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Historical Fiction Bibliography ***Books In Green are not allowed |
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Alder, Elizabeth. The King's Shadow. After he is orphaned and has his tongue cut out in a clash with the bullying sons of a Welsh noble, Evyn is sold as a slave and serves many masters.
Aldrich, Bess S. The Rim of the Prairie. This book describes life in a small town in Nebraska during pioneer days.
Alphin, Elaine M. The Ghost Cadet. While visiting the site of a Civil War battlefield, a boy meets the ghost of a young military cadet who was killed in battle.
Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793. In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Armstrong, Jennifer. The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan. Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in Washington, D.C., in the 1860s, struggles to come to grips with the impact of the Civil War on her family.
Armstrong, Jennifer. Mary Mehan Awake. While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.
Avi. The Fighting Ground. Jonathan fights in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.
Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.
Ayres, Katherine. North by Night. Presents the journal of a sixteen-year-old girl whose family operates a stop on the Underground Railroad.
Baker, Betty. And One Was A Wooden Indian . Believing he is cursed by a carving in the possession of white soldiers, an injured young Apache follows the troop to retrieve the object.
Bartoletti, Susan. No Man's Land. Because he had been unable to fight off the gator which injured his father, fourteen-year-old Thrasher joins the Confederate Army hoping to prove his manhood.
Bat-Ami, Miriam. Two Suns in the Sky. A historical novel about two teenagers from different worlds during World War II.
Beatty, John. Who Comes to King's Mountain? Living in the South Carolina hills in 1780, a young Scottish boy, whose family is divided between Loyalist and rebel, must decide which side he will follow.
Beatty, Patricia. Charley Skedaddle. During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
Beatty, Patricia. Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey. A thirteen-year-old in the Confederate navy joins the crew of the ironclad Merrimack in a mission to break the Union blockade of Norfolk harbor.
Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker. In the early years of the Civil War, a teenage boy helps free slaves and then goes undercover as a spy.
Beatty, Patricia. Eight Mules from Monterey. During the summer of 1916, Fayette and her brother accompany their widowed mother on a mule trip into the California mountains to establish library outposts in isolated communities.
Beatty, Patricia. Turn Homeward, Hannalee. Twelve-year-old Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate along with other Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.
Blacklock, Dyan. Pankration. Having been kidnapped from a ship leaving plague-ridden Athens in 430 B.C., twelve-year-old Nic attempts to escape his captors and keep his promise to meet his friend at the Olympic games.
Blackwood, Gary. Shakespeare Stealer. A young orphan boy is ordered to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Blos, Joan W. A Gathering of Days. Catherine Hall, age thirteen, keeps a journal of her life on her family's New Hampshire farm from 1830 until 1832.
Bruchac, Joseph. Children of the Longhouse. Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400's.
Buchanan, Jane. Gratefully Yours. In 1923, nine-year-old Hattie rides the Orphan Train from New York to Nebraska, where she must adjust to a strange new life with a farmer and his wife, who is despondent over the loss of her two children.
Bunting, Eve. SOS Titanic. Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, traveling from Ireland to America on the maiden voyage of the Titanic, finds his life endangered when the ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink.
Burchard, Peter. Jed. Jed, a teenage soldier for the Union during the Civil War, steals into enemy territory to return a small southern boy to his home.
Burks, Brian. Runs With Horses. Sixteen years old in 1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior with Geronimo's band of Apaches in the American Southwest.
Burks, Brian. Walks Alone. After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.
Cadnum, Michael. Book of the Lion. In twelfth-century England, seventeen-year-old Edmund travels to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader.
Carbone, Elisa. Stealing Fredom. A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from Maryland who endures all kinds of mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who eventually escapes to freedom in Canada.
Carter, Dorothy Sharp. His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut. A fictionalized account of the life of Hatshepsut, a queen in ancient Egyypt who declared herself pharaoh and ruled as such for more than twenty years.
Cather, Willa. My Antonia. The story of Antonia Shimerda, who comes from Bohemia to Nebraska with a family totally unprepared for the demands of frontier life, is told by her admiring neighbor, Jimmy Burden, in an account which covers a period of about thirty years.
Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! This book describes life on the Nebraska prairie in pioneer days.
