Modern America (1912 to present) (58 items)

By Russell Freedman | Ages 10-14

As he did for frontier children in his enormously popularChildren of the Wild West, Russell Freedman illuminates the lives of the American children affected by the economic and social changes of the Great Depression. Middle-class urban youth, migrant farm laborers, boxcarkids, children whose fami...

By David A. Adler | Ages 4-10

A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.

By Judy Donnelly | Ages 6-9

Help to ease your child's transition into reading chapter books with the confidence building 'Step into Reading' series. This level 4 book contains more challenging vocabulary, short paragraphs and exciting fiction and non-fiction stories; it's perfect for newly independent readers. Your stu...

By Richard Panchyk | Ages 5-11

Now more than ever, kids want to know about our country's great struggles during World War II. This book is packed with information that kids will find fascinating, from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. Much more than an ordinary history book, it is filled ...

By Eve Bunting | Ages 5-8

This is the wall, my grandfather's wall. On it are the names of those killed in a war, long ago. So begins the story of a little boy and his father. They've come from far away to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather. Other visitors pass by, ...

By Ellen Levine | Ages 6-11

A different time...a different place...What if you were there? If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King, you would have seen important changes brought about by the civil rights movement. When did the civil rights movement begin? Were children involved in civil rights protests? Wha...

By Montrew Dunham | Ages 7-11

The Childhood Of Famous Americans SeriesOne of the most popular series ever published for young Americans, these classics have been praised alike by parents, teachers, and librarians. With these lively, inspiring, fictionalized biographies -- easily read by children of eight and up -- today's you...

By Michael L. Cooper | Ages 7-14

The 1930s in America will always be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Michael L. Cooper takes readers through this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression and continuing with the severe drought in the M...

By Alan MacDonald | Ages 8-14

By Jerry Stanley | Ages 11-14

Illus. with photographs from the Dust Bowl era. This true story took place at the emergency farm-labor camp immortalized in Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Ostracized as "dumb Okies," the children of Dust Bowl migrant laborers went without school--until Superintendent Leo Hart and 50 Okie kids b...