222 books
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The Story of Ruby Bridges (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,996 ratings — published 1995
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,873 ratings — published 2001
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,952 ratings — published 1995
Mapping Penny's World (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 590 ratings — published 2000
Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 16,711 ratings — published 2007
My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,040 ratings — published 2003
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 622,794 ratings — published 1989
Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 99 ratings — published 1997
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,206,197 ratings — published 1947
The Scrambled States of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,149 ratings — published 1998
Me On The Map (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,060 ratings — published 1996
Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,008 ratings — published 2006
Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,998 ratings — published 2008
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,157 ratings — published 1997
We the Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 709 ratings — published 2002
Baseball Saved Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,012 ratings — published 1993
Duck for President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,088 ratings — published 2004
So You Want to Be President? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,592 ratings — published 2000
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,268,555 ratings — published 2011
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 162,164 ratings — published 2020
Grace for President (Grace Series, 1)
by (shelved 30 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,911 ratings — published 2007
Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,573 ratings — published 2010
Encounter (Voyager Books)
by (shelved 26 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,855 ratings — published 1992
Through My Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,087 ratings — published 1999
Rosa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 6,868 ratings — published 2005
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 856,927 ratings — published 2000
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.52 — 117,599 ratings — published 2010
Pink and Say (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.49 — 11,693 ratings — published
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 899,137 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,760 ratings — published 2016
John, Paul, George & Ben (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,675 ratings — published 2006
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 199,324 ratings — published 1848
Rose Blanche (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Bud, Not Buddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 115,319 ratings — published 1999
Freedom Summer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.48 — 2,964 ratings — published 2001
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,636 ratings — published 1990
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,393 ratings — published 2016
Esperanza Rising (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,609 ratings — published 2000
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,920 ratings — published 1980
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 119,588 ratings — published 2019
Letters from Rifka (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,239 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,789 ratings — published 2004
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 169,836 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 367,639 ratings — published 2015
Locomotive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,193 ratings — published 2013
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 130,188 ratings — published 1976
The Other Side (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,578 ratings — published 2001
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 869,489 ratings — published 2008
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,322 ratings — published 2012
Letting Swift River Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as social-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 687 ratings — published 1992
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