Clapp, Patricia. Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth. From the moment land is first sighted from the Mayflower , Constance Hopkins is determined to hate America. In her journal, she records her experiences in this new country.
Clapp, Patricia. I'm Deborah Sampson. Since her mother cannot afford to keep her, Deborah Sampson is "bound" to a good family with several sons. When one of the sons joins the Rebel army, she pretends to be a boy and enlists, also.
Clapp, Patricia. The Tamarack Tree. An eighteen-year-old English girl finds her loyalties divided and all of her resources tested as she and her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring of 1863.
Collier, James. The Bloody Country. In the mid-18th century, a family moves from Connecticut to Pennsylvania and becomes involved in the property conflict between the two states.
Collier, James. Jump Ship to Freedom. In 1787 a fourteen-year-old slave, anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother, escapes from his dishonest master.
Collier, James. My Brother Sam Is Dead . Tragedy strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family remains in a Tory town.
Collier, James. Who Is Carrie? A young black girl living in New York City in the late 18th century observes historic events taking place around her.
Collier, James. The Winter Hero. Anxious to be a hero, a young boy relates how he becomes involved in Shays' Rebellion which was begun by farmers in Massachusetts against unfair taxation.
Conrad, Pam. Prairie Songs. Louisa's life in a loving pioneer family on the Nebraska prairie is altered by the arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful, tragically frail wife.
Corle, Edwin. Billy the Kid . An account of the life and death of an adolescent who became an old-West legend.
Collier, James Lincoln and Collier, Christopher. The Clock. When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner workings of a clock, fifteen-year-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town's new wool mill to help support her family.
Cowley, Marjorie. Dar and the Spear-Thrower. A young Cro-Magnon boy living 15,000 years ago in southeastern France is initiated into manhood by his clan and sets off on a journey to trade his valuable fire rocks for an ivory spear-thrower.
Crane, Stephen. Red Badge of Courage. A young soldier experiences his first battle during the Civil War.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, Not Buddy. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father.
Cushman, Karen. The Ballad of Lucy Whipple. In 1849, a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town, where Lucy helps run a rough boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way to get "home."
Cushman, Karen. Matilda Bone. Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.
Cutler, Jane. Song of the Molimo. When twelve-year-old Harry comes from Kansas to visit the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, he befriends an African pygmy who is part of an anthropology exhibit.
DeFelice, Cynthia. The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker. After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.
DeFelice, Cynthia. Nowhere to Call Home. When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live the life of a hobo.
Denzel, Justin. Boy of the Painted Cave. Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, the boy with the bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the mammals, rhinos, bison, and other animals of his prehistoric times.
Denzel, Justin. Hunt for the Last Cat. Twelve-year-old Thorn feels conflicting loyalties when members of his clan blame his friend Fonn, a girl from a rival clan, for the marauding actions of a man-eating sabertooth cat.
Denzel, Justin. Return to the Painted Cave. Fourteen-year-old Tao, a cave painter living in prehistoric times, sets out on an odyssey to bring healing to the blind girl, Deha, and the outcast children.
deVries, David. Home at Last. Billy, who had been living with a gang on the streets of New York City, is taken on the Orphan Train to the Nebraska prairie where he is adopted by a farming family.
Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. This is a story of the cities of London and Paris and the people who were caught in the conflict of the French Revolution.
Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother, Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans.
Durbin, William. The Broken Blade. When an injury prevents his father from going into northern Canada with fur traders, thirteen-year-old Pierre decides to take his father's place as a voyageur.
Durbin, William. The Journal of Otto Peltonen. In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Durbin, William. Wintering. In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp.
Durrant, Lynda. Echohawk. A twelve-year-old white boy adopted and raised by Mohicans in the Hudson River Valley during the 1730s is sent with his younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.
Durrant, Lynda. Beaded Moccasins. After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.
Erdrich, Louise. Birchbark House. Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Fast, Howard. April Morning. A stirring novel of a young man's baptism by fire during the bloody Battle of Lexington.
Ferry, Charles. Raspberry One. Two young airmen fly bombing support against Japan's kamakaze offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
Fleischman, Sid. Bandit's Moon. Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1880's.
