Historical+Fiction


 * HISTORICAL FICTION 2009-2010**

Historical Fiction The genre of historical fiction in the field of children’s literature includes stories that are written to portray a time period or convey information about a specific time period or an historical event. Usually the event or time period is about 30 years in the past.

In historical fiction, setting is the most important literary element. Because the author is writing about a particular time in history, the information about the time period must be accurate, authentic, or both. To create accurate and authentic settings in their books, authors must research the time period thoroughly. They must know how people lived, what they ate, what kinds of homes they had, and what artifacts were a common part of their lives.

Historical fiction books—whether they are picture books, transitional books, or novels— may have The * plot events may be documented historical events or they may be fictional. If they are fictional, it means that the author created the events for the telling of the story. The fictional characters, settings, and plot events must be portrayed authentically as if they actually //could// have happened. A classic example of historical fiction is //Johnny Tremain//, a 1944 Newbery Medal book. The primary setting is Boston in 1773. The book contains both real and fictional characters, real and fictional settings, and real and fictional events. The book is successful because of author Esther Forbes’s extensive historical researchand knowledge of the time period and her skillful blending of history and fiction into a believable story.
 * characters who are either imaginary or who actually lived during the time period.
 * Settings also may be real or imaginary.

= IMS Book List = = **GRADES 7 & 8** = Rinaldi, Ann In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry. Rinaldi, Ann Chaos reigns in Washington, D.C., after President Lincoln #8217’s assassination. But for fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush, the Union #8217’s turmoil is nothing compared to her own struggle. Sent to live with her uncle Valentine after her mother #8217’s untimely death, Emily realizes that her best friend #8217’s mother was one of……. ** //Streams to the River, River to the Sea : a novel of Sacagawea// ** O'Dell, Scott Sacagawea--the Indian girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their famous journey--narrates this story, relating with O'Dell's magical touch the ordeals of the trip, describing the land and Indian life, and telling of her growing feelings for Captain Clark. Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs. Crowe, Chris In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago. Collier, James Lincoln While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier. Stevenson, Robert Louis. An exciting adventure tale of the War of Roses. (Lancaster vs. York for throne) Crane, Stephen The Civil War told from the perspective of an ordinary youthful soldier. Dokey, Cameron Torn between the promise of new love and the treacherous lure of the man who holds her heart and her future in his hands, Anna sets course for America, on a voyage into history. Hoh, Diane During the final hours aboard the Titanic on her ill-fated voyage in 1912, the helpless passengers find out who will survive the long night. Taylor, Mildred D.  Set in Mississippi in 1941, "The Road to Memphis" describes three harrowing, unforgettable days in the life of an African-American high school girl dreaming of law school. Caught up in the center of tense racial dramas unfolding around her, Cassie Logan is forced to confront the adult world as never…. Taylor, Mildred D.  Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. Elliott, Laura After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France. Curtis, Christopher Paul Its 1860, and 11-year-old Elijah is a first-generation freeborn child. His Canadian town of Buxton serves as a haven for runaway slaves. When the towns corrupt preacher steals money from a citizen who’s been saving to buy his family’s freedom, Elijah sets off for America. ** //Bloody Jack: an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy// ** Meyer, L. A.  Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS "Dolphin" is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on …… After injuring his hand a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty. Hesse, Karen Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family. Klages, Ellen It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government program. Rinaldi, Ann When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town. Rinaldi, Ann Fourteen-year-old Luli and her family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation made them free. In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. ** //Bread and Roses, Too// ** Paterson, Katherine Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Spinelli, Jerry Holocaust: Nazi occupied Warsaw, young orphan tells his story. Hill, Kirkpatrick In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Author's note identifies the historical basis for the story. = = = **GRADES 5 & 6** = In June 1665, excited at the prospect of coming to London to work at her sister Sarah's candy shop, teenaged Hannah is unconcerned about rumors of Plague until, as the hot summ er advances and increasing numbers of people succumb to the disease, she and Sarah find themselves trapped in the city with no means of escape. In March of 1941, when a severe blizzard suddenly hits Bismarck, North Dakota, a girl trying to save her stranded father and brother inadvertently helps the man who killed her mother four years before.
 * //Mine Eyes Have Seen// **
 * //An Acquaintance with Darkness// **
 * //For Freedom: the story of a French spy// **
 * //Mississippi Trial, 1955// **
 * //With Every Drop of Blood// **
 * //Black Arrow// **
 * //The Red Badge of Courage : an episode of the American Civil War// **
 * //Hindenburg, 1937// **
 * //Titanic, the Long Night// **
 * //The Road to Memphis// **
 * //Let the Circle be Unbroken// **
 * //Under a War-torn Sky// **
 * //Elijah of Buxton// **
 * //Johnny Tremain// ** Forbes, Esther
 * //A Time of Angels// **
 * //The Green Glass Sea// **
 * //Amelia's War// **
 * //Come Juneteenth// **
 * //Fever, 1793// ** Anderson, Laurie Halse
 * //Milkweed// **
 * //Dancing at the Odinochka// **
 * *//At the Sign of the Sugared Plum// ** Hooper, Mary
 * //Blizzard's Wake// ** Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.
 * T//he War Within : a novel of the Civil// **** War ** Matas, Carol

