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Explore history together through children’s literature, everyday objects, and hands-on activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History OurStory website.

The books mentioned on this site are an array of levels. This chart can help in finding books that are appropriate for each level…

Pre-primary
early primary	Carmen Lomas Garza Alma Flor Ada Patricia Polacco Hear My Voice (Testimonies of Children Detained at the Southern Border of the United States) for Project Amplify Mi Pueblo Se Llama San Agustin por Abraham Mauricio Salazar A Boy and A Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz My Diary From Here to There by Amada Irma Perez My Papa Diego and Me by Guadalupe Rivera Marin
intermediate primary	Allen Say Sandra Cisneros Uri Shulevitz Leaving China Ken Mochizuki Gary Soto Margarita Engle Sylvia Acevedo Path to the Stars Margaret Pokiak-Fenton Little White Duck by Na Liu & Andres Vera Martinez A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova Dare To Disappoint by Ozge Samanci The Wall by Peter Sis Calling the Doves (El Canto de las palomas) by Juan Felipe Herrera and Elly Simmons Orani by Claire Nivola Mao and Me by Chen Jiang Hong The Darkest Dark by Chris Hadfield
secondary	Victor Villaseñor The Distance Between Us memoir of Reyna Grande The Nation Must Awake by Mary E. Jones Parrish Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka Rex Ogle A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley Child Soldier by Michel Chikwanine I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero Normal by Magdalena & Nathaniel Newman
adult	Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Joseph M. Marshall III