History Books for Kids
1,025 books in history. Every book rated for reading level and content intensity.
History books for kids span a wider readiness range than parents usually expect. The same genre category contains gentle picture books and high-intensity middle-grade novels — Lexile and grade-level scores measure text complexity, not what's actually in the story. A history title appropriate for a confident 8-year-old reader could still cover themes a sensitive 12-year-old isn't ready for.
Across HootRated's 1,025 history titles, books span picture books through Grade 12. About 80% are rated Gentle or Mild — safe picks for sensitive readers and kids reading ahead of their emotional readiness. 3% sit at the Intense or Very Intense end. Average content intensity is 1.7/5.
Use the intensity badges (green → red, low → high) to filter by emotional readiness rather than just age. For deeper detail on how we rate, see our rating methodology.
Love and hate in Jamestown
Price, David
Love and hate in Jamestown
Price, David
Level 9-10 Moderate
The Thirteen Colonies
Dennis B. Fradin
The Thirteen Colonies
Dennis B. Fradin
Level 4-5 Gentle
Minnesota
Dennis B. Fradin
Minnesota
Dennis B. Fradin
Level 4-5 Gentle
Albania
David K. Wright
Albania
David K. Wright
Level 8-9 Gentle
The White House
Lloyd G. Douglas
The White House
Lloyd G. Douglas
Level 2-3 Gentle
Robert E. Lee
Marian G. Cannon
Robert E. Lee
Marian G. Cannon
Level 7-8 Moderate
Slaves to Soldiers
Wallace B. Black
Slaves to Soldiers
Wallace B. Black
Level 7-8 Moderate
North American Indian
David Murdoch
North American Indian
David Murdoch
Level 8-9 Gentle
Undaunted courage
Stephen E. Ambrose
Undaunted courage
Stephen E. Ambrose
Level 9 Mild
Citizen soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Citizen soldiers
Stephen E. Ambrose
Level 8-9 Intense
Parallel journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer
Parallel journeys
Eleanor H. Ayer
Level 7-8 Intense
The Washington Monument (National Landmarks)
Muriel L. Dubois
The Washington Monument (National Landmarks)
Muriel L. Dubois
Level 4-5 Gentle
Hawaii
Patricia K. Kummer
Hawaii
Patricia K. Kummer
Level 4-5 Gentle
Kentucky
Patricia K. Kummer
Kentucky
Patricia K. Kummer
Level 4-5 Gentle
Tennessee
Patricia K. Kummer
Tennessee
Patricia K. Kummer
Level 4-5 Gentle
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Susan E. Haberle
The Mexican War, 1846-1848
Susan E. Haberle
Level 5-6 Mild
The bald eagle
Debbie L. Yanuck
The bald eagle
Debbie L. Yanuck
Level 3-4 Gentle
Inca Mummies: Sacrifices And Rituals (Edge Books: Mummies)
Michael Martin
Inca Mummies: Sacrifices And Rituals (Edge Books: Mummies)
Michael Martin
Level 4-5 Mild
Daily Life - Pirates (Daily Life)
Patricia D. Netzley
Daily Life - Pirates (Daily Life)
Patricia D. Netzley
Level 7-8 Mild
New Jersey
Teresa L. Hyman
New Jersey
Teresa L. Hyman
Level 7-8 Gentle
Colorado
Tamra Orr
Colorado
Tamra Orr
Level 6-7 Gentle
Russia
Susan Heinrichs Gray
Russia
Susan Heinrichs Gray
Level 3-4 Gentle
The White House
Susan Heinrichs Gray
The White House
Susan Heinrichs Gray
Level 2-3 Gentle
Secrets of the ice man
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Secrets of the ice man
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Level 8 Gentle
Beyond the frontier
Edward F. Dolan
Beyond the frontier
Edward F. Dolan
Level 7-8 Mild
The Salem witch trials
Edward F. Dolan
The Salem witch trials
Edward F. Dolan
Level 5-6 Moderate
In an Egyptian City (Child's Day)
Khaled Eldash
In an Egyptian City (Child's Day)
Khaled Eldash
Level 5-6 Gentle
The Salem witchcraft trials in American history
David K. Fremon
The Salem witchcraft trials in American history
David K. Fremon
Level 6-7 Moderate
The L.A. riots
Michael D. Cole
The L.A. riots
Michael D. Cole
Level 7-8 Intense
The Union and the Civil War in American history
Mary Hull
The Union and the Civil War in American history
Mary Hull
Level 9-10 Moderate
Shays' Rebellion and the Constitution in American history
Mary Hull
Shays' Rebellion and the Constitution in American history
