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historicalfictionBC to 4th Century

Nobody’s Princess by Esther M. Friesner
Troy by Adele Geras
Ithaka by Adele Geras
Pharaoh’s Daughter by Julius Lester
Oath Breaker by Michelle Paver

Middle Ages

Crispin: at the edge of the world by Avi
Anna of Byzantium by Tracy Barrett
The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean
Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley
Breath by Donna Jo Napoli
Hush by Donna Jo Napoli
Song of the Sparrow by Lisa Ann Sandell
Humming of Numbers by Joni Sensei

Renaissance

Incantation by Alice Hoffman
Primavera by Mary Jane Beaufrand
Red Queen’s Daughter by Jacqueline A. Kolosov
Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer
Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyer
Red-Headed Princess by Ann Rinaldi
Nine Days a Queen by Ann Rinaldi
Queen’s Own Fool by Jane Yolen & Robert J. Harris

17th Century

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearne
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
Witch Child by Celia Rees
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant
No Shame, No Fear by Ann Turnbull

18th Century

Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1, the Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
The Lacemaker and the Princess by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Gideon the Cutpurse by Linda Buckley-Archer
Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
How the Hangman Lost His Heart by K.M. Grant
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi

19th Century

Iron Thunder by Avi
Cassandra’s Sister by Veronica Bennett
Angelmonster by Veronica Bennett
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
Sunshine Rider by Ric Lynden Hardman
Jason’s Gold by Will Hobbs
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen
Tin Princess
by Philip Pullman
Amelia’s War by Ann Rinaldi
Bowery Girl by Kim Taylor
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

20th Century: Early 1900s

Ringside, 1925 by Jen Bryant
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
Voyage by Adele Geras
Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Witness by Karen Hesse
Monkey Town by Ronald Kidd
Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry
Miss Spitfire by Sarah Miller
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

20th Century: WWII

Anne Frank and Me by Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
London Calling by Eoin Colfer
Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Postcards from No Man’s Land by Aidan Chambers
Tamar by Mal Peet
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
Maus by Art Spiegalman
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

20th Century: Post-WWII

What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
Loud Silence of Francine Green by Karen Cushman
Worlds Afire by Paul B. Janeczko
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Memories of Summer by Ruth White
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff

20th Century: 1960s

Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez
Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
A Summer of Kings by Han Nolan
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
My Mother the Cheerleader by Rob Sharenow

20th Century: Vietnam

Sonny’s War by Valerie Hobbs
Search and Destroy by Dean Hughes
Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata
Garden of Angels by Lurlene McDaniel
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
Letters from Wolfie by Patti Sherlock

20th Century: Recent History

Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine
Bog Child by Siobhan Dowd
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi
Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen & Bruce Coville