Historical Fiction Books for Kids
Today is 12/2/2008
MIDDLE READING LEVEL
A Lion to Guard Us (J BUL) by Clyde Robert Bulla
Grandma’s General Store (J CAR) by Dorothy Carter
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt (J DEY) by C. Coco De Young
Guests (J DOR) by Michael Dorris
The Twenty-one Balloons (J DUB, J CD DUB) by William Pene Du Bois
Bandit’s Moon (J FLE) by Sid Fleischman
Nory Ryan’s Song (J GIF, J LP GIF) by Patricia Reilly Giff
How I Became an American (J GUN) by Karin Gundisch
The Year of Miss Agnes (J HIL) by Kirkpatrick Hill
Worth (J LAF) by A. LaFaye
Number the Stars (J LOW, J CD LOW) by Lois Lowry
Sarah, Plain, and Tall (J MAC, J CD MAC) by Patricia MacLachlan
Escape into the Nights (J RIV V1) First in Series by Lois Walfrid Johnson
Little House in the Big Woods (J WIL, J CD WIL)
First in Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer (J WIS) by G. Clifton Wisler
When the Circus Comes to Town (J YEP) by Laurence Yep
UPPER READING LEVEL
Night Journeys (J AVI) by Avi
A Gathering of Days (J BLO) by Joan W. Blos
Bud, Not Buddy (J CUR, J CD CUR) by Paul Christopher Curtis
Rodzina (J CD CUS) by Karen Cushman
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple (J CUS, J CD CUS) by Karen Cushman
A House of Tailors (J GIF, J CD GIF) by Patricia Reilly Giff
Stepping on Cracks (J HAH) by Mary Downing Hahn
Out of the Dust (J HES, J CD HES) by Karen Hesse
I am David (J HOL) by Anne Holm
Journey to the River Sea (J IBB) by Eva Ibbotson
Anna Sunday (J KEE) by Sally M. Keehn
Island of the Blue Dolphins (J ODE) by Scott O’Dell
Sing Down the Moon (J ODE, J CD ODE) by Scott O’Dell
Bread and Roses, too (J PAT, J CD PAT) by Katherine Paterson
Mr. Tucket (J PAU, YA PAU) First in Series by Gary Paulsen
A Long Way from Chicago (J PEC, J LP PEC, J CD PEC) by Richard Peck
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (J SPE, J CD SPE) by Elizabeth George Speare
So Far from the Bamboo Grove (J WAT) by Yoko Kawashima Watkins