7 Best middle grade books like The Six-Day Hero by Tammar Stein

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The Six-Day Hero

By: Tammar Stein

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Motti knows that war is coming. Israel is only nineteen years old, the same age as Motti's brave ol…

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1. The Contender

By: Robert Lipsyte

3.64

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He's a highsc… read more

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  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. "

-Robert Lipsyte, The Contender

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2. The Moves Make the Man

By: Bruce Brooks

3.70

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Reverse spin, triple pump, reverse dribble, stutter step with twist to the left, stutter into jumpe… read more

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  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Parallel Journeys

By: Eleanor H. Ayer , Alfons Heck , Helen Waterford

4.03

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

She was a young German Jew. He was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth. This is the story of their… read more

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  • school
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4. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

By: Melba Pattillo Beals

4.17

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figu… read more

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  • school
"My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas, graduating in 1954."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"Mother [Lois Marie Pattillo] began meeting with a few others from our community who were also determined to be admitted to the graduate school of education at the university."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

"Grandma entertained us with reading or checkers or chess so we wouldn't bother Mother as she studied for her night-school exams. She was determined to complete her master's degree."

-Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

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5. China's Long March

By: Jean Fritz

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Hardcover

In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the Long March. It is from their recol… read more

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  • school
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6. Alas, Babylon

By: Pat Frank

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United … read more

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  • fiction

7. Know Why You Believe

By: Paul E. Little

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Know Why You Believe is the classic answerbook on the Christian faith.Have you ever asked: -- Do sc… read more

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8. The Road from Home: A True Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope

By: David Kherdian

3.90

Format: 144 pages,

David Kherdian re-creates his mother's voice in telling the true story of a childhood interrupted b… read more

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  • school
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9. Children of the River

By: Linda Crew

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Sundara fled Cambodia with her aunt's family to escape the Khmer Rouge army when she was thirteen, … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • school
  • historical fiction

10. Red Scarf Girl

By: Ji-li Jiang

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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11. The Wednesday Wars

By: Gary D. Schmidt

2.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this Newbery Honor-winning novel, Gary D. Schmidt offers an unforgettable antihero.The Wednesday… read more

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12. Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa's history, was an imm… read more

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13. The Wave

By: Todd Strasser , Morton Rhue

4.33

Format: None pages,

The Waveis based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, Calif… read more

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14. Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art

By: Jan Greenberg , None

3.57

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

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15. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By: Loung Ung

4.34

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more

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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"

-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

16. The Green Glass Sea (Green Glass #1)

By: Ellen Klages

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

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17. Father's Arcane Daughter

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.96

Format: None pages, Paperback

POOR LITTLE RICH BOY Winston Carmichael has it all: a big house, servants, vacations in Palm Beach … read more

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18. 7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave

By: David Breese

3.79

Format: 223 pages,

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19. Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know

By: Shari Graydon

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

Advertising is pervasive. A typical North American child views a staggering 40,000 ads every year o… read more

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20. Hope Was Here

By: Joan Bauer

4.01

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

When Hope and her aunt move to small-town Wisconsin to take over the local diner, Hope's not sure w… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • school
  • young adult
"Revenge of the Giant Grill Man."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"The sad heart needs work to do."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"Addie always keeps her promises. That's why my mother gave me to her."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

"a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter."

-Joan Bauer, Hope Was Here

21. Living on the Devil's Doorstep: International Adventures

By: Floyd McClung

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

When thousands of young people checked out of Western society and sought enlightenment in the East,… read more

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22. Rainbow Valley (Anne of Green Gables, #7)

By: L.M. Montgomery

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Anne Shirley is grown up, has married her beloved Gilbert and now is the mother of six mischievous … read more

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23. The Great Gilly Hopkins

By: Katherine Paterson

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry… read more

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24. God spoke Tibetan; the epic story of the men who gave the Bible to Tibet, the forbidden land

By: Allan Maberly

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

This is the true story of the men who gave the Bible to the people of remote, forbidden Tibet in th… read more

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25. Walk Two Moons

By: Sharon Creech

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

"How about a story? Spin us a yarn." Instantly, Phoebe Winterbottom came to mind. "I could tell you… read more

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26. A Night Divided

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.34

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

"Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . ."

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, A Night Divided

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27. The Story That Cannot Be Told

By: J. Kasper Kramer

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding … read more

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  • school
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Blackbird Girls

By: Anne Blankman

4.43

Format: None pages, None

On a spring morning in 1986, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry re… read more

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  • fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"La distanza tra i veri amici non conta, quando l'amicizia continua nei loro cuori."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Distance between true friends doesn't matter when their friendship lives in their hearts"

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

"Siamo su questa terra per essere gentili gli uni con gli altri. Gli esseri umani sono la lingua di Dio."

-Anne Blankman, The Blackbird Girls

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29. The Six-Day Hero

By: Tammar Stein

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Motti knows that war is coming. Israel is only nineteen years old, the same age as Motti's brave ol… read more

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  • school
  • jewish
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Modern History in Pictures

By: Smithsonian Institution

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Wright brothers' first flight and the First Russian Revolution to the horrors of war, to t… read more

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31. There's a Sheep in My Bathtub

By: Brian Hogan

4.18

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

What happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist cha… read more

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Robert Lipsyte

3.64

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Bruce Brooks

3.70

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Pat Frank

3.94

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Linda Crew

3.99

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Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

4.00

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Refugee

Alan Gratz

3.16

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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

3.57

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4.27

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