Entering Grade 7
BIOGRAPHY
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It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)
by Trevor Noah Trevor Noah, the funny guy who hosts The Daily Show on Comedy Central, shares his remarkable story of growing up in South Africa with a black South African mother and a white European father at a time when it was against the law for a mixed-race child to exist. |
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Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) A True Story of the Fight for Justice
by Brian Stevenson Lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom. |
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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei Takei revisits his haunting childhood in American concentration camps, as one of over 100,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned by the U.S. government during World War II. Told in a black and white graphic novel format. |
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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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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 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) |