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Historical Fiction:

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women

Topic: Northern family life, Civil War

 

Alma, Ann. Brave Deeds: How One Family Saved Many from the Nazis

Topic: Danish resistance in World War II

            http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/ns_history.htm

 

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Fever 1793

Topic: Yellow fever epidemic, Philadelphia, 1793

Avi. The Barn

Topic: Westward expansion, Oregon territory

  • http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/reform/oregon_1

 

Avi. Crispin, Cross of Lead

Topic: England, 1377

 

Avi. DonÕt You Know ThereÕs a War On?

Topic: World War II, Brooklyn

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii

 

  • Nonfiction print source: Barr, Gary. World War II Home Front (Heinemann, 2004).

 

Avi. The Fighting Ground

Topic: American Revolution, 1778


Bishop, Claire Hutchet. Twenty and Ten

  • Topic: World War II; Nazi occupation

 

Blackwood, Gary. The Shakespeare Stealer

Topic: Shakespearean theater, England, 1500

  • http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm
  • Nonfiction print source: Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe (HarperCollins, 1999)
  • Morley, Jacqueline. ShakespeareÕs Theater (Peter Bedrick, 1994)
  • Stanley, Diane.  Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare (Morrow, 1992)

 

Blume, Lesley. Rising Star of Rusty Nail

Topic: 1950s Minnesota; Communism

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern

 

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade50.html

 

Bradley, Kimberly B.  For Freedom: A French  Spy

Topic: World War II, French resistance

 

Brill, Marlene Targ. Diary of a Drummer Boy

Topic: Civil War

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/civil

 

 

Burgess, Melvin. The Copper Treasure

Topic: Thames River, London, 1850s

 

Carbone, Elisa. Storm Warriors

Topic: Race relations in North Carolina, 1895

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress/plessy_1

 

Choldenko, Gennifer. Al Capone Does My Shirts

Topic: Alcatraz prison, 1935

 

Coleman, Evelyn. Freedom Train

Topic: Freedom Trains, Discrimination

http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/FT/FT-Index.html

 

 

 

Conrad, Pam. PedroÕs Journal

Topic: Voyage of Columbus, 1492

 

Cooper, Susan. King of Shadows

Topic: Shakespeare, 1500s

  • http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/theatre.htm
  • Nonfiction print source: Aliki. William Shakespeare and the Globe (HarperCollins, 1999)
  • Morley, Jacqueline. ShakespeareÕs Theater (Peter Bedrick, 1994)
  • Stanley, Diane.  Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare (Morrow, 1992)

 

 

Cottonwood, Joe. Quake

Topic: San Francisco earthquake, Oct. 17, 1989

 

Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Topic: Segregation, Alabama, 1963

Cushman, Karen.  The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Topic: California Gold Rush, 1840

http://pbskids.org/wayback/goldrush/

 

DeClements, Barthe. The Bite of the Gold Bug: A Story of the Alaskan Gold Rush

 

 

Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of Ben Uchida

Topic: Japanese internment during World War II

Denenberg, Barry.  The Journal of William Thomas Emerson

Topic: American Revolution, 1774

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/revolut

 

 

 

Drucker, Malka. JacobÕs Rescue

Topic: Holocaust, World War II

 

Duey, Kathleen. Survival! Titanic

Topic: Sinking of the Titanic, 1912

 

Giff, Patricia Reilly. All the Way Home

Topic: Polio, 1941

http://suzyred.com/2003allthewayhome.html

 

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Nory RyanÕs Song

Topic: Irish potato famine

 

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Water Street

Topic: Brooklyn Bridge construction, 1875

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/bbridge_1

 

 

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Willow Run

Topic: World War II home front

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

 

  • Nonfiction print source: Barr, Gary. World War II Home Front

 

 

Going, K.L. The Liberation of Gabriel King

Topic: Race relations, Georgia, 1976

 

Gregory, Christiana. Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile

 

Gross, Virginia. The President is Dead

Topic: President John F. Kennedy

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/kennedy_1

 

Gutman, Dan. Jackie and Me

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/robinson_1

 

Gutman, Dan. Shoeless Joe and Me

 

 

Harris, Carol Flynn. A Place for Joey

Topic: BostonÕs great molasses flood

á      http://members.tripod.com/~earthdude1/molasses/molasses.html

http://massmoments.org/index.cfm?mid=19

 

Hesse, Karen. A Light in the Storm

Topic: U.S. Civil War, 1860

 

Hesse, Karen. Letters from Rifka

Topic: World War I

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/jazz/ww1_1

 

 

Hesse, Karen. Out of the Dust

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ok/dustbowl_1

 

 

Hesse, Karen. Witness

á       Ku Klux Klan , Vermont history

á      http://content.scholastic.com/browse/collateral.jsp?id=1367_type=Book_typeId=3224

http://vermonthistory.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=173

 

Hest, Amy. Love You Soldier

Topic: World War II

            http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/dday_1

 

 

Holt, Kimberly Willis. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Topic: 1970s, Vietnam War

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade70.html

 

 

           

Hunter, Sara Hoagland. The Unbreakable Code

Topic: Navajo code talkers, World War II

 

Hyatt, Patricia. Coast to Coast With Alice

Topic: Automobile transportation, 1909

 

Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam. Vietnam War, war dogs

á      http://www.uswardogs.org/id10.html

 

Kudlinski, Kathleen. Earthquake: A Story of Old San Francisco

http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/06

 

 

Kudlinski, Kathleen. Pearl Harbor is Burning

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/pearlhar_3

 

Nonfiction print source: Krensky, Stephen. Pearl Harbor. 940.54 KRE

Allen, Thomas B. Remember Pearl Harbor : American and Japanese survivors tell their stories  940.54 ALL

Tanaka, Shelley. Attack on Pearl Harbor The True Story Of The Day America Entered World War II  940.54 TAN

 

LaFaye, A. Worth.

