Grade 6: Trade Books*
- Everyday Life in Early Imperial China by Michael Moewe (Dorset Press, 1988).
- World Religion Series by Facts on File (Facts on File).
- The Usborne Book of World Religions by Susan Meredith (EDC Publications, 2000).
- Experiencing India's Caste System WebQuest on the caste system in India at http://teacjers.eusd.k12.ca.us/mguerena/castewebquest/index.htm
- Disposable People by Kevin Bales (University of Chicago Press, 2000). ISBN: 0520224639.
- Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001). ISBN: 0618002715.
- Mandela: From the Life of the South African Statesman by Floyd Cooper (Philomel Books, 1996). ISBN: 0399229426.
- Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting and Stephen Gammell, illustrator (The Jewish Publication Society, 1989). ISBN: 0827605072.
- Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story by Malka Drucker (Yearling Books, 1994). ISBN: 0440409659.
- Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine (Scholastic, Inc., 2002). ISBN: 0439851238.
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Laureleaf, 1998). ISBN: 0440227534.
- I Never Saw Another ButterflyChildren's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 by Hana Volavkova, editor (Schocken Books, 1978). ISBN: 0805205985.
- Free the Children: A Young Man Fights Against Child Labor and Proved That Children Can Change the World by Craig Kielburger (Harper Perennial, 1998). ISBN: 0060930659.
- Kids on Strike by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999). ISBN: 0395888921.
- Children At Work by JoAnne Weisman Deitch, editor (Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 2002). ISBN: 1579600654.
- Stolen Dreams: Portraits of Working Children by David L. Parker (Learner Publishing Company, 1998). ISBN: 0822529662.
- Children of Other Worlds: Exploitation in the Global Market by Jeremy Seabrook (Pluto Press, 2001). ISBN: 0745313914.
- We Have Marched Together: The Working Children's Crusade by Stephen Currie (Learner Publication Company, 1997). ISBN: 0822517337
- Listen to Us: The World's Working Children by Jane Springer (Groundwood Books, 1997). ISBN: 0888992912.
- Kids At Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor by Russell Freedman (Clarion Books, 1998). ISBN: 0395587034.
- Children of the Dragon: Selected Tales from Vietnam by Sherry Garland with Trina Schart Hyman, illustrator (Harcourt, 2001). ISBN: 0152242007.
- Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan (Random House, 1993). ISBN: 067982376X.
(*Adapted from: Social Studies Instructional Strategies and Resources: Prekindergarten Through Grade 6, New York State Education Department, 2003 and Education for Democracy: California Civic Education, Scope and Sequence, Los Angeles County Office of Education, 2003).
