Thank you to everyone who helped me with this request. I'll be working on the list
for my library in the next few weeks and definitely will incorporate your
suggestions.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
Hello!
I'm in the process of putting together a recommended historical fiction reading
list for 7th and 8th grade. There are so many titles! I'm having a difficult time
narrowing my list down. What are your very favorite historical fiction books for
this age group? I will post a hit
Thank you.
Kristine Wildner
Librarian
Holy Apostles School
New Berlin, WI
kwildner@afo.net
Some of my favorites are Ashes of Roses, The Witch of Blackbird Pond,
Adaline Falling Star, Fever 1793...just to name a few.
Historical Fiction Titles in Thomas Baccaro Library
Dear America series- they have different authors, check the posters in the library
for titles.
Time Period Title
Author
Prehistoric A Bone From a Dry Sea
Dickinson, Peter
79 The Thieves of Ostia: A Roman Mystery
Lawrence, Caroline
1063 King's Shadow
Alder, Elizabeth
1100 Forest Wife
Tomlinson, Theresa
1135 Merlin (series)
Barron, T.A.
1150 Seeing Stone
Crossley-Holland, Ke
1285 Quest For a Maid
Hendry, Frances
1290 Catherine Called Birdy
Cushman, Karen
1300 Midwife's Apprentice
Cushman, Karen
1348 A Company of Fools
Ellis, Deborah
1400 Men of Iron
Pyle, Howard
1500 Othello: A Retelling
McKeown, Adam
1500 Murder for Her Majesty
Hilgartner, Beth
1519 To the Edge of the World
Torrey, Michele
1558 The Shakespeare Stealer
Blackwood, Gary
1600s The Abduction
Newth, Mette
1620 The Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce Rinaldi, Ann
1675 Proud Taste for Scarlet Miniver
Konigsburg, E.L.
1687 Mutiny!
Strickland, Brad
1700 Buccaneers
Lawrence, Iain
1700 Witch of Blackbird Pond
Speare, Elizabeth
1704 Ransom of Mercy Carter
Cooney, Caroline
1755 Calico Captive
Speare, Elizabeth
1763 Standing in the Light: A Captive Diary.
Osborne, Mary
1770 Fifth of March
Rinaldi, Ann
1773 Johnny Tremain
Forbes, Esther
1778 The Fighting Ground
Avi
1781 Second Daughter: the Story of a Slave Girl
Walter, Mildred
1783 A Stitch in Time
Rinaldi, Ann
1787 Jump Ship to Freedom
Collier, James
1788 Stitch in Time
Rinaldi, Ann
1800s My Daniel
Conrad, Pam
1800s Sarah Plain and Tall
MacLachlan, Patricia
1800s Skylark
MacLachlan, Patricia
1800s Caleb's Story
MacLachlan, Patricia
1800 Little House on the Prairie (series)
Wilder, Laura
1800 Trouble Don't Last
Pearsall, Shelley
1804 The Journal of Augustus Pelletier
Lasky, Kathryn
1820 Wolf by the Ears
Rinaldi, Ann
1830 Gathering of Days
Blos, Joan
1832 True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Avi
1838 Grace
Walsh, Jill
1840 Slave Dancer
Fox, Paula
1844 Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexander
1848 Call Me Francis Tucket
Paulsen, Gary
1848 Mr. Tucket
Paulsen, Gary
1849 The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
DeFelice, Cynthia
1850 Nightjohn
Paulsen, Gary
1850s Maggie's Door
Giff, Patricia
1854 Boston Jane
Holm, Jennifer
1855 The Barn
Avi
1859 Mine Eyes Have Seen
Rinaldi, Ann
1860 Trouble Don't Last
Pearsall, Shelley
1860 Charley Skedaddle
Beatty, Patricia
1860 Turn Homeward, Hannalee
Beatty, Patricia
1860 With Every Drop of Blood
Collier, James
1860 Family Apart (Orphan Train series)
Nixon, Joan
1860 Nightjohn
Paulsen, Gary
1861 Bull Run
Fleischman, Paul
1861 A Light in the Storm: a Civil War Diary
Hesse, Karen
1861 Across Five Aprils
Hunt, Irene
1861 Rifles For Watie
Keith, Harold
1861 Where the Broken Heart Beats
