Books+with+specific+topics

__The Great Depression__ __WWII__
 * One of my favorite books is A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. It is set in the Depression. It is perfect for discussions about how people had to live then.
 * Baseball Saved Us. It is a picture book, but very moving and not at all childish. It is about Japanese Americans who were removed to internment camps in WWII and focuses on the xenophobia that allowed that. There are many underlying themes that would generate thoughtful discourse and it is relevant to today's fears of foreigners.