Start with high-confidence modern history for kids books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
When Plague Strikes
James Cross Giblin
Air Raid--pearl Harbor!
Theodore Taylor
Guts & Glory: World War II
Ben Thompson
Titanic
Mary Pope Osborne, Will Osborne
Laura Driscoll
What Is the Coronavirus Disease COVID-19?
Michael Burgan
What Was World War I?
Nico Medina, Who HQ
What Was the Industrial Revolution?
Jim E. Gigliotti
Eyewitness World War II
DK, D.K. Publishing
The Kingfisher Atlas of the Modern World
Simon Adams
World War II
Mary Pope Osborne, Natalie Pope Boyce
Remember D-day
Ronald J. Drez
Who’s in Charge? Systems of Power: Saudi Arabia
Sonya Newland
1493 for Young People
Charles Mann
The Struggle for Sea Power
M. B. Synge
The Incredible '60s
Jules Archer
Story of the World, Vol. 4 Revised Edition
Susan Wise Bauer
