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Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter. In 1704, in the
English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts,
eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and
neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and
their French allies, and forced to march through
bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt
to new lives and some still hope to be
ransomed.
Gist, Deeanne. A Bride Most
Begrudging. Drew O'Connor, still
broken-hearted over the loss of his betrothed three years
earlier, wins a bride in a game of chance whom he plans
to keep as a servant and caretaker of his young niece, but
instead finds himself saddled with a woman who is
argumentative, cannot cook, claims to be the daughter of
an earl--and is totally captivating.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Hester Prynne, condemned
by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adulteress,
endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented
by the burden of an unexposed sin.
Hearn, Julie. The Minister’s Daughter. In 1645 in
England, the daughters of the town minister
successfully accuse a local healer and her
granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an
out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later
during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has
unexpected repercussions.
Morris, Gilbert. The Captive Bride. The Winslow
family is involved in the Salem witch trials.
Historical Fiction:
The Revolutionary War
Anderson, M. T. The Pox Party. Various diaries, letters, and
other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a
young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is
brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading
up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Avi. The Fighting Ground. Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to
fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is
being fought within himself.
Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead. Recounts the tragedy
that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution
when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family
tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.
Edmonds, Walter. Drums Along the Mohawk. Gilbert Martin and his
young wife, Lana, struggle to survive along the Mohawk
Valley during the Revolutionary War.
Fast, Howard. April Morning. Relates a young man's experiences
during the battle of Lexington.
Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain. The Revolutionary War with its
famous Boston Tea Party is described in this historical novel of
the revolt in Boston.
Lavender, William. Just Jane : a daughter of England caught in
the struggle of the American Revolution. Jane Prentice,
orphaned daughter of an English earl, arrives in South Carolina,
in 1776 to find her loyalties divided over the question of
American independence.
Myers, Anna. The Keeping Room. Left in charge of the family by his
father who joins the Revolutionary War effort, thirteen-year-old
Joey undergoes such great changes that he fears he may be
betraying his beloved parent.
O'Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop. Left alone after the deaths
of her father and brother during the War for
Independence, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a
new life in the wilderness.
Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March: a Story of the
Boston Massacre. Fourteen-year-old
Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the
Boston household of John and Abigail
Adams, is caught up in the colonists'
unrest that eventually escalates into the
massacre of March 5, 1770.
Rue, Nancy N. The battle. While the
Revolutionary War wages all around him,
twelve-year-old Thomas fights his own
internal battles involving anger, frustration, and lack of trust in
God.
Turner, Ann Warren. Love thy neighbor : the Tory diary of
Prudence Emerson. In 1774, Massachusetts, thirteen-year-old
Prudence keeps a diary of the troubles she and her family face as
Tories surrounded by Patriots at the start of the American
Revolution.
Oke, Janette. The distant beacon. While Anne settles
into life in Britain, Nicole sets sail for America
to manage her uncle's holdings and finds her
heart and loyalties tested by the Revolution.
Paulsen, Gary. The rifle. A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired
throughout the American Revolution, is forgotten in a
farmhouse attic until the fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington : a
story of the American Revolution. In the bitter
winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his
younger brother Will, both of the Continental Army,
become frustrated with the British blockade of Boston
and decide to attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort
Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous
wilderness, to defend the besieged city.
Historical Fiction:
The Colonial Period
Carbone, Elisa. Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607. Traveling to the
New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelveyear-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of
James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish
between friend and foe.
Calvert, Patricia. Bigger. When his father disappears near the
Mexican border at the end of the Civil War, twelve-year-old
Tyler decides to go after him and bring him home, acquiring on
the journey a strange dog which he names Bigger.
Crane, Stephen. The red badge of courage. Cclassic story of a
young Union soldier who must reconcile his conflicting
emotions about war after coming under fire for the first time at
the battle of Chancellorsville.
