Children & Young Adults Fiction - Historical - United States

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The Lions of Little Rock

Kristin Levine

 As twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels like her whole world is falling apart. Until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. Liz is everything Marlee wishes she could be: she's brave, brash and al...

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Published: Jan 2013

The Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter

Fifteen-year-old white John Cameron Butler, kidnapped and raised by the Lenape Indians since childhood, is returned to his people under the terms of a treaty and is forced to cope with a strange and different world that is no longer h...

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Published: Oct 2004

Numbering All the Bones

Ann Rinaldi

The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, it is no time to rejoice. Her younger brother Zeke was sold away, her older brother Neddy joined the Northern war effort, and her master will not acknowledge that Eulinda ...

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Published: Aug 2005

Mr. Tucket (The Francis Tucket Books)...

Gary Paulsen

Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice...

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Published: Nov 1995

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Harper Tr...

Maud Hart Lovelace

Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve--old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House. They eve...

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Published: Jun 1979

A Long Way From Chicago (Puffin Moder...

Richard Peck

Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influence imaginable—their grandmother!

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Published: Oct 2000

The Thanksgiving Story

Alice Dalgliesh

The Thanksgiving Story 'is the only really distinguished book we have on that holiday. Miss Dalgliesh has told the Pilgrim story simply from the point of view of the Hopkins family whose little Oceanus was born on the Mayflower; and M...

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Published: Sep 1985

The Diviners

Libba Bray

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us?Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New...

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Published: Dec 2013

All-of-a-kind Family

Sydney Taylor

A heartwarming story of five little girls living with their parents in New York City at the turn of the century. They have simple but happy times as they share adventures, holidays and surprises. When Mama tells them her big news, it'...

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Published: Dec 1984

A Break with Charity: A Story about t...

Ann Rinaldi

Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesn't realize is that the girls are about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of co...

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Published: Jul 2003

Brooklyn Rose

Ann Rinaldi

IIt's 1900, the dawn of a new century, and fifteen-year-old Rose Frampton is beginning a new life. She's left her family in South Carolina to live with her handsome and wealthy husband in Brooklyn, New York--a move that is both scary ...

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Published: Apr 2006

Sugar

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Ten-year-old Sugar lives on the River Road sugar plantation along the banks of the Mississippi. Slavery is over, but laboring in the fields all day doesn't make her feel very free. Thankfully, Sugar has a knack for finding her own fun...

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Published: Jun 2014

Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story ...

Mary E. Lyons

Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery; it's the only life she has ever known. Now, with the death of her mistress, there is a chance she will be given her freedom, and for the first time Harriet feels hopeful. But hoping can be dangero...

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Published: Jan 2007

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Quilt Walk

Sandra Dallas

It's 1863 and 10-year-old Emmy Blue Hatchett has been told by her father that soon their family will leave their farm, family, and friends in Illinois, and travel west to a new home in Colorado. It's difficult leaving family and frien...

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Published: Feb 2013

The Lucky Ones: A Bright Young Things...

Anna Godbersen

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen, author of the bestselling Luxe series, introduced the girls of 1929, girls with big dreams and big secrets in the big city of Manhattan during the Jazz Age. Each girl had a different fate. One wo...

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Published: Jun 2013

Hear the Wind Blow

Mary Downing Hahn

"A first-rate story." —Kirkus Reviews  On a cold, snowy night, thirteen-year-old Haswell Magruder makes a fateful decision. A wounded Confederate soldier appears at the family's Virginia farm, and Haswell convinces his m...

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Published: Oct 2017
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