| The following is an abbreviated
Historical Fiction list of author, title,
and historical time period of titles available
from the Worcester Public Library’s Children’s
Room. For an in depth study and list of Children’s
Historical Fiction, check such Reference Guides
as: Adventuring With Books, Best Books For
Children, and Recreating the Past.
ICE AGE
Brennan Shiva Series
ANCIENT
Lester, Pharoah’s Daughter
McCaughrean, Casting the God’s Adrift
Rubalcaba, A Place in the Sun
The Wadjet Eye
Speare, Bronze Bow
Wilson, To Ride the God’s Own Stallion
EARLY HISTORY
Holman, Sondok Princess of the Moon &
Stars
McCaughrean, The Kite Rider
Scieszka, Viking It and Liking It
Tingle, The Edge on the Sword
Weil, My Guardian Angel
Yep, Lady of Chiao Kuo Warrior of the South
MIDDLE AGES
Avi, Crispin The Cross of Lead
Blackwood, The Shakespeare Stealer
Crossley, Arthur The Seeing Stone
Cushman, Catherine Called Birdy
Midwife’s Apprentice
DeAngeli, Door In the Wall
Gilson, Stink Alley
Goodman, The Winter Hare
Graham, The Boy and His Bear
Jinks, Pagan’s Crusade Series
Kelly, The Trumpeter of Krakow
Konisburg, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and
Miniver
Lewin, Freedom Beyond The Sea
Love, The Puppeteer’s Apprentice
Meyer, Beware Princess Elizabeth
McMullan, K. My Travels With Capts. Lewis
and Clark by George Shannon
McMullam, M. How I Found the Strong
Napoli, Daughter of Venice
Rosen, Magician’s Apprentice
Stolz, Bartholomew Fair
Temple, The Ramsay Scallop
Whitesel, Blue Fingers A Ninja’s Tale
Yolen, Encounter
Girl in A Cage
SALEM WITCH TRIALS
Clapp, Witches’ Children
Lasky, Beyond the Burning Time
Petry, Tituba of Salem Village
Rinaldi, A Break With Charity
PIRATES
Hausman, Tom Cringle the Pirate & the
Patriot
Hughes, Jack Black & the Ship of Thieves
Johnson, Pieces of Eight
Lasky, Grace the Pirate (transitional)
Lee, Piratica
Lawrence, The Buccaneers
NATIVE AMERICANS
Bruchac, The Arrow Over the Door
Children of the Longhouse
The Journal of Jesse Smoke The Trail of Tears
Winter People
Dorris, Sees Behind Trees
Fleischman, Saturnia
O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins
Richter, Light In the Forest
Rogers, Goodbye My Island
Roop, Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves (transitional)
Sheehy, In the Hands of the Enemy
Smith, Weetamo Heart of the Pocassetts
Speare, Calico Captive
Thurlo, The Spirit Line
Wangerin, The Crying for a Vision
Wosmek, A Brown Bird Singing
COLONIAL AMERICA
Anderson, Fever 1793
Avi, Fighting Ground
Blackwood, Year of the Hangman
Borden, Sleds on Boston Common (transitional)
Bulla, Charlie’s House (transitional)
Collier, Bloody Country
My Brother Sam Is Dead
Fast, April Morning
Forbes, Johnny Tremain
Fritz, The Cabin Faced West
Goodman, Hope’s Crossing
Hermes, Our Strange New Land Elizabeth’s
Diary
Karwoski, Surviving Jamestown The Adventures
of Yound Sam Collins (pb)
Reit, Guns for General Washington
Rinaldi, The Secret of Sarah Revere
Sterman, Saratoga Secret
Van Leeuwen, The Amazing Air Balloon (transitional)
Waters, Night Raiders Along the Cape
Weitzman, Old Ironsides
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Yolen Prince Across the Water
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Avi, Beyond the Western Sea
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Brink, Caddie Woodlawn
Cabral, So Proudly She Sailed
Cannon, Charlotte’s Rose
Cindrich, In the Shadow of the Pali A Story
of the Hawaiian Leper Colony
Cushman, The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Rodzina
DeFelice, The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
Durbin, The Broken Blade
Fleischman, Jim Ugly
Bandit’s Moon
Gaeddert, Hope
Garland, In the Shadow of the Alamo
A Line in the Sand
Giff, Nory Ryan’s Song
Gregory, Seeds of Hope the Gold Rush Diary
of Susanna Fairchild
Hill, Shipwreck Season
Holm, Boston Jane Series
Lawlor, Addie Series
Levitin, Clem’s Chances
McCaughrean, Stop the Train!