Mary Hull
Level 9-10 Mild
New France
Robert Livesey
New France
Robert Livesey
Level 7-8 Gentle
Scottish clans and tartans
Dwayne E. Pickels
Scottish clans and tartans
Dwayne E. Pickels
Level 9-10 Gentle
Japan (Modern World Nations)
Charles F. Gritzner
Japan (Modern World Nations)
Charles F. Gritzner
Level 8-9 Gentle
John Paul Jones
Tracie Egan
John Paul Jones
Tracie Egan
Level 5-6 Gentle
Little Sure Shot
Jennifer Silate
Little Sure Shot
Jennifer Silate
Level 4-5 Mild
America's gold rush
Joanne Mattern
America's gold rush
Joanne Mattern
Level 4-5 Gentle
Kids during the American Civil War
Lisa A. Wroble
Kids during the American Civil War
Lisa A. Wroble
Level 4 Mild
The colony of New York
Susan Whitehurst
The colony of New York
Susan Whitehurst
Level 4-5 Gentle
Bmx in the X Games
Christopher Blomquist
Bmx in the X Games
Christopher Blomquist
Level 5 Gentle
English colonies in the Americas
Lewis K. Parker
English colonies in the Americas
Lewis K. Parker
Level 4-5 Gentle
Making Origami Cards Step by Step
Michael G. LaFosse
Making Origami Cards Step by Step
Michael G. LaFosse
Level 4-5 Gentle
Home life in ancient Rome
Daniel C. Gedacht
Home life in ancient Rome
Daniel C. Gedacht
Level 5-6 Gentle
Japanese-American internment in American history
David K. Fremon
Japanese-American internment in American history
David K. Fremon
Level 7-8 Moderate
Infantry of the future
Roderic D. Schmidt
Infantry of the future
Roderic D. Schmidt
Level 9-10 Mild
The colony of Massachusetts
Jake Miller
The colony of Massachusetts
Jake Miller
Level 5-6 Gentle
The colony of Virginia
Jake Miller
The colony of Virginia
Jake Miller
Level 6 Gentle
The Dirty Thirties, (American History Through Primary Sources)
Sean Price
The Dirty Thirties, (American History Through Primary Sources)
Sean Price
Level 3-4 Mild
Canada
John F. Grabowski
Canada
John F. Grabowski
Level 9-10 Gentle
Life on the Oregon Trail
Gary L. Blackwood
Life on the Oregon Trail
Gary L. Blackwood
Level 8-9 Mild
Australia
John F. Grabowski
Australia
John F. Grabowski
Level 9-10 Intense
Japan (Modern Nations of the World)
Patricia D. Netzley
Japan (Modern Nations of the World)
Patricia D. Netzley
Level 10-11 Gentle
The Way People Live - Life on an Everest Expedition (The Way People Live)
Patricia D. Netzley
The Way People Live - Life on an Everest Expedition (The Way People Live)
Patricia D. Netzley
Level 8-9 Mild
The Battle of Trenton
Lewis K. Parker
The Battle of Trenton
Lewis K. Parker
Level 6-7 Mild
The Declaration of Independence
Jon Wilson
The Declaration of Independence
Jon Wilson
Level 6-7 Gentle
Canada
Cari Meister
Canada
Cari Meister
Level 4 Gentle
Modern Nations of the World - Israel (Modern Nations of the World)
Laurel Corona
Modern Nations of the World - Israel (Modern Nations of the World)
Laurel Corona
Level 10-11 Moderate
Delaware
Jay D. Winans
Delaware
Jay D. Winans
Level 7-8 Gentle
Yellowstone National Park
Audra Wallace
Yellowstone National Park
Audra Wallace
Level 5-6 Gentle
Hostage to War
Tatjana Wassiljewa
Hostage to War
Tatjana Wassiljewa
Level 4-5 Moderate
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- The Last Stand
- Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
- The Haitian Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
- Negro's Civil War How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union
- Ireland
- Greek warriors
- Aztec warriors
- Plateau Indians
- What's great about Kentucky?
- Geography Matters in Ancient Rome
- The Holocaust
- Barbarians
- Conquistadors
- Vikings
- Angels of Bataan and Corregidor
- Black Sunday Dust Blizzard
- Elizebeth Friedman
- Daring Women of D-Day
- Virginia Hall
- Past Pandemics and COVID-19
- Rise of the Black Lives Matter Movement
- The Civil Rights Movement Revisited
- Benjamin Franklin
- Chief Joseph
- Daniel Boone
- The Snowman
- Berlin
- People of the first cities
- The Battle of Lexington and Concord
- The Warsaw ghetto uprising
- Hiroshima
- Expedition Whydah
- History on trial
- Napoleon
- New York, the Empire State
- Classics.