Fletcher, Susan. Shadow Spinner. When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Sheherazad the stories which will save the queen's life.
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. Silversmith apprentice Johnny Tremain joins a protest and helps dump tea in Boston Harbor.
Fritz, Jean. Early Thunder. This book traces a youth's growth to maturity as he resolves his political conflicts in pre-revolutionary Salem, a center of high feeling between the British and colonists.
Forrester, Sandra. My Home Is Over Jordan. No longer a slave now that the Civil War is over, fifteen-year-old Maddie dreams of getting an education and becoming a teacher, but she finds the reality of freedom harsh.
Forrester, Sandra. Sound the Jubilee. A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War.
Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer. Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slave ship and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Gaeddert, Louann. Friends and Enemies.In 1941 in Kansas, as America enters World War II, fourteen-year-old William finds himself alienated from his friend Jim, a Menonite who does not believe in fighting for any reason and refuses to support the war effort in any way.
Garrigue, Sheila. The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito. The fate of a 200-year-old bonsai tree is decided by a young girl and an old Japanese Canadian gardener who resists being imprisoned in an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's Crossing. During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory Ryan's Song. When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive.
Goodman, Joan. Hope's Crossing. When kidnapped by British Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, thirteen-year-old Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal.
Goodman, Joan. Winter Hare. In 1140, twelve-year-old Will comes to his uncle's castle to be a page but finds himself involved in dangerous adventures.
Gray, Dianne E. Holding Up the Earth. Fourteen-year-old Hope visits her new foster mother's Nebraska farm and, through old letters, a diary, and stories, gets a vivid picture of the past in the voices of four girls her age who lived there in 1869, 1900, 1936, and 1960.
Greene, Bette. Summer of My German Soldier. Sheltering an escaped WWII prisoner of war is the begining of some shattering experiences for Patty, a twelve year old girl in Arkansas.
Gregory, Kristiana. Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile. While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.
Gregory, Kristiana. Jenny of the Tetons. Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their five children.
Gregory, Kristiana. The Legend of Jimmy Spoon. The adventure of a young white boy living among the Shoshoni Indians during the early frontier days.
Gregory, Kristiana. Orphan Runaways. Harrowing adventures accompany twelve-year-old Danny and his younger brother Judd when they run away from a San Francisco orphanage and search for their uncle in a gold rush boomtown.
Gregory, Kristiana. The Winter of the Red Snow. This is the Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart.
Haas, Jessie. Westminster West. Two sisters struggle with their roles as women within the family and within society as an arsonist threatens their post-Civil War Vermont community.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the Dead. Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the Civil War.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Stepping on Cracks. In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, Margaret gets a new view of the school bully when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.
Hamilton, Virginia. Willie Bea and the Time the Martians Landed. In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast.
Hardman, Ric Lynden. Sunshine Rider. In the late 1800s while on a cattle drive which takes him north from Texas, seventeen-year-old Wylie learns that it is no longer necessary to run from the father he never knew.
Hendry, Frances Mary. Quest for a Maid. Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir.
Heneghan, James. The Grave. Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Heneghan, James. Wish Me Luck. While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jamie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust. In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Hesse, Karen. Stowaway. A fictionalized journal relates the experiences of a young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor which sailed around the world under Captain James Cook.
Hesse, Karen. A Time of Angels. Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.
Highwater, Jamake. Eyes of Darkness. Yesa, a Santee Sioux Indian, was taken to a mission school and told that he must give up Indian ways. He became a doctor and returned to the reservation.
Hill, Pamela Smith. Voice from the Border. Living in the border state of Missouri during the Civil War, fifteen-year-old Reeves tries to understand her father's decision regarding their slaves.
Ho, Minfong. Rice without Rain. In Thailand during the 1940s, Jinda finds herself caught up in the student uprising in Bangkok.
Hobbs, Will. Jason's Gold. When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 5,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
Hooks, William H. Circle of Fire. In 1936, Harrison overhears a notorious local bigot planning a Ku Klux Klan raid on a group of Irish people and realizes that he must do something to prevent it.
Hotze, Sollace. A Circle Unbroken. Captured by a band of Sioux Indians and brought up as the daughter of a chief, Rachel is recaptured by her white family and finds it difficult to adjust.
Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils. The Civil War is described through events in the lives of various members of a young man's family.
Hunt, Irene. No Promises in the Wind. A fifteen-year-old boy struggles to survive and come to terms with inner conflicts in the desperate world of the Depression.
Hunter, Mollie. King's Swift Rider. Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland's rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for its leader, Robert the Bruce.
Hurmence, Belinda. Tancy. At the end of the Civil War, a young house slave on a North Carolina plantation searches for her mother who was mysteriously sold when Tancy was a baby.
Ingold, Jeanette. Pictures, 1918. Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the local war effort and expands her horizons through her pursuit of photography.
Isaacs, Anne. Torn Thread. n an attempt to save his daughter's life, Eva's father sends her from Poland to a labor camp in Czechoslovakia, where she and her sister survive the war. Kantor, MacKinlay. Andersonville. This novel describes conditions at a prison which held up to ten thousand captured Yankee soldiers during the Civil War.
Karr, Kathleen. Great Turkey Walk. In 1860, a somewhat simple-minded fifteen-year-old boy attempts to herd one thousand turkeys from Missouri to Denver, Colorado, in hopes of selling them at a profit
Karwoski, Gail. Seaman. Seaman, a Newfoundland, proves his value as a hunter and navigator while serving with the Corps of Discovery when it explores the West with Lewis and Clark.
Keith, Harold. Rifles for Watie. Jeff discovers that war is not at all glorious when he participates in his first battle and is sent behind enemy lines as a spy.
Kherdian, David. Bridger; The Story of a Mountain Man. In 1822, eighteen-year-old Jim Bridger leaves civilization behind and journeys into the frontier wilderness.
Kirkpatrick, Katherine. Trouble's Daughter. When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
Lane, Frederick. A Flag for Lafitte. A story of the Battle of New Orleans.
Lane, Rose W. Young Pioneers. Married when Molly was sixteen and David eighteen, these young people suffer hardships and challenges of the Dakota wilderness.
Lasky, Kathryn. Beyond the Divide. In 1849, a fourteen-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home in Pennsylvania to accompany her father across the continent by wagon train.
Lasky, Kathryn. A Journey to the New World; The Diary of Remember Patience Whipple. Twelve-year-old Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her family made on the Mayflower in 1620 and their first year in the New World.
Lasky, Kathryn. Pageant. Sarah Benjamin, a Jewish teenager during the Kennedy administration, wonders if she can endure four more years of Stuart Hall, a Christian school for girls.
Lasky, Kathryn. True North. Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
Latham, Jean Lee. This Dear-Bought Land. In 1606, a fifteen-year-old boy joins the expeditionary force that hopes to establish a permanent English colony in Virginia.
Lawson, Julie. Destination Gold! Sixteen-year-old Ned faces troubles when he travels to the goldfields of the Klondike in 1897.
Lawson, Robert. Ben and Me. A mouse's eye-view of the life and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin.
Lawson, Robert. Mr. Revere and I. An account of episodes in the career of Paul Revere as related by his horse.
Levitin, Sonia. The No-Return Trail. This is a fictionalized account of 1841 Bidwell-
Bartleson expedition which included seventeen-year-old Nancy Kelsey, first American woman to journey from Misouri to California.
Leonard, Laura. Saving Damaris. In 1904, left destitute by the sudden death of their mother and the absence of their father, Abby and Joel try to find a way of preventing their older sister from marrying the very rich but unsuitable Mr. Buttchenbacher.
Lisle, Janet Taylor. The Art of Keeping Cool. In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, Annemarie learns how to be brave when she helps hide her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Lyons, Mary E. Poison Place. A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall. When their father invites a mail-order bride to come to live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by her and hope that she will stay.
Matas, Carol. Greater Than Angels. Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.
Matas, Carol. In My Enemy's House. When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II, a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work for a Nazi in Germany in order to survive.
Matcheck, Diane. The Sacrifice. When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
Mazer, Harry. The Last Mission. In 1944, a fifteen-year-old boy enlists in the U.S. Air Force and is taken prisoner by the Germans.
Mazer, Norma Fox. Good Night, Maman. After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Katin Levi and her older brother Marc, find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.