Minah, Abigail’s Drum (transitional)
Neufeld, Gaps in Stone Walls
Oswald, Nothing Here But Stones
Paterson, Lyddie
Peck, Fair Weather
Pryor, Luke on the High Seas
Rinaldi, Quilt Trilogy
Robinet, The Twins, the Pirates, and the
Battle of New Orleans
Washington City Is Burning
Ryan, Riding Freedom
Schneider, Annie Quinn In America
Schultz, Horse Sense
Turner, Grasshopper Summer
Whelan, The Indian School (transitional)
Wilkes, Little House in Brookfield
Wood, Daughter of Madrugada
CIVIL WAR ERA
Armstrong, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Brennan, Envy’s Civil War
Carbone, Stealing Freedom
Collier, Jump Ship to Freedom
Donahue, An Island Far From Home
Fox, Slave Dancer
Goodman, Robert Henry Hendershot (transitional)
Guccione, Come Morning
Johnson, My Brother’s Keeper
Jones, Watcher in the Piney Wood
Keith, Rifles for Watie (pb)
Lasky, True North
Lyons, Letters From a Slave Girl
The Poison Place
Matas, The War Within
McKissack, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary
of Clotee, a Slave Girl
Patrick, The Adventures of Midnight Sun
Paulsen, Soldier’s Heart
Pearsall, Trouble Don’t Last
Pinkney, Dear Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln
Letters From a Slave Girl Silent Thunder
Polacco, Pink and Say
Reeder, Captain Kate
Reit, Ironclad!
Rinaldi, Numbering the Bones
Robinet, If You Please, President Lincoln
Rosenberg, William Parker
Rosen, A School for Pompey Walker
Ruby, Steal Away Home
Siegelson, Trembling Earth
Wisler, Mustang Flats
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Almond, Fire Eaters
Armstrong, Dear Mr. President Theodore Roosevelt
Letters from a Young Coal Miner
Beard, Operation Clean Sweep
Blume, Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself
Curtis, The Watsons Go to Burmingham – 1963
Ellis, The Breadwinner
Herschler, Darkest Corner
Hughes, The Breaker Boys
Janeczko, World’s Afire
Karwoski, Quake Disaster in San Francisco
1906
Koller, Someday
Levitin, Journey to America
Silver Days
Mead, Girl of Kosovo
Murphy, Black Angels
Ransome, Fire in the Sky (Hindenburg, 1937)(transitional)
Robinet, Walking to the Bus Rider Blues
Rodman, Yankee Girl
Szablya, The Fall of the Red Star
Taylor, Mississippi Bridge
Road, to Memphis
Temple, Grab Hands and Run
Tonight, By Sea
White, Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Dairy
of Margaret Ann Brady
Yep, Star Fisher
THE DEPRESSION
Antle, Hard Times
Ayres, Macaroni Boy
De Young, A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
Henderson, Hard Times For Jake Smith
Hesse, Out of the Dust
Koller, Nothing to Fear
Ransom, Jimmy Crack Corn (transitional)
Reeder, Grandpa’s Mountain
Taylor, Song of the Trees
WORLD WAR I
Havill, Eyes Like Willy’s
Hesse, Letter From Rifka
Lawrence, Lord of the Nutcracker Men
Schur, Sacred Shadows
Skurzynski, Goodbye Billy Radish
WORLD WAR II
Bradley, For Freedom the Story of a French
Spy
Buchanan, Goodbye Charlie
Carey, Molly’s Fire
Chang, In the Eye of War
Cormier, Other Bells For Us to Ring
Giff, Lilly’s Crossing
Hesse, Aleutian Sparrow
Hill, Glass Angels
Jung, Dreaming in Black and White
Lisle, The Art of Keeping Cool
Lowry, Number the Stars
Morpugo, Waiting For Anya
Napoli, Stones In Water
Orlev, The Island on Bird Street (pb.)
Run Boy Run
Park, My Name Was Keoko
Patneaude, Thin Wood Walls
Radin, Escape to the Forest
Rinaldi, Keep Smiling Through
Savin, The Moon Bridge
Spinelli, Milkweed
Vos, Hide and Seek
Winter, Katarina
Wolff, Bat 6
VIETNAMESE CONFLICT
Antle, Tough Choices
Paterson, Park’s Quest
Talbert, The Purple Heart
Testa,Almost Forever (transitional)
White, Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
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