Entering Grade 7
HISTORICAL FICTION
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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. |
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Refugee
by Alan Gratz The action packed story of three different refugees spanning three different decades and continents escape bombings, starvation, and gassing. |
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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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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) |