- Voices of Northern Ireland
- Oxford children's book of the 20th century
- The young Oxford history of Britain & Ireland
- Tragic prelude
- Let's visit England
- Let's visit South Africa
- Let's visit the Pacific Islands
- In another country
- The wheel of life
- Children During the Nazi Reign
- Minor omissions
- The Holocaust in three generations
- No time to wave goodbye
- The gold rush
- Acky.
- Australia
- Sailing the wine-dark sea
- September 11
- The cruelest miles
- Custer's last stand
- The commandos of World War II
- Founding mothers
- Hiding to Survive
- The discoveries of Esteban the Black.
- A grateful nation
- Land and liberty; the Mexican Revolution (1910-1919).
- Movies and conduct.
- Representing the Holocaust in children's literature
- Fairy tales and the art of subversion
- A day in Japan
- The Japanese Canadians
- Picture history of the world
- Extraordinary young people
- The Onondaga
- The Pawnee
- The Shoshoni
- The Cheyenne
- The Gambia
- Libya
- Charles Eastman
- Michigan in words and pictures
- South Dakota in words and pictures
- Wilma P. Mankiller
- Rhodesia
- The story of the Little Bighorn
- The story of the Oregon Trail
- Battle of the Coral Sea
- The Battle of Antietam
- Saudi Arabia
- Madagascar
- Beyond the Mississippi
- Ethiopia.
- The Nile River
- The Stamp Act
- The Easter Rising, Dublin, 1916
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Alexander Hamilton
- Thomas Jefferson
- Jesse Jackson
- Intruders within
- Journal of a revolutionary war woman
- Argentina under Juan Peron
- Child labor
- Imperial Rome
- Middle East
- The origins of World War I
- Crusaders
- The Netherlands
- Julius Caesar
- Flags of our fathers
- Twentieth century history
- Exploring the Titanic
- In the Days of the Salem Witchcraft Trials
- The Treasure Hunting Book
- George Washington and Presidents' Day
- Indians of the Great Plains
- When fathers ruled
- How the colonists lived
- Here is Alaska
- D Day: June 6, 1944
- Nothing like it in the world
- Brave journey
- Children of the sun
- When Johnny went marching
- East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
- Washington vs. Main Street
- Understanding Africa
- Invisible People and Processes
- Alaska facts and symbols
- Washington, D.C. facts and symbols
- Mississippi facts and symbols
- The Louisiana Purchase
- Jewish immigrants, 1880-1924
- Ohio
- Illinois
- The Roman empire
- Daily Life - Apache Warriors (Daily Life)
- The 1950s
- The 1980's
- Comrades
- Band of brothers
- The Zuni
- The Sioux and their history
- The price of freedom
- Ancient Egyptian Places (People and Places Series)
- Lebanese Americans
- Michigan
- Meet the Webbers of Philadelphia
- Nepal
- Culture, socialization and human development
- The Panama Canal in American history
- Lusty winter
- A slave family
- Renaissance & Reformation.
- Dawn of man
- The Netherlands
- The search for the Northwest passage
- The Teton Sioux
- Christopher Columbus
- Bound for glory 1910-1930
- Building the Panama Canal
- Greece
- Japanese Americans
- Israel (Modern World Nations)
- What's the deal?
- Behold the child
- Wampum
- The last full measure
- A life wild and perilous
- Breaking ground, breaking silence
- The winter soldiers
- Divided loyalties
- What are little girls made of?
- A bicultural heritage
- Joseph Stalin and Communist Russia.
- Journey of hope
- Emancipation in late medieval Florence
- Into the open
- Early settlements
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- African Americans During the Civil War (Slavery in the Americas)
- Mystery in Peru
- Minutes to live
- The royal roads
- Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- The mound builders
- The collector's guide to American Indian artifacts
- Daily life in ancient and modern Beijing
- Great puzzles of history
- Arctic hunter
- Yukon gold
- The Declaration of Independence
- Marbury V. Madison
- My dear husband
- Her story, her words
- The Declaration of Independence and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia
- The covenant people
- This great nation
- Canada
- Our century.
