HIT-->Historical Fiction w/ Female Main Character

[Betty Daniels <bdaniel@FREESIDE.SCSD.K12.NY.US>]

I had about 30 responses and I thank you all. I put
an asterisk next to titles that were mentioned numerous
times. I could not take the time to annotate but thanks to
the few of you who did so with the titles you sent.

Avi     True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle *
Beatty  Turn homeward, Hannahlee
        Be ever hopeful, Hannahlee
        O the red rose tree
        Red rock over the river
        How many miles to sundown
        and several others...
Blos    A gathering of days *
Brady   Toliver's secret
Caudell Tree of freedom
Cavanna A touch of magic
Cheney  The Incredible Deborah
Clapp   Deborah Sampson
        Constance: a story of early Plymouth
        The Tamarack tree
Collier The clock
        Who's Carrie ?
Conrad  Prairie songs
Cooper  Family
Cushman Catherine, called Birdy *
Dorris  Morning girl
Field   Calico bush *
Hilgartner      Murder for her majesty
Hurmence        Tancy
Lampman Bargain bride
Lasky   Beyond the divide
Lauregaard      Patty Reed's doll
Lawrence        Touchmark
Lee     Secret of Van Rink's Cellar *
Levin   Journey to America
Lunn    The root cellar *
Lyons   Letters from a slave girl
Maclachan       Sarah plain and tall*
McKillip        House on Parchment Street
Magorian        Back home
Moore   Bread sister of Sinking Creek*
        Molly among the Seneca
Nixon   The orphan train
        In the face of danger
        A family apart
Odell   Sarah Bishop
Orgel   The devil in Vienna
Patterson       Lyddie*
Porter  A girl of the Limberlost
Rinaldi A stitch in time*
        A break with Charity*
        The last silk dress*
        Time enough for drums*
        The fifth of March*
        In my father's house*
        Wolf by the ears*
        NOTE: several respondents said "anything by Ann Rinaldi"
Sebestyen       Words by heart
Serraillier     Escape from Warsaw
Shore   The sacred moon tree
Shura   Gentle Annie
Speare  Witch of Blackbird Pond
        Calico Captive
Uchida  The journey home
        Journey to Topaz

and several titles were submitted without authors
        Ramsay scallop
        Girl in buckskin
        Girl on the outside
        The noonday friends

I hope this will help others...it was a great help to me.

Betty Daniel
Shea Middle School
Syracuse NY
bdaniel@freeside.scsd.k12.ny.us