HIT: Newer Hist. Fic for EL/MS--not U.S.

[John Wolfgang <wolfgang@TELEPORT.COM>]

Thanks for the quick responses to my inquiry regarding Newer Historical
Fictions that are not in the US.
(It's hard to know how long to wait before posting the HIT; good answers
keep arriving daily).  Here's how you responded:
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Playing Beatie Bow - Ruth Park  (Australian)

The Storyteller's Beads by Jane Kurtz (set in famine struck Ethiopia in
the 1980's)
Also by Linda Sue Park--The Kite Fighters

How about Stowaway by Karen Hesse about a young boy on Captain Cook's
voyage, Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman about England in the later Middle
Ages, The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn and The Demon in the Teahouse by
Hoobler about a young boy in medieval Japan.

_From Anna_ and its sequel _Listen to the Singing_ by Jean Little

 I think Secret Journey by Peg Kehret would qualify.

Here are some of my favorites:
The Shakespeare Stealer - Gary Blackwood
The Playmaker - J.B. Cheaney
Dove and Sword: The Story of Joan of Arc - Nancy Garden
Karen Cushman's books: Matilda Bone
     The Midwife's Apprentice
     Catherine, Called Birdy
The King's Shadow - Elizabeth Alder
The Boy's from St. Petrie - Reuter
Black Water - Rachel Anderson
Daniel's Story -  Carol Matas
In My Enemy's House - Carol Matas
Stones in Water - Donna Jo Napoli

Girl of Kosovo  by Alice Mead
Smiling for Strangers (can't remember author)
Both are set in Yugoslvia Kosova area and are fiction of recent
historical events.  Both are good books

I read Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Giff over the weekend. Takes place
in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine - does deal with immigration
to the U.S.

I just finished Abelove's (correct spelling of author's name?) Go and
Come Back, takes place in Amazon.

In keeping with your Korean thread, you might want to take a look at
Nyul Choi's books:  Year of Impossible Goodbyes and Echoes of the White
Giraffe.  Also Yoko Kawashima Watkins:  So Far From the Bamboo Grove and
Kyoko Mori:  Shizuko's Daughter for Japan.  Chinese Cinderella by
Adeline Mah is autobiographical.  Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang is a
great read.

There have been a rash of great books recently dealing with
Shakespeare's time (sometimes involving time travel):  King of Shadows
by Cooper, Shakespeare Stealedr by Blackwood, etc.

*and some of you suggested web sites*

http://www.aadl.org/kidspg/bibs/histfic1.htm

you might also like to look at this site for more ideas - some are
American history but there are others that are not
http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/100/historical.html

There is this site also but it may be just for adult historical fiction
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~soon/histfiction/besaw.html

One suggestion for book titles from other countries for middle school
students might come from those Mildred Batchelder Award books.  You can
find a list of those and the criteria governing those winning books
(award -winning books from other countries and in other languages
translated into English) at:
http://www.ala.org/alsc/batch.html

THANKS EVERYONE!
John Wolfgang, LMS
Gilbert Heights School
Portland, Oregon
wolfgang@teleport.com

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