HISTORICAL FICTION Longwood High School Library Global 10 (After 1500)

2009

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian, 2000. The General in His Labyrinth: A Novel by The House of Windjammer by V.A. Gabriel Garcia Márquez, 2003. Richardson, 2003. The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in Forced from power, General Simon Bolivar In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old 1915. (FIC BAG) embarks on a seven months' voyage down heir to the House of Windjammer, must find the Magdalena River, reflecting along the a way to keep his family afloat after his All Souls’ Rising by Madison Smartt Bell, way on his life of campaigns and battles, father dies and tulip fever sweeps 2004. love and loss. (FIC GAR) Amsterdam. (FIC RIC)

A fictional account of the late-eighteenth- The Red Necklace: A Story of the French Andi’s War by Billi Rosen, 1989. century Haitian revolution, focusing on Toussaint Louverture, a self-educated slave, Revolution by Sally Gardner, 2008. and Dr. Hebert, a man who falls in love with With her parents away fighting on the Nanon, a mulatto. (FIC BEL) In the late eighteenth-century, Sido, Communist side during Greece's Civil War, the twelve-year-old daughter of a self- Andi fights her own battle against Aristo, the Forbidden City: A Novel by Madison indulgent marquis, and Yann, cruel son of the oppressive Chief of Smartt Bell, 1996. a fourteen-year-old Gypsy orphan raised to Police. (FIC ROS) perform in a magic show, face a common Seventeen-year-old Alex joined his father, a enemy at the start Yellow Star by Jennifer Rozines Roy. 2006. cameraman for the Canadian Broadcasting of the French Revolution. (FIC GAR) Corporation, in China in 1989. As outsiders From 1939, when Sylia is four and a half they faced a time of upheaval as political The Minister’s Daughter by Julie Hearn, years old, to 1945 when she has just turned demonstrations began in Tian An Men 2005. ten, a Jewish girl and her family struggle to Square. (FIC BEL) survive in Poland's Lodz ghetto during the In 1645 in England, the daughters of the Nazi occupation. (FIC ROY) The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John town minister successfully accuse a local Boyne, 2006. healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury, conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but 2005. Bored and lonely after his family years later during the 1692 Salem trials their moves from Berlin to a place called "Out- lie has unexpected repercussions. (FIC Following orders from the United States With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi HEA) Army, several young Japanese American officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas men train K-9 units to hunt who lives behind a wire fence. (FIC BOY) The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Asians during World War II. (FIC SAL)

For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy Barbara Kingsolver, 1998. by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley, 2005. Anson’s Way by Gary D. Schmidt, 1999. Nathan Price and his family move to the A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne Belgian Congo in 1959, and the experiences While serving as a British Fencible to David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi- they have while living in Africa affect each maintain the peace in Ireland, Anson finds occupied France, worked as a spy for the member of the family in a different that his sympathy for a hedge master places French Resistance while training to be an way. (FIC KIN) him in conflict with the law of King George opera singer. (FIC BRA) II. (FIC SCH) Kiss the Dust by Elizabeth Laird, 1994. Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague Kipling’s Choice by Geert Spillebeen 2005. by Geraldine Brooks, 2001. Her father's involvement with the Kurdish resistance movement in Iraq forces thirteen- Presents an historical fiction of World War The story of a small mountain village in year-old One in France and Belgium based upon England and housemaid Anna Frith as they Tara to flee with her family over the border actual records of real events and try to survive the terrible plague year of into Iran, where they face an unknown figures. (FIC SPI) 1666. (FIC BRO) future. (FIC LAI)

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo The Convicts by Iain Lawrence, 2005. Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac, 2005. His efforts to avenge his father's unjust

A novel based on the experiences of Suzanne imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom David Hall, who, as a teenager in Nazi- Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century occupied France, worked as a spy for the London, but after he is convicted of murder, French Resistance while training to be an Tom is eventually sent to Australia where opera singer. (FIC BRU) he has a surprise reunion. (FIC LAW)

