Entering Grade 7

HISTORICAL FICTION

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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.
Salt to The Sea
​by Ruta Sepetys
The tragic story of the Wilhelm Gustloff and the ten thousand souls aboard, as told from multiple perspectives.
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. ​
Refugee
by Alan Gratz 
The action packed  story of three different refugees spanning three different decades and continents escape bombings, starvation, and gassing.
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.
The Inquisitors Tale
by Adam Gidwitz
Occasionally mystical but historically on point: Three children with special talents (and a recently resurrected dog) journey across France to complete a holy mission.
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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