Historical Fiction
One crazy summer
Rita Williams-Garcia
jFICTION Williams-Garcia, Rita
Kids, Historical Fiction
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
jFICTION O'Dell, Scott
Kids, Classics, Historical Fiction
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Added by Anne W
Number the stars
Lois Lowry
jFICTION Lowry, Lois
Kids, Historical Fiction
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Added by Anne W
Inside out & back again
Thanhha Lai
jFICTION Lai, Thanhha
Kids, Historical Fiction, Poetry
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
Added by Anne W
The birchbark house
Louise Erdrich
jFICTION Erdrich, Louise
Kids, Historical Fiction
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.
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The journey of Little Charlie
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
When his poor sharecropper father is killed in an accident and leaves the family in debt, twelve-year-old Little Charlie agrees to accompany fearsome plantation overseer Cap'n Buck north in pursuit of people who have stolen from him; Cap'n Buck tells Little Charlie that his father's debt will be cleared when the fugitives are captured, which seems like a good deal until Little Charlie comes face-to-face with the people he is chasing.
Added by Anne W
Bud, not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
Added by Anne W
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
Christopher Paul Curtis
jFICTION Curtis, Christopher Paul
Kids, Historical Fiction
The ordinary interactions and everyday 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.
Added by Anne W
Talking leaves
Joseph Bruchac
jFICTION Bruchac, Joseph
Kids, Historical Fiction
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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The war I finally won
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
jFICTION Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Kids, Historical Fiction
"As the frightening impact of World War II creeps closer and closer to her door, eleven-year-old Ada learns to manage life on the home front"--
Added by Anne W
Added by Anne W