NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People1983

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
107 Works 23,999 Books 513 Reviews 4.1
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)
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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
Eight Mules from Monterey by Patricia Beatty
American History and Culture1983
Forest, Village, Town, City by Dan Beekman
American History and Culture1983
I'm Going to Sing:Black American Spirituals, Vol. 2 by Ashley Bryan
American History and Culture1983
The Happy Funeral by Eve Bunting
American History and Culture1983
The bloodroot flower by Kathy Callaway
American History and Culture1983
Behind Barbed Wire: Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II by Daniel S. Davis
American History and Culture1983
Nicole visits an Amish farm by Merle Good
American History and Culture1983
Black Theater in America by James Haskins
American History and Culture1983
Circle of fire by William H. Hooks
American History and Culture1983
This Strange New Feeling by Julius Lester
American History and Culture1983
The candle and the mirror by Lucinda Mays
American History and Culture1983
The Hispanic Americans by Milton Meltzer
American History and Culture1983
The Jewish Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1650-1950 by Milton Meltzer
American History and Culture1983
The Truth About the Ku Klux Klan by Milton Meltzer
American History and Culture1983
Tingambato, adventure in archaeology by Iris Noble
American History and Culture1983
Johnny Stands by Harry W. Paige
American History and Culture1983
Winding Valley Farm: Annie's Story (Living History Library (Bethlehem Books)) by Anne Pellowski
American History and Culture1983
A Chance Wild Apple by Marian Potter
American History and Culture1983
Coming to America: Immigrants from Southern Europe by Gladys Nadler Rips
American History and Culture1983
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
American History and Culture1983
Fish Fry by Susan Saunders
American History and Culture1983
The Farm Book by E. Boyd Smith
American History and Culture1983
The Brooklyn Bridge: They said it couldn't be built by Judith St. George
American History and Culture1983
End of a Dark Road by Crystal Thrasher
American History and Culture1983
The Girl on the Outside by Mildred Pitts Walter
American History and Culture1983
Langston, a play by Ossie Davis
Biography and Autobiography1983
Chapters: My Growth As a Writer by Lois Duncan
Biography and Autobiography1983
Lives of the artists by M. B. Goffstein
Biography and Autobiography1983
The Chemist Who Lost His Head: The Story of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier by Vivian Grey
Biography and Autobiography1983
The Man Who Loved Animals (Break-of-Day Book) by Syd Hoff
Biography and Autobiography1983
Marie Curie (An Impact Biography) by Mollie Keller
Biography and Autobiography1983
The Glory Road: The Story of Josh White by Dorothy Schainman Siegel
Biography and Autobiography1983
Eleanor Roosevelt (An Impact Biography) by Sharon Whitney
Biography and Autobiography1983
The Kestrel by Lloyd Alexander
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Morning star, black sun : the Northern Cheyenne Indians and America's energy crisis by Brent K. Ashabranner
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Careers in music by Gene Busnar
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Just Us Women by Jeannette Caines
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Step-families: New patterns in harmony (Teen survival library) by Linda Craven
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Joel: Growing Up a Farm Man by Patricia Demuth
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Kids in Court: The ACLU Defends Their Rights by Sam Epstein
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Triumph! : conquering your physical disability by Leroy Hayman
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
The Fisherman and the Bird by Sonia Levitin
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Captain Hook, that's me by Ada Bassett Litchfield
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Hiroshima No Pika by Maruki Toshi
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
First the Egg by Louise Moeri
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Maybe you belong in a zoo! : zoo and aquarium careers by Karen O'Connor
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
A Contest by Sherry Neuwirth Payne
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
Futurelife, the biotechnology revolution by Alvin Silverstein
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
God and Government: The Separation of Church and State by Anne Weiss
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
One sea, one law? : the fight for a law of the sea by Malcolm E. Weiss
Contemporary Interests and Controversies1983
What's So Funny, Ketu?: A Nuer Tale by Verna Aardema
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Moon Song by Byrd Baylor
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons by Barbara Cohen
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
The Crest and The Hide: And Other African Stories of Heroes, Chiefs, Bards, Hunters, Sorcerers, and Common People by Harold Courlander
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Trouble With Adventurers by Christie Harris
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
The days of the dragon's seed by Norma Johnston
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Legend of the Milky Way by Jeanne M. Lee
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
The Five Sparrows: A Japanese Folktale by Patricia Montgomery Newton
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
American Saints & Seers: American-Born Religions & the Genius Behind Them by Edward Rice
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Raven the Trickster by Gail Robinson
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Treasure Mountain: Folktales from Southern China by Catherine Edwards Sadler
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Henri and the Loup-Garou by Joyce Audy Dos Santos
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
The Cat's Elbow: and Other Secret Languages by Alvin Schwartz
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
The Road to Camlann: The Death of King Arthur by Rosemary Sutcliff
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Ceremony in the Circle of Life by White Deer of Autumn.
Folktales, Legends, and Religion1983
Duchess by Chester Aaron
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
The fox in winter by John Branfield
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
The best way out by K. Follis Cheatham
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Big words by Beth Bland Engel
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Not Just Any Ring (Houghton Mifflin reading : the literature experience) by Danita Ross Haller
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Half the Battle by Lynn Hall
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
War without Friends by Evert Hartman
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
You Shouldn't Have to Say Good-Bye by Patricia Hermes
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
A Season of Secrets by Alison Cragin Herzig
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Switching Tracks by Dean Hughes
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
I Dance In My Red Pajamas by Edith Thacher Hurd
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
What About Grandma? by Hadley Irwin
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
All the Cats in the World by Sonia Levitin
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Mama One, Mama Two by Patricia MacLachlan
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Paul's Kite by Alison Morgan
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
A String of Chances by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
A Formal Feeling by Zibby Oneal
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Two Truths in My Pocket by Lois Ruby
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Shadow and the Gunner by Don Schellie
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm by Carla Stevens
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
The wonderful Mrs. Trumbly by Sally Wittman
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
The White Marble by Charlotte Zolotow
Understanding Oneself and Others1983
Anno's Britain by Mitsumasa Anno
World History and Culture1983
Jonathan Down Under by Patricia Beatty
World History and Culture1983
A Treasury of Jewish Literature by Gloria Goldreich
World History and Culture1983
The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh
World History and Culture1983
The Origin of Humankind by Richard Leakey
World History and Culture1983
The Prince Who Knew His Fate by Lise Manniche
World History and Culture1983
The airman's war : World War II in the sky by Albert Marrin
World History and Culture1983
Life in a Medieval Village by Gwyneth Morgan
World History and Culture1983
Lobo of the Tasaday by John Nance
World History and Culture1983
Seafaring Women by Linda Grant De Pauw
World History and Culture1983
Plants That Changed History by Joan Elma Rahn
World History and Culture1983
The Bicycle Man by Allen Say
World History and Culture1983
Ask Me No Questions by Ann Schlee
World History and Culture1983
Dark Hour of Noon by Christine Szambelan-Strevinsky
World History and Culture1983

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.

Continues NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (since 1998) (English, Member-written)
Continued by NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People after 1997. (English, Member-written)

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