Great Books 
Check your local library or use your library funds for these titles:

Medieval Times:

Matilda Bone
Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray
The Quest of Alinor Dagworth by Maylan Schurch

 Industrial Revolution:

Hans Brinker
Heidi
Against the Storm
Renaissance & Reformation:
  • Waiting for Filippo:  The Life of Renaissance Architect Filippo Brunelleschi by Michael Bender
  • What Makes a Bruegel a Bruegel?
  • What Makes a Leonardo a Leonardo?
  • What Makes a Raphael a Raphael? by Richard Muhlberger
  • Around the World in a Hundred Years:  From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz
  • If You Were There in 1492 by Barbara Brenner
  • Gutenberg by Fisher, Macmillan, 1993
  • Threads of Time:  a Global History 400-1750   by Coupe and Scanlan, 1993

Biographies about Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Galileo, Gutenberg, and the reformers.

 Japan & Russia:

Year of the Panda
Of Nightingales that Weep

 
Race for Riches:

Biographies of explorers

 The World at War:

Diary of Anne Frank
Child of the Holocaust
Journey to America
North to Freedom by Anne Holm
Books of SDA mission stories
The Divine Rights:

The Prince and the Pauper, etc.
Books from the Royal Diary series, like Elizabeth 1

 A Changing World:

Journey to Jo'burg
Year of Impossible Good-byes (Korea)
Gandhi
Books of SDA mission stories
Human Rights and Revolutions:

Marie Antoinette from the Royal Diary series

 My Country:

One More River (Israel) by Lynne Banks
Books of SDA mission stories