McCaughrean, Geraldine. Pirate's Son. Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
McGraw, Eloise J. Golden Goblet. A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.
McGraw, Eloise J. Mara, Daughter of the Nile. The adventures of an ingenious Egyptian slave girl who undertakes a dangerous assignment as a spy in the royal palace of Thebes, in the days when Queen Hatshepsut ruled.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Moccasin Trail. A pioneer boy brought up by Crow Indians is reunited with his family and attempts to orient himself in the white man's culture.
McKissack, Patricia C. Color Me Dark. Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her diary the events of 1919, when her family moves from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the racism and hatred of the South behind.
McKissack, Patricia C. Run Away Home. In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African-American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.
McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure. During the Nazi occupation of his village, Peter and the other children have to slip past Nazi guards with gold hidden on their sleds.
Michener, James A. The Bridges at Toko-ri. A story of a naval task force whose mission is to destroy the bridges at Toki-ri during the Korean War.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. This novel describes life on a Southern plantation and the destruction caused by the Civil War.
Moeri, Louise. Save Queen of Sheba. After surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a boy and his spoiled younger sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.
Mooney, Bel. The Voices of Silence. Thirteen-year-old Flora Popescu and her family find themselves caught up in events leading to the overthrow of the repressive regime of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989.
Moore, Yvette. Freedom Songs. In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to support his cause.
Murphy, Jim. West to a Land of Plenty. While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family, Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences.
Myers, Anna. Captain's Command. Even as Christmas approaches and Gail longs to hear that her soldier father has not been killed in World War II, the sixth grader helps bring her handicapped uncle back to life.
Myers, Anna. The Keeping Room. Left in charge of the family by his father, who joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen-year-old Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears he may be betraying his beloved parent.
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Myers, Walter Dean. Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins. A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water. After being taken from a local movie theater-along with other Italian boys, including his Jewish friend by German soldiers, Roberto is forced to work for the German war effort until he escapes into the Ukrainian winter, desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Nelson, Theresa. And One for All. During the time of the Vietnamese Conflict, Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington and joins a peace march.
Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux. Beyond Mayfield. In 1961 the children of Mayfield are concerned with air-raid drills and fallout shelters, but the civil rights movement becomes real when a neighbor joins the Freedom Riders.
Nixon, Joan Lowery. Circle of Love. Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes.
Nixon, Joan
Lowery. A Dangerous Promise.
After being taken in by Captain Taylor and his wife in Kansas,
twelve-year-old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union
army as musicians and see the horrors of war
Noonan, Michael. McKenzie's Boots. To escape an unhappy situation at home, fourteen-year-old Rod McKenzie, six feet tall, enlists in the army during World War II claiming to be nineteen.
O'Dell, Scott. Carlota. A young girl relates her experiences as a participant in the battle of San Pasqual during the war between the Californians and Americans.
O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop. After her father and brother died during the War for Independence, Sarah struggles to start a new life in the wilderness while fleeing from the British.
O'Dell, Scott. The Serpent Never Sleeps. In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.
O'Dell, Scott. Sing Down the Moon. A young Navaho girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the River, River to the Sea. A young Indian woman, accompanied by her baby and her cruel husband, travels with the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
O'Dell, Scott. Thunder Rolling in the Mountains. In the late nineteenth century, a Nez Perce Indian girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
Paterson, Katherine. Jip; His Story. While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie. An impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Patrick, Denise L. Adventures of Midnight Son. After his parents help his escape from slavery on a cotton plantation, thirteen-year-old Midnight finds freedom in Mexico and becomes a cowboy on a cattle drive to Kansas.
Paul, Paula. Dance with Me Gods. Pakuta, a thirteen-year-old Pueblo boy, experiences strong emotions as his usually peaceful people wage war against the Spaniards who have banned the Pueblo religion.
Paulsen, Gary. Call Me Francis Tucket. Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Paulsen, Gary. Mr. Tucket. In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians.
Paulsen, Gary. Sarny. Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War, during which time she taught other blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's Heart. Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat.
Paulsen, Gary. Tucket's Ride. When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture during the Mexican War.
