Non Fiction Topics (to explore)
1900
A Teacher's Funeral
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The Dakotas, one-room schoolhouse, physically demanding work vs. education
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1910
Hattie Big Sky
Shoeless Joe & Me |
Montana, orphan, frost, drought, blizzards, hardships, forbidding friendships with Germans
Shoeless Joe, Black Sox, Baseball, Baseball Hall of Fame |
1920
Witness
Dave At Night |
Ku Klux Klan, poverty, prejudice
Hebrew Home For Boys in Harlem, NY, Harlem jazz musicians, New York City during the 20's |
1930
Out of the Dust
Bud, Not Buddy Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry Al Capone Does My Shirts Moon Over Manifest A Long Way From Chicago |
Oklahoma, Great Depression, hardships
Flint, Michigan, Great Depression, orphan, jazz Great Depression, poverty, sharcroppers, racism, Deep South San Francisco, Alcatraz, autism Great Depression, Manifest, Kansas, WWI, deplorable conditions of coal mines, divining Great Depression, small town Illinois |
1940
Under The Blood Red Sun
Lily's Crossing Number The Stars |
Japanese Americans' struggle after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, WWII (recommend: Denied, Detained, Deported by Ann Bausum)
Atlantic Ocean, beaches, D-Day, WWII, Rockaway, refugees, rationing Denmark, Holocaust, Jews, WWII |
1950
The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
Where Heroes Hide |
Rural Wisconsin during the 1950s
WWII, war plane pilots, polio |
1960
Dead End In Norvelt
The Wednesday Wars One Crazy Summer |
Eleanor Roosevelt, Norvelt, Pennsylvania, The New Deal
Vietnam War, Suburban Long Island Black Panthers, Oakland, California, African Americans in the 1960s |