Crisp, Marty. Private Captain : a story of Gettysburg. In 1863
Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Ben and his dog Captain set off in
search of Ben's brother, who is missing from the Union Army.
Historical Fiction:
The Civil War/Slavery
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Ghost soldier.
Alexander meets the ghost of a Confederate soldier and helps
him look for his family.
Austin, Lynn N. Candle in the darkness. Caroline Fletcher
finds her life torn apart by the Civil War, and she risks her own
life to fight for what she believes in.
Duey, Kathleen. Amelina Carrett : Bayou Grand Coeur,
Louisiana, 1863. Amelina faces the Yankees
alone, and decides for herself if the war is right or wrong.
Beatty, Patricia. Turn homeward, Hannalee. Twelve-year-old
Hannalee Reed, forced to relocate to Indiana along with other
Georgia millworkers during the Civil War, leaves her mother
with a promise to return home as soon as the war ends.
Durrant, Lynda. My last skirt : the story of Jennie
Hodgers, Union soldier. Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th
Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the
American Civil War.
Beatty, Patricia. Charley Skedaddle. During the Civil War, a
twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the
Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia,
and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.
Elliott, Laura. Annie, between the states. Instead of spending
her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, an idealistic,
poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers,
hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War
rages around her family's Virginia
home.
Beatty, Patricia. Who comes with cannons? In 1861 twelveyear-old Truth, a Quaker girl from
Indiana, is staying with relatives who
run a North Carolina station of the
Underground Railroad, when her
world is changed by the beginning of
the Civil War.
Clapp, Patricia. The tamarack tree : a
novel of the siege of
Vicksburg. An eighteen-year-old
English girl finds her loyalties divided
and all her resources tested as she and
her friends experience the terrible physical and emotional
hardships of the forty-seven day siege of Vicksburg in the spring
of 1863.
Hansen, Joyce. I thought my soul would rise and fly : the diary
of Patsy, a freed girl. Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of
the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War
and the granting of freedom to former slaves.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Hear the wind blow. With their mother
dead and their home burned, a thirteen-year-old boy and his little
sister set out across Virginia in search of relatives during the
final days of the Civil War.
Ernst, Kathleen. Hearts of stone. Orphaned when her father
dies fighting for the Union and her mother expires from
exhaustion, fifteen-year-old Hannah struggles to find a way
for her family to survive during the Civil War in Tennessee.
Hansen, Joyce. Out from this place. A
fourteen-year-old black girl tries to find a
fellow ex-slave, who had joined the Union
army during the Civil War, during the
confusing times after the
emancipation of the slaves.
Fleischman, Paul. Bull Run. Northerners,
Southerners, generals, and worried sisters
describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and
the disillusionment of the first battle of the
Civil War.
Frazier, Charles. Cold mountain : a novel.
A Civil War soldier and a lonely woman
embark on parallel journeys of danger and
discovery.
Fritz, Jean. Make way for Sam Houston. Traces the life of the
soldier who led the fight for Texas' independence from Mexico,
served as governor and senator, and opposed secession during
the Civil War.
Gutman, Dan. Abner & me : a baseball card adventure. With
his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and
photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to
1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but
instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of
Gettysburg.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the dead. Twelve-year-old
Jesse leaves his home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to help a
young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of the
Civil War.
Hansen, Joyce. Which way freedom? Obi
escapes from slavery during the Civil War,
joins a black Union regiment and soon
becomes involved in the bloody fighting at
Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
Hesse, Karen. A light in the storm : the Civil War diary of
Amelia Martin. In 1860 and 1861, while working in her
father's lighthouse on an island off the coast of Delaware,
fifteen-year-old Amelia records in her diary how the Civil War
is beginning to devastate her divided state.
Hunt, Irene. Across five Aprils. During the Civil War, nine-yearold Jethro must run the family farm in southern Illinois almost
alone.
