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Historical Fiction - US History

HISTORICAL FICTION - UNITED STATES HISTORY

COLONIAL PERIOD  
Avi Night Journeys
Carbone, Elisa

Blood on the River - James Town 1607

Collier, James

The Corn Raid: a Story of Jamestown

Settlement

Dalgliesh, Alice The Courage of Sarah Noble
Duble, Kathleen The Sacrifice
Fleischman, Paul Saturnalia
Karwoski, Gail

Surviving Jamestown:  the Adventures of

Young Sam Collier

Laksy, Kathryn

A Journey to the New World: the DiaryRemember Patience Whipple (Dear America)

Moss, Marissa

Emma's Journal - Story of a Colonial Girl

(short)

Nixon, Joan Lowery Ann's Story:  1747
  Nancy's Story: 1765
Speare, Elizabeth The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  The Sign of the Beaver
Thompson, Paul B. The Devil's Door:  A Salem Witchcraft Story
   
THE REVOLUTION  

Anderson, Laurie

     Halse

Chains: Seeds of America
Avi The Fighting Ground
Brady, Esther Toliver's Secret
Calkhoven, Laurie Daniel at the Siege of Boston 1776
Collier, James My Brother Sam is Dead
  War Comes to Willy Freeman
Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain
Giff, Patricia Storyteller
Goodman, Joan Hope's Crossing
Gregory, Kristiana Winter of Red Snow:  The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart (Dear America)
Harlow, Joan Midnight Rider
Lawson, Robert Mr. Revere and I
Rinaldi, Ann Secret of Sarah Revere
Sterman, Betsy Saratoga Secret
Van Leeuwen, Jean Hannah of Fairfield (short)
Wisler, G. Clifton King's Mountain
   
YOUNG NATION 1789-1861
Blos, Joan A Gathering of Days:  A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-1832
Collier, James The Clock
  Jump Ship to Freedom
Dana, Barbara A Voice of her own: Becoming Emily Dickinson
Fox, Paula The Slave Dancer

Frederick, Heather

     Vogel

The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed
Hamilton, Virginia

The House of Dies Drear (Underground Railroad)

McKissack, Patricia

A Picture of Freedom, the Diary of Clotee, a

Slave Girl (Dear America)

Paterson, Katherine Jip: His Story
  Lyddie
Porter, Connie Rose

Addy Learns a Lesson: a School Story

(American Girl)

Rinaldi, Ann

The Education of Mary: a Little Miss of

Color, 1832

   
CIVIL WAR  
Avi

Iron Thunder:  The Battle Between the Monitor

and the Merrimac, a Civil War Novel

Bartoletti, Susan No Man's Land
Calkhoven, Laurie Will at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
Collier, James Lincoln With Every Drop of Blood
Crisp, Marty

Private Captian: a Story of Gettysburg

Denenberg, Barry

When Will this Cruel War be Over? Civil War

Diary of Emma SimpsonGordonsville,

Virginia, 1864

Fleischman, Paul Bull Run
Hahn, Mary Downing Promises to the Dead
  Hear the Wind Blow
Hesse, Karen A Light in the Storm (Dear America)
Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils
Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie
McMullan, Margaret How I Found the Strong
Mills, Claudia

The Totally Made-Up Civil War Diary of

Amanda MacLeish

Nixon, Joan Lowery Keeping Secrets
O'Dell, Scott Sing Down the Moon
Paulsen, Gary Soldier's Heart
Philbrick, W.R. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
Reeder, Carolyn Across the Lines
Rinaldi, Ann Amelia's War
  Come Juneteenth
  Girl in Blue
  Juliet's Moon
  My Vicksburg
  Numbering all the Bones
Wisler, G. Clifton

Red Cap

   
FRONTIER AND PIONEER LIFE
Avi The Barn
  Hard Gold: the Colorado Gold Rush of 1859
Beatty, Patricia Hail Columbia
Blos, Joan W.

