6-8 Curriculum Top Picks

An African American and Latinx History of the United States

by Paul Ortiz

A People's History of American Empire: a graphic adaptation

by Howard Zinn

An Indigenous People's History of the United States: for young people

by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz

A Queer History of the United States: for young people

by Richie Chevat

Estuary Animals

by Lisa Colozza Cocca

The Boreal Forest: a year in the world's largest land biome

by L.E. Carmichael

Coral Reefs

by Simon Rose

Ocean Habitats

by Lesley McFadzean

Locked up for Freedom: civil rights protestors at the Leesburg Stockade

by Heather E. Schwartz

We Are Not Yet Equal: understanding our racial divide

by Carol Anderson

March Forward Girl: from young warrior to Little Rock Nine

by Melba Pattillo Beals

We Are Power: how nonviolent activism changes the world

by Todd Hasak-Lowy

The Stonewall Riots: coming out in the streets

by Gayle E, Pitman

Enemy Child: the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp

by Andrea Warren

Never Caught: the story of Ona Judge

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Streetcar to Justice: How Elizabeth Jennings won the right to ride in New York

by Amy Hill Hearth

Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, computer pioneer

by Emily Arnold McCully