Lyons, Mary E. Dear Ellen Bee : a Civil War scrapbook of two
Union spies. A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details
her experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss
Bet," who had freed her and her family, sent her north from
Richmond to get an education, and then worked to bring an
end to slavery. Based on the life of Elizabeth Van Lew.
McMullan, Margaret. How I found the Strong :
a Civil War story. Frank wishes he could have
gone to fight for the Confederacy, but his
experiences with the war and his changing
relationship with the family slave, Buck, change
his thinking.
Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the wind.
Paulsen, Gary. Soldier's heart : being the story
of the enlistment and due service of the boy
Charley Goddard in the first Minnesota volunteers. Eager to
enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart after
experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of
Civil War combat.
Peck, Richard. The river between us. During the early days of
the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young
ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Poyer, David. Fire on the waters : a novel of the Civil War at
sea. Elisha Eaker joins the Navy in the months leading up to
the Civil War in order to escape the tyranny of his wealthy father
and the threat of an arranged marriage, and is assigned to the
U.S.S. Owanee where he meets Lt. Ker Claiborne, a Virginian
by birth who is conflicted over his place in the coming
conflict.
Reeder, Carolyn. Across the lines. Edward, the son of a white
plantation owner, and his black house servant and friend Simon
witness the siege of Petersburg during the Civil War.
Reeder, Carolyn. Shades of gray. At the end of the Civil War,
twelve-year-old Will, having lost all his immediate family,
reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the Virginia
countryside with his aunt and the uncle he considers a "traitor"
because he refused to take part in the war.
Reeder, Carolyn. Before the creeks ran red. Timothy Donovan's
story, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina: December 20, 1860April 15, 1861 -- Joseph Schwartz's story, Baltimore, Maryland:
April 18-May 15, 1861 -- Gregory Howard's story, Alexandria,
Virginia: May 16-Late June, 1861. Through the eyes of three
different boys, three linked novellas explore the tumultuous
times beginning with the secession of South Carolina and
leading up to the first major battle of the Civil War.
Reit, Seymour. Behind rebel lines : the incredible story of
Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy. Recounts the story of the
Canadian woman who disguised herself as a man and slipped
behind Confederate lines to spy for the Union army.
Rinaldi, Ann. An acquaintence with darkness. When her
mother dies and her best friend's family is implicated in the
assassination of President Lincoln, fourteen-year-old Emily
Pigbush must go live with an uncle she suspects of being
involved in stealing bodies for medical research.
Rinaldi, Ann. The last silk dress. During the Civil War, Susan
finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series
of mysterious family secrets.
Rinaldi, Ann. Sarah's ground. In 1861,
Sarah Tracy comes to work at Mount
Vernon, where she tries to protect the
historic site during the Civil War, and
where she encounters her future
husband.
Rinaldi, Ann. Girl in blue. To escape an
abusive father and an arranged marriage,
fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a
boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and
becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a
Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer
Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Rinaldi, Ann. Come Juneteenth. Fourteen-year-old Luli and her
family face tragedy after failing to tell their slaves that President
Lincoln's Emanicipation Proclamation made them free.
Roddy, Lee. Burden of honor. While Gideon struggles to save
the family farm and Emily faces charges of spying, their friend
Nat attempts to find his mother and sisters even as the Civil War
rages in Virginia.
Roddy, Lee. Cry of courage. During the Civil War, Gideon wants
to break away from the farm where he has grown up.
Roddy, Lee. Risking the dream. As thirteen-year-old Gideon
eeks work in the Confederate capital, tensions at home are
Roddy, Lee. Road to freedom. Three young friends including an
orphaned northener, a poor southern farm boy, and a secretly
educated slave encounter diverse but intertwining
experiences during the Civil War in Virginia in 1862.
Roddy, Lee. Uprising at dawn. Gideon, a farm boy living in
Virginia during the Civil War, overhears three men plotting
a slave rebellion. Gideo overhears slaves plotting an
uprising and has to use his friend Nat's help from inside the
plantation.