Meyer, Carolyn
1861 Girl in Blue
Rinaldi, Ann
1861 Amelia's War
Rinaldi, Ann
1862 Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey
Beatty, Patricia
1862 Red Cap
Wisler, G. Clifton
1863 Behind the Lines
Holland, Isabelle
1864 An Island Far From Home
Donahue, John
1864 Numbering All the Bones
Rinaldi, Ann
1864 Which Way Freedom
Hansen, Joyce
1864 Sing Down the Moon
O'Dell, Scott
1865 A Coal Miner's Bride
Bartoletti, Susan
1865 Bigger
Calvert, Patricia
1865 The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow Turner,
Ann
1865 Shades of Gray
Reeder, Carolyn
1868 The Great Railroad Race
Gregory, Kristianan
1870 Incident at Hawk's Hill
Eckert, Allen
1870 Jenny of the Tetons
Gregory, Kristiana
1872 Ruby in the Smoke
Pullman, Phillip
1873 The Drackenberg Adventure
Alexander, Lloyd
1877 Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
O'Dell, Scott
1880 Journey Home
Holland, Isabelle
1880 My Heart is on the Ground: Diary of
Rinaldi, Ann
1881 Tiger in the Well
Pullman, Phillip
1885 Girl in Blue
Rinaldi, Ann
1887 Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli: A Story Hahn, Mary
1890 Radical Red
Duffy, James
1894 Jim Ugly
Fleischman, Sid
1894 Callender Papers
Voight, Cynthia
1895 A Great and Terrible Beauty
Bray, Libba
1899 Our Only May Amelia Holm,
Jennifer
1902 Land of Dreams
Nixon, Joan
1902 Land of Hope
Nixon, Joan
1902 Land of Promise
Nixon, Joan
1906 Lostman's River
DeFelice, Cynthia
1906 Earthquake at Dawn
Gregory, Kirstina
1906 Sea So Far
Thesman, Jean
1906 Swindled! The 1906 Journal of Fitz
Doyle, Bill
1909 Dragonwings
Yep, Laurence
1910 Words by Heart
Sebestyen, Ouida
1910 Counting on Grace
Winthrop, Elizabeth
1911 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Schmidt, Gary
1912 Titanic Crossing
Williams, Barbara
1912 S.O.S. Titanic
Bunting, Eve
1914 Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Lawrence, Iain
1918 A Time of Angels
Hesse, Karen
1918 Pictures, 1918
Ingold, Jeanette
1918 In the Kaisers Clutch
Karr, Kathleen
1918 The Ornament Tree
Thesman, Jean
1919 Letters from Rifka
Hesse, Karen
1919 Color Me Dark
McKissack, Patricia
1919 Good-bye Billy raddish
Skurzynski, Gloria
1919 After the Dancing Days
Rostkowski,
1920 Homesick
Fritz, Jean
1920 Whistler's Hollow
Dadey, Debbie
1921 Fabulous Fifty
Grosser, Morton
1921 White Lilacs
Meyer, Carolyn
1924 Witness
Hesse, Karen
1925 Nabbed! The 1925 Journal
Doyle, Bill
1927 Star Fisher
Yep, Laurence
1928 Dandelion Wine
Bradbury, Ray
1929 No Promises in the Wind
Hunt, Irene
1930 (depression) Red-Dirt Jessie
Myers, Anna
1930 Bud, Not Buddy
Curtis, Christopher
1930 To Kill a Mockingbird Lee,
Harper
1932 Nothing to Fear
Koller, Jackie
1933 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Taylor, Mildred
1935 Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Taylor, Mildred
1935 Al Capone Does my Shirts
Choldenko, Gennifer
1938 Journey to America
Levitin, Sonia
1938 Someday
Koller, Jackie
1939 Along the Tracks
Bergman, Tamar
1939 Man From the Other Side
Orlev, Uri
1939 The Island on Bird Street
Orlev, Uri
1939 Soldier Boys
Hughes, Dean
1939 Spying on Miss Muller
Bunting, Eve
1939 Daniel's Story
Matas, Carol
1939 One Eye Laughing the Other Weeping
Denebery, Barry
1940 Seventeenth Summer
Daly, Maureen
1940 Blitzcat
Westall, Robert
1940 The Kingdom by the Sea
Westall, Robert
1940 Devil's Arithmetic
Yolen, Jane
1941 Blizzard's Wake
Naylor, Phyllis
1942 House of the Red Fish
Salisbury, Graham
1942 The Journal of Ben Uchida
Denenberg, Barry
1942 Slap Your Sides
Kerr, M.E.