Topic: Frontier life, 1800s, Nebraska

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan

www.nebraskahistory.org/sites/mnh/orphans/index.htm

 

 

Lasky, Kathryn. Elizabeth I.

http://www.newberry.org/elizabeth/exhibit/index.html

 

Nonfiction print source:         

Stanley, Diane. Good Queen Bess: the Story of Elizabeth I of England    B ELIZABETH

Meltzer, Milton. Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power       920 MEL

 

Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the Nutcracker Men.

Topic: World War I, England

 

 

 

Levine, Gail Carson. Dave at Night
Topic: Harlem Renaissance

Love, D. Anne. BessÕs Log Cabin Quilt.

Topic: American frontier

  • Nonfiction print source: Fradin, Dennis B. Pioneers

 

Lowry, Lois. Autumn Street

Topic: World War II

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/dday_1

 

 

Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars

Topic: Danish resistance in  World War II

            http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/ns_history.htm

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/dday_1

 

 

 

Matas,  Carol. DanielÕs Story

Topic: Holocaust

 

 

 

McCaughrean, Geraldine. Casting the Gods Adrift

Topic: Ancient Egypt; Pharoah Akhenaten

 

McCaughrean, Geraldine. Stop the Train!

Topic: American frontier, railroad expansion

 

 

McDonagh, Yona Zeldis. The Doll with the Yellow Star

Topic: France in World War II

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html

 

McKissack, Pat. A Song for Harlem.

Topic: Harlem Renaissance

 

 

McKissack, Pat. Abby Takes a Stand

Civil rights, segregation, sit-ins, Nashville, Tenn. 1960

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/story/04_nonviolence.html

http://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/permexhibits.htm

 

McNeer, May. The California Gold Rush

Topic: California Gold Rush, 1848

Meyer, Carolyn. Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess

Topic: Russia, 1914

 

Morpurgo, Michael. The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips

Topic: D-Day, World War II

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/faq.htm

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/presidents/eisenhower/dday_1

 

 

Murphy, Jim.  The Journal of James Pease

Topic: Civil War, Gettysburg, Va.

  • Nonfiction print source: Murphy, Jim. The BoysÕ War:
    Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the War
    (Clarion, 1990)

 

 

Myers, Walter Dean. The Journal of Biddy Owens

Topic: Segregation, 1948

 

Napoli, Donna Jo. Daughter of Venice

Topic: Sixteenth-century Venice

 

Osborne, Mary Pope. The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins

Topic: Invasion of Normandy, 1944

 

Osborne, Mary Pope. My Secret War

Topic: World War II, New York

            http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade40.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/dday_1

 

  • Nonfiction print source: Barr, Gary. World War II Home Front
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Osborne, Mary Pope. Standing in the Light

Topic: Native American (Lenni Lenape)-European relations, 1760

 

Paulsen, Gary. SoldierÕs Heart

First Minnesota Volunteers,Civil War.

http://www.firstminnesota.org/

Nonfiction print source:         

The Boys' War : Confederate And Union Soldiers Talk About The Civil War      973.7 MUR Murphy, Jim

 

Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble DonÕt Last

Underground Railroad

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ma/railroad_1

 

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/tubman

 

Peck, Richard. Fair Weather

Topic: Columbian Exposition, 1893

Rinaldi, Ann. The Redheaded Princess

http://www.newberry.org/elizabeth/exhibit/index.html

 

Nonfiction print source:         

Good Queen Bess: the story of Elizabeth I of England    B ELIZABETH Stanley, Diane.

Ten queens portraits of women of power       920 MEL Meltzer, Milton

 

Rinaldi, Ann. The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce

Topic: Pilgrim settlement

 

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Riding Freedom

Topic: Charlotte (Charley) Parkhurst, 1879, California

 

Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood Red Sun

Topic: Pearl Harbor

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/pearlhar_3

 

Nonfiction print source: Remember Pearl Harbor : American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories   940.54 ALL Allen, Thomas B.

Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of The Day America Entered World War II  940.54 TAN Tanaka, Shelley

 

 

 

Speare, Elizabeth George. The Sign of the Beaver

Topic: Maine, late 1700s

 

Watts, Irene. Finding Sophie

Topic: Kindertransport from Germany, 1940

 

White, Ellen Emerson. Kaiulani: The PeopleÕs Princess

Topic: Hawaiian annexation by United States, 1889

 

Williams, Barbara. Titanic Crossing

Topic: Sinking of The Titanic, 1912

            http://search.eb.com/titanic/

  • Nonfiction print source: Kent, Deborah. The Titanic (ChildrenÕs Press, 1993)

 

Wolf, Joan M. Someone Named Eva

Topic: World War II, Poland

 

Yep, Laurence. Hiroshima

á      http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html

 

Yue, Gao. Little Leap Forward: a Boy in Beijing

Topic: Cultural Revolution, China

http://www.morningsun.org/living/index.html

 

General Sources:

Twentieth-Century United States History

http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html

 

 

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Hardy Elementary School Library

Last update: February, 2009

 

 


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