Roddy, Lee. Where bugles call. Emily
no longer feels welcome at Briarstone
plantation, then gets into trouble when
she pleads for a beaten slave.
Taylor, Mildred D. The land. After the
Civil War Paul, the son of a white
father and a black mother, finds himself
caught between the two worlds of
colored folks and white folks as he
pursues his dream of owning land of his
own.
Historical Fiction:
World War I
Lasky, Kathryn. A time for courage : the suffragette diary of
Kathleen Bowen. A diary account of thirteen-year-old
Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she
juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage,
the war in Europe, and her own school work and family.
Includes a historical note.
Levine, Beth Seidel. When Christmas comes again : the World
War I diary of Simone Spencer. Teenage Simone's diaries for
1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of
New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer witchboard
operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
Hemingway, Ernest. A farewell to arms. An American
ambulance driver serving on the Austro-Italian front becomes
entangled with an English nurse and deserts to join her after the
retreat of Caparetto.
Hemingway, Ernest. The sun also rises.
Focuses on a "lost generation" of Americans
who fought in France during World War I and
who expatriated themselves from America
after the war.
Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. Sixteenyear-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's
homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and
encounters some unexpected problems related
to the war in Europe.
Lawrence, Iain. Lord of the nutcracker
men. An English boy during World War I comes to believe that
the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his
father is fighting on the
front.
Morpurgo, Michael. War horse. Joey the
horse recalls his experiences growing up on
an English farm, his struggle for survival as
a cavalry horse during World War I, and
his reunion with his beloved master.
Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the
western front. Depicts the experiences of
a group of young German soldiers fighting
and suffering during the last days of World
War I.
Rostkowski, Margaret I. After the dancing days. A forbidden
friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of
World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word
"hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Sedgwick, Marcus. The foreshadowing. Having always been able
to know when someone is going to die, Alexandra poses as a
nurse to go to France during World War I to locate her brother
and to try to save him from the fate she has foreseen for him.
Historical
Fiction:
The Great Depression
Cummings, Priscilla. Saving Grace. When Grace's family is
evicted from their Washington, D.C. apartment ju st before
Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the
Mission, Grace wonders what will become of the rest of her
family.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy. Ten-year-old Bud, a
motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan,
during the Great Depression, escapes a
bad foster home and sets out in search of
the man he believes to be his father--the
renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of
Grand Rapids.
Hesse, Karen. Out of the dust. In a
series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo
relates the hardships of living on her
family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during
the dust bowl years of the Depression.
Hunt, Irene. No promises in the wind. A fifteen-year-old boy
struggles to find a life for himself in the turbulent depression of
the 1930s.
Ingold, Jeanette. Hitch. To help his family
during the Depression and avoid
becoming a drunk like his father, Moss
Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation
Corps, helps build a new camp near
Monroe, Montana, and leads the other
men in making the camp
a success.
Peck, Richard. A long way from Chicago
: a novel in
stories. A boy recounts his annual
summer trips to rural Illinois with his
sister during the Great Depression to visit
their
larger-than-life grandmother.
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis. Riding the flume. In 1894, fifteen-yearold Francie determines to fight the lumbermen
and protect the largest Sequoia tree ever seen, which had been
given to her sister just before her death six years earlier.
Avi. "Who was that masked man, anyway?” In the early forties when
nearly everyone else is thinking about World War II, sixthgrader Frankie Wattleson gets in trouble at home and at school
because of his preoccupation with his favorite radio programs.
Whitmore, Arvella. The bread winner. When both her parents are
unable to find work and pay the bills during the Great
Depression, resourceful Sarah Ann Puckett saves the family
from the poorhouse by selling her prize-winning homemade
bread.
Bell, Mary Reeves. The secret of the mezuzah. When Con, an
American teenager living in Austria, learns that Vienna is a
center of international intrigue, his search for a spy entangles
him in a mystery that leads back to the Holocaust.