1943 Malka
Pressler, Mirjam
1943 Number the Stars
Lowry, Lois
1944 She Flew No Flags
Manley, Joan
1945 Year of Impossible Good Byes
Choi, Sook
1945 Waiting for Anya
Morpurgo, Michael
1946 The Bomb
Taylor, Theodore
1950 Morning is a Long Time Coming
Greene, Bette
1967 The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
White, Ellen
1967 The Outsiders
Hinton, S.E.
1967 The Contender
Lipstye, Robert
1968 The House of Dies Drear
Hamilton, Virginia
1982 The Day they Came to Arrest the Book
Hentoff, Nat
1988 Park's Quest
Paterson, Katherine
1989 Forbidden City
Bell, William
1989 Quake!
Cottonwood, Joe
1999 Girl of Kosovo
Mead, Alice
Virtually anything by Ann Rinaldi, but my favorites are Wolf by the Ears,
Last Silk Dress, and Break with Charity;
Anything by Mildred Tayler
Fever 1793 / Laurie Halse Anderson
Tamarack Tree / Patricia Clapp
Out of the Dust and Aleutian Sparrow / Karen Hesse
To Kill a Mockingbird / Harper Lee
Ashes of Roses / Mary Jane Auch
Book Thief / Marcus Zusak
Girl in a Cage / Jane Yolen
Goodnight Mr. Tom / Michelle Magorian
A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park
A Lantern in her Hand / Bess Aldrich
Monkey Town: Summer fothe Scopes Trial / Ronald Kidd
Star of Kazan / Eva Ibbotson
The
Bloody Jack series is great! Also, The Sacrifice
(Salem Witch hunt) by Meyer, Girl in Blue (Civil
War)by Rinaldi, Ashes of Roses by Auch, Fever, 1793 by
Anderson, Rodzina by Cushman, Ghost Soldier by Alphin,
A Drowned Maiden's Hair by Schlitz.
Number the Stars, the Midwife's Apprentice, Northern Lights.
Well, Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Gray is wonderful for world history
studies. It's the story of a 12 year old wandering minstral during the
Middle Ages.
A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
"Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
"Leonardo's Shadow" by Christopher Grey
"The King of Mulberry Street" by Donna Jo Napoli
And, my personal favorite, an oldie but a goodie: "Little Women" by Louisa May
Alcott
My 8th grade boys who were readers really liked:
Killer Angels and the other Shaara books
Legend of Bass Reeves (Gary Paulsen)
Bro (Richard Peck)
Exiled: memoirs of a camel (Kathleen Karr)
Eyes of the Emperor (Graham Salisbury)
Blood on the River (Elisa Carbone)
Louis L'Amour books
Year of the Hangman (Gary Blackwood)
My Brother Sam is Dead (James & Christopher Collier - any of theirs you could get!)
The Winter People (Joseph Bruchac)
Journal of Biddy Owens and Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers; he has several new
ones too that fit historical fiction)
The Bone Wars (Kathryn Lasky )
Down the Yukon (Will Hobbs; he has lots that are lower reading level)
Red Cap (Clifton Wisler)
just put together a book list that has grade levels and interest levels. You
would want to look at the MG - Book Levels 4-6 I think.
Since you can sort the list based on the two criteria mentioned above, you can
easily find those titles that meet your need.
Look at
http://www.quizlistinteractive.com/AcceleratedReader_BookLists.aspx
in the left column "Realistc fic/Modern Realism.
Sort appropriately and create a printer list that you can print and keep.
Out of the Dust by Karen Heese
Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osborne
(Any of the Dear America or My Name is America series)
Nothing to Fear by Kohler
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Fever, 1793
Fever - Laurie Halse Anderson
Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare
Gary Blackwood's Year of the Hangman
For my money, you just can't go wrong with Ann Rinaldi. I just finished
"Numbering the Bones" about the "bright yellow" daughter of a slave owner
and his slave who lived in the shadow of Andersonville Prison at the end of
the Civil War. I also loved "In My Father's House" based on the true story
of a plantation ower who leaves his Manasas home to flee the fighting, only
to settle in Appomatax Courthouse, VA. His parlor becomes the scene of
Lee's surrender Grant. And there are so many more. Her research is
impecible and her writing is even better
Stones in Water by Napoli
Weasel (and sequel) by DeFelice
Blood on the River 1607 by Carbone
Rifles for Watie by Keith is my favorite.
WWII:
Number the Stars
The Devil's Arithmetic
Old West:
Mr. Tuckett
(and rest of series)
Some of my faves:
Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant
No Shame No Fear by Ann Turnbull
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Viking Warrior by Judson Roberts
Eva Underground by Dandi Daley Mackall
Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch
Out of the Dust
Avi
Fever 1793
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