NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People2017

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
132 Works 27,137 Books 1,597 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.

Continues NCSS/CBC Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (since 1998)
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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
Thunder Boy Jr. by Sherman Alexie
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Class by Boni Ashburn
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Lincoln and Kennedy: A Pair to Compare by Gene Barretta
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
A Bike Like Sergio's (A Junior Library Guild Selection) by Maribeth Boelts
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor by Robert Burleigh
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Their Great Gift: Courage, Sacrifice, and Hope in a New Land (Carolrhoda Picture Books) by John Coy
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Green City: How One Community Survived a Tornado and Rebuilt for a Sustainable Future by Allan Drummond
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Night Gardener by Terry Fan
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
First Light, First Life: A Worldwide Creation Story by Paul Fleischman
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story by Arun Gandhi
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial by Susan E. Goodman
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank's Window by Jeff Gottesfeld
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Hello Atlas: Listen to 133 Different Languages! by Ben Handicott
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Lift Your Light a Little Higher: The Story of Stephen Bishop: Slave-Explorer by Heather Henson
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
I'm a Girl! by Yasmeen Ismail
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Look Up! by Jung Jin-ho
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Real Sisters Pretend by Megan Dowd Lambert
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine by Heather Lang
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
What a Beautiful Morning by Arthur Levine
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark by Debbie Levy
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born to Lead by Michelle Markel
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Lost and Found: Adèle & Simon in China by Barbara McClintock
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Hole Story of the Doughnut by Pat Miller
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Everyone by Christopher Silas Neal
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Why Am I Here? by Constance Ørbeck-Nilssen
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Mabrook! A World of Muslim Weddings by Na'ima B. Robert
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten, and 10,000 Miles by Mara Rockliff
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
What is a veteran, anyway? by Robert C. Snyder
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Charles Darwin's Around-the-World Adventure by Jennifer Thermes
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space by Carmella Van Vleet
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Amelia Earhart (Little People, BIG DREAMS) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton by Audrey Vernick
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Isaac and His Amazing Asperger Superpowers! by Melanie Walsh
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Introducing Teddy: A gentle story about gender and friendship by Jessica Walton
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
A Piece of Home by Jeri Watts
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Jack's Worry by Sam Zuppardi
Kindergarten to Second Grade2017
Women Heroes of World War II: The Pacific Theater, 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival by Kathryn J. Atwood
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine by Ibtisam Barakat
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Marooned in the Arctic: The True Story of Ada Blackjack, the "Female Robinson Crusoe" by Peggy Caravantes
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
The Light Fantastic by Sarah Combs
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
How to Keep Rolling After a Fall by Karole Cozzo
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
The Possibility of Now by Kim Culbertson
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
In the Fields and the Trenches: The Famous and the Forgotten on the Battlefields of World War I by Kerrie Logan Hollihan
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Orphan Trains: Taking the Rails to a New Life (Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Stories) by Rebecca Langston-George
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Absolute Brightness by James Lecesne
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
When We Collided by Emery Lord
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
All We Have Left by Wendy Mills
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
It Looks Like This by Rafi Mittlefehldt
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Women in Blue: 16 Brave Officers, Forensics Experts, Police Chiefs, and More by Cheryl Mullenbach
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
This Land Is Our Land: A History of American Immigration by Linda Barrett Osborne
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights by Rich Wallace
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
The Last Execution by Jesper Wung-Sung
Ninth to Twelfth Grade2017
John Lincoln Clem: Civil War Drummer Boy (Based on a True Story) by E. F. Abbott
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Captain by Sam Angus
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Rookie of the Year (Rip and Red) by Phil Bildner
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
The Firefly Code by Megan Frazer Blakemore
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
River Runs Deep by Jennifer Bradbury
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
To Stay Alive: Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party by Skila Brown
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life by Ashley Bryan
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives by Kenneth C. Davis
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
The Only Road by Alexandra Diaz
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Trouble the Water by Frances O'Roark Dowell
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Lion Island: Cuba's Warrior of Words by Margarita Engle
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Fannie Never Flinched: One Woman’s Courage in the Struggle for American Labor Union Rights by Mary Cronk Farrell
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Vietnam: A History of the War by Russell Freedman
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: Alamo All-Stars by Nathan Hale
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Mayday by Karen Harrington
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America by Gail Jarrow
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
The Extraordinary Suzy Wright: A Colonial Woman on the Frontier by Teri Kanefield
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale by Jennifer Ann Mann
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Irena's Children: Young Readers Edition; A True Story of Courage by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
America's Tea Parties: Not One but Four! Boston, Charleston, New York, Philadelphia by Marissa Moss
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Brave Like My Brother by noblemanmarktyler
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Florence Nightingale: The Courageous Life of the Legendary Nurse by Catherine Reef
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Falling Over Sideways by Jordan Sonnenblick
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren Stelson
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
A Storm Too Soon: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredible Rescue by Michael J. Tougias
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
The World Beneath: A Novel by Janice Warman
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution by Gretchen Woelfle
Sixth to Eighth Grade2017
Children's Illustrated Atlas (DK Smithsonian) by DK
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions by Chris Barton
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille by Jen Bryant
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents by Ken Burns
Third to Fifth Grade2017
The Secret Subway by Shana Corey
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Follow the Moon Home: A Tale of One Idea, Twenty Kids, and a Hundred Sea Turtles by Philippe Cousteau
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Cleo Edison Oliver, Playground Millionaire by Sundee T. Frazier
Third to Fifth Grade2017
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Colonial Williamsburg (American Places: From Vision to Reality) by Meish Goldish
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Doing Her Bit: A Story About the Woman's Land Army of America by Erin Hagar
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Hillary Clinton: American Woman of the World (A Real-Life Story) by Cheryl Harness
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Saving Wonder by Mary Knight
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Liberty by Kirby Larson
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Fascinating: The Life of Leonard Nimoy by Richard Michelson
Third to Fifth Grade2017
The Quickest Kid in Clarksville by Pat Zietlow Miller
Third to Fifth Grade2017
She Stood for Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland by Loki Mulholland
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen Toilets by Mahtab Narsimhan
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph by Roxane Orgill
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Mountain Chef: How One Man Lost His Groceries, Changed His Plans, and Helped Cook Up the National Park Service by Annette Bay Pimentel
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Why? by Nikolai Popov
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Third to Fifth Grade2017
We Came To America by Faith Ringgold
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Miss Paul and the President: The Creative Campaign for Women's Right to Vote by Dean Robbins
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer by Fiona Robinson
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Dorothea's Eyes: Dorothea Lange Photographs the Truth by Barb Rosenstock
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Children Just Like Me: A New Celebration of Children Around the World by Catherine Saunders
Third to Fifth Grade2017
The Music in George's Head: George Gershwin Creates Rhapsody in Blue by Suzanne Slade
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Awesome America: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the History, People, and Culture (Time for Kids) by Katy Steinmetz
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Crossing Niagara: The Death-Defying Tightrope Adventures of the Great Blondin by Matt Tavares
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Ghosts: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Sound of All Things, The by Myron Uhlberg
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Things Too Huge to Fix by Saying Sorry by Susan Vaught
Third to Fifth Grade2017
A Dog Like Sam by Edward van de Vendel
Third to Fifth Grade2017
My Name Is James Madison Hemings by Jonah Winter
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Runs With Courage by Joan M. Wolf
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Esquivel! Space-Age Sound Artist by Susan Wood
Third to Fifth Grade2017
Pass the pandowdy, please : chewing on history with famous folk and their fabulous foods by Abigail Zelz
Third to Fifth Grade2017

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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