All Time, All Peoples: A World History of Slavery
by Milton Meltzer
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 1050L
Why we'd hand it over
A rigorous, unflinching global history that treats slavery as a systemic reality across continents and millennia, not a single-nation story—necessary reading for older middle-graders ready for structural inequality, but requires parent readiness for difficult material.