Developing Perspective Consciousness via Middle Grades Trade Books that Feature the Global South(s): A Case for Using Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again Elizabeth Barrow and Kathryn Caprino Georgia Southern University and Elizabethtown College OUR SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOMS are flled with students from many diferent backgrounds. But do the texts we select for them refect their identities and experiences as well as the diverse world in which we live? This article aims to help middle grades (grades 6-8) social studies teachers consider how trade books that feature the global South can be paired with primary historical texts in order to help students develop perspective consciousness. After articulating the importance of global education and defning perspective consciousness and the global South, we share lesson activities that correlate with Thanhha Lai’s Inside Out and Back Again, a middle grades trade book, that align with the C3 Framework. We also share additional middle grades titles that feature the global South for teachers who want to adapt and modify the lesson activities we ofer for Inside Out and Back Again to other middle grades texts and/or historical periods. The History Teacher Volume 51 Number 2 February 2018 © Barrow and Caprino No one would believe me but at times I would choose wartime in Saigon over peacetime in Alabama. 1