Entering Grade 7
HISTORICAL FICTION
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Towers Falling
by Jewell Parker Rhodes While learning about September 11th, fifth grader Dèja (born after the attacks) realizes how much the events still color her world. |
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Refugee by Alan Gratz (recommended for students taking Fessenden’s Innovation Studio elective)
The action packed story of three different refugees spanning three different decades and continents escape bombings, starvation, and gassing. |
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. |
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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. |
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Heart of a Samurai
by Margi Preus In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States. |
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Wolf Hollow
by Lauren Wolk Betty Glengarry bullies Annabelle mercilessly, until one day she disappears and Annabelle’s protective friend Toby becomes the prime suspect. |
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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. |
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Code Talker
by Joseph Bruchac A novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II and their vital secret mission. |
 
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Listen, Slowly
by Thanha Lai Mai just wants to spend her summer on the beach, but parents reluctantly returns to Vietnam with her parents and grandmother 40 years after the Vietnam War to discover what may have happened to her long lost grandfather. |
 
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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) |