The People's Painter
A compelling biography that uses Rockwell's iconic images to teach history and empathy, though the prose is dense for younger readers.
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Remember the Days
by Milton Meltzer
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 850L · 1974
A pioneering social-history book that lets working people and immigrants tell their own stories through letters, photos, and testimony—uncomfortable and vivid, not a textbook account.
Wild boy
by Mary Losure
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 780L · 2013
A haunting true account that complicates what 'civilization' means — Losure writes with restraint and lets Victor remain unknowable, which makes him more human.
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L · 2016
A landmark history book for this age—Bartoletti's use of first-person accounts makes the Famine viscerally real while her source discipline teaches kids how history is actually *done*.