Letters from the Corrugated Castle:  A Novel

of Gold Rush California, 1850-1852

Bohner, Charles

Bold Journey: West with Lewis and Clark

Brink, Carole Ryrie Caddie Woodlawn
Cushman, Karen The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
  Rodzina (Orphan Trains)
Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House
Hahn, Mary Downing

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me - Eli:  A Story of the Old West

Hart, Alison Anna's Blizzard
Holm, Jennifer Our Only May Amelia
  Trouble With May Amelia
Karr, Kathleen The Great Turkey Walk
Kelly, Jacqueline The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Texas, 1899)
Ketchum, Liza Newsgirl (SanFrancisco, Gold Rush)
Kimmel, E. Cody To the Frontier (Buffalo Bill)
Lasky, Kathryn

The Journal of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis

and Clark Expedition (Dear America)

Love, D. Anne Bess's Log Cabin Quilt
MacBride, Roger Lea Little House on Rocky Ridge
MacLachlan, Patricia Sarah Plain and Tall (series)
McMullan, Kate

My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark

Morey, Walt Year of the Black Pony
Myers, Laurie Lewis and Clark and Me: a Dog's Tale
Myers, Walter Dean

The Journal of Joshua Loper: a Black

Cowboy (Dear America)

Nixon, Joan Lowery A Family Apart
O'Dell, Scott

Streams to the River, River to the Sea: a Novel of Scagawea

Paulsen, Gary Mr. Tucket (first in a series)
Pryor, Bonnie The Iron Dragon:  The Courageous Story of Lee Chin (Transcontinental Railroad)
Ryan, Pam Muroz Riding Freedom
Smith, Roland

The Captain's Dog: my Journey with the Lewis

and Clark Tribe

Wallace, Bill Red Dog
Woodruff, Elvira

Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail

   
OREGON TRAIL  
Gregory, Kristiana

Across the Wide ane Lonesome Prairie

(Dear America)

Holt, Kimberly Willis The Water Seeker
Hooks, William Pioneer Cat (short)
Kudlinski, Kathleen

Facing West: a Story of the Oregon Trail

Morrow, Honore On to Oregon
Spooner, Michael Daniel's Walk
Steele, William We Were There on the Oregon Trail
Stevens, William Trouble for Lucy
Van Leeuwen, Jean Bound for Oregon
   
RECONSTRUCTION TO WORLD WAR II
Antle, Nancy

Hard Times, a Story of the Great Depression

Bryant, Eve Ringside, 1925:  Views from the Scopes Trial
Bunting, Eve SOS Titanic
Curtis, Christopher Bud, Not Buddy
Paul Mighty Miss Malone (Great Depression)
DeClements, Barthe

The Bite of the Gold Bug (Alaskan Gold Rush)

Durbin, William

El Lector (Great Depression Florida)

 

The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish

Immigrant (Dear America)

Fletcher, Susan Walk Across the Sea (California)
Giff, Patricia Reilly A House of Tailors (Brooklyn, 1871)
  Water Street (Brooklyn, 1870's)
Hale, Marian

Truth About Sparrows (Great Depression)

Hesse, Karen Brooklyn Bridge (New York, 1903)
  Letters From Rifka
  Out of the Dust (Great Depression)
Levine, Gail Carson Dave at Night (Harlem Renaissance)
Paterson, Katherine Bread and Roses Too (1912)
Peck, Richard

A Long Way From Chicago (Great Depression)

  Fair Weather (Chicago, 1893)
 

Here Lies the Librarian (early 20th c.)

Rostkowski, Margaret

After the Dancing Days (WWI)

Ryan, Pam Mu~noz Esperanza Rising
Schwaback, Karen Hope Chest (Women's Rights, 1918)
Sebestyen, Ouida

Words by Heart (Race Relations, 1910)

Taylor, Mildred D.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

(Great Depression)

Vanderpool, Care Moon Over Manifest (Great Depression)
Williams, Barbara Titanic Crossing
Williams, Sarah DeFord Palace Beautiful (Flu Epedemic)
Woodruff, Elvira The Orphan of Ellis Island
Wright, Barbara Crow (Wilmington Massacre, 1898)
Wyatt, Leslie

Poor is Just a Starting Place (Great

Depression)

Yep, Laurence

Dragonwings

Ylvisaker, Anne Luck of the Buttons (Iowa, 1929)
   
POST WORLD WAR II
Burg, Ann E. All the Broken Pieces
Coleman, Evelyn Circle of Fire
Couloumbis, Audrey Summer's End

Curtis, Christopher

     Paul

The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963

Dowell, Frances

     O'Roark

Shooting the Moon
Lai, Thanhha Inside Out and Back Again (Vietnamese   Immigration)
Paterson, Katherine Park's Quest
Slayton, Fran When the Whistle Blows (West Virginia,    1940's)
White, Ellen Emerson The Journal of Patick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps (Dear America)
  Where Have All the Flowers Gone?  The Diary of Molly MacKenzie (Dear America)
Wiles, Deborah Countdown (Cuban Missile Crisis)
Williams-Garcia, Rita One Crazy Summer (Civil Rights, Black Panthers)
   
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