# Heroes

**Author:** Alan Gratz
**Grade range:** Grades 6–8
**Age range:** 11–14
**First published:** 2024
**Page count:** 219
**Genre:** Historical Fiction (Middle Grade)
**ISBN-13:** `9781338736076`
**ISBN-10:** `1338736078`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/heroes
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Best friends Frank and Stanley make their own comic books in the sunshine while their dads serve at Pearl Harbor — until December 7, 1941, when Japanese planes attack and the war comes to them. Alan Gratz's gripping grades 6-8 World War II novel is a 2025-2026 Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Florida) nominee.

## Themes

- courage
- friendship
- history

## Where this book is assigned

### Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Ohio — [source: Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award — official winners list (Ohio, K-12 grade bands, voted biennially/annually since 1982)](https://bcbookaward.info/childrens-previous-nominees/)

### Great Stone Face Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · New Hampshire — [source: Children's Librarians of New Hampshire / NH Library Association — Great Stone Face Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; 20 nominees/year, annual since 1980). Winner + nominee rolls via the LibraryThing award/757 mirror of the official sponsor records.](https://www.librarything.com/award/757/Great-Stone-Face-Book-Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · New Hampshire — [source: Children's Librarians of New Hampshire / NH Library Association — Great Stone Face Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; 20 nominees/year, annual since 1980). Winner + nominee rolls via the LibraryThing award/757 mirror of the official sponsor records.](https://www.librarything.com/award/757/Great-Stone-Face-Book-Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · New Hampshire — [source: Children's Librarians of New Hampshire / NH Library Association — Great Stone Face Book Award (student-choice, grades 4-6; 20 nominees/year, annual since 1980). Winner + nominee rolls via the LibraryThing award/757 mirror of the official sponsor records.](https://www.librarything.com/award/757/Great-Stone-Face-Book-Award)

### Sunshine State Young Readers Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Florida — [source: Sunshine State Young Readers Award 2025-2026 Master List (Grades 6-8)](https://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra-6-8.html)

### Volunteer State Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Tennessee — [source: Volunteer State Book Award 2025-2026 Middle School Division (Grades 6-8), Tennessee Library Association / TASL](https://sites.google.com/view/volunteer-state-book-award/home)

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