- The Greeks
- The California missions
- The childrenaccuse
- Children of the Holocaust
- Australia is my country
- Japan is my country
- A journey through New Mexico history
- The Normans
- Nuclear weapons
- Gold fever
- Villages
- Fate of the artful dodger
- U.S. Navy ships and Coast Guard cutters
- Katharine Walton
- A Florentine merchant
- What do we know about the Romans?
- The Romans
- Hitler's war against the Jews
- Los Angeles
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- Hollywoodland U.S.A.
- The Carpatho-Rusyn Americans
- The Central Americans
- The Cuban Americans
- Chronicle of Jewish history
- Man in Africa and South America.
- One more border
- Texas, All Hail the Mighty State
- The great storm
- Germany
- Battle of Britain
- The Baltic States
- Vidas cubanas
- The Georgia studies book
- American maritime documents, 1776-1860, illustrated and described
- The first people of Maryland
- Stagecoach Santa
- King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
- Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th president of the United States
- Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States
- Zimbabwe, a new history
- Arch of fire
- Little rhymes by Hans Christian Andersen
- Tatanka And the Lakota People
- The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
- John F. Kennedy's inaugural speech
- Bigfoot
- 1607
- Shadow Ride
- March
- Constantine
- Arkansas and the land
- The story of the U.S. Naval Academy
- The White House
- The Crash of 1929
- The dust bowl
- The righteous gentiles
- The inquisition
- The French Revolution
- The Crimean War
- The attack on Pearl Harbor
- Prohibition
- The Battle of Gettysburg
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
- The Mexican-American War
- The 1930s
- The 1970s
- Weapons of war
- Life as a POW
- Life of an American soldier in Europe
- Life on the Underground Railroad
- Lost Civilizations - Aztecs (Lost Civilizations)
- Ethiopia
- U.S. Army Rangers
- Bomber planes
- Kentucky
- Growing up in America, 1830-1860
- The Apaches
- A historical album of Colorado
- Les trois cochons
- Picture the Middle Ages
- Rwanda
- Inferno
- The Battle of Long Island
- Cuba
- The Anglo-Saxons
- Pearl Harbor
- Encyclopedia of Russian & Slavic myth and legend
- Morocco
- Armed forces
- The incredible journey to the mummy's tomb
- The war at home
- Primary numbers
- The cotton candy catastrophe at the Texas State Fair
- Alberta
- Manitoba
- An uneasy peace, 1945-1980
- Weapons of peace
- The war in Afghanistan
- Defending the borders
- The Dred Scott decision
- New York
- Life in a medieval castle
- Florida
- Spain
- Roman Conquests (Wars That Changed the World)
- AR made EZ
- Paris
- New Jersey
- The Modern World (Presenting the Past)
- Ancient World
- A New Nation
- Ancient World
- World History
- The Human Journey
- The Human Journey
- The Human Journey
- World History
- World History
- World History
- World History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- Holt Social Studies
- Twelve Year Reich
- The next America
- Special Happenings, Level 12
- World History
- KGB
- Christmas in Williamsburg.
- World History
- World History
- World History
- Jamestown
- The Children We Remember
- Western Experience
- World History
- From Romanov to Gorbachev
- Pacemaker United States History
- Economics
- America
- America
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- History of Our World
- History of Our World
- History of Our World
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World Studies
- World History
- World History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- United States History
- Modern Spyplanes (Combat Arms)
- The Penguin atlas of recent history
- American History 1986
- Straw Fire
- A History of US: Book 10
- Blackline Masters for A History of US
- When children kill children
- Children and Childhood in Roman Italy
- Adopting America
- Let's Visit Austria
- Against their will
- How did your locality change in Victorian times?
- Sydney - DK Eyewitness Travel Guide
- America in World War II: Europe [9 vols]: Normandy 1944 The Battle of the Bulge Operation Cobra 1944 Lorraine 1944 D-Day 1944: Omaha Beach D-Day 1944
- Our Island Story
- The Berlin raids
- 1916
- Toon Town Way' Toon
- Toon Town Laugh 'n' a Half
- Noah and the Ark
- James Gordon
- The Golden Guide Books of Hobbies
- Batman - Fun Pack
- Who Dunnit?
- Juvenile Justice
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Ottoman Empire
- The Imperial War Musuem Book of 1918
- Your World Atlas - North-East England
- The USA and Vietnam, 1945-75 (Access to History)
- Lasting Echoes
- White House Kids
- The Battle of Gettysburg (Turning Points in American History)
- Exploration into North America (Exploration Into...Series)
- THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE (VOL. 1)
- Trappers and Traders of the Far West
- Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (Landmark Books, 85)
- From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
- Modern China: the story of a revolution
- History of the World/Grade 10
- America in World War II
- Michael of Wales
- Heinemann Our World
- Revise Modern World History for AQA Specification B (Modern World History for AQA)
- Britain 1750-1900 (Heinemann History Study Units)
- On The Mayflower
- Woeful Second World War
- Four girls from Berlin
- America the beautiful.
