Book Events for HWISPANJ
Events within the books in HWISPANJ's library
"Final Solution"
13th century
- Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1200s)
1924 Kentucky Derby
1925 serum run to Nome
- The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto (Step Into Reading, a Step 2 Book) by Natalie Standiford
1937 Recession
African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Sour Land by William H. Armstrong
- The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman
Age of Sail
AIDS epidemic
American Civil War
- Ghost Cadet (Apple Paperbacks) by Elaine Marie Alphin
- Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith
- Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen
- Sweet Clara and The Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'Engle
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1865)
- Arms and Equipment of the Confederacy by The Editors Of Time-Life Books (1865)
- Arms and Equipment of The Union by Time-Life Books (1865)
- Brother Against Brother (Civil War) by William C. Davis (1865)
- Causes of the Civil War: A House Divided - Social Studies Book for Kids - Great for School Projects and Book Reports (Primary Source Readers) by Heather Schwartz (1865)
- Civil War Leaders - Social Studies Book for Kids - Great for School Projects and Book Reports (Primary Source Readers) by Wendy Conklin (1865)
- Civil War On Sunday (Magic Tree House #21) by Mary Pope Osborne (1865)
- Illustrated Atlas of The Civil War (Echoes of Glory) by Time-Life Books Editors (1865)
- In My Father's House (Point) by Ann Rinaldi (1865)
- Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter (1865)
- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Scholastic Gold) by Rodman Philbrick (1865)
- Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco (1865)
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 (I Survived #7) by Lauren Tarshis (1865)
- The Red Badge of Courage (Tor Classics) by Stephen Crane (1861-1865)
American Revolution
- The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz (1783)
- George Washington, Young Leader by Laurence Santrey (1783)
- Give Me Liberty!: The Story of the Declaration of Independence by Russell Freedman (1783)
- John Paul Jones: Hero of the Seas by Keith Brandt (1783)
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (1783)
- Let's Read About-- George Washington (Scholastic First Biographies) by Kimberly Weinberger (1783)
- Meet Felicity (The American Girls Collection, Book 1) by Valerie Tripp (1783)
- Patrick Henry, Voice of American Revolution by Louis Sabin (1783)
- Paul Revere: Son of Liberty by Keith Brandt (1783)
- Revolutionary War on Wednesday (Magic Tree House (R)) by Mary Pope Osborne (1783)
- Sarah Bishop by scott odell (1783)
- The Swamp Fox of the Revolution by Stewart H. Holbrook (1783)
- Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi (1783)
- The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 (Dear America) by Kristiana Gregory (1783)
- Young George Washington: America's First President (A Troll First-Start Biography) by Andrew Woods (1783)
American Revolutionary War
Anti-apartheid movement
Apartheid
Apocalypse
Ash Wednesday Storm
- Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry (March 6, 1962)
Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
- Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks) by Laurence Yep (1945)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Autumn Feast
Battle of Five Armies
Battle of Gavra
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Hogwarts
Battle of Manhattan
Battle of the Bulge
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting (1945)
Battle of the Department of Mysteries
Battle of the Labyrinth
Battles of Lexington and Concord
- And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Paperstar) by Jean Fritz (1775-04-19)
Beer Hall Putsch
Berlin Airlift
Black Hawk War
- Black Hawk, Frontier Warrior by Joanne Oppenheim (1832)
Bleriot's Flight Across the Channel
- The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot July 25, 1909 (Picture Puffin Books) by Alice Provensen (July 25, 1909)
Blizzard of 1888
Bosnian War
- Zlata's Diary - A Child's Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic (1992-1995)
Burning of the bamboo books
California Gold Rush
- Scholastic History Readers by Peter Roop (1848–1855)
Chernobyl Disaster
Cherokee Trail of Tears
Chinese New Year
- Celebrating Chinese New Year by Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
- MEI LI - 1ST EDITION HARDCOVER 1938 by Thomas Handforth
Christmas
- Bear Stays Up for Christmas (Bear Books) by Karma Wilson
- A Christmas carol by Charles Dickens
- Christmas In The Big House, Christmas In The Quarters (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) by Patricia C. McKissack
- A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Classic Seuss) by Dr. Seuss
- Light the Lights!: A Story About Celebrating Hanukkah & Christmas by Margaret Moorman
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- Little House in the Big Woods: Full Color Edition by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Santa Claus Doesn't Mop Floors (Bailey School Kids #3) by Debbie Dadey
- Wombat Divine by Mem Fox; Illustrator-Kerry Argent
Christmas Eve
- The Legend of the Candy Cane: The Inspirational Story of Our Favorite Christmas Candy by Lori Walburg
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore
- The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
Compromise of 1850
Creation of Narnia
Cultural Revolution
D-Day
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting (1944-06-06)
Death and Resurrection of Aslan
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Death of the White Witch
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Declaration of Independence approved
Disaster: Infectious Disease
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) by Jim Murphy
Discovery of the Titanic
- Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost was Found by Robert D. Ballard (1985-09-01)
- Finding the Titanic (Hello Reader! Level 4) by Robert D. Ballard (1985-09-01)
Dred Scott Decision
Dust Bowl Era
- Out Of The Dust (Newbery Medal Book) by Karen Hesse (1931 ∙ 1939)
Earthquake and Fire
Easter
Enabling Law
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting (Germany)
End of the Third Age
Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- Vacation Under The Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne (79)
- I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 by Lauren Tarshis (79 AD)
Evacuation of British Children in WW2
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Fate of the Labryinth
First Battle of Bull Run
- In My Father's House (Point) by Ann Rinaldi (1861-07-21)
First day of school
First powered airplane flight by the Wright brothers
- The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane (Newbery Honor Book) by Russell Freedman (1903-12-17)
The Flood
- Many Waters (Time Quartet, Bk. 4) by Madeleine L'Engle (Genesis 6-9)
Fourth of July
French Revolution
Gettysburg Campaign
Gilded Age
- Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships by Robert Ballard
- The Story of the Titanic (Pictureback(R)) by Deborah Heiligman
- Titanic by Ken Geist
- Titanic
- Tonight on the Titanic (Magic Tree House, No. 17) by Mary Pope Osborne
- White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp
The gorilla steals Joe's keys and lets the zoo animals out of their cages.
