Entering Grade 6
Biography
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Choosing Courage by Peter Collier
Gripping and true accounts of people who demonstrated guts and selflessness on the battlefield and in daily life to make a difference, like Jack Lucas who enlisted in WWII at age 13 and saved lives in the Iwo Jima invasion. (nonfiction) |
 
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Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond by Joseph Medicine Crow and Herman Viola
Trained as a traditional warrior of the Crow people in the early years of the twentieth century, Joseph Medicine Crow did not foresee that he would become War Chief through his deeds on the battlefields of Germany in World War II. (nonfiction) |
 
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The Dumbest Idea Ever! by Jimmy Gownley
In this graphic novel, renowned comics creator Jimmy Gownley shares his adventures as he grows from an eager-to-please boy into a teenage comic book artist. (nonfiction) |
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In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall
When Jimmy McClean goes on a “vision journey” with his grandfather Nyles High Eagle, he learns a lot about his Lakota heritage including stories about one of the most famous Lakota--Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse.) |
 
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Lost on a Mountain in Maine by Donn Fendler and Joseph B. Egan
This memoir begins as Donn grows tired of waiting in the cold fog at the top of Maine’s Mt. Katahdin and decides to hike back alone. A few missteps later and he is thoroughly lost in a dangerous wilderness with few supplies. (nonfiction) |
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The Red Bandanna (Young Reader’s Adaptation) by Tom Rinaldi
Welles Crowther didn’t see himself as a hero. But on September 11, 2001 when his ordinary work day at the World Trade Center in New York turned lethal, he showed those around him how a true hero acts. |