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Great Historical Fiction Books at the Pleasanton Public Library Dangerous Crossing by Stephen Krensky 1605 to 1750 1750 to 1830 Shelved in Children’s Moving Up Grades 2-5 Audiobook available Blood on the River: James Town 1607 Great Historical by Laurie Halse Anderson In 1778, ten-year-old Johnny Adams and his by Elisa Carbone Chains Grades 7-10 (320 p) Audiobook available father make a dangerous mid-winter voyage Grades 5-8 (237 p) from Massachusetts to Paris in hopes of Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the gaining support for the colonies during the Fiction Books Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel American Revolution. Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where Revolutionary War. he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and Hannah Pritchard: A Pirate of the Revolution at the foe. Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson by Bonnie Pryor Grades 7-10 (251 p) Audiobook available Grades 5-7 (160 p) Historical Fiction Adventures series The Sacrifice by Kathleen B. Duble The year is 1793 and fourteen-year-old Matilda After her parents and brother are killed by Loyalists, Grades 6-9 (211 p) Cook finds herself in the middle of a struggle to fourteen-year-old Hannah leaves their farm and eventually, Pleasanton Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of keep herself and her loved ones alive in the midst disguised as a boy, joins a pirate ship that preys on other ships witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await of the yellow fever epidemic. to get supplies for the American Revolution. trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately Public Library: searches for some way to obtain their freedom The Fighting Ground by Avi Grades 4-7 (157 p) Popular Historical Fiction Series In Darkness, Death Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler and discovers the real war is being fought within himself. Early 1600’s Grades 6-9 (195 p) American Girl Collection by various authors In eighteenth-century Japan, young Seikei becomes involved with a Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood Grades 3-5 ninja as he helps Judge Ooka, his foster father, investigate the murder Grades 6-9 (261 p) Dear America by various authors through of a samurai. In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly Grades 5-7 from England to the American colonies, fifteen-year- History Mysteries by various authors Witch Child by Celia Rees old Creighton becomes part of developments in the Grades 4-6 political unrest there that may spell defeat for the Grades 7-10 (261 p) Little House Chapter Books by various authors Late 1800’s In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a patriots and change the course of history. Grades 2-4 journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community The Winter People by Joseph Bruchac My America by various authors Compiled by the Pleasanton Library Grades 5-7 Children’s Staff of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts. Grades 6-10 (122 p) As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a My Name is America by various authors fourteen-year-old Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have Grades 5-7 The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare attacked his village and taken his mother and sisters hostage. Royal Diaries by various authors Grades 5-7 (249 p) Grades 5-7 In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan Gideon the Cutpurse: Being the First Part of the household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by Saddles, Stars and Stripes by Deborah Kent the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. Grades 4-6 Gideon Trilogy by Linda Buckley-Archer Also published under the title The Time Travelers Time Spies by Candice Ransom by Katherine Sturtevant Grades 5-7 (404 p) Gideon trilogy At the Sign of the Star Grades 2-4 Grades 5-8 (140 p) Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father’s England where they are befriended by a reformed thief. Pleasanton Public Library book store Children’s Services 400 Old Bernal Ave. A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant Victory by Susan Cooper Grades 5-7 (196 p) Audiobook available Pleasanton, California 94566 Grades 6-9 (250 p) In London in the 1680s, Meg—now sixteen years old— Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection (925) 931-3400 tries to decide whether to marry either of the two men between a homesick English girl living in present-day Books are shelved in who court her, taking into account both love and her America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the Hours: British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Children’s Fiction writing ambitions. Monday-Thursday: 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson. by author’s last name Friday-Saturday: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. and/or Sunday: 1 p.m.- 5 p.m. Fearless by Elvira Woodruff The Diamond of Drury Lane by Julia Golding Children’s Paperbacks Grades 5-8 (224 p) by first letter of author’s last name Grades 5-8 (424 p) Cat Royal Adventure series In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Catherine “Cat” Royal, an orphan who lives at the (unless otherwise noted). Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is Drury Lane Theater in 1790’s London, tries to find the lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect “diamond” supposedly hidden in the theater, which Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the unmasks a treasonous political cartoonist and involves Please ask at the Children’s Desk treacherous Eddystone Reef— the very rocks that sank her in the street gangs of Covent Garden and the world if you need help. Digory’s grandfather’s ship years before. nobility. 12/2008 Joining the Boston Tea Party by Diane Stanley Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home. Alice Rose & Sam: A Novel by Kathryn Lasky Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom by Katherine Paterson Shelved in Children’s Moving Up Grades 5-7 (252 p) Grades 5-8 (229 p) Grades 2-4 The Time-Traveling Twins series Bandit’s Moon by Sid Fleischman Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares adventures with Abducted from his home by bandits, fifteen-year-old Wang Lee is With the help of their grandmother’s hat, the twins journey back in Grades 4-6 (136 p) Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on her father’s newspaper in rescued from slavery by a mysterious girl who introduces him to time to the Boston Tea Party. Twelve-year-old Annyrose relates her adventures with Virginia City, Nevada, during the 1860’s. Taiping Tienkuo, a secret society partly based on Christian principles Joaquin Muireta and his band of outlaws in the California and dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu government. gold-mining region during the mid-1800’s. Kazunomiya: Prisoner of Heaven 1830 to 1900 by Kathryn Lasky Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock Walk Across the Sea by Susan Fletcher Grades 5-8 (156 p) