[ISLMA-Share] 7th grade historical fiction

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Dear Patti,

Here are some suggestions.

FIC Rhodes
Sugar

Jewell Parker Rhodes.
book
Rhodes, Jewell Parker.
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Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks
of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day
doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding
her own fun, especially when she joins forces with forbidden friend Billy,
the white plantation owner's son. Sugar has always yearned to learn more
about the world, and she sees her chance when Chinese workers are brought
in to help harvest the cane. The older River Road folks feel threatened,
but Sugar is fascinated. As she befriends young Beau and elder Master Liu,
they introduce her to the traditions of their culture, and she, in turn,
shares the ways of plantation life. Sugar soon realizes that she must be
the one to bridge the cultural gap and bring the community together. Here
is a story of unlikely friendships and how they can change our lives
forever. From Jewell Parker Rhodes, the author of Ninth Ward (a Coretta
Scott King Honor Book and a Today show Al's Book Club for Kids pick),
here's another tale of a strong, spirited young girl who rises beyond her
circumstances and inspires others to work toward a brighter
future.20120262189780316043052
Little Brown, N.Y., 2013

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FIC Magoon
The Rock and the River


book
Magoon, Kekla
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YA (Young Adult) Grades 7- Up. Sam Childs, 13, is growing up in Chicago in
1968. His father is a civil rights activist, and the boy has been involved
in peaceful demonstrations with his family. When he and his girlfriend,
Maxie, witness the brutal beating of a friend at the hands of the police,
his world begins to change dramatically. His 17-year-old brother brings a
gun home and hides it in their shared room. Next thing Sam knows, Stick has
run away from home and is involved with the Black Panther Party, whose
philosophy his dad does not share. The brutality of the beating has changed
Sam as well, and the good works he sees the Panthers doing in his
neighborhood make him question his dad's opinion. The episodes of violence
are graphic, but necessary to move the plot forward, and the author
portrays well the tension between the Panthers and the Civil Rights
Movement. An author's note provides further historical context.?9781416978
Aladdin, N.Y., 2010

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FIC Wright
Crow

Barbara Wright.
book
Wright, Barbara,
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IGrades 5-up. The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for
11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his
superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated
father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret.
Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read.
For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his
father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of
power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not
everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do
anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the
status quo. One generation away from slavery, a thriving African American
community—enfranchised and emancipated—suddenly and violently loses its
freedom in turn of the century North Carolina when a group of local
politicians stages the only successful coup d'etat in US
history.20110148929780375869280
Random House,, New York :, c2012.

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PBK Smith
Flygirl


book
Smith, Sherri L.
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YA (Young Adult). Grade 6–10—Readers first meet 18-year-old Ida Mae Jones,
a Louisiana girl who longs to be a pilot, in December 1941, on the eve of
America's entrance into World War II. She is pretty and smart, but she has
two huge strikes against her. She is black in an America where racism holds
sway, and a competent pilot in an America in which she is denied her
license because she is a woman. Smith explores these two significant topics
and does a wonderful job of melding the two themes in one novel. Ida Mae is
a likable character who is torn by the need to pass for white and fake a
license in order to fulfill her dream. Readers learn a great deal about
what it must have been like to be African American in the South during this
period, as well as about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, WASP, a
civilian group that performed jobs that freed male pilots for other things.
The women's close friendships and the danger, excitement, and tragedy of
their experience create a thrilling, but little-known story that begs to be
told. The book is at once informative and entertaining. In the end, readers
are left to wonder what Ida Mae Jones will do with the rest of her
life.—Carol Jones Collins, Columbia High School, Maplewood, NJ9780545228299
Scholastic, N.Y., 2008

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FIC Myers
Harlem Summer


book
Myers, Walter Dean
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Book Description Grades 6-9. It's 1925 and Mark Purvis is a 16-yr-old with
a summer to kill. He'd rather jam with his jazz band (they need the
practice), but is urged by his parents to get a job. As an assistant at The
Crisis, a magazine for the "new Negro," Mark rubs shoulders with Langston
Hughes and Countee Cullen. He's invited to a party at Alfred Knopf's place.
He's making money, but not enough, and when piano player Fats Waller
entices him and his buddies to make some fast cash, Mark finds himself
crossing the gangster Dutch Schultz.043936843X
Scholastic, N.Y, 2007

