Lists and Suggestions for Kids
List: Historical Fiction
Anna Strong and the Revolutionary War Culper spy ring / written by Enigma Alberti ; illustrated by Laura Terry.
Alberti, Enigma.
Anna Strong, a member of the secret Culper Ring, found ingenious ways to communicate top-secret mes...
War is over
Almond, David.
It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's father is fighting in the trenches far away in F...
Gold rush girl
Avi.
Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroin...
The button war : a tale of the Great War / Avi.
Avi.
Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where t...
Letters from Cuba
Behar, Ruth.
In 1938, eleven-year-old Esther joins her father in tropical, multicultural Cuba, where they toil to...
Sylvia & Aki
Conkling, Winifred.
At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki Munemitsu and her family are sent ...

Call me Floy
Cooke, Joanna
Floy Hutchings, nearly twelve, struggles against the expectations of 1876 society as she fights to ...

At the Battle of Antietam
Doeden, Matt.
This book explores various perspectives surrounding the Battle of Antietam in the Civil War. Readers...
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...
Wishes, dares, & how to stand up to a bully / by Darlene Beck Jacobson.
Jacobson, Darlene Beck.
"This poignant novel in verse crystallizes a boy's worries about his father, MIA in Vietna...
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...

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Messner, Kate.
This time Ranger, the time-travelling Golden retriever finds himself transported to the deck of the...

Prairie lotus
Park, Linda Sue.
In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistanc...
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...
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 ...
As fast as words could fly
Tuck, Pamela M.
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing...