Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Historical Fiction
As fast as words could fly
Tuck, Pamela M.
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing...
Gold rush girl
Avi.
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroin...
War is over
Almond, David.
It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in F...
Sylvia & Aki
Conkling, Winifred.
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki Munemitsu and her family are sent ...
A sky full of stars
Jackson, Linda Williams.
In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to he...
Step up to the plate, Maria Singh
Krishnaswami, Uma.
"Nine-year-old Maria Singh learns to play softball just like her heroes in the All-American Gi...
Hula for the home front : a Nanea classic. Volume 2
Larson, Kirby.
"Nanea Mitchell had hoped that going back to school would make life seem normal again. But eve...
Scar : a Revolutionary War tale
Mann, Jennifer Ann.
"Sixteen-year-old Noah Daniels wants nothing more than to fight in George Washington's Co...
Indian no more
McManis, Charlene Willing.
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to L...
Loretta Little looks back : three voices go tell it : a monologue novel
Pinkney, Andrea Davis.
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs fr...
Village of scoundrels : based on a true story of courage during WWII
Preus, Margi.
In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others ...
Spies of the American Revolution : an interactive espionage adventure
Raum, Elizabeth.
"In You Choose format, explores the Revolutionary War from the perspectives of spies on both t...
Esperanza rising
Ryan, Pam Muñoz.
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go wor...
Betty before X
Shabazz, Ilyasah.
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and st...
Charlotte spies for justice : a Civil War survival story
Smith, Nikki Shannon.
In 1864 twelve-year-old former slave Charlotte is lucky enough to live on a plantation near Richmon...
I survived the American Revolution, 1776
Tarshis, Lauren.
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-...
Stone River crossing
Tingle, Tim.
"Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chit...
A jar of dreams
Uchida, Yoshiko.
A young girl grows up in a closely-knit Japanese American family in California during the 1930'...
My year in the middle
Weaver, Lila Quintero.
It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit...
Dragonwings
Yep, Laurence.
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him ...