NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People1982

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
106 Works 22,078 Books 302 Reviews ½ 4.0
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
So Proudly She Sailed by Olga Cabral
American Heritage1982
Jump Ship to Freedom (Arabus Family Saga) by James Lincoln Collier
American Heritage1982
The Newspapers (Nineteenth Century America) by Leonard Everett Fisher
American Heritage1982
We the People: The Way We Were, 1783-1793 by Suzanne Hilton
American Heritage1982
Jesse & Abe by Rachel Isadora
American Heritage1982
The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky
American Heritage1982
The United States in the Vietnam war (The Young people's history of America's wars series) by Don Lawson
American Heritage1982
The Keeping-Room by Betty Levin
American Heritage1982
Tilli's new world by Linda Lehmann Masek
American Heritage1982
Treasures of the land: Archaeology today in America by Walter G. Oleksy
American Heritage1982
Justice Lion by Robert Newton Peck
American Heritage1982
The Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin
American Heritage1982
Turning the Corner by Ruth Schiffman
American Heritage1982
Fur Trappers and Traders by Beatrice Siegel
American Heritage1982
The New Right (Impact Books) by L. B. Taylor
American Heritage1982
Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
American Heritage1982
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
American Heritage1982
What's cooking? : favorite recipes from around the world by Margaret B. Warner
American Heritage1982
A Restless Spirit: The Story of Robert Frost by Natalie S. Bober
Autobiography and Biography1982
The Golda Meir story by Margaret Davidson
Autobiography and Biography1982
Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold by Jean Fritz
Autobiography and Biography1982
The Changing Vice-Presidency by Roy Hoopes
Autobiography and Biography1982
Point of order : a profile of Senator Joe McCarthy by Robert P. Ingalls
Autobiography and Biography1982
Fiorello: His Honor, the Little Flower by Gloria Kamen
Autobiography and Biography1982
Sure Hands Strong Heart: The Life of Daniel Hale Williams by Lillie Patterson
Autobiography and Biography1982
Sadat: The Man Who Changed Mid-East History by George Sullivan
Autobiography and Biography1982
The Pathless Woods: Ernest Hemingway's Sixteenth Summer in Northern Michigan (Ernest Hemingway's Great Lakes Connection) by Gloria Whelan
Autobiography and Biography1982
Linus Pauling Scientist and Crusader by Florence Meiman White
Autobiography and Biography1982
My Diary--My World by Elizabeth Yates
Autobiography and Biography1982
Stolen Years by Sara Zyskind
Autobiography and Biography1982
The Silent One by Joy Cowley
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Alesia by Eloise Greenfield
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Being blind by Rebecca B. Marcus
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Apple Is My Sign (Sandpiper Houghton Mifflin Books) by Mary Riskind
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Manwolf by Gloria Skurzynski
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Lester's Turn by Jan Slepian
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
My Sister Is Different by Betty Ren Wright
Contemporary Concerns—Handicaps1982
Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty
Contemporary Concerns—Immigration1982
American immigration today : pressures, problems, policies by Judith Bentley
Contemporary Concerns—Immigration1982
Dmitry: A Young Soviet Immigrant by Joanne E. Bernstein
Contemporary Concerns—Immigration1982
Coming to North America: from Mexico, Cuba, and Puerto Rico by Susan Garver
Contemporary Concerns—Immigration1982
Computers in Your Life by Melvin Berger
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Rainbow Jordan by Alice Childress
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
The skyscraper book by James Cross Giblin
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Skystars by Ann Hodgman
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
The roots of crime : what you need to know about crime and what you can do about it by Eda J. LeShan
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Checks and balances : the Alaska pipeline case by Jethro Koller Lieberman
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Here Come the Robots by Joyce Milton
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
Too few happy endings : the dilemma of the humane societies by Margaret Poynter
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
The team behind your airline flight by Curt Schleier
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
The draft : a necessary evil? by L. B. Taylor
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
The Nuclear Question by Anne Weiss
Contemporary Concerns—Other1982
What Shall We Do With the Land: Choices for America by Laurence P. Pringle
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1982
A Different kind of gold by Cecily Stern
Contemporary Concerns—The Environment1982
Anna to the Infinite Power by Mildred Ames
Contemporary Concerns—The Future1982
Beyond the Dark River by Monica Hughes
Contemporary Concerns—The Future1982
Finders, keepers by Annabel Johnson
Contemporary Concerns—The Future1982
The Vandal by Ann Schlee
Contemporary Concerns—The Future1982
The Islanders by John Rowe Townsend
Contemporary Concerns—The Future1982
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain: A Nandi Tale by Verna Aardema
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The Hanukkah Book by Marilyn Burns
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
Yussel's Prayer: A Yom Kippur Story by Barbara Cohen
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
Tortillitas para Mamá and Other Nursery Rhymes (Bilingual Edition in Spanish and English) by Margot C. Griego
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
Bo Rabbit Smart For True: Tall Tales from the Gullah by Priscilla Jaquith
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The skull in the snow, and other folktales by Toni McCarty
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The Legend of Tarik by Walter Dean Myers
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
Suho and the White Horse by Yuzo Otsuka
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World by Ethel Johnston Phelps
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The Christmas Tomten by Viktor Rydberg
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
The Good-Hearted Youngest Brother: An Hungarian Folktale by Emöke de Papp Severo
Legends, Traditions, and Religions1982
Mak by Belle Coates
Native Americans1982
A Way of His Own by Thomas A. Dyer
Native Americans1982
Moonsong Lullaby by Jamake Highwater
Native Americans1982
Song of Sedna by Robert D. San Souci
Native Americans1982
Iran: A First Book by Emil Lengyel
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
Red Earth, Blue Sky: The Australian Outback by Margaret Rau
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
Two Chinese families = [Liang chia Chung-kuo jen] by Catherine Edwards Sadler
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
Growing Up Masai by Tom Shachtman
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
India: The Challenge of Change by James Traub
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
China, here we come! : visiting the People's Republic of China by Tang Yungmei
Other Places and Cultures Today1982
Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie dePaola
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1982
Nana by Lyn Littlefield Hoopes
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1982
Time for Uncle Joe by Nancy Jewell
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1982
How It Feels When a Parent Dies by Jill Krementz
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1982
Friends Till the End by Todd Strasser
Understanding Oneself and Others—Aging and Death1982
Chernowitz by Fran Arrick
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Ganesh by Malcolm J. Bosse
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Arthur and the True Francine by Marc Brown
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Lanky Jones by Catherine Cookson
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
A Gift for Mama by Esther Hautzig
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Little Little by M. E. Kerr
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Will the Real Renie Lake Please Stand Up by Barbara Morgenroth
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
The Gathering Room by Colby F. Rodowsky
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
On the Ropes by Otto R. Salassi
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Luke's garden ; and, Gramp: Two novels by Joan Tate
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Willie blows a mean horn by Ianthe Thomas
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Understanding Oneself and Others—Family and Interpersonal Relations1982
The Mills Down Below by Mabel Esther Allan
World History1982
A Lion to Guard Us by Clyde Robert Bulla
World History1982
Medieval Holidays and Festivals: A Calendar of Celebrations by Madeleine Pelner Cosman
World History1982
You Never Knew Her As I Did! by Mollie Hunter
World History1982
Food in civilization : how history has been affected by human tastes by Carson I. A. Ritchie
World History1982
Frontier Wolf by Rosemary Sutcliff
World History1982
Jeremy Visick by David Wiseman
World History1982

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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