Historical Fiction
Before We Were Free
by Julia Alvarez
(Dominican Republic; Trujillo; 1960's)
Raleigh's Page
by Alan Armstrong
(16th Century England / Virginia)
Crispin: The Cross
of Lead
by Avi
(14th Century England)
Silver Dollar Girl
by Katherine Ayres
(Colorado; 1885; Gold Mining)
Thunder on the Sierra
by Kathy Balmes
(California—1852)
The Dungeon
by Lynne Reid Banks
(14th Century Scotland and China)
A Foreign Field
by Gillian Chan
(World War II--England)
Johnny Tremain
by Esther Forbes
(American Revolution)
Water Street
by Patricia Reilly Giff
(Irish immigrants; Brooklyn Bridge; 1870’s)
Across Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt
(American Civil War)
The Trumpeter of
Krakow
by Eric P. Kelly
(Poland—Middle Ages)
Where the Great Hawk Flies
by Liza Ketchum
(American Revolution; 1780)
Broken Song
by Kathryn Lasky
(Russia vs. Jews; 1897)
The Pirates of Pompeii
by Caroline Lawrence
(Ancient Rome)
Mr. Revere and I
by Robert Lawson
(American Revolution)
Three Against the Tide
by D. Anne Love
(American Civil War; South Carolina)
The Kite Rider
by Geraldine McCaughrean
(13th Century China)
The Amazing Story of
Adolphus Tips
by Michael Morpurgo
(World War II—England)
The Lioness and
Her Knight
by Gerald Morris
(Middle Ages)
On to Oregon
by Honore Morrow
(Westward Movement; 1844; Oregon)
Streams to the River,
River to the Sea
by Scott O’Dell
(Lewis and Clark Expedition: 1804; Native Americans)
The Devil in Vienna
by Doris Orgel
(Austria; Jews; World War II)
Run, Boy, Run
by Uri Orlev
(World War II; Jews; Poland; Holocaust)
When my name was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park
(World War II; Korea vs Japan)
Nightjohn
by Gary Paulsen
(Pre-American Civil War; Reading; Slaves)
The River Between Us
by Richard Peck
(United States Civil War)
Girl of the Shining Mountains
by Peter and Connie Roop
(Lewis and Clark Expedition; Sacagawea; 1804)
Lizzie Bright and the
Buckminster Boy
by Gary D. Schmidt
(1911; Maine; former slaves)
Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli
(World War II; Poland; Jews; Holocaust)
Black Ships Before Troy
by Rosemary Sutcliff
(Iliad—Ancient Greece/Troy)
Dear Levi: Letters from
the Overland Trail
by Elvira Woodruff
(1851—United States--Westward Movement)
Bear Dancer: the Story
of a Ute Girl
by Thelma Hatch Wyss
(Colorado; late 1800’s; white captive of Native Americans)
The Earth Dragon Awakes
by Laurence Yep
(San Francisco earthquake; 1906)