When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
 * //Nory Ryan's Song// ** Giff, Patricia Reilly
 * //Witness// ** Hesse, Karen

When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
 * //Crooked River// ** Pearsall, Shelley

Samuel, an eleven-year-old Kentucky slave, and Harrison, the elderly slave who helped raise him, attempt to escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
 * //Trouble Don't Last// ** Pearsall, Shelley

Lucy Spencer has been helping fugitive slaves flee to Canada since she was twelve years old.
 * //North by Night// ** Ayres, Katherine

In this "searing picture of slavery" 12-year-old slave Sarny risks terrible punishment as Nightjohn, an adult slave, teaches her how to read. An inspirational story, meticulously researched, and historically accurate.
 * //Nightjohn// ** Paulsen, Gary

//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.// //Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry// ** Taylor, Mildred D.  A black family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.
 * //True North : a novel of the underground railroad// ** //Lasky, Kathryn//

Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive.
 * //Let the Circle be Unbroken// ** Taylor, Mildred D.

A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up.
 * //The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963// ** Curtis, Christopher Paul

In the early years of the Civil War, teenage Kansas farm boy Lije Tulley becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri, and then goes undercover there as a spy.
 * //Jayhawker// ** Beatty, Patricia

Sacagawea--the Indian girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their famous journey--narrates this story, relating with O'Dell's magical touch the ordeals of the trip, describing the land and Indian life, and telling of her growing feelings for Captain Clark.
 * //Streams to the River, River to the Sea: a novel of Sacagawea//** O'Dell, Scott

** //North to Freedom// ** Holm, Anne This story forces the reader to consider the many kids who never knew anything but the inside of a Concentration Camp.

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital. CCPL Book List Middle Ages: 400 - mid 1400's **Cushman, Karen** Catherine, Called Birdy J Fiction The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off. Matilda Bone Teen Fiction J Fiction Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical. The Striped Ships J Fiction Juliana, an eleven-year-old Saxon girl, loses her home and family when the Normans conquer England in 1066 and seeks to order her life by becoming involved in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry. A Single Shard J Fiction Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Song of the Gargoyle J Fiction When mysterious men in black abduct his father, the court jester of Austerneve, thirteen-year-old Tymmon flees into the forest, where he acquires a strange animal companion and plots to rescue his father.
 * //Listening for Lions// ** Whelan, Gloria
 * Cushman, Karen**
 * McGraw, Eloise Jarvis**
 * Park, Lind Sue**
 * Snyder, Zilpha Keatley**

