English 10 & US History Research Project: Literature Choices
HOW TO FIND BOOKS FOR THIS PROJECT:
1. Do a keyword search.
2. One word at a time, try:
history, world war ii, jazz age, great depression, vietnam, civil rights, etc.
3. SORT your results by CALL NUMBER so you can easily locate Fiction (FIC) and Nonfiction (call numbers) titles.
4. If you see something that sounds interesting, go find it on the shelf or read about it in NoveList Plus.
NoveList Plus Database from MARVEL! Maine’s Database Collection
Click on the MARVEL link above, then go to the Ns and click on NoveList Plus.
1. In the sidebar, choose GENRE=HISTORICAL FICTION and browse titles.
2. Check out the HISTORY WRITING genre page.
3. Do a basic keyword search for your topic.
4. Choose a title and READ the REVIEWS. Check our catalog and the statewide MaineCat catalog (there's a link, in blue) to find the book.
5. Refine your search using the Search for More section.
6. Other tools to check out in NoveList: Advanced Search, Age Ranges, Genre, Subject, and Title Read Alikes.
Other library catalogs to try:
Prince Memorial Library (choose "RESEARCHER")
URSUS University of Maine Library system
Need to request a book from another library using interlibrary loan?
Print out the book's vital statistics from the Library Catalog (or, if you can't find it in any of the above catalogs, from NoveList), write your name and today's date on it and leave it on Mrs. Perkinson's desk!
1920’s/1930’s - The Jazz Age and the Great Depression
Fiction
Bray, Libba - The Diviners - eBook available on Overdrive
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Lansdale, Joe - All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky
Larkin, Jillian - Vixen: Book 1 - eBook available on Overdrive
Steinbeck, John - The Grapes of Wrath - eBook available on Overdrive
Non-Fiction
Blumenthal, Karen - Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Cohen, Robert, ed. - Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression
Cooper, Michael - Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression in the 1930’s
Egan, Timothy – The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Fleming, Candace - Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt’s Remarkable Life
Goodwin, Doris Kearns - No Ordinary Time
World War I & World War II
Fiction
Bruchac, Joseph - Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Davis, Tania – Mare’s War
Fletcher, Christine - Ten Cents a Dance
Ford, Jamie – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
GrIffin, W.E.B. - Semper Fi: The Corps; Book 1
Guterson, David - Snow Falling on Cedars
Haines, Kathryn - The Girl Is Murder
Hamamura, John – Color of the Sea
Heller, Joseph - Catch-22
Hughes, Dean - Soldier Boys
Lawrence, Iain – B for Buster
Lynch, Chris - The Right Fight
Mays, Buddy - Hard to Have Heroes
Myers, Walter Dean - Invasion
Morpurgo, Michael - Private Peaceful
Pearce, Donn - Nobody Comes Back: A Novel of the Battle of the Bulge
Shaara, Jeff - Novesl of World War II: (The Rising Tide, The Steel Wave, and No Less Than Victory)
Shaara, Jeff - To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War
Smith, Sherri - Flygirl
Wein, Elizabeth - Rose Under Fire
Wein, Elizabeth – Code Name Verity
Non-Fiction
Ambrose, Hugh - The Pacific
Ambrose, Stephen - Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne, from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle Nest
Ambrose, Stephen - D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II
Ambrose, Stephen - Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944
Ambrose, Stephen - The Victors: Eisenhower and His Boys: The Men of World War II
Bausum, Ann - Unraveling Freedom: The Battle for Democracy on the Home Front During World War I
Bradley, James - Flags of Our Fathers
Bradley, James – Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation
Brokaw, Tom - The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections
Carter, Walter - No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: a Son’s Journey to Normandy
Hillenbrand, Laura - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption - eBook available on Overdrive
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki - Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During the WW II Internment
Kawano, Kenji - Warriors: Navajo Code Talkers
Lindquist, Heather, ed. - Children of Manzanar
Morrison, Joan - Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America
Moye, J. Todd - Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Sandler, Martin W. – Imprisioned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans during WWII
Sheinkin, Steve - The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Sides, Hampton - Ghost Soldiers
Spiegelman, Art - Maus
Stanley, Jerry - I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment
Stone, Tanya Lee – Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
Takiff, Michael - Brave Men, Gentle Heroes: American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam
1960’s - Vietnam - Anti-War Movement - Kennedy
Fiction
Burg, Ann - All the Broken Pieces: A Novel in Verse
Carlton, Susan - Love & Haight
Coker, Rachel - Chasing Jupiter
Crist-Evans, Craig - Amaryllis
Hughes, Dean - Search and Destroy
Kurlansky, Mark - Battle Fatigue
