Historical+Fiction

Historical Fiction



Books or stories in the historical fiction genre blend actual historical facts with fiction. A story could be a fictional account of a character but during a real historical period in time ( for example __ Chains __ by Laurie Halse Anderson). There are many stories to choose from, because there are many different periods of time that you can find a story in. Look [|here] for to see an interesting chart that explains the different kinds stories in historical fiction.

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Here is a very detailed list of some of the historical fiction books. Historical Fiction

600 A.D. – 1599 A.D. Medieval Worlds J Fiction Armstrong-Raleigh’s Page (1500’s/England) Armstrong-Whittington (1423/Black Plague) Avi -Crispin: Cross of Lead and At the Edge of the World (England) Bulla-The Sword in the Tree (King Arthur) Camelot-Camelot (King Arthur) Crossley-HollandArthur Trilogy (King Arthur) Cushman-Catherine Called Birdy (England) Cushman-Matilda Bone (England) Dana-Young Joan (France) Davis-Future Knight (1409) DeAngeli -The Door in the Wall (England) Dorris-Sees Behind Trees (America) Edwards-Dragon: Hound of Honor (France) Grant -Blood Red Horse (Crusades) Jinks -Pagan Series (France) Kelly-Trumpeter of Krakow (Poland) Konigsburg -A Proud Taste for Scarlet & Miniver McGovern-Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest (England) McKinley- The Outlaws of Sherwood (England) Mitgutsch-A Knight’s Book (/Germany) O’Dell-The Captive (1500’s/Mexico) Picard-Stories of King Arthur & his Knights (King Arthur) Pope-The Perilous Gard (England) Snow - Sisters of the Sword (FeudalJapan) Spradlin-Youngest Templar series (Europe/Crusades) Stolz - Bartholomew Fair (England) Sutcliff- Tristan and Iseult (Ireland) Treece -Splintered Sword (Vikings) Vanderwal-TheBattlefor Duncragglin (Scotland) Westall - The Wind Eye (England) Yolen-Dragon’s Boy (King Arthur) Yolen - Sword of the Rightful King (King Arthur)

1600 A.D. – 1799 A.D. U.S.Colonial/Revolutionary Times J Fiction Anderson - Chains (Revolutionary War) Anderson- Forge (Revolutionary War and sequel to Chains) Anderson - Fever 1793 Avi-Captain Grey (Pirates) Carlson - Attack of the Turtle (1776/Revolutionary War) Collier - My Brother Sam Is Dead (Revolutionary War) Cooney-Ransom of Mercy Carter (ColonialAmerica) Duble-The Sacrifice (SalemWitch Trials) Duey- Hoofbeats: Silence & Lily, 1773 (Revolutionary War,Boston) Field-Calico Bush (ColonialAmerica) Forbes - Johnny Tremain (Revolutionary War) Gallico- Miracle in the Wilderness (ColonialAmerica) Giblin-The Boy Who SavedCleveland(1798/Cleveland,Ohio) Holmes- Cross of Gold (New Mexico) Howard - The Crimson Cap (1687/ExploringAmerica) Hudson - Dawn Rider (Plains’ Indians) Hurst-A Killing inPlymouthColony (ColonialAmerica) Keehn - I AmRegina (French and Indian War) Kerr-Worlds Apart (Carolinas) Krensky-The Printer’s Apprentice (New York City) Laird - Water Rat (Delaware) Lawson-Ben and Me (Ben Franklin) Myers-Spy! (Revolutionary War) Myers-Time of the Witches (SalemWitch Trials) Nixon - Maria’s Story (Williamsburg) O’Dell- Sarah Bishop (Revolutionary War) Petry - Tituba ofSalemVillage (Salem Witch Trials) Rees-Witch Child (Witchcraft) Speare-The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Witchcraft) Stevenson - Treasure Island (Pirates) Wyss-The Swiss Family Robinson (Shipwreck)

1800 - 1899 A.D. U.S.Pioneers, Civil War, Slavery, Reconstruction J Fiction Avi-Hard Gold (1859/California Gold Rush) Avi - Iron Thunder (1862/Civil War) Avi - The Seer of Shadows (1872 /New York City) Barker-A Difficult Boy (1839 / Indentured Servitude) Blos -Letters From the Corrugated Castle (1850’s/California Gold Rush) Calvert-Bigger (1860’s/Frontier Life) Calvert- Sooner (1860’s/Reconstruction) Clark-Hattie on Her Way (1800’s/New York) Clark - Secrets of Greymoor (1800’s/New York) Collins -Daughter of Winter (1849/ Massachusetts) Couloumbis-Maude March on the Run! (1800’s/Frontier Life) Curtis-Elijah of Buxton (1859/Slavery) Cushman-The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (1849/California Gold Rush) Erdrich-The Birchbark House (1850’s/Native Americans) Erdrich-The Game of Silence (1850’s/Native Americans) Erdrich-The Porcupine Year (1850’s/Native Americans) Fleischman - Bandit’s Moon (1853/California Gold Rush) Gregory-Jimmy Spoon and the Pony Express (1800’s/Pony Express) Hahn-Hear the Wind Blow (1860’s/Civil War) Hart- Bell’s Star (1853/Vermont) Hart - Racing to Freedom trilogy (1864/Civil War) Helgerson-Crows and Cards (1849/St. Louis) Hemphill-The Adventurous Deeds of Deadwood Jones (The West) Hunt-Across Five Aprils (1860’s/Civil War) Kelly-The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (1899/Texas) Ketchum-Newsgirl (1851/Gold Rush) Kimmel - Mary Ingalls on Her Own (1881/Iowa) Lawlor-The School at Crooked Creek (1820’s/Frontier Life) Lyons-Letters from a Slave Boy (1829/Slavery) MacLachlan-Sarah, Plain and Tall (1800’s/Frontier Life) McMullan-When I Crossed No-Bob (1870’s / Reconstruction) Mazer-My Brother Abe (1816/Kentucky) Paterson-Jip: His Story (1855/Slavery) Paulsen - A Soldier’s Heart (1860’s/Civil War) Philbrick-The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (Civil War) Rinaldi - The Ever-After Bird (1850’s/Slavery/Underground Railroad) Ritter-The Desperado Who Stole Baseball (1881/California) Ruby-Soon Be Free (1857/Slavery/Underground Railroad) Sanchez-The Invasion ofSandyBay(War of 1812) Wells-Lincoln and His Boys (1860’s/Civil War) Wilder-Little House on the Prairie (Late 1800’s/Frontier Life) Wisler - Red Cap (1860’s/Civil War) Zimmer-The Floating Circus (1850’s/Pittsburgh)