The Forestwife Teen Fiction In England during the reign of King Richard I, fifteen-year-old Marian escapes from an arranged marriage to live with a community of forest folk that includes a daring young outlaw named Robert. The Executioner's Daughter J Fiction Thirteen-year-old Lily, daughter of the town's executioner living in fifteenth-century Europe, decides whether to fight against her destiny or to rise above her fate. Renaissance: 1300's - 1600's ** **Enlightenment: 1600s -1700s** **Blackwood, Gary** The Shakespeare Stealer J Fiction A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty. Nory Ryan's Song J Fiction When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage and ingenuity help her family and neighbors survive. The Pirate's Son J Fiction Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past. Doomed Queen Anne Teen Fiction In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, vows that she will one day be queen of England. Mary, Bloody Mary Teen Fiction Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII. The Prince and the Pauper Adult Fiction J Fiction When a young Edward VI of England and a poor boy who resembles him exchange places, each learns about the other's very different station in life. Queen's Own Fool J Fiction When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland. ** Colonial & Revolutionary America: 1500's - 1800 ** **Anderson, Laurie Halse** Fever, 1793 Teen Fiction In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic. True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Teen Fiction As the lone lady on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. Jump Ship To Freedom J Fiction In 1787, a fourteen-year-old slave anxious to buy freedom for himself and his mother escapes his dishonest master and tries to cash soldiers-notes, payment his father got for fighting in the Revolution. Johnny Tremain J Fiction After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution. Sarah Bishop Teen Fiction Left alone after her father and brother take opposite sides in the War for Independence, Sarah flees the British by trying to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness. Witch Child Teen Fiction In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. The Blue Door Teen Fiction When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills. **Rinaldi, Ann** A Break with Charity J Fiction 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. Broken Days Teen Fiction In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war. The Fifth of March: A Story of the Boston Massacre J Fiction Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770. The Secret of Sarah Revere J Fiction Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution. A Stitch in Time Teen Fiction Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory. Wolf by the Ears Teen Fiction Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave. The Witch of Blackbird Pond J Fiction In 1687, sixteen-year-old Kit leaves the West Indies to live with her Puritan relatives in Connecticut Colony. Her friendship with an outcast Quaker woman make her a target for charges of witchcraft. **Auch, Mary Jane.** The Road Home J Fiction In 1817, after her mother has died and her father abandoned his children, thirteen-year-old Mem searches for a new home for Joshua, herself, and their little sister. Dark Shade J Fiction Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania. The Gentleman Outlaw and Me -- Eli: A Story of the Old West Teen Fiction J Fiction In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling towards Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes. Sweetgrass Teen Fiction J Fiction Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father. Circle of Love J Fiction Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan train rider six years before, returns to New York and agrees to escort a group of orphans west to find new homes. Light in the Forest Adult Fiction A white boy, taken by the Indians and reared as one of them, is forced to return to his white family. The Second Bend in the River J Fiction In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him. The Captain's Dog J Fiction Captain Meriwether Lewis' dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness.  **19th Century America** **Paterson, Katherine** Jip: His Story J Fiction While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place. Lyddie Teen Fiction J Fiction Impoverished Vermont farm girl is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1840's. Preacher's Boy J Fiction In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. The Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and McCoys J Fiction In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield. **Civil War: 1861 - 1865** **Crane, Stephen** Red Badge of Courage J Fiction Classic Civil War novel revolving the battle of Chancerllorsville.
 * Tomlinson, Theresa**
 * Williams, Laura E.**
 * Modern Europe:
 * Industrial Revolution: 1700s - 1800s**
 * Giff, Patricia Reilly**
 * McCaughrean, Geraldine**
 * Meyer, Carolyn**
 * Meyer, Carolyn**
 * Twain, Mark**
 * Yolen, Jane**
 * Avi**
 * Collier, James**
 * Forbes, Esther**
 * O'Dell, Scott**
 * Reese, Celia**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Speare, Elizabeth**
 * American Frontier **
 * Curry, Jane Louise**
 * Hahn, Mary Downing**
 * Hudson, Jan**
 * Nixon, Joan Lowery**
 * Richter, Conrad**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Smith, Roland**
 * Paterson, Katherine**
 * Paterson, Katherine**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**

