HISTORICAL FICTION –sources for student list
LINKS:
http://childrensbooks.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=children
sbooks&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carolhurst.com%2Fsubjects%2Fhistory%2
Fhistory.html
Carol Hurst’s Literature site, lists, activities, annotations
http://www.rebeccacaudill.org/nominees/
lists, annotations, of Rebecca Caudill book nominees from last 10 years. These
are all great books, but not all are historical fiction. We included this list
because we know our school library has all of these.
http://www.marysmoffat.co.uk/bibliography/cont.htm
Lists books by time period and country, with synopsis
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/lessonplans/instructor/social1.htm#ne
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new historical fiction books by age level—Scholastic Books site
http://lexicon.ci.anchorage.ak.us/guides/kids/booklists/historicalfiction/
annotated list from several time periods
http://www.waterborolibrary.org/bklistjh.htm
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/historicalfiction/
both give lists of links to historical fiction lists
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ACTUAL LISTS OF BOOKS
Short List of historical fiction books for young people
Pre-History - the Colonial Period.
We like Sign of the Beaver and I am Regina.
1775-1783 (The Revolutionary War).
We like Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam is Dead.
1783-1861.
We like A Girl Called Boy, and Trouble River.
1861-1864 (The Civil War).
We like Caddie Woodlawn and A Ballad of the Civil War.
1864-1898.
We like Teetoncey and Little House in the Big Woods.
1898-1929.
We like Year of the Black Pony and Betsy-Tacy.
1929-1941 (Mostly the Great Depression).
We like Soup and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
1941-1949 (Mostly World War II).
We like The Best Kept Secret of the War and The War at Home.
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The Scott O'Dell Award
for Historical Fiction
In 1982, Scott O'Dell established The Scott O'Dell Award
for Historical Fiction. The annual award of $5,000 goes to a
meritorious book published in the previous year for children or
young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage
other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical
fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young
readers in the historical background that has helped to shape
their country and their world.
Winners of the Scott O'Dell Award
for Historical Fiction
Year
Recipient
Book Title
Publisher
1984
Elizabeth
George Speare
The Sign of the
Beaver
Houghton Mifflin
The Fighting
Ground
Lippincott
1985 Avi
1986
Patricia
MacLachlan
Sarah, Plain and
Harper & Row
Tall
1987 Scott O'Dell
Streams to the
River,
River to the Sea
Houghton Mifflin
(Award money
donated to Children's
Book Council)
1988 Patricia Beatty
Charley
Skedaddle
Morrow
The Honorable
Prison
Lodestar/Dutton
1989
Lyll Becerra de
Jenkins
1990 Carolyn Reeder Shades of Gray
Macmillan
1991
Pieter Van
Raven
A Time of
Trouble
Charles Scribner's
Sons
1992
Mary Downing
Hahn
Stepping on the
Cracks
Clarion
Morning Girl
Hyperion
1993 Michael Dorris
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1994
Paul
Fleischman
Bull Run
Laura Geringer/
Harper-Collins
1995
Graham
Salisbury
Under the
Blood-Red Sun
Delacorte
1996
Theodore
Taylor
The Bomb
Harcourt, Brace
1997
Katherine
Paterson
Jip, His Story
Lodestar/Dutton
Out of the Dust
Scholastic
Harriette
Robinet
Forty Acres and
Maybe a Mule
Jean Fritz/Atheneum
2000 Miriam Bat-Ami
Two Suns in the
Sky
Front Street/
Cricket Books
1998 Karen Hesse
1999
2001
Janet Taylor
Lisle
The Art of
Keeping Cool
A Richard Jackson
Book/Atheneum
2002
Mildred D
Taylor
The Land
Phyllis Fogelman
Books
2003
Shelley
Pearsall
Trouble Don't
Last
Alfred A Knopf
2004 Richard Peck
A River Between
Dial Press
Us
2005 A LaFaye
Worth
Simon & Schuster
In 1981 and 1982, no books of sufficient merit were
published, so no award was given in 1982 or 1983. Since
1984, the award has been presented each year.
