Here are a few books that I have either read or heard of, that would be a great supplements to our studies in Social Studies:
7th grade:
Daughter of Madrugada, by Frances M. Wood (U.S. Empire/U.S. Becomes a World Power, Mexican-American War)
Cuba 15, by Nancy Osa (U.S.-Cuban relations)
Mexican WhiteBoy, by Matt de la Pena (Biracial identity issues)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez
Before We Were Free, by Julia Alvarez
In the Time of Butterlies, by Julia Alvarez
8th grade:
When My Name Was Keoko, by Linda Sue Park (Japanese occupation of Korea during WW2)
Gandhi (DK Biography), by Primo Levi and Amy Pastan
Nelson Mandela (DK Biography), by Lenny Hort and Laaren Brown
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Salman Rushdie (India)