Grace Brown's Murder
Great Blizzard of 1888
Great Chicago Fire
- The Great Fire (Newbery Honor Book) by Jim Murphy (1871)
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 (I Survived #11) by Lauren Tarshis (1871)
Great Depression
- Blue Willow by Doris Gates
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
- The Gardener (Caldecott Honor Award) by Sarah Stewart
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Great Depression
Halley's Comet
Halloween
- A Fairy-Tale Fall (Disney Princess) (Step into Reading) by Apple Jordan
- The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Han Dynasty
Hanukkah
- The Chanukkah Guest by Eric A. Kimmel
- Light the Lights!: A Story About Celebrating Hanukkah & Christmas by Margaret Moorman
Holocaust
- The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
- Hiding From the Nazis by David A. Adler
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) by Lois Lowry
- Rose Blanche (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Cristophe Gallaz
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting
- I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived #9) by Lauren Tarshis
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
- Daniel's Story by Carol Matas (1945)
- Jacob's Rescue by Malka / Halperin Drucker, Michael (1945)
Hurricane Iniki
Hurricane Irene
Hurricane Katrina
I Have a Dream Speech
Irish Potato Famine
Japanese-American Internment
- Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki (1945)
- The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida (1945)
Jazz Age
Jem's Birthday Party
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Klondike Gold Rush
Kīlauea volcano eruption
Late Cretaceous
Lewis and Clark Expedition
liberation of Buchenwald
- Night by Elie Wiesel
Martian invasion of Earth
Mexican-American War
Middle Ages
Missouri Compromise
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Mutiny on the Bounty
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
New Year's Day
New York World's Fair
The Noble Experiment
Nore Mutiny
- Billy Bud, foretopman by Herman Melville (1797; the Great Mutiny)
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting (1946-10-01)
Olympic Games
Operation Barbarossa
- Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson (1941-12-05)
Oregon Trail
Orphan Train
Peasants' Revolt
Prehistoric Age
- Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No. 1) by Mary Pope Osborne
- The Magic School Bus in the Time of the Dinosaurs by Joanna Cole
- Sunset of the Sabertooth (Magic Tree House, No. 7) by Mary Pope Osborne
- Your Mother Was a Neanderthal (The Time Warp Trio) by Jon Scieszka
Prohibition
Quest of Erebor
Rebirth of Kronos
Reign of Terror
Reign of Titus
- I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 by Lauren Tarshis (81-09-13)
- Vacation Under The Volcano by Mary Pope Osborne (81-09-13)
Renaissance
Return of Father Christmas
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Russian Revolution
Salem witch trials
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
- Earthquake in the Early Morning (Magic Tree House #24) (Magic Tree House (R)) by Mary Pope Osborne (1906)
- Dragonwings by Laurence Yep (1906-04-18)
Scarlet Fever Epidemic
Secession Crisis
Second Titan War
- The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson & the Olympians, Volume 4) by Rick Riordan
- The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Volume 5) by Rick Riordan
- The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) by Rich Riordan
- The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
- The Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
September 11 Attacks
- Fireboat (The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey) by Maira Kalman (2001-09-11)
- I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (I Survived, Book 6) by Lauren Tarshis (2001-09-11)
Shalom Readers Club Book List
- The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida (Grade 3-5)
Siege of Fowl Manor
Siege of La Rochelle
Sinkhole
Sinking of the Andrea Doria
Sinking of the Britannic
Sinking of the Empress of Ireland
Sinking of the Lusitania
Sinking of the Titanic
- Exploring the Titanic: How the Greatest Ship Ever Lost was Found by Robert D. Ballard (1912-04-15)
- Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships by Robert Ballard (1912-04-15)
- The Story of the Titanic (Pictureback(R)) by Deborah Heiligman (1912-04-15)
- I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 by Lauren Tarshis (1912-04-15)
- Titanic (1912-04-15)
- Titanic by Ken Geist (1912-04-15)
- Titanicat by Marty Crisp (1912-04-15)
- Tonight on the Titanic (Magic Tree House, No. 17) by Mary Pope Osborne (1912-04-15)
- White Star: A Dog on the Titanic by Marty Crisp (1912-04-15)
Slavery
Snow Winter
- The Long Winter (Little House) by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1880-1881)
Song of the Twelve
Spanish-American War
- Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider by Louis Sabin (1898)
St. Patrick's Day
strike
Summer Solstice
Surrender at Appomattox
Thanksgiving
- Arthurs Thanksgiving by Marc Brown
- Clifford's Thanksgiving Visit by Norman Bridwell
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet) by Madeleine L'Engle
- Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks! (Reading Railroad) by Margaret Sutherland
- There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey Paperback and Audio CD by Lucille Colandro
