We had a wonderful weekend in Galveston this past weekend. We celebrated Halloween with our families AND made a lot of new social studies friends at the Texas Council for the Social Studies Conference! During our sessions, we mentioned several of our favorite books and we thought we might round them all up in one place for our new friends:
President Taft Is Stuck in the Bath (picture book biography)
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers (middle school non-fiction)
A Matter of Days (dystopian fiction with a journey across the US)
One Came Home (middle school fiction set in 1870s Wisconsin)
The Matchbox Diary (upper grade picture book)
App Smash: Biography (technology!)
On A Beam of Light: Albert Einstein (picture book biography – inquiry)
A few of our favorite new biographies:
Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris
Nelson Mandela by Kadir Nelson
(These two are included as part of our Head to Head session – we LOVE these two books!!!)
Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library by Barb Rosenstock
The Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan by Jane Yolen
I love all of the content integration books here! I’m definitely going to have to check out some of these titles!!