**20th Century America** **Gregory, Kristiana** Earthquake at Dawn J Fiction A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. A Time of Angels J Fiction Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family. Keeping the Good Light Teen Fiction J Fiction Bored with living in a New York lighthouse at the turn of the twentieth century, sixteen-year-old Eliza seeks a teaching position away from home. A Day No Pigs Would Die J Fiction A twelve-year-old Shaker boy comes of age during the 1920s on a Vermont farm. The Ornament Tree Teen Fiction J Fiction When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there. The Tree of Bells J Fiction While living in a boardinghouse managed by her mother and grandmother in Seattle in 1922, sixteen-year-old Clare decides her future at a time of limited opportunities for women. Titanic Crossing J Fiction In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking. ** 20th Century America: The Great Depression ** **Taylor, Mildred** Let the Circle Be Unbroken Teen Fiction Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. Nothing to Fear J Fiction When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression. The Storyteller's Daughter J Fiction Fifteen-year-old Quinn, the middle child in a Depression-era working class family, learns some secrets about her beloved father, who has always been a source of strength and optimism for his family, friends, and neighbors. **Curtis, Christopher Paul** The Watsons go to Birmingham, 1963 J 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. Witness J Fiction A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town. **20th Century - New Immigrants** **Danticat, Edwidge** Behind the Mountains J Fiction Thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father. Land of Dreams J Fiction In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do. Land of Hope J Fiction Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop. Flight to Freedom Teen Fiction Thirteen-year-old Yara describes life with her family in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 as well as her experiences in Miami, Florida, after immigrating there to be reunited with some relatives. ** World War I: 1914 - 1918 ** **Hemingway, Ernest** A Farewell to Arms Adult Fiction A love story between an ambulance driver and an English nurse set against the brutality of World War I. All Quiet on the Western Front Adult Fiction Paul and his classmates enlist in the German Army. After the Dancing Days Teen Fiction A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism. **Bat-Ami, Miriam** Two Suns in the Sky Teen Fiction Fifteen-year-old Adam, a Yugoslav Jew is living in the refugee camp at Oswego, New York when he begins a romance with a local girl named Chris. Spying on Miss Muller J Fiction At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem. Jacob's Ladder Teen Fiction The world of Jacob and his younger brother Solly falls apart when they are orphaned and pitched into a Sydney children's home, where other refugee Jewish children are gathering as Hitler rises to power in Europe. Summer of My German Soldier Teen Fiction When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty Bergen, a Jewish girl, shelters a pacifist German POW who escapes. She must face the consequences of her actions as she risks losing her family and friends over her new friendship. Daniel’s Story J Fiction Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.
 * Hesse, Karen**
 * Kirkpatrick, Katherine**
 * Peck, Robert Newton**
 * Thesman, Jean**
 * Thesman, Jean**
 * Williams, Barbara**
 * Koller, Jackie French**
 * Thesman, Jean**
 * 20th Century America: Race, Prejudice, Civil Rights, Black Americans **
 * Hesse, Karen**
 * Nixon, Joan Lowery**
 * Nixon, Joan Lowery**
 * Veciana-Suarez, Ana**
 * Remarque, Erich Maria**
 * Rostkowski, Margaret**
 * World War II: 1939 - 1945 **
 * Bunting, Eve**
 * Collins, Alan**
 * Greene, Bette**
 * Matas, Carol**

Greater than Angels Teen Fiction Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation. Good Night Maman J Fiction After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York. The Lady with the Hat J Fiction In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him. Foster's War J Fiction When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront. Keep Smiling Through J Fiction The details of living in 1934 - rationing, radio soap operas, siblings not returning home alive - are vivid in this story of a 10-year-old girl trying to cope with unloving parents and her grandfather's arrest because he is German. The Bomb Teen Fiction In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat. Anna is Still Here J Fiction Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor. Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon J Fiction Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. So Far from the Bamboo Grove J Fiction In her fictionalized autobiography, Yoko's story begins as a young girl who lives with her family in North Korea while her father, a Japanese government official is stationed there. Yoko and her family flee to Japan to escape from North Korean Communists. Bat 6 J Fiction In small town, post-World War II Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface. **Choi, Sook Nyul** Echoes of the White Giraffe J Fiction Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. **Easton, Kelly** The Life History of a Star Teen Fiction For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain on her beloved family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older who was physically and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam. Sonny's War Teen Fiction After Corin's father passes away, her older brother Sonny enlists in the Army. She is devastated by his absence and becomes passionately involved in the antiwar movement. In Country Adult Fiction At age 17, Sam is obsessed with the Vietnam War and the effect it has had on her life - losing a father she never knew and living with her Uncle Emmett who is suffering from the effects of Agent Orange. Fallen Angels Teen Fiction Seventeen-year-old Richie enlists in the army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. The Things They Carried Adult Fiction Not truly memoir nor short stories, O'Brien's novel is a combination of truth and fiction from many perspectives. The Road Home Teen Fiction Shortly after finishing nursing school, 21-year-old Rebecca, goes to Vietnam where she takes care of wounded GIs and experiences the horrors of war.
 * Matas, Carol**
 * Mazer, Norma Fox**
 * Orlev, Uri**
 * Reeder, Carolyn**
 * Rinaldi, Ann**
 * Taylor, Theodore**
 * Vos, Ida**
 * Vos, Ida**
 * Watkins, Yoko Kawashima**
 * Wolff, Virginia Euer**
 * Korean War: 1950 - 1953 **
 * Vietnam War: 1957 - 1975 **
 * Hobbs, Valerie**
 * Mason, Bobbie Ann**
 * Myers, Walter**
 * O'Brien, Tim**
 * White, Ellen Emerson**