Treaty of Versailles
Underground Railroad
- The Drinking Gourd (Rise and Shine) (I Can Read Level 3) by F. N. Monjo
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
- Meet Addy: An American Girl by Connie Porter
Valentine's Day
- Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers (The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids, #12) by Debbie Dadey
- Nate the Great and the Mushy Valentine by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
- Valentine Mice! (Scholastic) by Bethany Roberts
Victorian Era
- Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- The Borrowers Afloat by Mary Norton (1901)
Vietnam War
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone?: the Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White
- Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam by Cynthia Kadohata (1975)
Wannsee Conference
War of 1812
- Black Hawk, Frontier Warrior by Joanne Oppenheim
- The Story Of The White House (Blue Ribbon Book) by Kate Waters
Wars of the Roses
- The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (1455-1485)
Watergate Scandal
Wednesday Afternoons
When Stargirl leaves Arizona. She leaves few people, Leo, Archie, and dori.
Winter
- The Blizzard's Robe by Robert Sabuda
- Red Sled by Lita Judge
- Snow (I Can Read It All By Myself) by P. D. Eastman
- The Snow Child by Freya Littledale
- Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
- Winter days in the Big Woods (My first little house books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Winter Solstice
World War I
- After the Dancing Days by Margaret I. Rostkowski
- Gay Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
- The Language of Doves by Rosemary Wells
- Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron (Peanuts Seasonal) by Charles M Schulz
- Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships by Robert Ballard (1918)
- The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1914 ∙ 1918)
World War II
- The Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hesse
- Coming on Home Soon (Caldecott Honor Book) by Jacqueline Woodson
- Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Hide and Seek by Ida Vos
- Hiding From the Nazis by David A. Adler
- Meet Molly by Valerie Tripp
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children) by Ransom Riggs
- Molly Learns a Lesson (American Girl Collection) by Valerie Tripp
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
- RISE&FALL ADOLF HITLER by William L. Shirer
- Rose Blanche (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) by Cristophe Gallaz
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Sky by Hanneke Ippisch
- So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
- Spying on Miss Muller by Eve Bunting
- Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
- Summer Of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
- We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust by Jacob Boas
- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
- A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
- 1984 by George Orwell (1945)
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1945)
- Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki (1945)
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1945)
- The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida (1945)
- Daniel's Story by Carol Matas (1945)
- The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands by Louise Borden (1945)
- Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks) by Laurence Yep (1945)
- Jacob's Rescue by Malka / Halperin Drucker, Michael (1945)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis (1945)
- Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven (1945)
- Miracles On Maple Hill by Virginia Sorensen (1945)
- A New Coat for Anna by Harriet Ziefert (1945)
- Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) by Lois Lowry (1945)
- Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (1945)
- Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson (1945)
- The Story of the Holocaust (Monumental Milestones: Great Events of Modern Times) by Jim Whiting (1945)
- I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 (I Survived #9) by Lauren Tarshis (1945)
- Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (1945)
- Welcome to Molly's World,1944: Growing Up in World War Two America (American Girl Collection) by Catherine Gourley (1945)
- Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi (1945)
World War II, British Home Front
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Movie Tie-in Edition (adult) (Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
World War II, Eastern Front
- Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson (1945-05-05)
World War II, German Occupation of Denmark
- Number the Stars (Yearling Newbery) by Lois Lowry (1945-05-05)
World War II, German Occupation of France
- Twenty and Ten by Claire Huchet Bishop (1944)
World War II, German Occupation of Norway
- Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan (1945-05-08)
World War II, German Occupation of Poland
World War II, German Occupation of the Netherlands
World War II, Japanese invasion of China
World War II, Pacific Theater
- Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki (1945-09-02)
- The Bracelet by Yoshiko Uchida (1945-09-02)
- Hiroshima (Apple Paperbacks) by Laurence Yep (1945-09-02)