Boyne, John. The boy in the striped pajamas : a
fable. Bored and lonely after his family
moves from Berlin to a place called "OutWith" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi
officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas
who lives behind a wire fence.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker. For freedom : the
story of a French spy. During World
War II, a French teenager gains
information that the French Resistance needs about the Nazis.
Historical Fiction:
World War II and the Holocaust
Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker : a novel about the
Nav ajo Marines of World War Two. After being
taught in a boarding school run by whites thatNavajo
is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo
men are recruited by the Marines to become Code
Talkers, sending messages during World War II in
their native tongue.
Davies, Jacqueline. Where the ground meets the
sky. During World War II, a twelve-year-old girl is
uprooted from her quiet, East coast life and moved to a secluded
army post in the New Mexico desert where her father and other
scientists are working on a top secret project.
Denenberg, Barry. One eye laughing, the other weeping : the
diary of Julie Weiss. During the Nazi persecution of the Jews
in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with
her relatives in New York City.
Drucker, Malka. Jacob's rescue : a Holocaust story. In answer to his
daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his
childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan,
hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis.
Fleischman, Sid. The entertainer and the dybbuk. A struggling
American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is
possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed
in the Holocaust. Includes author's note which details the murder
of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s
and 1940s.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Lily's crossing. During a summer spent at
Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young
Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world
differently.
suffering during World War II in American internment camps
designed to "protect" the population from the invading
Japanese.
Hughes, Dean. Soldier boys. Two boys, one German and one American,
are eager to join their respective armies during World War II,
and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.
Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's list.
The story of a man who
took incredible risks and spent his considerable fortune to build
a factory camp to protect Jews
in World War II
Germany.
Kerr, M. E. Your eyes in stars : a novel. In their
small New York town, two teenaged girls become
friends as they approach adulthood in the years
preceding World War II.
Klages, Ellen. The green glass sea. While her father
works on the Manhattan Project, eleven-year-old
gadget lover and outcast Dewey Kerrigan
lives in Los Alamos Camp, and becomes friends with
Suze, another young girl who is shunned by her
peers.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Willow Run. Eleven-year-old Meggie Dillon shares
her feelings and experiences on the homefront during World
War II after her family moves from Rockaway, New York to
Willow Run, Michigan.
Hemingway, Ernest. Across the river and into
the trees. The story of the war-ravaged
American Colonel Richard Cantwell and
his love for a young Italian countess
during World War II.
Hesse, Karen. Aleutian sparrow. An Aleutian
Islander recounts her
Knowles, John. A separate peace. Gene Forrester looks back fifteen
years to a World War II year in which he and his best friend
Phineas were roommates in a New Hampshire boarding school.
Their friendship is marred by Finny's crippling fall, an event for
which Gene is responsible and one that eventually leads to
tragedy.
Lawrence, Iain. B for Buster. Sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to escape
his abusive parents, lies about his age in the spring of 1943 to
enlist in the Canadian Air Force and soon finds himself
based in England as part of a crew flying bombing raids over
Germany.
Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. In 1943, during the German occupation
of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and
courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the
Nazis.
Mazer, Harry. A boy at war : a novel of Pearl Harbor. While fishing
with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, 1941, teenaged
Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through
the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval
officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs
fell.
McCusker, Paul. Arin's judgment. At the end of World War II, Wade is
transported to a war-torn alternate world called Marus,
where he finds himself a key figure in a political power
struggle and unwittingly helps to bring the Unseen One's
judgment on a corrupt people.
Newbery, Linda. Sisterland. When Hilly's grandmother becomes ill
with Alzheimer's disease, her family is turned upside down by
revelations from her life during World War II.
Orlev, Uri. The island on Bird Street. During World War II a Jewish
boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the
Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival
under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Park, Linda Sue. When my name was Keoko. A brother and sister face
the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan
during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture
entirely.
