- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
- Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
- Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night byJoyce Sidman
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan
- 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
- The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette's Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle
- Ole! Flamenco by George Ancona
Social Studies Books:
- Progressive Era Books:
- Lyddie by Katherine Patterson
- Bread and Roses, too by Katherine Patterson
- So Far From Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl by Barry Denenburg
- Black Duck by Janet Taylor Listle
- Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
- The Story of Child Labor Laws by R. Conrad Stein
- Spanish-American War, WWI, Hawaii, Panama Canal
- Shots at Sea: a Houdini & Nate Mystery by Tom Lalicki
- Where the Flame Trees Bloom by Alma Flor Ada
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
- Remember the Maine: the Spanish-American War Begins by Tim McNeese
- Armistice 1918 by Reg Grant
- Goodbye, Billy Radish by Gloria Skurzynski
- Roaring 20's
- The 1920's: Luck by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
- The Star Fisher by Lawrence Yep
- Dream Soul by Lawrence Yep
- A Song for Harlem by Karen Hesse
- Al Copone and His Gang by Alan McDonald
- Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
- The Giver by Lowry
- Because of Winn Dixie by DiCamillo
- The Cay by T. Taylor
- From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by Konigsburg
- The View From Saturday by Konigsburg
- A Wrinkle in Time by L'Engle
