In this article, the author shares her experience of participating in "The Novel Process" workshop, given by Roz Morris in Hoover, Alabama, for her seventh grade advanced reading class at Robert F. Bumpus Middle School. "The Novel Process" is a year-long writing project that culminates in the publication of a novel that students have written as a class. Writing a novel as a group seemed like an ideal project, and the process took students from research through publication and marketing. It allowed them to be creative, but also demanded focus and restraint, which are important qualities for all students to develop in their writing. "The Novel Process" workshop suggested that a historical topic makes for a better project because a real event gives students a general time frame and a series of events to follow. So they chose German soldiers living as prisoners in small-town Aliceville, Alabama, as their novel idea. By the time school was out for the year, they were all exhausted, but the seventh graders had researched, written and marketed "No Enemies in Aliceville," a book of which they are all proud. And not only are they proud of it, but the town of Aliceville is as well. Their novel tells their story, a story that is relevant today more than ever.