We Were There Too! Young People in U.S. History
by Phillip Hoose
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · grades 5–9 · 820L
Why we'd hand it over
A radically honest U.S. history that puts young people—enslaved, working, fighting, resisting—at the center; the prose is vivid enough to hold a 10-year-old, rigorous enough to matter.