Heros In Books For Middle Schoolers
Public and private, men and women of all backgrounds who face new challenges with unexpected backbone.
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| Author | Title | |
| Aiken, Joan | Is Underground | |
| Is wants to know why the children of London are disappearing and how to rescue them. | ||
| Farmer, Nancy | A Girl Named Disaster | |
| An eleven-year-old flees from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an arranged marriage. | ||
| Fletcher, Susan | Shadow Spinner | |
| Marjan vows to save the life of Scharazade. | ||
| Haddix, Margaret | Running Out of Time | |
| When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, Jessie discovers that the time is really 1996. | ||
| Howker, Janni | Nature of the Beast | |
| The moors are unsafe - but one boy knows of the strange beast killing the livestock. | ||
| Philbrick, Rodman | Freak the Mighty | |
| In the eighth grade, Max and his classmate Freak, who is the size of a four-year-old, team up against bullies and fate. | ||
| Seidler, Tor | Wainscot Weasel | |
| Zeke Whitebelly will be a hero if he saves the beautiful fish, Bridget. | ||
| Shannon, Jacqueline | I Hate My Hero | |
When Rachel's best friend saves her from choking, their friendship suffers. |
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| Spinelli, Jerry | Wringer | |
| When Palmer turns 10, he must become a "Wringer" for the town's annual Pigeon Day, or be brave enough to refuse. | ||
| Taylor, Theodore | The Trouble with Tuck | |
| Helen's dog has saved her life twice - can she save him when he goes blind? | ||
| Temple, Frances | Grab Hands and Run | |
12-year-old Felipe and his mother and sister escape from El Salvador to Canada. |
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| Voigt, Cynthia | Jackaroo | |
| Gwen doesn't believe in the masked Jackaroo - until she becomes him. | ||
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| Call Number | Author | Title | ||
| 325.2 L578f | Levine, Ellen | Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories | ||
| Meet some of the children and teenagers who took part in the American Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. | ||||
| 364.106 V87 | Atkin, S. Beth | Voices From the Streets; Young Former Gang Members Tell Their Stories | ||
| Why kids join gangs, and how some get out, in their own words. | ||||
| 398.2 H18h | Hamilton, Virginia | Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy tales and True Stories | ||
| African-American fairy tales, animal stories, supernatural tales, legends and true stories of the female kind. | ||||
| 629.13 L578c | Levi, Steven C. | Cowboys of the Sky: The Story of Alaska's Bush Pilots | ||
| They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, corpses strapped to the wing, and a drugged polar bear in the cargo hold! | ||||
| 796.4 R835k | Krull, Kathleen | Wilma Unlimited | ||
| The triumphant story of a girl with polio who becomes the fastest woman in the world, Wilma Rudolph. | ||||
| 808.81 In1d | Steptoe, Javaka (Illis.) | In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: An African-American Celebration of Fathers | ||
| Deeply felt and humorous poems accompanied by knockout art create memorable images of fathers. | ||||
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Armstrong, Jennifer | Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance | ||
| In 1914, this Antarctic exploration went deadly wrong. The crew's survival is a grand triumph over tragedy. | ||||
| 920 B7639at | Bridges, Ruby | Through My Eyes: The Autobiography of Ruby Bridges | ||
At six years old, Ruby Bridges gained national attention in the integration of the New Orleans public schools. |
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| 920 C711h | Hart, Philip S. | Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman | ||
| In 1920, Bessie Coleman traveled to France to become the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license. | ||||
| 920 K261as | Kehret, Peg | Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio | ||
The author was 13 when she came down with three different kinds of polio. |
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| 920 L64d2 | Denenberg, Barry | An American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh | ||
| Most Americans know the myth of Charles Lindbergh; the real story is both fascinating and disturbing. | ||||
| 920 Og7b | O'Grady, Scott | Basher Five-Two | ||
| After U.S. Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady was shot down over Bosnia, he had to evade capture and survive alone in enemy territory with little water and no food. | ||||
| 940.5315 M496r | Meltzer, Milton | Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust | ||
| People of many backgrounds fought bravely to save Jews from Nazi extermination. | ||||
| 940.54 M217r | McKissack, Patricia and Frederick | Red Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airman of World War II | ||
| The first African-Americans to fly for the U.S. Air Force brought home 150 military awards, yet they were part of an experiment that many people expected to fail. | ||||
| 942.01 An29q | Andronik, Catherine | Quest for a King: The Search for King Arthur | ||
| What do we know about this hero? Could he have really lived? | ||||
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