GRADES 6-8
True Stories
True Stories
Continued
updated: 8/15
Bartoletti, Susan
Campbell
Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow
(j943.086 BAR )
Rubin, Susan
Goldman
Blumenthal, Karen
Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the
Lawless Years of Prohibition (j363.41 BLU)
Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle
for Civil Rights in Mississippi
(j323.1196 RUB)
Sheinkin, Steve
The Bomb: The Race to Build—and
Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous
Weapon (j355.8 SHE)
Bragg, Georgia
How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the
Awfully Famous (j920 BRA)
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers (j978.3 SHE)
How They Choked: Failures, Flops, and
Flaws of the Awfully Famous (j920 BRA)
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True
Story of Adventure, Heroism, & Treachery
(jB Arnold, B.)
Fleming, Candace
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, &
the Fall of Imperial Russia (j947.083 FLE)
Giblin, James
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story
of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth
(jB Booth)
Goldsmith, Connie
Bombs over Bikini: The World’s First
Nuclear Disaster (j363.179 GOL)
Two Miserable Presidents: Everything your
Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You about the Civil
War (j973.7 SHE)
Grogan, John
Marley: A Dog like No Other
(j636.752 GRO)
Which Way to the Wild West?
(J978.02 SHE)
Hopkinson, Deborah
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster
(j910.91634 HOP)
Kamkwamba,
William
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (jB
Kamkwamba)
Leyson, Leon
The Boy on the Wooden Box:
How the Impossible became Possible...
on Schindler’s list (j940.5318 LEY)
Losure, Mary
Mitchell, Don
Murphy, Jim
Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and
the Fight for Civil Rights (j940.54 SHE)
Stone, Tanya Lee
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared
to Dream (j629.45 STO)
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbie:
A Doll’s History and her Impact on Us
(j688.722 STO)
Swanson, James
The Fairy Ring, or, Elsie and Frances
Fool the World (j398.45 LOS)
The President has been Shot!:
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
(j973.922 SWA)
Tsuchiya, Yukio
The Freedom Summer Murders
(j323.1196 MIT)
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of
Animals, People, and War (j940.54 TSU)
Tougias, Mike
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped
Fighting (j940.421 MUR)
The Finest Hours: The True Story of a
Heroic Sea Rescue (j910.452 TOU)
Van Wagenen, Maya
Blizzard!: The Storm that Changed
America ( j974.7 MUR)
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern
Geek (j305.235 VAN)
Wojtyla, Karen
Shark Life: True stories about Sharks
& the Sea (j597.3 WOJ)
Yousafzai, Malala
I am Malala: The Girl who stood up for
Education and was Shot by the Taliban
(B Yousafzai, M.)
Oppenheim, Joanne
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the
Japanese American Incarceration during
World War II and a Librarian Who made
a Difference (j940.5472 OPP)
Romero, Jordan
No Summit out of Sight: The True Story
of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven
Summits (j796.522 ROM)
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GRADES 6-8