Lynch, Chris - Vietnam; series (I Pledge Allegiance, Sharpshooter, Free-Fire Zone & Casualties of War)
Myers, Walter Dean - Fallen Angels
O’Brien, Tim - The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction
Pekar, Harvey - The Beats: A Graphic History
Shahan, Sherry - Purple Daze
Tashjian, Janet - For What It’s Worth; A Novel
Wiles, Deborah - Countdown
Non-Fiction
Brokaw, Tom - Boom! : Voices of the Sixties
Cavan, Sherri - Hippies of the Haight
Caputo, Philip - A Rumor of War
Caputo, Philip - 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War
Caputo, Philip - 13 Seconds: A Look Back at the Kent State Shootings
Edelman, Bernard, ed. - Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
FitzGerald, Frances - Fire in the Lake
Herr, Michael - Dispatches
Hill, Lavan - America Dreaming: How Youth Changed America in the Sixties
Hirsch, James - Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship that Save Two POWS in Vietnam
Kaufman, Michael - 1968
Kidder, Tracy - My Detachment: A Memoir
Kohler, Dean - Rock ‘n’ Roll Soldier; A Memoir
Kovic, Ron - Born on the Fourth of July
Moore, Harold - We Were Soldiers Once--and Young: Ia Drang, the Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
O’Brien, Tim - If I Die in a Combat Zone
O’Reilly, Bill - Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Perry, Charles - The Haight-Ashbury: A History
Sallah, Michael - Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
Sheehan, Neil - A Bright and Shining Lie
Swanson, James, and Will Patton - “The President Has Been Shot!” : The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Van Devanter, Linda - Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
Wolfe, Tom - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Civil Rights Movement
Fiction
Crowe, Chris - Mississippi Trial, 1955
Draper, Sharon - Fire from the Rock
Ellison, Ralph - Invisible Man
Lee, Harper - Go Set a Watchman
Levine, Kristin - The Lions of LIttle Rock
Lewis, John - March. Book One (Graphic Novel)
Magoon, Kekla – The Rock and the River
McCarthy, Susan Carol – Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
Shabazz, Ilyasah, and Kekla Magoon – X: A Novel
Stockett, Kathryn - The Help
Non-Fiction
Arsenault, Raymond - Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Bingham, Howard - Howard L. Bingham’s Black Panthers, 1968
Bowers, Rick - Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
Hoose, Phillip - Claudette Colvin: Twice Before Justice
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
King, Martin Luther, Jr. - Why We Can’t Wait
LaNier, Carlotta - A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Levinson, Cynthia - We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
Osborne, Linda - Miles to go for Freedom: Segregation and Civil Rights in the Jim Crow Years
Partridge, Elizabeth - Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Sturm, James - Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow (Graphic Novel)
Walton, Anthony - Mississippi
Wilkerson, Isabel - The Warmth of Other Suns (the Great Migration both wide and narrow focus (3 individuals) excellent, readable book but long- 538 pages
X, Malcolm - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Sept. 11, 2001 - War in Iraq & Afghanistan
Fiction
Foer, Jonathan - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
McCormick, Patricia - Purple Heart - - eBook available on Overdrive
Myers, Walter Dean - Sunrise Over Fallujah
Reinhardt, Dana - The Things a Brother Knows
Non-Fiction
Beamer, Lisa: Let’s Roll! : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage
Bull, Chris, Ed. - At Ground Zero: The Young Reporters Who WereThereTell Their Stories
Bradley, Omar - A Soldier’s Story
Carroll, Andrew - War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
Dwyer, Jim - 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
Exum, Andrew - This Man’s Army: A Soldier’s Story from the Front Lines of the War on Terrorism
Halberstam, David - Firehouse
Hnida, Dave - Paradise General: Riding the Surge at a Combat Hospital in Iraq
Junger, Sebastian - War
Hunnicutt, Susan,ed. - Casualties of War
Jacobson, Sid - The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Kopelman, Jay - From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava
Krakauer, Jon - Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Larson, Chuck, ed. - Heroes Among Us: Firsthand Accounts of Combat from America’s Most Decorated Warriors in Iraq and Afghanistan
Luttrell, Marcus - Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Luz, Susan - The Nightingale of Mosul: A Nurse’s Journey of Service, Struggle, and War
Owen, Mark - No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
Pfarrer, Chuck - SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden
Smithson, Ryan - Ghosts of War: My Tour of Duty
Thoms, Annie, ed. - With Their Eyes: September 11th: The View from a High School at Ground Zero
Wright, Lawrence - The Looming Tower
Women’s Rights
Fiction
Efaw, Amy - Battle Dress
Levine, Ellen - In Trouble
Non-Fiction
Macy, Sue - Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom: With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way
Miller, Brandon - Women of the Frontier: 16 Tales of Trailblazing Homesteaders, Entrepreneurs, and Rabble-Rousers
Mullenbach, Cheryl - Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help Win World War II