Fifth Grade, History, Set Two

This Set, we are covering World War II. Here is a list of books we read, books I really wanted to read, and books that would have been nice to read, if we'd had the time.

Basic Information on the war:

• A Child's History of the World -- chapters 86 and 87
• An Interactive History Adventure Series
• World War II Infantrymen by Steven Otfinoski
• World War II by Elizabeth Raum
• World War II on the Home Front by Martin Gitlin
• World War II Spies by Michael Burgan
• World War II Pilots by Michael Burgan
• World War II Naval Forces by Elizabeth Raum

People:

•  Who Was Winston Churchill? by Ellen Labrecque
• Franklin and Winston: A Christmas That Changed the World by Douglas Wood -- picture book style with lots of good information
• War Dogs: Churchill & Rufus by Kathryn Selbert -- picture book style book that takes you through the war with Churchill and his dog.
• Douglas MacArthur by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson -- History Makers Bios Series; this was the first book we had read in this series, and I really liked it. The author presented his life story with a lot of detail without getting bogged down or boring.
• Dwight D. Eisenhower by Elaine Marie Alphin and Arthur B. Alphin -- also a History Makers Bios Series
• Harry S. Truman: Thirty-third President by Mike Venezia

Japanese Internment and Racial Discrimination

• Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss
• Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
• Sylvia & Aki by Winifred Conkling

Books we didn't get to, but I really wanted to:

• Pearl Harbor by Andrew Santella
• Why Did the Whole World Go to War? and other questions about . . . World War II by Martin W. Sandler
• World War II: Early Battles by John Hamilton
• The Great Depression and World War II: 1929 - 1945 by Susan E. Hamen
• World War II by Sean Connolly -- Witness to History series
• Escape from Warsaw by Ian Serraillier
• A Father's Promise by Donna Lynn Hess

Other books we didn't read:

• Hiroshima: The Shadow of the Bomb by Richard Tames
• Dwight D. Eisenhower: A Man Called Ike by Jean Darby
• World at War: Battle of Okinawa by R. Conrad Stein
• Dead in the Water by Chris Lynch -- historical fiction dealing with racial discrimination
• European Land Battles 1944-1945 by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy
• Blitzkrieg by Wallace Black
• Along the Tracks by Tamar Bergman -- Jewish family fleeing Nazis
• Behind Barbed Wire by Lila Perl
• The Tuskegee Airmen by Philip Brooks