Historical Fiction for Teens

 

 Colonial America Fleischman Path of the Pale Horse Lep, an apprentice to a doctor, helps his master take care of yellow fever victims in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793. 4th Grade and up Richter A Light in the Forest After eleven years among the Delaware Indians, fifteen-year-old John Butler is forced to return to his original home a nd his parents as a result of the Bouquet military expedition of 1765. 7th Grade and up Rinaldi Break With Charity While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692. 4th Grade and up (Slavery) Armstrong Steal Away In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls. 4th Grade and up Lasky True North Because of the strong influence which her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape. Lyons The Poison Place A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death. 7th Grade and up Shaik Melitte In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her. American Revolution Collier My Brother Sam is Dead Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution, when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town. DeFord An Enemy Among Them A young Hessian soldier questions his loyalty to his king after fighting with the British in America during the Revolutionary War and spending time as a prisoner in the home of a German American family from Pennsylvania. Keehn The Moon of Two Dark Horses At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast Rinaldi Cast Two Shadows Rinaldi The Fifth of March Rinaldi Finishing Becca Rinaldi The Secret of Sarah Revere Rinaldi Time Enough for Drums Sterman Saratoga Secret War of 1812 Benton Silent Stranger Robinet Washington City is Burning U.S. Civil War Armstrong The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan Awake Clapp The Tamarack Tree Collier With Every Drop of Blood Ernst The Bravest Girl in Sharpsburg Hunt Across Five Aprils Johnson My Brothers Keeper Keith Rifles for Watie Reeder Across the Lines Rinaldi The Last Silk Dress Woodruff The Shiloh Renewal U.S. 19th Century DeFelice The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker Paterson Lyddie Rinaldi Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory Rinaldi Wolf by the Ears Western United States 19th Century Lasky The Bone Wars Patrick The Adventures of Midnight Son Turner Third Girl from the Left Wisler Mustang Flats Yep Dragon's Gate Terris Nell's Quilt United States 20th Century Davis Just Like Martin Moore Freedom Songs Perez Breaker Sebestyn On Fire Taylor The Road to Memphis
Native American History Ackerman Spirit Horse Fleischman Saturnalia Harrah My Brother my Enemy Kirkpatrick Troubles Daughter Levin Brother Moose Newth The Abduction O'Dell Thunder Rolling World History Blair Fear the Condor (Bolivia) Bond Another Shore (Canada) Bosse The Examination (China) Bunting S.O.S. Titanic Choi Echoes of White Giraffe (Korea) Dickinson AK (Africa) Jenkins The Honorable Prison (Latin America) Laird Kiss the Dust (Iran) Lingard Between Two Worlds (Canadian) Lisson The Devil's Own (Australia) Lutzier Wall (Germany) Matas Sworn Enemies (Russia) Namioka Chain of Fire (South Africa) Paterson Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (Japan) Sacks Beyond Safe Boundaries (South Africa) Schami A Handful of Stars (Middle East) Temple Grab Hands and Run (El Salvador) Temple Taste of Salt (Haiti) Vanderels Leaving Point (China) Medieval History Cushman Catherine Called Birdy Cushman Midwife's Apprentice Goodman The Winter Hare Hunter The King's Swift Rider Morris The Squire's Tale Stolz Pangur Ban Sutcliffe The Shining Company World War I Rostowski After the Dancing Days

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