1900 A.D. – Recent History World Wars, Depressions, Modern Times J Fiction Armstrong - Sounder (African-American/Sharecroppers) Blume-Tennyson (The Great Depression /New Orleans) Brown-The Train Jumper (The Great Depression) Bunting-Spying on Miss Muller (WWII/USA) Burg - A Thousand Never Evers (1963/Civil Rights) Burnett-TheSecretGarden(early 1900’s/England) Casanova-The Klipfish Cause (WWII/Norway) Cheng - Eclipse (1952 / Hungarian Immigrants) Cleaver - Where the Lilies Bloom (1960/Smoky Mountains) Cohen -Mimmy & Sophie: All Around the Town (1920’s/Brooklyn) Compestine-Revolution is Not a Dinner Party (1972/Chinese Revolution) Curtis-The Watsons Go toBirmingham(1963) Cushman-The Loud Silence of Francine Green (1949/McCarthy Era) Doucet-Fiddle Fever (1914/Louisiana) Dowell-Shooting the Moon (1960’s/Vietnam War) Estevis - Chicken Foot Farm (1940’s/Texas) Goldin- Fire!The Beginnings of the Labor Movement (1911) Greene-Summer of my German Soldier (WWII/Arkansas) Gutman - Race for the Sky: The Kitty Hawk Diaries of Johnny Moore (1900/NorthCarolina) Hahn-Stepping on the Cracks (WWII) Harlowe-Blown Away! (1935/Florida Keys) Hesse - BrooklynBridge (1903/Brooklyn) Hesse - Letters from Rifka (Russian Revolution) Hesse- Out of the Dust (1929/Depression/Dust Bowl) Hill-The Year of Miss Agnes (1948/Alaska) Hobbs-The Big Wander (1950) Kinsey--WarnockLumberCampLibrary(1920’s/Vermont) Lemna - When the Sergeant Came Marching Home (1946/Montana) Levine - Catch a Tiger by the Toe (1950’s/McCarthy Era) Levine- Dave at Night (1920’s/Harlem Renaissance) Levitin - Journey toAmerica (1940) Lieurance - The Locket: Surviving the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911/NYC) Lord - In the Year of the Boar & Jackie Robinson (1940) Lowry -Number the Stars (WWII/Denmark) Madden - Gentle’s Holler (1960’s/NorthCarolina) Madden -Jessie’s Mountain (1960’s/NorthCarolina) Madden-Louisiana’s Song (1960’s/NorthCarolina) Matas- Lisa’s War (WWII/Denmark) Morpurgo-War Horse (England/WWI) Orlev-The Man from the Other Side (WWII/Poland) Orlev-Run, Boy, Run Paterson- Jacob Have I Loved (WWII/USA) Reiss - The Upstairs Room (WWII/Netherlands) Robinet - Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues (1956/Civil Rights) Salisbury- Night of the Howling Dogs (1975/Hawaii) Salisbury- Under the Blood Red Sun (WWIIPearl Harbor) Schmidt-The Wednesday Wars (1960’s/Vietnam War) Skurzynski-Good-Bye Billy Radish (WWI/Pennsylvania) Smith- Elephant Run (WWII/Burma) Snyder-Cat Running (Depression) Sullivan-Annie’s War (1946/Washington) Taylor-All-of-a-Kind Family (early 1900’s/New York City) Taylor-Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry (1930/Mississippi) Testa-Almost Forever (Vietnam War) Toksvis-Hitler’s Canary (WWII/Holland) Uchida-A Jar of Dreams (1935/San Francisco) Watkins-So Far from the Bamboo Grove (WWII/Korea) Westall-The Kingdom by the Sea (WWII/England) White-Belle Prater’s Boy (1953/Virginia) Williams -Titanic Crossing (1912) Woodruff-The Orphan of Ellis Island (1908/Italian Immigration) Wynne-JonesRex Zero and the End of the World (1962/Canada) Wynne-JonesRex Zero the King of Nothing (1962/Canada) YepThe Dragon’s Child (1922/Chinese Immigration) YepThe Earth Dragon Awakes: TheSan FranciscoEarthquake of 1906 YepThe Star Fisher (1920) Yolen-The Devil’s Arithmetic (Holocaust)