Entering Grade 7
BIOGRAPHY
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Shoe Dog (Young Readers Edition)
by Phil Knight The autobiography of Nike entrepreneur Phil Knight. |
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March (books 1-3)
by John Lewis A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. |
 
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How they Choked: Failures. Flops and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
by Georgia Bragg Everyone fails sometimes, but to make you feel better about it, here are a few biographical insights to some famous “epic fails” including: Marco Polo, Isaac Newton, Amelia Earhart and “Shoeless Joe” Jackson. (nonfiction) |
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Hidden Figures (Young Reader’s Edition)
by Margot Lee Shetterly The story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who propelled humankind into space in the 1950s. |
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Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
by Sungju Lee A memoir of a boy's life growing up on the streets of North Korea. |
 
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
by William Kamkwamba & Brian Mealer When drought and famine strike William's Malawi village and threatens their way of life, this young man steps up and engineers a solution. (nonfiction) |
 
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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery
by Steve Sheinkin Highlights Arnold’s heroic involvement in the American Revolution as well as his legendary traitorous actions. (nonfiction) |
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible . . . on Schindler's List
by Leon Leyson The only memoir of a Schindler’s List child: Leon is ten when his family is moved by the Nazis to a concentration camp, but is saved when Oskar Schindler enlists him to work in one of his factories. |