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Children's Recommendations - Historical Fiction

Children's - Historical Fiction

Chains
ISBN: 9781416905851
Title: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson - After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse.
The player king
ISBN: 9781481437684
Title: The player king by Avi - In 1486 England, a penniless kitchen boy is told that he is actually Prince Edward, the true King of England, setting him on a dangerous course to regain the throne. Based on a true story.
Author: Avi, 1937- author.
The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
ISBN: 0531084930
Title: The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi - As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious
Author: Avi, 1937-
The war that saved my life
ISBN: 9780803740815
Title: The war that saved my life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley - A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother
Author: Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
Year of impossible goodbyes
ISBN: 0395574196
Title: Year of impossible goodbyes by Sook Nyul Choi - A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea
Author: Choi, Sook Nyul.
Al Capone does my shirts
ISBN: 9780399238611
Title: Al Capone does my shirts by Gennifer Choldenko - A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there
Author: Choldenko, Gennifer, 1957-
Elijah of Buxton
ISBN: 9780439023443
Title: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis - In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring justice for his family
Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
ISBN: 0385321759
Title: The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis - The ordinary routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963
Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul. author.
The ballad of Lucy Whipple
ISBN: 0395728061
Title: The ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman - In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town
Author: Cushman, Karen.
Book cover for The door in the wall by Marguerite de Angeli
Title: The door in the wall by Marguerite de Angeli - A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King
Author: De Angeli, Marguerite, 1889-
Book cover for The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 0786822414
Title: The birchbark house by Louise Erdrich - 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
Author: Erdrich, Louise.
Bandit's moon
ISBN: 9780688158309
Title: Bandit's moon by Sid Fleischman - Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Joaquín Murieta and his band of outlaws in the California gold-mining region during the mid-1800s
Author: Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010
By the Great Horn Spoon!
ISBN: 0316285773
Title: By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman - Jack and the butler stow away on a side-wheeler bound for California where they join the Gold Rush of 1849
Author: Fleischman, Sid, 1920-2010
The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg
ISBN: 9780439668187
Title: The mostly true adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick - Twelve-year-old Homer, a poor but clever orphan, has extraordinary adventures after running away from his evil uncle to rescue his brother, who has been sold into service in the Civil War
Author: Philbrick, W. R. (W. Rodman)
Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro
ISBN: 9780810989818
Title: Heart of a samurai : based on the true story of Nakahama Manjiro by Margi Preus - In 1841, rescued by an American whaler, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States
Author: Preus, Margi.
Echo
ISBN: 9780439874021
Title: Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a harmonica--and decades later three children find themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny
Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz, author.
Book cover for Riding freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Title: Riding freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan - 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
Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz.
I survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
ISBN: 9780545206983
Title: I survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941 by Lauren Tarshis - Visiting his favorite Hawaiian beach when Japanese forces suddenly attack Pearl Harbor, eleven-year-old Danny Crane struggles to make his way back home
Author: Tarshis, Lauren.
Little house in the big woods
ISBN: 9780060264307
Title: Little house in the big woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder - A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions
Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
Breaking Stalin's nose
ISBN: 9780805092165
Title: Breaking Stalin's nose by Eugene Yelchin - In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own beliefs
Author: Yelchin, Eugene.