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FIC Pearsall
Jump into the sky

Shelley Pearsall.
book
Pearsall, Shelley.
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"A Borzoi Book."Levi Battle's been left behind all his life. His mother
could sing like a bird and she flew away like one, too. His father left him
with his grandmother so he could work as a traveling salesman—until Levi's
grandmother left this world entirely. Now Levi's staying with his Aunt
Odella while his father is serving in the U.S. Army. But it's 1945, and the
war is nearly over, and Aunt Odella decides it's time for Levi to do some
leaving of his own. Before he can blink, Levi finds himself on a train from
Chicago to Fayettville, North Carolina, where his father is currently
stationed—last they knew. So begins an eye-opening, life-changing journey
for Levi. First lesson: there are different rules for African Americans in
the South than there are in Chicago. And breaking them can have serious
consequences. But with the help of some kind strangers, and despite the
hindrances of some unkind ones, Levi makes his way across the United
States—searching for his father and finding out about himself, his country,
and what it truly means to belong.20110249359780375836992
Knopf, N.Y., 2012

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PBK Moses
The Legend of Buddy Bush


book
Moses, Shelia P.
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>From School Library Journal YA (Young Adult). Grade 6-9-In rural Rich
Square, NC, the 1947 arrest, trial, escape, and eventual acquittal of
African-American Buddy Bush rocked a community and sparked international
interest. This fictionalized account is narrated by Pattie Mae, Buddy's
12-year-old niece, a perceptive "ease dropper" who discovers the depths of
prejudice and the strength of family. The child adores Uncle Buddy, who has
unexpectedly returned home from Harlem. Waiting one evening with his niece
for his girlfriend to get off work, Buddy has a brief sidewalk encounter
with a white woman who later accuses him of attempted rape. Although Pattie
Mae witnesses the whole incident and knows that he is innocent, the efforts
of her grandparents and single mother to bail him out of jail are futile.
When seven armed Ku Klux Klansmen unlock his cell, planning to exercise
their own brand of justice, Buddy escapes into the swamp where the white
men fear to follow and heads north into legend. Pattie Mae's coming-of-age
story re-creates the racial segregation and tension of a small Southern
community, demonstrates the loyalty of family, and exposes the heartbreak
of injustice.
Simon Pulse, N.Y, 2004

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FIC Myers
Riot


book
Myers, Walter Dean
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YA (Young Adult). Grades 7-up. As the Civil War rages, another battle
breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race
riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that
year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln
instituted a draft–a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving
in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year’s income for the
recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the first drawing takes place in
Lower Manhattan, the city of New York explodes in rage and fire. Stores are
looted; buildings, including the Colored Foundling Home, are burned down;
and black Americans are attacked, beaten, and murdered. The police cannot
hold out against the rioters, and finally, battle-hardened soldiers are
ordered back from the fields of Gettysburg to put down the insurrection,
which they do–brutally. Fifteen-year-old Claire, the beloved daughter of a
black father and Irish mother, finds herself torn between the two warring
sides. Faced with the breakdown of the city–the home–she has loved, Claire
must discover the strength and resilience to address the new world in which
she finds herself, and to begin the hard journey of remaking herself and
her identity. Addressing such issues as race, bigotry, and class head-on,
Walter Dean Myers has written another stirring and exciting novel that will
shake up assumptions, and lift the spirit.9781606840009
EgmontUSA, N.Y., 2009

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FIC Draper
Stella by starlight

Sharon Draper.
book
Draper, Sharon M.
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When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932
Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find
the strength to demand change in her segregated town.20140387289781442494978
Atheneum Books for Young Readers,, New York :, c2015.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Our 7th grade LA teachers are looking for historical fiction texts about
> African-Americans from pre-Civil War moving forward. What titles do you
> suggest?
> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Patti Fleser
> Library Media Specialist
> Deer Path Middle School
> Lake Forest, IL
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> President, Illinois School Library Media Association
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