- John Paul Jones, Victory at Sea
- British Columbia (Discover Canada)
- African-Americans in the thirteen colonies
- Bombers of World War II (Wings of War)
- Fighter Planes of World War II (Wings of War)
- The Medal of Honor
- The Boston Tea Party (Cornerstones of Freedom)
- Extraordinary Hispanic Americans (Extraordinary People (Paperback))
- Pennsylvania
- The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Cornerstones of Freedom
- Travel Back in Time
- Children in time and place
- The Failed Century of the Child
- The sins of the fathers
- The reason why
- Kings of the Bs
- Combat Leaders of World War II
- Passport to Great Britain
- Ancient Greeks (Worldwise)
- Grand Teton National Park
- Yellowstone National Park
- Prisoners of War
- The vicar's garden, or, The Greek medal
- The U.S. presidents
- Vikings (BBC Fact Finders Series)
- Modern World History (GCSE Bitesize Revision)
- Kids in ancient Egypt
- Nightmare!
- The Ganges
- To Be a Slave (Point)
- Exploring the Titanic
- Jesse Jackson
- Black hands, white sails
- Classics
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- 100 Events That Shaped World History
- Maya (History Opens Windows (Paperback))
- Sarah Winnemucca (Raintree-Rivilo American Indian Stories)
- Maine (Portrait of America)
- Arkansas
- Battle of the Alamo (Cornerstones of Freedom (Sagebrush))
- The 60s reader
- The many lives of Benjamin Franklin
- Code-Name Downfall
- Scribner Desk Dictionary of American Biography
- Lincoln
- Making a difference
- A new nation
- Red Legs
- Horatio
- The glorious hour of Lt. Monroe
- Breaking The Chains
- Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
- Growing up Black in Britain
- Horrible History of the World (newspaper Edition)
- Gruesome Great Houses
- Invisible People and Processes
- Policing Youth
- U.S. Army Special Operations (Serving Your Country)
- Egypt
- Kentucky / Patricia K. Kummer.
- A Look at Germany (Our World)
- Look at Vietnam
- Our flag
- Headlines in History - The 1100s (hardcover edition) (Headlines in History)
- The Great Depression
- Human Rights
- The Cold War period, 1945-1992
- The 1960s
- Terrorism
- 1965
- The Rwanda genocide
- 1800-1820
- Superpredators
- Children's Hospital Boston
- Touch of an Angel
- Touch of an Angel
- Indian Nations
- Indian Nations
- The Western Wall and other Jewish Holy Places
- History
- Stolen Youth
- Great History Search (Great Searches)
- British Children's Fiction in the Second World War
- History Explorer
- Global Football (World Cup Edition)
- The Middle East
- The Middle Ages, 1154-1485
- Pirates
- France (First Reports Countries)
- Johnny Appleseed (Tall Tales)
- Now and long ago
- We the people
- The split history of the Civil War
- Today's U.S. Navy
- America 24/7 State Book Wire Display
- Forty-Niners: The Story of the California Gold Rush (Cover-to-Cover Chapter Books: Settling the West)
- Ancient China (Reading Essentials in Social Studies)
- Ancient Egyptian Places (People and Places Series)
- Riches Of The West
- Celebrate the States - Group 2
- Puerto Ricans
- India
- China
- Chile
- Exploring Cultures of the World - Group 5
- Kentucky
- American Voices from World War II (American Voices from)
- North across the border
- Lewis and Clark
- Bulgaria
- Monaco
- Mississippi
- Hong Kong
- AP World History Flash Cards
- Lewis and Clark's journey of discovery in American history
- The 1920s
- Master AP US History 2002 (Master the Ap Us History Test)
- Master AP European History 2002
- Master the AP US History, 1st edition
- Steel Across the Shield
- The Jews
- Space Flight (The Story of Flight, 12)
- Women Warriors Hidden in History
- Red River to Appomattox (Shelby Foote, the Civil War, a Narrative)
- Voices of the Civil War
- Growing Up in Ancient Greece (Growing Up in Series)
- Skaka
- Civil War Quiz Book
- Timelines of African-American History
- Great Depression
- Goebbels
- Cuban Americans
- What They Fought For, 1861-1965
- Timelines of War
- Little History of the World
- Renaissance & Reformation.
