Young Adult Historical Fiction Reading List

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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