Perez, N.A. The Slopes of War. A young soldier from West Virginia faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg knowing that his two cousins may be fighting against him in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Pevsner, Stella. Sing for Your Father, Su Phan. Recalls the events in a North Vietnamese village that forever changed the lives of the youngest daughter of a prosperous trader and her family.
Porter, Tracey. Treasures in the Dust. Eleven-year-old Annie and her friend Violet tell of the hardships endured by their families when dust storms, drought, and the Great Depression hit rural Oklahoma.
Ransom, Candice. Amanda. A spoiled city girl becomes strong during her hard trip on the Oregon Trail.
Ransom, Candice. Kathleen. An Irish orphan comes to America in the 1800s.
Ransom, Candice. Susannah. A sixteen-year-old Southerner must fight for her life during the Civil War.
Reeder, Carolyn. Across the Lines. Edward, the son of a white plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend, Simon, witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
Rees, Douglas. Lightning Time. Describes the important uses of the telegraph in the lives of those living in 1859.
Richard, Adrienne. Pistol. A story of a boy working as a horse wrangler on the plains of Montana during the Depression.
Richter, Conrad. The Light in the Forest. True Son, a white boy captured by Delaware Indians and raised as an Indian, is forced to return to his white family whom he no longer understands or loves.
Richter, Conrad. The Sea of Grass. A novel about homesteaders in the Southwest.
Richter, Conrad. The Trees. A novel about the transition of American pioneers from the ways of the wilderness to the ways of civilization.
Richter, Hans Peter. Friedrich. A young German boy recounts the fate of his best friend, a Jew during the Nazi regime.
Rinaldi, Ann. Acquaintance with Darkness. When her best friend's family is implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily must live with her uncle after her mother dies.
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia's War. When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
Rinaldi, Ann. The Blue Door. When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile miles.
Rinaldi, Ann. Broken Days. In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.
Rinaldi, Ann. Cast Two Shadows. In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.
Rinaldi, Ann. Keep Smiling Through. A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.
Rinaldi, Ann. Mine Eyes Have Seen. In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry.
Rinaldi, Ann. The Second Bend in the River. In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.
Rinaldi, Ann. Wolf by the Ears. Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and one of his slaves, struggles with the problems facing her -- to escape from Monticello or to stay and remain a slave.
Roberts, Willo. Caroline. Caroline cuts her hair and disguises herself as a boy to go to California with her brothers to find gold.
Robinet, Harriette Gillem. Twins, the Pirates, and the Battle of New Orleans. Twelve-year-old Afro-American twins attempt to escape in the face of pirates, an American army, and the British forces during the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
Robinet, Harriette Gillem. Washington City is Burning. In 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth. A saga of the Norwegian settlement in America and the struggles of one man.
Rubalcaba, Jill. Place in the Sun. In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father's life, and is himself almost killed before his exceptional talent leads Pharoah to name him Royal Sculptor.
Ryan, Pam Munoz. Riding Freedom. A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte)
Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
Sandoz, Mari. The Horsecatcher. Young Elk, a Cheyenne Indian youth, prefers to catch and tame wild horses rather than become a warrior.
Sandoz, Mari. Old Jules. A fictionalized account of Jules Sandoz, an early Nebraska settler.
Schur, Maxine Rose. Sacred Shadows. When her German hometown becomes part of Poland after World War I, Lena, a young German Jew, struggles to come to terms with the anti-Semitism and anti-German hatred that seems to be growing around her.
Schurfranz, Vivian. Danielle. In 1814, a Southern girl must decide between a comfortable life or an adventure as a pirate queen.
Schwartz, Virginia Frances. Send One Angel Down. A young slave tries to shield the horrors of slavery from his younger cousin, a light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation owner.
Serraillier, Ian. Escape from Warsaw. It is 1942 in Warsaw, Poland, and World War II is raging. Ruth, Bronia, and Edek have to fend for themselves when both of their parents are taken by the Nazis and their home is destroyed. Based on a true account.
Skurzynski, Gloria. Cliff-Hanger. Jack and his sister visit Mesa Verde National Park, where they uncover the mysterious past of their family's teenage foster child Lucky.
Smith, Roland. The Captain's Dog. Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness.
Speare, Elizabeth. Calico Captive. Based on an actual diary, the setting is Charlestown, New Hampshire in 1754. A young woman is captured in an Indian raid.
