Best History & Social Studies Books for 4th Grade

Fourth graders, ages nine and ten, can explore American history here through the people who lived it. Dan SaSuWeh Jones's Stealing Little Moon, winner of the 2025 Orbis Pictus Award, tells his family's story of the American Indian boarding schools, while Fighting for Yes! shows how Judith Heumann helped win rights for people with disabilities. Picture books such as Unspeakable and Choosing Brave sit beside longer nonfiction, so readers can move easily between formats.