Historical fiction bibliography

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Historical fiction bibliography
bycody bowen
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Ghost Girl

• Eleven year old April is delighted when president
  and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison
  county Virginia, home but her family's poverty,
  and other problems may mean that April can never
  learn to read.

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Fever, 1793

• In 1793 Philadelphia, 16-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.

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The Ransom of Mercy Carter

• In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield,
  Massachusetts, 11-year-old Mercy and her family
  and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and
  their French allies, and forced to march through
  bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to
  new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.

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Train wreckkansas,1892

• In1892 Max and Jodi, young employees of a
  traveling circus finds their lives endangered
  when their train wrecks in a storm.

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Maggie's Door

• In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and
  friend, Sean set out separately on a dangerous
  journey from famine-plagued Ireland, hoping to
  reach a better life in America.

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Rifles for Watie

• 16-year-old Jeff cant wait to join the Union
  army and fight against Stand Watie, leader of the
  Cherokee Indian rebels.

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The Year of the Hangman

• In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly
  from England to the American colonies,
  15-year-old Creighton becomes part of
  developments in the political unrest there that
  may spell defeat for the patriots and change the
  course of history.

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Mary, Queen of Scots

• Mary, the young Scottish Queen, is sent a diary
  from her mother in which she records her
  experieriences living at the court of Frances
  King Henry II as she awaits her marriage.

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Doomed Queen Anne

• In 1520, 13-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her
  older sisters beauty and position at court,
  declares that she will one day be Queen of
  England, and that her sister will kneel at her
  feet.

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Night John

• Twelve-year old Sarnys brutal life as a slave
  becomes more dangerous when a newly arrived slave
  offers to teach her how to reed.

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The Cook Camp

• During World War II, a little boy is sent to live
  with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers
  building a road through the wilderness.

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My Heart is on the Ground

• In the diary account of her life at a government
  run boarding school in 1800, a 12-year-old Sioux
  Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to
  help her people.

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Numbering All the Bones

• The Civil War is moving towards an end. Southern
  slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for
  thirteen-year-old Euglena, a home slave on a
  Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time
  of her life.

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Milkweed

• This is the story of an orphan living in
  Nazi-occupied Warsaw during World War II who
  believes in bread, mothers, and angels.

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

• Four black children growing up in rural
  Mississippi during the depression experience
  racial antagonisms and hard times. This is the
  first book in a series of three.

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Mr. Lincolns Drummer

• Recounts the courageous exploits of Willie
  Johnston, an eleven-year-old Civil War drummer,
  who becomes the youngest recipient of the
  Congressional Medal of Honor.

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The Raven Masters Secret

• The 12-year-old son of the Raven Master and the
  tower of London befriends a Jacobite rebel being
  held prisioner there.

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ANDThere are many more!

• Watch for the following awesome historical
  fiction authors
• Ann Rinaldi
• Karen Cushman
• Patricia Rielly Giff
• Gary Paulsen
• Clifton Wisler