Lists and Suggestions for Teens
List: #Throwback: Historical Fiction
Rebel Spy
Rossi, Veronica, author.
1776. A shipwreck off her home in Grand Bahama Island presents an unthinkable opportunity for Frann... More
The Silent Unseen
McCrina, Amanda, 1990- author.
In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must... More
Butterfly Yellow
Lai, Thanhha, author.
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger... More
Angel of Greenwood
Pink, Randi, author.
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that ... More
Stage Dreams
Gillman, Melanie, author, illustrator.
The New Mexico Territory, 1861. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia ... More
Saving Savannah
Bolden, Tonya, author.
1919. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., Savannah is lucky... More
Gold Mountain
Yee, Betty G., 1966- author.
Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in C... More
Luck of the Titanic
Lee, Stacey (Stacey Heather), author.
After smuggling herself onto the RMS Titanic, British-Chinese teenager Valora Luck reunites with he... More
A Cloud of Outrageous Blue
Stamper, Vesper, author, illustrator.
After her parents' deaths, Edyth is sent to live in a priory, where she begins to make a new l... More
Walls
Elliott, Laura, 1957- author.
In the days before the treacherous overnight raising of the Berlin Wall, teenaged cousins Drew, an ... More
A Sitting in St. James
Williams-Garcia, Rita, author.
1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sy... More
Anatomy: A Love Story
Schwartz, Dana, author.
Edinburgh, 1817. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Ja... More
Within These Lines
Morrill, Stephanie, author.
Italian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interraci... More
Rima's Rebellion
Engle, Margarita, author.
In 1920s Cuba, Rima is bullied and shunned for her illegitimacy, but finds solace in riding her hor... More
The Storyteller
Williams, Kathryn, 1981- author.
Jess Morgan is growing tired of living her life to please everyone else. When she discovers her lat... More
I Must Betray You
Sepetys, Ruta, author.
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Fl... More
The Weight of Our Sky
Hanna Alkaf, author.
"Amidst the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overc... More
The Deep Blue Between
Attah, Ayesha Harruna, author.
In 1890s West Africa, when a brutal raid leaves their home in ruins, twin sisters Hassana and Husse... More
Stolen Science: Thirteen Untold Stories of Scientists and Inventors Almost Written Out of History
Schwartz, Ella, 1974- author.
"Over the centuries, women, people from underrepresented communities, and immigrants overcame ... More
They Went Left
Hesse, Monica, author.
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post-war Europe as she searches for her y... More
Splinters of Scarlet
Murphy, Emily Bain, author.
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina... More
The Forest of Stolen Girls
Hur, June, author.
In 1426 in Joseon, a year after her father vanishes while investigating the disappearance of thirte... More
The Blossom and the Firefly
Smith, Sherri L., author.
Japan 1945. Taro is a talented violinist and a kamikaze pilot in the days before his first and only... More
Lovely War
Berry, Julie, 1974- author.
In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the Gods held the fates -- and the hearts -- of four m... More