Mrs. Pressler

Are you interested in reading a book that is connected to social studies?  Many of these books are available in my classroom library and the HMS media center. 

Egypt:       A Place in the Sun by Jill Rualcaba

                  The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley

                  Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers

                  Cleopatra:  Daughter of the Nile (Royal Diary Series) 

                   by Kristiana Gregory

India:       Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

China:     Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka

                 Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah (memoir)

Greece / Mythology:  The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (book 1)

                                    The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan  (book 2)

                                     The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (book 3)

                                     The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 

                                     The Fire of Ares by Michael Ford

Greece ~ Life in City States

               Nobody's Princess by Esther Friesner ~

               This is like The Lightning Thief with a female protagonist.

               Nobody's Prize by Esther Friesner

Middle Ages:  Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman

                         The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Alder

                         The Plague by Philip Wooderson 

                         Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman

                         Crispin:  The Cross of Lead by Avi 

                         Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley

                         Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve

                         Redwall Series by Brian Jacques

                         Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flanagan 

                         Arthur:  Book One ~ The Seeing Stone

                         by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Renaissance:

                         The Vanishing Point  by Louise Hawes

                          Incantation by Alice Hoffman