Entering Grade 7

HISTORICAL FICTION

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Freewater
by Amina Luqman-Dawson
Homer and his sister Ada escape from a southern plantation with the help of their mother, but when she is captured returning for Homer's friend, Ada and Homer are forced to leave their mother behind and flee into the Swamps. They end up in a place called Freewater, where the formerly enslaved  have created a free society, but Homer is determined to return to find his mother and bring her back. 
African Town
by Charles Waters and Irene Latham
In 1860, long after the United States outlawed the importation of enslaved laborers, 110 men, women and children from Benin and Nigeria were captured and brought to Mobile, Alabama aboard a ship called Clotilda. They were secretly sold  to various plantations, where they made desperate attempts to maintain both their culture and survive.  At the end of the Civil War, the survivors created a community for themselves they called African Town, which still exists to this day. 
Captain America: The Ghost Army (Original Graphic Novel) 
by Alan Gratz 
Set during World War II, Steve Rogers (AKA Captain America) and his young sidekick, Bucky Barnes, encounter threat like none they've ever seen -- a Ghost Army. The dead of this war and wars past are coming back to life, impervious to bullets, flames, or anything else the Allies can throw at them. The armies rise from the ground in the night and seem to disappear without a trace.
White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R.J. Palacio
Told from the perspective of Julian’s Grandmere, who was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; and how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend.
I Must Betray You
​​by Ruta Sepetys
Living under Nicolae Ceaușescu's brutal dictatorship in Romania 1989, Cristian is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer. He’s left with only two choices: betray everyone and everything he loves—or use his position to creatively undermine the most notoriously evil dictator in Eastern Europe.
The Night Diary
by Veera Hiranandani
In the 1940s a Hindu family whose home, once in India, becomes part of Muslim Pakistan when British colonial rule ends and religious violence erupts between once-peaceful neighbors. ​
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and storytelling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Maus, Volume 1: My Father Bleeds History
by Art Spiegelman
The haunting story of the author's father, a Holocaust survivor, in which the Nazis are cats and Jewish characters are mice. (graphic novel)
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