Middle School Reads!

 by Allan Wolf Genre:  Historical Fiction Hunger is following the Donner Party as they make their way through the Sierra Nevada mountain range during the winter of 1846-47.  The snow has come, the mountain passes are closed, and hunger is now their main enemy.  Parents are forced to make difficult choices.  Do they go with the rescue parties or stay where they are and try to survive the long winter?  No decision is easy and each will have life altering consequences.

 by Daniel Nayeri Genre:  Realistic Fiction Daniel, or Khosrou, is trying to tell his classmates a story.  His story.  But no ones believes what he is telling them and Daniel is having a hard time figuring out what to tell and how to explain.  How his classmates in Oklahoma see him, is not the way his family from Iran sees him.  How can he make them understand who he is and where he comes from?