Globetrotter Year Four
Literature Books
Theme Reading to fill the Gaps
The literature books this year cover
a wide range of history and social issues. From the Underground
Railroad to illegal immigration, students will be presented facts and
feelings from people who lived the history.
Brady
by Jean Fritz
(Underground Railroad)
Mr. Lincoln's
Drummer by
G. Clifton Wisler
(Civil War)
Shades
of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
(Reconstruction Era)
Fair Weather
by Richard Peck
(1893 Chicago's World Fair)
Voyage on the Great Titanic The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 (Dear America Series) by Ellen Emerson White
Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
(The Depression Era)
Weedflower
by Cynthia Kadohata
(Japanese Internment during WW II)
Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
(Life for Blacks in the South prior to the Civil Rights Movement)
Crossing the Wire
by Will Hobbs
(Illegal Immigration from Mexico into the United States)