Best History & Social Studies Books for 8th Grade

Eighth graders, ages thirteen and fourteen, will find six award-honored histories here that fit naturally with middle school social studies. Teri Kanefield's Rebels, Robbers, and Radicals ties each amendment in the Bill of Rights to real people and court cases, and Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin shows how one teenager challenged segregation in Montgomery. The list also includes March: Book Three, a graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, and histories of the Mexican American Southwest and the Japanese American incarceration.