewers, and books are included on the list by committee assent.

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Continued by NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People after 1997. (English, Member-written)

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