Sunday, May 27, 2007

War - Books for 6-8 Grades

The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark by Carmen Agra Deedy
A king's defiance of the Nazis protected and inspired his nation.






Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez









Thura's Diary: My Life in Wartime Iraq by Thura Al-Windawi









Lost in the War by Nancy Antle









In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Jennifer Armstrong









Don't You Know There's a War On? by Avi









North by Night: A Story of the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayers










No Man's Land: A Young Soldier's Story by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer









Charlie Pippin by Candy Dawson Boyd









For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley









Runs with Horses by Brian Burks









Disappearing Acts by Betsy Cromer Byars












The Perilous Journey of the Donner Party by Marian Calabro










Wolf Shadows by Mary Casanova









My Brother Sam Is Dead by Christopher and James L.Collier









Fighting for Honor: Japanese Americans and World War II by Michael Cooper







Moon over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal by Craig Crist-Evans








A Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets by Bernice E. Cullininan







Gandhi by Demi






Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filipovic








Bull Run by Paul Fleischman









Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman












Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman









And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? by Jean Fritz







Snow Goose by Paul Gallico









The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland







The Great Frog Race and Other Poems by Kristine O'Connell George







Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems by Kristine O'Connell George







Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff









Peregrine by Joan Elizabeth Goodman









Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene









A Girl Called Al by Constance C. Greene









Promises to the Dead by Mary Downing Hahn








Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig









All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot









The Clay Marble by Minfong Ho









Sonny's War by Valerie Hobbs









Why Do They Hate Me? Young Lives Caught in War and Conflict by Laurel Holliday, Editor









At the Sign of the Sugared Plum by Mary Hooper









The Canning Season by Polly Harvath









Farewell to Manzanar by James and Jeanne W. Houston














Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt









The King's Swift Rider: A Novel on Robert the Bruce by Mollie Hunter










A Girl Called Boy by Belinda Hurmence









The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh









Who Were the Founding Fathers? Two Hundred Years of Reinventing American History Steven H. Jaffe






When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr









I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.











A View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg









The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz









Worth by A. LaFaye










To Be a Slave by Julius Lester









The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis










Tug of War by Joan Lindgard

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel









Three Against the Tide by D. Anne Love









The Good Liar by Gregory Maguire










The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson by Ann McGovern








Black Hands, White Sails: The Story of African-American Whalers by Fredrick and Patricia C. McKissack








Young, Black, and Determined: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry by Fredrick and Patricia McKissack







Adem's Cross by Alice Mead








Soldier Mom by Alice Mead









Masada: The Last Fortress by Gloria D. Miklowitz









Secret Letters from 0 to 10 by Susie Morgenstern









Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions by Margaret Musgrove








The Keeping Room by Anna Myers









Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers





Sirena by Donna Jo Napoli








Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis by Pete Nelson








19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye








In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke









A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park








When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park








The Monument by Gary Paulsen








Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers by Gary Paulsen








A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck









The River Between Us by Richard Peck









Strays Like Us by Richard Peck









War and the Pity of War by Neil Philip, Editor








Let It Shine! Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney







Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney








Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco







Across the Lines by Carolyn Reeder








Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reader








The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss








Amelia's War by Ann Rinaldi








Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet








Strudel Stories by Joanne Rocklin










After the Dancing Days by Margaret I. Rostkowski








Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling








Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan








Waiting to Waltz, a Childhood: Poems by Cynthia Rylant







Grassroots: Poems by Carl Sandburg by Carl Sandburg

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt








Downsiders by Neal Shusterman









On the Beach by Nevil Shute









A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein







The War with Grandpa by Robert Kimmel Smith








Shaka, King of the Zulus by Diane Stanley








A Time Apart by Diane Stanley








Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale by John Steptoe







Juneteenth: A Celebration of Freedom by Charles A. Taylor







The Land by Mildred D. Taylor









The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien









Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War by Yukio Tsuchiya






Mathew Brady: Civil War Photographer by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk







Sort of Forever by Sally Warner








A Long Way from Home by Maureen Crane Wartski

Gladiator Richard Watkins





So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins








Miranda's Last Stand by Gloria Whelan








Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun by Arvella Whitmore









Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff








Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson








Millicent Min, Girl Genius by Lisa Yee








Dragonwings by Laurence Yep








Lady of Chi'ao Kuo: Warrior of the South, Southern China, A.D. 531 by Laurence Yep









Encounter by Jane Yolen

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