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HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE UNITED STATES
JUVENILE FICTION
The New World
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Baker
Bulla
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Dorris
Litowinsky
Martin
Parish
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Walk the World's Rim
Conquista
Pedro's Journal
Morning Girl
High Voyage
I Sailed with Columbus
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I Sailed with Columbus
American Colonial
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Fox
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Howard
Keehn
Petry
Speare
Speare
Wisler
A Lion to Guard Us
Courage of Sarah Noble
Matchlock Gun
Slave Dancer
Cabin Faced West
When Daylight Comes
I Am Regina
Tituba of Salem Village
Sign of the Beaver
Witch of Blackbird Pond
This New Land
Revolutionary War
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Brady
Clapp
Collier
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Forbes
Fritz
Latham
O'Dell
Fighting Ground
Captain Grey
Toliver's Secret
I'm Deborah Sampson
Jump Ship to Freedom
My Brother Sam is Dead
War Comes to Willy Freeman
Johnny Tremain
Early Thunder
Carry On Mr. Bowditch
Sarah Bishop
Westward Movement
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Gregory
Holland
Hotze
Hurmence
Krensky
Kudlinski
Lasky
Lawlor
MacLachlan
McKenzie
Moeri
Caddie Woodlawn
My Daniel
Prairie Songs
Weasel
Jim Ugly
Legend of Jimmy Spoon
Journey Home
Circle Unbroken
Dixie in the Big Pasture
Iron Dragon Never Sleeps
Facing West
Beyond the Divide
Addie Across the Prairie
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Stargone John
Save Queen of Sheba
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Talbot
Turner
VanLeeuwen
Wilder
Westering
The Sodbuster
A Grasshopper Summer
Bound for Oregon
Little House (series)
Slavery/Civil War
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Cummings
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Fleischman
Forrester
Fox
Hansen
Hunt
Hurmence
Hurmence
Meltzer
O'Dell
Polacco
Reeder
Stolz
Wisler
Ghost Cadet
Jayhawker
Charley Skedaddle
Who Comes with Cannons
Hew Against the Grain
An Island Far From Home
Bull Run
Sound the Jubilee
Slave Dancer
Which Way Freedom?
Across Five Aprils
A Girl Called Boy
Tancy
Underground Man
My Name is Not Angelica
Pink and Say
Shades of Gray
Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir
Mr. Lincoln's Drummer
Industrialization
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Ross
Gathering of Days
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Children of the Fire
Hannah's Fancy Notions
Women's Suffrage and World War I
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Constant
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Skurzynski
Does Anybody Care About Lou Emma Miller?
Hero Over Here
I Gave Thomas Edison My Sandwich
A Long Way to Go
Goodbye, Billy Radish
Depression Era
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Landed
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Hamilton
Willie Bea and the Time the Martians
Hooks
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Mazer
Myers
Snyder
Taylor
Thrasher
Turnball
Uchida
Circle of Fire
Boys Here - Girls There
Cave Under the City
Red Dirt Jessie
Cat Running
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
End of a Dark Road
Speedwell
Best Bad Thing
Levitin
Kherdian
Sachs
Annie's Promise
Asking the River
Call Me Ruth
Immigration
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World War II
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Glassman
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Kudlinski
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Savin
Smith
Taylor
Todd
Uchida
American Dreams
Other Bells to Ring
My Wartime Summers
Morning Glory War
Wild Violets
Stepping on the Cracks
Summer on Thirteenth Street
Love You, Soldier
Pearl Harbor is Burning!
Silver Days
Moon Bridge
Salted Lemons
Children's War
Best Kept Secret of the War
Journey Home
Davis
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Just Like Martin
Mississippi Bridge
Road to Memphis
Gold Cadillac
Boyd
Clark
Patterson
Talbert
Charlie Pippin
To Stand Against the Wind
Park's Quest
Purple Heart
Civil Rights
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Series of Interest:
Once Upon America
Stories of the States
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Rebecca Caudill
Young Readers' Book
Award
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For Nominees for 1988-2003 click here