Category Archives: Historical Fiction
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Escape By Night: a Civil War Adventure
Posted on November 8, 2011 by Victoria in Early Chapter Books, Historical Fiction, social issues>Escape By Night: a Civil War Adventureby Laurie Myers Young Tom McKnight, son of the Presbyterian minister, lives across the street from his father’s church in Augusta, Georgia. The church has become a temporary hospital for hundreds of wounded Confederate soldiers being sent back from the front. Tom sees a injured soldier drop a book in [...]
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Eliza’s Freedom Road: An Underground Railroad Diary
Posted on November 2, 2011 by Melendra in Historical Fiction>by Jerdine Nolen Although Eliza’s mistress is kind, and has taught her to read and write, Eliza’s master is cruel. Eliza knows that it is only a matter of time before she will be sold away as her mother was. So, when presented with a chance to follow Harriet Tubman to freedom, Eliza doesn’t hesitate. [...]
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The Redheaded Princess
Posted on September 8, 2011 by Victoria in Historical Fiction> by Ann Rinaldi So many little girls wish to be a princess–who wouldn’t want all those gowns, sparkling jewels, and your own horse? The Redheaded Princess shows readers what the royal life was really like. The story begins when Elizabeth is around 3, and ends when she ascends the throne to become Queen of [...]
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Inside Out & Back Again
Posted on August 7, 2011 by Melendra in Historical Fiction, social issues>By Thanhha Lai In this novel in verse, based in part upon Lai’s own experiences, Há must leave behind the only life she’s ever known, that of a South Vietnamese child during the Vietnam war. In Vietnam, she is a slightly spoiled youngest child, well-educated, loved, and teased by her three older brothers. But when [...]
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Zora and Me
Posted on May 19, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Mysteries, other award winners, social issuesby Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon This story will captivate you and leave you wanting to know more about the childhood adventures of writer Zora Neal Hurston and her best friend Carrie. Told from the point of view of ten-year-old Carrie, the story is set inEatonville,FL.where girls get caught up in a story they didn’t [...]
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My Vicksburg
Posted on May 11, 2011 by Victoria in Historical Fictionby Ann Rinaldi Ann Rinaldi has such a gift for creating characters and settings in an immediate way. Her historical novels bring complex events down to a human level, while still being accurate. I find myself caring about her characters–even those whose lives and beliefs are radically different from my own. My Vicksburg (and Rinaldi’s [...]
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One Crazy Summer
Posted on January 23, 2011 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, Newbery, other award winners, social issuesby Rita Williams-Garcia Eleven year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonnetta and Fern embark on a physical and emotional journey during what turns out to be One Crazy Summer. They are sent to Oakland, California in the summer of 1968 to the care of their radical-poet mother, Cecile, who left them when Fern was just [...]
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Moon Over Manifest
Posted on January 11, 2011 by Jennifer in Historical Fiction, Kansas, Newberyby Clare Vanderpool *Newbery Medal winner for 2011* Abilene Tucker arrives in Manifest, Kansas, by jumping out of her train a little outside of town, because “it’s best to get a look at a place before it gets a look at you.” She is staying with Shady, the town bootlegger (alcohol supplier) and stand-in preacher, [...]
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My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood
Posted on December 18, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Historical Fiction, Inspirational, social issues, world culturesby Rosemary Wells My Havana: Memories of a Cuban Boyhood by Rosemary Wells is a stunning jewel of a story. Expressive in it’s descriptive sentences and wonderful illustrations by Peter Ferguson, this book details the journey of young Secundino (Dino) Fernandez from his beautiful Havana to Madrid and eventually New York City in the 1950′s. [...]
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Emily’s Fortune
Posted on December 13, 2010 by Children's Department Staff in Adventure, Historical Fiction, Humorous Storiesby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Emily Wiggins is on the run from her evil, money-hungry uncle and the Catchum Child-Catching Services (Orphans, Strays and Roustabouts Rounded Up Quickly) who intend to turn her into him. What in the blinkin bloomers should Emily do? Get away of course, but everything Emily tries seems to bring her closer [...]
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