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Historical Fiction
The following are suggestions in the area of historical fiction. Clicking on a book title will take you to the library catalog, where you can request the book or learn more information about it. Want even more reading suggestions? Ask a librarian.
| Location | Title/Author | Grade | Synopsis |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Pbk / Auc | Ashes of Roses Auch, Mary Jane | 6 - 9 | Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, finds work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire. |
| J / Bea | Who Comes with Cannons Beatty, Patricia | 5 - 7 | A young Quaker girl from Indiana stays with relatives in North Carolina who run a station on the Underground Railroad. |
| J / Boo | War Dog: A Novel Booth, Martin | 6 - 8 | Jet, a dog, is sent to duty on the beach at Dunkirk searching for survivors after Germany's bombing raids on England at the end of World War II. |
| J & Pbk / Bun | S.O.S. Titanic Bunting, Eve | 6 - 8 | Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg. |
| J Pbk / Car | Blood on the River: James Town 1607 Carbone, Elisa Lynn | 5 - 8 | Traveling to the New World as the page to Captain John Smith, orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe. |
| J / Col | My Brother Sam is Dead Collier, James | 6 - 8 | A family tries to stay neutral during the American Revolution while one son joins the war. |
| J & Pbk / Cou | The Misadventures of Maude March Couloumbis, Audrey | 4 - 8 | After the death of the aunt who raised them, Sallie and her older sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels Sallie loves to read. |
| J & Pbk / Cus | Matilda Bone Cushman, Karen | 4 - 8 | Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. |
| J / Def | Weasel DeFelice, Cynthia | 3 - 6 | Alone in the frontier wilderness, Nathan gets entangled with a renegade killer. |
| J & Pbk / For | Johnny Tremain Forbes, Esther | 5 - 8 | During the American Revolution, a silversmiths apprentice becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty. |
| J / Fre | Rover French, Jackie | 5 - 8 | Captured by Vikings, Hekja is taken as a slave to Greenland by the daughter of Erik the Red, and accompanied by her loyal dog, shares adventures with her new mistress, who is determined to make a name for herself. |
| J & Pbk / Hes | Out of the Dust Hesse, Karen | 5 - 8 | In a series of poems, a young girl relates the hardships of the Depression. |
| J / Hoo | At the Sign of the Sugared Plum Hooper, Mary | 5 - 8 | Hannah is unconcerned with the plague that is ravaging London until the summer advances and news of more deaths surround her leaving no escape. |
| J / Law | Addie Across the Prairie Lawlor, Laurie | 3 - 5 | Addie reluctantly accompanies her family to the Dakota Territory and begins to adjust to life on the Prairie. |
| J / Kla | The Green Glass Sea Klages, Ellen | 5 - 8 | It is 1943, and Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. |
| J / Par | When My Name Was Keoko Park, Linda Sue | 5 - 9 | The Japanese occupation of Korea brings about many oppressive changes for a brother and sister during World War II. |
| J / Ree | Across the Lines Reeder, Carolyn | 3 - 6 | The son of a white plantation owner and his house servant witness the siege of Petersburg. |
| J & Pbk / Rya | Esperanza Rising Ryan, Pam Munoz | 5 - 8 | Esperanza and her mother are forced to flee a life of luxury and privilege in Mexico to work on a migrant farm in California on the eve of the Great Depression. |
| J 812.6 / Sch | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village Schlitz, Laura | 4 - 8 | A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor |
| J / Spe | The Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare, Elizabeth | 6 - 8 | In 1687, a young girl, Kit, befriends an old woman who thought to be a witch. |
| J / Whe | Angel on the Square Whelan, Gloria | 5 - 8 | In 1913 Russia, Katya eagerly awaits joining her mother in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the coming years bring world war, revolution and undreamed of changes in her life. |
| J / Whe | Goodbye Vietnam Whelan, Gloria | 4 - 6 | A family embarks on a sea voyage to Hong Kong to escape the unpredictable and often brutal Vietnamese government. |
| J & Pbk / Wis | Red Cap Wisler, Clifton | 5 - 8 | During the Civil War, a young Yankee drummer is captured and sent to Andersonville prison. |
| J / Wul | The Night of Burning: Devorah's Story Wulf, Linda Press | 6 - 9 | Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start. |
