Unit 2: The Start of Civilization Novels and Chapter Books

List of chapter books to go with Unit 2 of Big Ideas through History which covers Leaving Africa and Settling Down, The Neolithic Revolution, Inventions and Innovators, and the Sumerians.

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Section 4:
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Leaving Africa and Settling Down

Section 5:
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Neolithic Revolution


Section 6:
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Inventions and Innovators

Peoples II:
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Sumerians

The Kin
The Replacement Chronicles
Survival of the Fittest
Lulit: The L3 Mutator
In the Beginning
Reader’s Theater: First Fire
Hubert Invents the Wheel
Melvin Invents Music
A Is for AARRGH!
Novels of Ancient Sumeria Box Set
The Ox-Boy of Ur: A Trilogy of Ancient Sumer
LAND OF SUMER: Awakening in the Desert
Sargon: A Tale of Old Iraq
Snow Crash
An Ancient Truth
She Wrote on Clay
Eden’s Promise: The Sumerian Chronicles Prequel
Gilgamesh the Hero
An Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts: When the Gods were Human
Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer
The Harps that Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation
New Treasures of Sumerian Literature: When the Moon Fell from the Sky and Other Works
Princess, Priestess, Poet: The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna
Women’s Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Anthology of the Earliest Female Authors