- The Know-nothings
- Young Astronomer Activity Kit
- Mummies and the secrets of ancient Egypt
- Yemen (Let's Visit Places and Peoples of the World Series)
- Territories and Possessions
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Alain Locke
- Harry S. Truman
- Pursuing the dream
- Braving the New World, 1619-1784
- Julius Caesar
- Struggle and Love
- The Shoshone
- Spain (Major World Nations Series)
- Indians of North America
- Sacred Sites and Repatriation (Contemporary Native American Issues)
- The Cherokees (Indians of North America)
- Indonesia (Modern World Nations)
- Point/Counterpoint Issues in Contemporary American Society Set, 24-Volumes
- How They Work
- Oklahoma History!
- Idaho
- Maine
- 90 minutes in heaven
- Journeys from Childhood to Midlife
- Sesame Street and the reform of children's television
- Showa
- I, Columbus
- Unsung heroes of World War II
- Tales of the Hopi Indians
- Every man will do his duty
- Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine
- Imperial reckoning
- The hawk and the dove
- Red summer
- The graves are walking
- Displaced Person
- Lighthouse Mystery
- The Secret of Red Gate Farm (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, No 6)
- Picture Book of Louisiana
- By Birth or Consent
- Andrew Jackson
- Peoples of the world.
- Vietnam War Literature
- Canada
- The Egyptian Book of the dead
- The History of Surfing
- Rommel's desert war
- The American Child
- Imagined orphans
- Child Soldiers in the Western Imagination
- Children's Nature
- Orphans and destitute children in the late Ottoman Empire
- A Brief History Of Korea (Brief History)
- Encyclopedia Of The Supreme Court
- Winning Lacrosse for Girls (Winning Sports for Girls)
- Presidents
- Dictionary of wars
- Jamestown
- The Golden Road (Portrait of the Soviet Union)
- Moscow
- South Africa, free at last
- The search for lost cities
- Explorers
- Freedom Fighters Teacher's Guide
- World History Teacher's Resource Binder (World History)
- Saddam Hussein's Iraq
- Hawaii
- An Apache Indian Community (The Rosen Publishing Group's Reading Room Collection)
- Lebanon's Hezbollah (Inside the World's Most Infamous Terrorist Organizations)
- The Populist Party
- The Sherman Antitrust Act
- The Whiskey Rebellion
- Francisca Alvarez
- Sitting Bull
- Wild Bill Hickok
- The Louisiana Purchase
- The Republican Party in the Late 1800s
- Communism
- Monarchy
- The Six-Day War (War and Conflict in the Middle East)
- The Library of Living and Working in Colonial Times
- Short Lessons in World History
- Our New Mexico
- Anne Frank
- Everyday Life in Early America
- Europe (Regional Studies)
- Exploring American History Student Workbook
- The Middle East and North Africa (Global Studies)
- Focus on East Asia (Global Studies)
- Africa Teacher Resource Manual (Global Studies)
- Mysterious Mummies (History Hunters)
- The Story of the Selvino Children
- Children of the Holocaust
- Round the World
- France - the culture (Lands, Peoples, and Cultures)
- Life on a plantation
- Chronicle of North Carolina During American Revolution, 1763-1789
- A Samurai Warrior (How They Lived)
- Native People of Wisconsin (New Badger History)
- Explorers of the Ancient World
- World history for children and young adults
- Being Present
- Writing British infanticide
- The Guernica generation
- My Grandmother's Treasure/Cassette
- Charles Eastman
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau (World Leaders : Past and Present)
- The Story of Our Flags
- Black Soldiers in the Civil War Coloring Book
- Story of California and Her Flags to Color (Story of California)
- Texas cowboys
- Latin America and U.S. foreign policy
- How Marten got his spots
- Nelly Custis
- History of the Thirteenth Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry U.S.A.
