Young Adult Historical Fiction Reading List

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THE COLONIAL PERIOD 16th - 18th Centuries

  • Clapp, Patricia. CONSTANCE: A STORY OF EARLY PLYMOUTH
  • Field, Rachel. CALICO BUSH
  • Rinaldi, Ann. FINISHING BECCA: A STORY ABOUT PEGGY SHIPPEN AND BENEDICT ARNOLD
  • ____________SECRET OF SARAH REVERE
  • Speare, Elizabeth George. WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND

THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD 1775 - 1776

  • Avi. FIGHTING GROUND
  • Edmonds, Walter D. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK
  • Forbes, Ester. JOHNNY TREMAIN: A STORY OF BOSTON IN REVOLT
  • Paulsen, Gary. THE RIFLE
  • Rinaldi, Ann. CAST TWO SHADOWS: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH
  • Steele, William O. THE YEAR OF THE BLOODY SEVENS
  • Wibberley, Leonard. JOHN TREEGATEÕS MUSKET

EXPANDING THE FRONTIER 1815 - about 1860

People and Places - West of the Mississippi

  • O'Dell, Scott. ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS
  • Twain, Mark. ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
  • ___________ ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Gold in California

  • Fleishman, Sid. BY THE GREAT HORN SPOON

Early Transportation

  • Henry, Marguerite. SAN DOMINGO, THE MEDICINE HAT STALLION

THE CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865

  • Crane, Stephen. THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
  • Hansen, Joyce. WHICH WAY FREEDOM
  • Hunt, Irene. ACROSS FIVE APRILS
  • Keith, Harold. RIFLES FOR WATIE

THE CLOSING FRONTIER 1865 - 1900

Period and Regional Stories

  • Armstrong, William. SOUNDER
  • Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
  • Lawson, Robert. THE GREAT WHEEL
  • North, Sterling. THE WOLFLING: A DOCUMENTARY NOVEL OF THE EIGHTEEN- SEVENTIES
  • Sawyer, Ruth. ROLLER SKATES
  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls. THE FIRST FOUR YEARS
  • __________________LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE
  • __________________THESE HAPPY GOLDEN YEARS

THE 20TH CENTURY

1st Quarter - Period and Regional Stories

  • Henry, Marguerite. BRIGHTY OF THE GRAND CANYON

The 1930s and the Depression

  • Hunt, Irene. NO PROMISES IN THE WIND: A NOVEL OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

World War II

  • Uchida, Yoshiko. JOURNEY TO TOPAZ

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updated : November 4, 2008