Speare, Elizabeth. Sign of the Beaver. Left alone to guard the family's home in 18th century Maine, a boy has many difficulties until local Indians teach him their skills.
Speare, Elizabeth. The Witch of Blackbird Pond. In 1687, a high-spirited young girl rebels against bigotry and finds herself in the middle of a witch hunt and trial.
Sterman, Betsy. Saratoga Secret. In 1777, as General Burgoyne and his British troops invade the upper Hudson River valley, sixteen-year-old Amity must carry a secret message to the continental Army to give warning of an impending attack.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Uncle Tom, a dignified old black slave, experiences three slaveholders. Two of them treat Tom well, but the third one abuses him.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Flame-Colored Taffeta. Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community in England in the eighteenth century.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. Sword Song. At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in the Angles' Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the west coast of Scotland and witnessing the feuds of the clan chiefs living there.
Swift, Hildegard Hoyt. The Railroad to Freedom. This book is a fictionalized account of Harriet Tubman who helped more than three hundred slaves escape to the north and freedom.
Talbot, Charlene. An Orphan for Nebraska. Orphaned on the journey to America in 1872, an Irish boy finally makes his way to Nebraska where he goes to work for a newspaper editor.
Talbot, Joy. The Sodbuster Venture. Following a dying man's last request, thirteen-year-old Maud helps the man's fiance homestead his claim on the Kansas prairie in 1870.
Tamar, Erika. The Midnight Train Home. When their mother can no longer care for them, eleven-year-old Deirdre and her brothers board the Orphans' Train for placement with families out West, but Deirdre, a talented singer, finds a different type of family when she joins a traveling vaudeville troupe.
Taylor, Mildred D. Let the Circle Be Unbroken. Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial prejudice and hard times, but learn pride and self-respect.
Taylor, Mildred D. The Road to Memphis. Teased by three white boys in 1940s rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and gets Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. A black family living in the South during the 1930s are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
Taylor, Sydney. All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown. The further adventures of five sisters and their brother growing up on New York's East Side in the early twentieth century.
Thesman, Jean. Ornament Tree. When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there.
Trevino, Elizabeth Barton. I, Juan de Pareja. Juan de Pareja, a slave, and his master, Velazquez, the 17th century Spanish court painter, developed a relationship of friendship and equality.
Turnbull, Ann. Maroo of the Winter Caves. Maroo, a girl of the late Ice Age, must take charge after her father is killed, and lead her little brother, mother, and aged grandmother to the safety of the winter camp before the first blizzards strike.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary. While celebrating the New Year with a friend, Sammy encounters a mystery involving an elderly neighbor, a pioneer cabin, and a century-old family feud.
Wallin, Luke. In the Shadow of the Wind. In 1835, a teenage white settler and a Creek Indian girl try to preserve their love for each other despite the hostilities between the Indians and whites.
Wilder, Laura. The First Four Years. In the late 1800s, Laura and Almanzo Wilder homestead a claim on the South Dakota prairie. Wilkinson, Brenda. Ludell. A young black girl experiences the pleasures and pains of growing up during the 1950s in a small Georgia town.
Williams, Barbara. Titanic Crossing. In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking.
Winterfeld, Henry. Detectives in Togas.In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall.
Wisler, G. Clifton. Buffalo Moon. To avoid being sent to a school in New Orleans, a fourteen-year-old boy leaves his Texas ranch and stays with Comanche Indians for six months.
Wisler, G. Clifton. The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg. In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Wisler, G. Clifton. Red Cap. A young Yankee drummer boy displays great a courage when he is captured and sent to Andersonville Prison.
Wisler, G. Clifton. This New Land. Richard Woodley describes his trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower and tells about the first year spent by the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Wisler, G. Clifton. Winter of the Wolf. In charge of the family's Texas homestead during the Civil War, T.J. saves the life of a Comanche boy during an Indian raid.
Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. Once on This River. While on a trip with her mother from Madagascar to New York in 1760, eleven-year-old Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her "other" mother.
Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings. In the early twentieth century, a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. Hannah, who resents her Jewish heritage, is transported back in time to Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp.
Zindel, Paul. The Gadget. In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
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