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, 1989. Shabanu: Daughter of theWind by 1996. Suzanne FisherStaples, 1997. In 1943, during the German occupation of Story of Peekay, an English boy, living in Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns When eleven-year-old Shabanu, the daughter South Africa during World War II whose how to be brave and courageous when she of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present dream is to become a winner. (FIC COU) helps shelter her Jewish friend from the -day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an Nazis. (FIC LOW) older man whose money will bring prestige The Farming of Bones: A Novel by to the family, she must either accept the Edwidge Danticat, 1998. Girl of Kosovo by Alice Mead, 2001. decision, as is the custom, or risk theconsequences of defying her father's Amabelle, a Haitian woman who has grown Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian wishes. (FIC STA) up as a servant in the home of Dominicans, girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant the 1999 conflict in Vanity Fair: A Novel Withouta Hero by sugarcane cutter, and together they try to her native Kosovo, she remembers her William Makepeace Thackeray, 2001. weather the storms of persecution against father's admonition to not let her heart their people. (FIC DAN) become filled with hate. (FIC MEA) A satirical look at Victorianmanners recounting the experiences of two finishing A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the school graduates, Becky Sharp and DeFoe, 2003. Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Amelia Sedley. (FIC THA) Faber, Ship’s Boy by L.A. Meyer, 2002. Presents seventeenth-century author Daniel Reunion by Fred Uhlman, 1977. Defoe's fictionalized account of what it was Reduced to begging and thievery in the like to live in London in 1665 when the city streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan The close friendship of two German boys, was in the grip of plague. (FIC DEF) disguises herself as a boy and connives her one of them Jewish, is destroyed when the way onto a British warship set for high sea Nazis gain power in their country.(PB FIC Powder Monkey: The Adventures of Sam adventure in search of pirates. (PB FIC UHL) Witchall by Paul Dowswell, 2005. MEY) Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale by Donna Jo By Eleanor Updale, 2004. conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after Napoli, 2007. being pressed into service aboard the HMS In Victorian London, after his lifeis saved by Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars. (FIC Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish a young physician, athief utilizes the DOW) princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave knowledge hegains in prison and from the traders and not only learns how to survive scientific lectures he attends as the Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, 1996 but to challenge some of the brutality of her physician's case study exhibit to create a captors, who are fascinated by her apparent new, highly successful, Rootless and heartbroken Stephen Wraysford muteness and the possibility that she is double life for himself. (FIC UPD) joins the army at the outbreak of World War enchanted. (FIC NAP) I. He and his men are given the assignment The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton to tunnel under the German lines and set off When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Wilder, 2004. bombs. The comaraderie, love, and loyalty Park, 2004. of the soldiers contrasts with the horrors of In Peru in 1714, FranciscanBrother Juniper the underground, air, and trench With national pride and occasional fear, a inquires into the lives of five travelers who warfare. (FIC FAU) brother and sister face the increasingly died when a bridge collapsed, in an attempt oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan to prove that this was not an accident but 1632 by Eric Flint, 2000. during World War II, which threatens to part of God's plan. (FIC WIL) suppress Korean culture entirely. (FIC PAR) Mike Stern and his friends are transported Soldier X by Don Wulffson, 2001. into the Thirty Year's War where they Sovay by Celia Rees, 2008. introduce freedom and justice, American In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences style. (PB FIC FLI) An historical novel set in 1794 England, the horrors of war when he is drafted into the about a wealthy girl who disguises herself as German army and sent to fight on The Braid by Helen Frost, 2006. a highwayman, acquires papers that could the Russian front. (FIC WUF) lead to her father's arrest, and must hide both Two Scottish sisters, living on the western her and her father's identity during the Queen’s Own Fool: A Novel of Mary island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in political unrest of the French Queen of Scots by Jane Yolen, 2000. alternate voices and linked narrative poems, Revolution. (FIC REE) their experiences after their family is forcibly When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe evicted and separated with one sister Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, accompanying their parents and younger Queen of' Scots, she experiences the political siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the and religious upheavals in both France and other staying behind with other family on the Scotland. (FIC YOL) small island of Mingulay. (FIC FRO)