- Johnson City
- Tweetsie
- Memory Book of Polish Jewry
- Plants and animals of Hawaii
- Depression Kids
- History of women for children
- Walk in peace
- 1000 : 1 Odds
- They Walked the Earth
- The California Gold Rush
- Roast Beef in April an Autobiographical Sketch of the '30's & '40's
- Hope and have, or, Fanny Grant among the Indians
- A student's dictionary & gazetteer
- Arthur Celebrity Audiobook (Stories for Heroes Series) (Stories for Heroes)
- Lake Rhymes
- Catapult Design, Construction And Competition With the Projectile Throwing Engines of the Ancients
- Buccaneers & Pirates of Our Coasts
- Childhood in World History
- Erosion of Childhood
- Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World
- Reform and Resistance
- Children, Race, and Power
- Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature
- Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History
- The poisoned city
- The seabird's cry
- Girl Who Sang
- Childhood in World History
- Colonial Childhoods
- Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
- Life in an Egyptian Town (Picture the Past)
- Critical Perspectives on 9/11
- The Lincoln-Douglas senatorial debates of 1858
- Prosecuting trusts
- Government regulation of the railroads
- The Federal Reserve Act
- The Department of Energy (This Is Your Government)
- The Treaty of Paris, 1783
- The Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794
- Domestic Spying/Wiretap (In the News)
- Secret Societies (Mysteries and Conspiracies)
- Pocahontas
- Dublin
- Top 10 Copenhagen
- Greek warriors
- Aztec warriors
- Savage Sticker Book
- New York Student Edition -P (History Around You)
- Africa
- The Life of a Bean (Life Cycles (Perspectives))
- Riding the Rails
- How We Use Coal (Using Materials)
- How We Use Oil (Using Materials)
- Reach for the Stars: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids (Raintree Fusion: World History)
- España
- Gladiators and Roman soldiers
- The Story of Benjamin Franklin, Amazing American
- Industrial Revolution Cumulative Index
- The Bird Woman Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition
- Snoops In The Attic
- The Old Negro and The New Negro by T. LeRoy Jefferson, MD
- Epic rivalry
- George vs. George
- Samurai
- Texas history
- Philippines
- Culture, religion, and the reintegration of female child soldiers in northern Uganda
- The little light shines bright
- Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
- Women's Suffrage
- Boston Tea Party
- Diplomacy
- Boy Nevada Killed
- City of Big Shoulders
- Pirate Handbook
- Letters of Note : Volume 2
- Interesting Times
- Young Folks' History of England
- Legendary Locals of Alamogordo
- Tobe : a Critical Edition
- Young Victims of the Nazi Regime
- When Daddy Came Home
- Four Hundred Souls
- George Washington
- Really Horrible History Jokes
- What Went Wrong?
- Canadian Symbols
- Apacheria
- Escape to Sweden 1943
- Joining the California Gold Rush
- Delaware
- Texas
- Exploremos China
- Exploremos Japón (Let's Explore Japan) (Bumba Books ® en español ― Exploremos países (Let's Explore Countries)) (Spanish Edition)
- Our Families
- Fighting Forces of World War II in the Air
- Where Poppies Grow
- Shapes
- Old Farm, New Farm!/Audio Cassette and Book
- Peoples and Nations of Asia
- Senegal
- Louisa May Alcott
- The Art of the Catapult
- Of courage undaunted
- Treasures from Spain
- Life in an Eskimo village
- Issues in Immigration (Way People Live Series)
- Ireland
- Life of a Nazi soldier
- Life of a Roman soldier
- The Korean War
- Ethiopia
- Maryland
- German
- Aircraft carriers
- The Ancient Rome Discovery Kit
- Black voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877
- The Maya
- Behind The Lines
- The Romans
- Food Power
- What did knights wear in the day? (Mickey wonders why)
- How people lived
- North American Indian wars
- Clovis Crawfish and the Spinning Spider/Clovis Crawfish and the Curious Crapaud
- Clovis Crawfish and the Big Betail/Clovis Crawfish and the Orphan Zo-Zo
- Chicago (The Great Cities Library)
- Tribes of Native America - Chumash (Tribes of Native America)
- The World Today
- The Lincoln Memorial
- Slavery
- History Safari
- Sunflowers in the sand
- The Broadway Kids Sing America
- Consuming the Congo
- Pacific Neighbors
- Guam
- A History of Guam
- Guam
- A History of Guam
- Hawaii, the Pacific State
- Citizenship
- Halloween
- Halloween
- Multimedia Research Tool Makes 400-Year-Old Exploits Come Alive (ABC-Clio's Resourcelink Series)
- Japan (Countries)
- Afghanistan (Countries)
- Heritage Studies 6
- Undersea Creatures - Sea Turtle
- Rulers Of The Nile Prince
- Rulers Of The Nile Princess
- Rulers Of The Nile Prince