Parker, Robert B. Edenville Owls. Just after World War II,
fourteen-year-old Bobby tries to pull together his coachless
basketball team, cope with his feelings for a girl, and
discover who is threatening his teacher.
Patneaude, David. Thin wood walls. Joe Hamada and his family face
growing prejudice in their Seattle community after the Japanese
bomb Pearl Harbor, and are eventually torn away from their
home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his
older brother joins the U.S. Army to fight in World War II.
Peck, Richard. On the wings of heroes. A boy in Illinois remembers the
home-front years of World War II, especially his two heroes--his
brother in the Air Force and his father, who fought in the
previous war.
Pressler, Mirjam. Malka. In 1943, a Polish physician and her older
daughter make a trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka,
who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill,
fends for herself in a ghetto.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her
Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm
in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian
reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors,
becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to
her dream of owning a flower shop.
Salisbury, Graham. Eyes of the emperor. Following orders from the
United States Army, several young Japanese American men train
K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Salisbury, Graham. Under the blood-red sun. Tomikazu Nakaji's
biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until
life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after
the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941.
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed : a novel. A young Polish orphan, called
names for being Jewish, dreams of the day when he too could
become a Nazi in shining boots, until the day he witnesses
something that changes his mind forever.
Thoene, Bodie. A daughter of Zion. Returning to Jerusalem after the
Holocaust, a young Jewish woman struggles to rebuild her
life while living in fear that members of her community will
discover a dark secret about her past.
Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey home. After their release from an American
concentration camp, a Japanese-American girl and her family try
to reconstruct their lives amidst strong anti-Japanese feelings
which breed fear, distrust, and violence.
girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain
her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their
neighbors.
Historical Fiction:
Vietnam
Vos, Ida. Anna is still here.
Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in
Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns
to deal with the realities of being a survivor.
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen angels. Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry,
just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the
summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in
Vietnam.
Williams, Laura E. Behind the bedroom wall. Thirteen-year-old
Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her
Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding
Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.
Couloumbis, Audrey. Summer's end.
Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is
missing in Vietnam, their brothers--the one who was drafted
and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of
their absence on the four generations gathered at the family
farm in the summer of 1965.
Wolff, Virginia Euwer. Bat 6. Sixth-grade girls on the local softball
teams of two Oregon towns tell of their experiences which
illustrate the communities' attempt to reclaim pre-World War
II lifestyles.
Wulffson, Don L. Soldier X. In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences
the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and
sent to fight on the Russian front.
Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose. In this retelling of "Sleeping Beauty," a young
woman learns that her grandmother had a secret past tied to the
Holocaust.
Zindel, Paul. The gadget. In 1945, having joined his father at Los
Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret
project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen
becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
Zusak, Markus. The book thief. Trying to make sense of the horrors of
World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German
Crist-Evans, Craig. Amaryllis. Jimmy and his older brother Frank
share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken
father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.
Hughes, Dean. Search and destroy. Recent high school graduate Rick
Ward, undecided about his future and eager to escape his
unhappy home life, joins the army and experiences the horrors of
the war in Vietnam.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam. A young
soldier in Vietnam bonds with his bomb-sniffing dog.
Paterson, Katherine. Park's quest. Eleven-year-old Park makes some
startling discoveries when he travels to his grandfather's farm in
Virginia to learn about his father who died in the Vietnam War.
Sherlock, Patti. Letters from Wolfie. Certain that he is doing the right
thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program
in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second
thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will
ever return.
White, Ellen Emerson. Where have all the flowers gone? : the
diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty. In 1968 Massachusetts,
after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-yearold Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother,
volunteers at aVeterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to
make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in
the United States.
White, Ellen Emerson. The journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty,
United States Marine Corps. An eighteen-year-old Marine
records in his journal his experiences in Vietnam during the
siege of Khe Sanh, 1967-1968. Includes a history of Vietnam,
war timeline, glossary, and related military information.