Friday, April 5, 2013

8th grade research paper on a historical era

Your research paper starts with a book. You will choose a historical fiction, preferably from the following list, and then research the historical period in which your book takes place. 

No more than TWO people may read the same book.

Anderson, Laurie Halse:  Chains, Fever 1793
Barrow, Randi: Saving Zasha
Barth-grozinger, Inge: Something Remains
Bartoletti, Susan: The Boy Who Dared
Brady, Esther Wood: Toliver's Secret
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker: The Lacemaker and the Princess
Bruchach, Joseph: Code Talker
Burg, Shana: A Thousand Never Evers
Chibbaro, Julie: Deadly
Choldenko, Gennifer: Al Capone Does My Shirts
Collier, James Lincoln and Christopher: My Brother Sam is Dead
Compestine, Ying Chang: Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
Curtis, Christopher Paul: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 
Donnelly, Jennifer: Revolution 
Dowell, Frances O'Roark: Shooting the Moon
Draper, Sharon M.: Copper Sun
Elliott, L.M.: Under a War-Torn Sky
Forbes, Esther: Johnny Tremain
Grant, K.M: Blood Red Horse
Harlow, Joan Hiatt: Firestorm!
House, Silas: Eli the Good
Kadohata, Cynthia: Weedflower
Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
Klages, Ellen: The Green Glass Sea
Lasky, Kathryn: Ashes
Levine, Kristin: The Lions of Little Rock 
McCarthy, Susan Carol: Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands
McCormick, Patricia: Never Fall Down
Myers, Walter Dean: Riot
Pearsall, Shelley: Trouble Don’t Last
Sepetys, Ruta: Between Shades of Gray
Shaffer, Mary Ann: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society
Sharenow, Robert: The Berlin Boxing Club
Smith, Roland: Elephant Run
Speare, Elizabeth George: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Spinelli, Jerry: Milkweed
Stockett, Kathryn: The Help
Taylor, Theodore: The Bomb
Wein, Elizabeth: Code Name Verity
Wiles, Deborah: Countdown
Wolf, Joan:  Someone Named Eva
Wright, Barbara: Crow
Zindel, Paul: The Gadget
Zusak, Markus: The Book Thief


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