- Rulers Of The Nile Princess
- Medieval Fantasy Unicorn Doll
- Nevada
- Ohio
- West Virginia
- I is for island
- Easy Reference Conversion Table
- Hieroglyphics
- Voices of the dust bowl
- Quebec
- Modern Nations of the World - North Korea (Modern Nations of the World)
- Modern Nations of the World - Finland (Modern Nations of the World)
- Modern Nations of the World - United Arab Emirates (Modern Nations of the World)
- The Constitution (U.S. Documents)
- Arab Wars and Treaties
- Territories and Possessions
- The Chinese Americans (Immigrant Experience)
- The Cuban Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
- The Italian Americans (The Immigrant Experience)
- Kids for cash
- The Story of Mankind (Cosimo Classics History)
- Everyday Life
- When Will My Mommy Come? World & Cross-Cultural Philosophy
- Mongol warriors
- Empire of the Aztecs
- Great battles of the Civil War
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Betsy Ross
- Hard Times in Ireland
- Gold Rush
- Election Of 1800
- Benjamin Franklin
- Life During the American Civil War
- Critical Perspectives on Natural Disasters
- Assassination of James A. Garfield
- China
- Nobody's boy
- Raising secular Jews
- Alvarez
- Genocide and the Bosnian War
- Boston Tea Party
- Suicide Bombers
- Irish Republican Army
- The American Civil War in Texas
- Mississippi
- New Hampshire
- Choctaw
- Daring Coast Guard Rescue of the Pendleton Crew
- Mexico
- Guatemala
- The British Are Coming
- Why Homer matters
- Day the President Was Shot
- Israel
- Women with Wings
- Essence of Buddhism
- Accidental Farmer
- To the Bomb and Back
- World of Children
- Sky Atlas
- The Encyclopedia of the Ancient Americas
- Indonesia
- Britain, 1066-1500 (Focus on Gifted and Talented)
- KS3 History Dictionary
- Heroic Children of World War One
- Lost Countries of South America
- Attack Warning Red
- Everyday Utopia
- Last children of the Raj
- Real Victorians (Digital Time Traveller)
- 10 Minute Histories
- Personal perspectives.
- Neurochemistry
- American Indian warrior chiefs
- The Making of Modern Russia
- Military Badges and Insignia.
- Step Into Ancient Egypt
- Chinese Empire
- Fishing for islands
- Governing and teaching
- You Can Be a Woman Egyptologist
- You Are the General
- Land of Morning Calm
- The expeditions of Lewis & Clark and Zebulon Pike
- Play Ball
- Mozart to Go (Mozart Effect Music for Children)
- Fabulous Fantastic Fruit
- Children of the Labouring Poor
- Hidden in the Sands - Arabic
- The words to remember it
- Explorers - 1815 Cards
- Heroes of American History
- A cleaner port, a brighter future
- Let's Celebrate!
- Family Secrets
- Mountain Madness
- Presidents' Day
- With gifted thinkers
- Women in Greek tragedy
- Models of charitable care
- Saving the Child
- The Texas Rangers
- Country Store
- World History
- Folk
- Zoos
- A Kibbutz in Israel (Families Around the World)
- The Second Indochina War
- Who Really Discovered America?
- The Holocaust
- Best of Enemies
- Mexican Americans
- South Central
- The West
- Boy Who Gave His Lunch Away and the Fisherman's Surprise (59km2108)
- Fire on the Water
- W.E.B. Dubois
- The Seminole
- Erie Canal
- I Can't Take It Any More
- Archaeology of North America
- Harriet Tubman (Autobiographical)
- The Valley of the Kings
- The American Indians in America
- The Koreans in America (In America Series)
- Rip Van Winkle Read by Angelica Huston
- The Constitution of the United States
- From Framing of Constitution to Walker's Appeal
- Umbrella
- Modern Hawaiian History
- The Revolutionary War
- Plants
- Railways and Trains
- Roundheads and Cavaliers
- All the Way Home
- Carlota
- Vision Quest
- Black Pioneers in American History
- How Would a Nuclear War Begin
- Adventure Trails
Questions parents ask about history books
- What are the best history books for kids?
- HootRated catalogs 1,025 history children's books spanning picture books through Grade 12. Each is rated on reading level and content intensity. The picks above are sorted by quality signals — hook factor, discussion potential, and content appropriateness.
- Are history books appropriate for sensitive readers?
- 825 books (80%) are rated Gentle or Mild — safe for sensitive readers. 35 (3%) are rated Intense or Very Intense. Average intensity is 1.7/5. Filter by intensity badge to match your child's emotional readiness.
- What reading level are history books?
- History books in our catalog span picture books through Grade 12. The typical reading level lands around Grade 5. Reading level measures text difficulty — separate from content intensity, which measures emotional weight. The two often don't track together for gifted readers — the Gifted Kid Paradox.