Look at historical graphic novels - some of them are great! I usually look online at award winners, etc

Anonymous wrote:I found Joy Hakim's History of the US series very readable for middle school.

This!! I got the recommendation from DCUM and bought when schools first shut down They are awesome. It is a set of 11 books.

My kids are 8 and 10 and we help them work through a chapter per day reading aloud to us and then we discuss and make some questions for them to answer. These are thorough books for an elementary school child but a middle schooler with interest could navigate them independently.

I found Joy Hakim's History of the US series very readable for middle school.

Anonymous wrote:Go to bookshark.com. It’s homeschool curriculum, but you don’t have to buy the curriculum. Just select a time period and browse the book lists. Then purchase whatever you want from wherever you want.

For example, The Golden Goblet is an excellent novel set in Ancient Egypt. My 11 year old is reading Across Five Aprils, about the Civil War.

This is a great suggestion. I homeschooled my 11 year old for a year, and discovered some great historical fiction through Bookshark.

I just read this because I think I missed world history when I moved in middle school. Very readable.

Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide (Big Fat Notebooks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761160949/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_YbTmFb8CQN72R

My MS enjoyed the YA version of Unbroken

You Choose books. They are like choose your own adventure b but for history. There are You Choose books for the Civil War, Titanic, WW2 etc.

Go to bookshark.com. It’s homeschool curriculum, but you don’t have to buy the curriculum. Just select a time period and browse the book lists. Then purchase whatever you want from wherever you want.

For example, The Golden Goblet is an excellent novel set in Ancient Egypt. My 11 year old is reading Across Five Aprils, about the Civil War.

Anonymous wrote:Not OP, but thank you, all! Just bought a Horrible Histories set for my Nathan Hale obsessed child.

There’s also the tv show, available on amazon prime. It’s really funny.

Not OP, but thank you, all! Just bought a Horrible Histories set for my Nathan Hale obsessed child.