Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical

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Homeless Bird

Gloria Whelan

Gloria Whelan's National Book Award–winning novel, chronicles the breathtaking story of a remarkable young woman who dares to defy fate. Like many girls her age in India, thirteen–year–old Koly faces her arranged marriage with...

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Published: Sep 2001

Out of The Easy

Ruta Sepetys

 It's 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of li...

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Published: Feb 2014

Hattie Big Sky

Kirby Larson

Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim.For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to p...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Power of One: Young Readers' Cond...

Bryce Courtenay

In 1939, hatred took root in South Africa, where the seeds of apartheid were newly sown. There a boy called Peekay was born. He spoke the wrong language–English. He was nursed by a woman of the wrong color–black. His childhood was...

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Published: Jul 2007

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True...

Linda Sue Park

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two ho...

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Published: Oct 2011

War Horse

Michael Morpurgo

A powerful tale of war, redemption, and a hero's journey--now available in paperback!In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western...

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Published: Sep 2010

Flygirl

Sherri L. Smith

All Ida Mae Jones wants to do is fly. Her daddy was a pilot, and years after his death she feels closest to him when sheÕs in the air. But as a young black woman in 1940s Louisiana, she knows the sky is off limits to her, until Ameri...

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Published: Sep 2010

Girl in a Cage

Jane Yolen

When her father, Robert the Bruce, becomes King of Scotland, Marjorie Bruce becomes a princess. But Edward Longshanks, the ruthless King of England, has set his sights on Robert and his family. Marjorie is captured and imprisoned in a...

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Published: Aug 2004

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letter...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Boy In the Striped Pajamas (Movie...

John Boyne

Berlin 1942When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there...

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Published: Oct 2008

Red Queen's Daughter, The

Jacqueline Kolosov

Orphaned as a young girl because of the imprudent marriage of her mother, Queen Katherine Parr, Mary Seymour vows never to fall in love-and under no circumstances will she marry. Lady Strange, her mysterious guardian, offers the young...

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Published: Apr 2009

No Shame, No Fear

Ann Turnbull

'A love affair between Quaker Susanna and merchant's son Will plays out against the persecution of Friends in seventeenth-century England. . . . An engrossing plot and a moving love story.' — THE HORN BOOKAn American Library Ass...

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Published: Sep 2006

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Noth...

M. T. Anderson

Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers. After he opens a forbidden door he learns the hideous nature of their experiments and his own chilling role in them. Set in Revolutionary Bost...

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Published: Jan 2008

Dead End in Norvelt

Jack Gantos

Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in ...

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Published: May 2013

The Samurai's Tale

Erik Christian Haugaard

When the powerful Lord Takeda's soldiers sweep across the countryside, killing and plundering, they spare the boy Taro's life and take him along with them. Taro becomes a servant in the household of the noble Lord Akiyama, where he me...

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Published: Aug 2005

Little House in Brookfield

Maria D. Wilkes

It's 1845 and Caroline lives in the bustling frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. With trips to town, taking care of farm chores, and getting through the first frost, Caroline is busy discovering new things every day!

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Published: May 2007

Number the Stars

Lois Lowry

As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.Through the eyes of ten-year-old An...

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Published: May 2011

Calico Captive

Elizabeth George Speare

In the year 1754, the stillness of Charlestown, New Hampshire, is shattered by the terrifying cries of an Indian raid. Young Miriam Willard, on a day that had promised new happiness, finds herself instead a captive on a forest trail, ...

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Published: Oct 2001

Something Strange and Deadly

Susan Dennard

Sixteen-year-old Eleanor Fitt's brother is missing. And when she discovers that the Dead are rising in Philadelphia and wreaking havoc throughout the city, she knows that her brother is involved.So Eleanor enlists the help of the Spir...

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Published: Jun 2013

Smouldering Fires

Anya Seton

Anya Seton, whose many novels won her world-wide acclaim, wrote, for her last book, a fast-paced novel that explores the subconscious mind of a young girl whose troubled dream life parallels that of another girl who lived over 200 yea...

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Published: Sep 2010

Chains

Laurie Halse Anderson

If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a c...

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Published: Jan 2010

Forgotten Fire (Readers Circle)

Adam Bagdasarian

In 1915 Vahan Kenderian is living a life of privilege as the youngest son of a wealthy Armenian family in Turkey. This secure world is shattered when some family members are whisked away while others are murdered before his eyes. Vaha...

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Published: Apr 2002

Little Hornet: Boy Patriot of North C...

Geoff Baggett

**Free teaching guide resource available for teachers and parents on the author's web site. www.geoffbaggett.com The British have invaded Charlestown and the Revolutionary War has descended with a vengeance upon the sleepy southern ...

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Published: Apr 2016

Little Spy of Vincennes (Patriot Kids...

Geoff Baggett

Pierre Grimard was a courageous little boy who lived with his parents on the Northwest Frontier in Colonial America. His home was in Vincennes, a tiny, peaceful French settlement on the banks of the majestic Wabash River. In his humbl...

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Published: Mar 2017

A School for Unusual Girls: A Stranje...

Kathleen Baldwin

A School for Unusual Girls is the first captivating installment in the Stranje House series for young adults by award-winning author Kathleen Baldwin. #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventur...

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Published: May 2016

The Lacemaker and the Princess

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD ISABELLE IS A LACEMAKER IN THE TOWN OF VERSAILLES. One day as she delivers lace to the palace, she is almost trampled by a crowd of courtiers -- only to be rescued by Marie Antoinette. Before Isabelle can believe it, ...

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Published: Sep 2009

Great Escapes #3: Civil War Breakout

W. N. Brown

Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? The third installment in the unputdownable Great Escapes series is here--perfect for fans of the I Survived series Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union ...

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Published: Jul 2020

Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo a...

Rachel Caine

In the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honor and—if they survive—marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wish...

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Published: Feb 2015

The Safest Lie

Angela Cerrito

This powerful historical novel tells the story of a young girl smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto by Holocaust heroine Irena Sendler.It's 1940. Nine-year-old Anna Bauman and her parents are among the 300,000 Polish Jews struggling to s...

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Published: Dec 2018

Al Capone Shines My Shoes

Gennifer Choldenko

When I first moved here, I thought all the bad guys were on one side of the bars and all the good guys were on the other. But lately, I've begun to wonder . . . Moose's family moved to Alcatraz so his father could work as a guard and ...

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Published: Jan 2011
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