Historical Fiction
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Forge (2010)
YA FIC ANDERSON, L
Separated from his friend Isabel after their daring escape from slavery, fifteen-year-old Curzon serves as a free man
in the Continental Army at Valley Forge until he and Isabel are thrown together again, as slaves once more.
I am rembrandt’s daughter
Blackwood, Gary L.
Shakespeare’s Scribe (2000)
J BLACKWOOD,G
In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy, who has become an apprentice actor, goes on the
road with Shakespeare's troupe, and finds out more about his parents along the way.
Bruce, Elizabeth C.
A curse dark as gold (2008)
Y.A. FIC BUNCE E
Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the
face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of
spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.
Donnelly, Jennifer
Revolution (2010)
Y.A. FIC DONNELLY, J
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school
travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a
young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Doyle, Marissa
Bewitching Season (2008)
Y.A. FIC DOYLE M
In 1837, as seventeen-year-old twins, Persephone and Penelope, are starting their first London Season they find that
their beloved governess, who has taught them everything they know about magic, has disappeared.
Farmer, Nancy
The sea of trolls (2004)
Y.A. FIC FARMER N
After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and his little sister Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and
taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, leading Jack to undertake a vital quest to
Jotunheim, home of the trolls.
Gardner, Sally
The Red Necklace (2008)
Y.A. FIC GARDNER S
In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self-indulgent marquis, and Yann, a fourteenyear-old Gypsy orphan raised to perform in a magic show, face a common enemy at the start of the French
Revolution.
Hesse, Karen.
Stowaway (2000)
Y.A. FIC HESSE,K
A young stowaway from 1768 to 1771 aboard the Endeavor sails around the world under Captain James Cook.
Holme, Jennifer L.
Turtle in Paradise (2010)
J HOLM, J
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is
sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Kelly, Jacqueline
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (2009)
J KELLY, J
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love
from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads
to an important discovery.
Levine, Kristin
The Best Bad Luck I ever had (2009)
J LEVINE K
In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead
he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the
life of a condemned man.
Libba, Bray
A Great and terrible beauty (2003)
Y.A FIC BRAY, L
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in
India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit
world.
Historical Fiction
Meyer, L.
Curse of the Blue Tattoo (2004)
Y.A. FIC MEYER L
In 1803, after being exposed as a girl and forced to leave her ship, Jacky Faber finds herself attending school in
Boston, where she roams the city in search of adventure, and learns to ride a horse.
McCaughrean, Geraldine
The White Darkness (2007)
Y.A. FIC MCCAUGHREAN G
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled
fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that
supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
McMullan, Margaret
When I crossed No-bob (2007)
YA FIC MCMULLAN, M
Ten years after the Civil War's end, abandoned Addy is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher
Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her past
behind.
Napoli, Donna Jo
The Smile (2008)
Y.A. FIC NAPOLI D
In Renaissance Italy, Elisabetta longs for romance, and when Leonardo da Vinci introduces her to Guiliano de
Medici, whose family rules Florence but is about to be deposed, she has no inkling of the romance--and sorrow--that
will ensue.
Napoli, Donna Jo
Hush: An Irish princess’s tale (2007)
Y.A. FIC NAPOLI D
Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to
survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the
possibility that she is enchanted.
Reeve, Phillip
Here Lies Arthur (2008)
Y.A. FIC REEVE P
When her village is attacked and burned, Gwyna seeks protection from the bard Myrddin, who uses Gwyna in his
plan to transform young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur.
Turnbull, Ann
Forged in the Fire (2007)
Y.A. FIC TURNBULL A
After spending three years apart, eighteen-year-old Susanna is eager to be reunited with her fiance Will who is due
to arrive from London so that they can be married, but it is the summer of 1665 and, unbeknownst to Susanna, the
plague is beginning to spread throughout the city.
Vanderpool, Clare
Moon Over manifest (2010)
J VANDERPOOL, C
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an
old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Yancey, R.
The Extraordinary Adventures of
Alfred Kropp (2005)
Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.
Y.A. FIC YANCEY R
Zusak, Markus
The Book Thief (2006)
Y.A. FIC ZUSAK M
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose
book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their
neighbors.