Presented by Sharon Rawlins, Youth Services Consultant, NJ State Library,

srawlins@njstatelib.org

Books on Different Genres, Historical Periods & Traditional Myths and Stories

Made Anew that Fulfill the Common Core State Standards for English Language

Arts/Writing Grades 6-8.9A

Grade 6Common Core Writing 6.9

Research to Build and Present Knowledge - Draw Evidence from literary or informational

texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Common Core Standard 9

A: Apply Grade 6 reading standards to literature (e.g. "Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g.

stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories] in terms of their

approaches to similar themes and topics").

Annexed by Sharon Anne FraDogar & Diary of a Young Girl by Anne

Frank

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse & Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan

Worlds Afire by Paul B. Janeczko

Terrier by Tamora Pierce & Dodger by Terry Pratchett

Ninth Ward by Jewel Parker Rhodes, Josh Newfeld's A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge

& Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi

Grade 7Common Core Writing 7.9

Draw Evidence from literary or informational texts to

support analysis, reflection, and research.

Common Core Standard 9

A: Apply Grade 7 reading standards to literature (e.g.,

"Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time,

place, or character and a historical account of the same

period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history").

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Aush; Kevin Baker's Dreamland & Lost by

Jacqueline Davies

Threads & Flames by Esther Friesner; Margaret Peterson Haddix's Uprising &

Suzanne Lieurance's The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Triangle by Katherine Weber and Albert Marrin's Flesh and Blood So Cheap: the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Its Legacy

Inside Hurricanes by Mary Kay Carson & Terry Trueman's Hurricane

Leviathan, Behemoth & Goliath by Scott Westerfeld

Annexed by Sharon Dogar & Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Titanic Sinks! Experience the Titanic's Doomed Voyage in this Unique

Presentation of Fact and Fiction by Barry Denenberg & Julie Lawson's Ghosts of the

Titanic

Deborah Hopkinson's Titanic: Voices from the Disaster & Allan Wolf's The Watch that

Ends the Night: Voices from the Titanic

Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities by Janis

Herbert & Laurie Myers' Lewis and Clark and Me: a Dog's Tale

Rosalyn Schanzer's How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark; The Captain's Dog by Roland Smith & Allan Wolf's New Found Land: Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery

Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus; Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the

World & Building Manhattan by Laura Vila

Benson Bobrick's A Passion for Victory: the Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Modern Times & Boaz Yakin's Marathon

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley's Jefferson's Sons: a Founding Father's Secret

Children & Day of Tears by Julius Lester

The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine & Remember Little Rock: The Time, the People, the Stories by Paul

Robert Walker

Flying Against the Wind: A Story About Beryl Markham by Andy Russell Bowen & Michaela

MacColl's Promise the Night

Saving the Baghdad Zoo by Kelly Milner Halls & Pride of Baghdad by Brian K.

Vaughan

Good Brother, Bad Brother: the Story of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth by James Cross Giblin & Assassin by Anna Myers

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson & An American Plague: the True and Terrifying

Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy

Chains & Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson

City of Orphans by Avi; 97 Orchard Street, New York: Stories of Immigrant

Life by Linda Granfield & Donna Jo Napoli's King of Mulberry Street

Between Shades of Gray by Ruth Sepetys & Eugene Yelchin's Breaking Stalin's Nose

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages & The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most

Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

Jen Bryant's Ringside 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial & Monkey Town: the Summer

of the Scopes Trial by Ronald Kidd

Grade 8Common Core Writing

Standard 8.9Draw evidence from literary

or informational texts to support analysis, reflection,

and research.

Common Core Standard 9A: Apply grade 8 reading standards to

literature (e.g., "Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of

events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as

the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new").

Neal Shusterman's Dread Locks & Red Rider's Hood

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch

Hatter M: The Looking Glass Wars & The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor;

Wonderland by Tommy Kovac

K. L. Going's The Garden of Eve

Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer & the sequel by Dustin Higgins

Stickman Odyssey series by Christopher Ford; The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds & The Odyssey by

Geraldine McCaughrean

Outlaw: the Legend of Robin Hood: a graphic novel by Tony Lee

Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle

Not the End of the World by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Magic Circle by Donna Jo Napoli

Song of the Magdalene by Donna Jo Napoli

Zeus: King of the Gods (and others in the Olympians series) by George O'Connor

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: the Graphic Novel by

Rick Riordan

Metamorphosis: Junior Year by Betsy Franco

The End

Thank you!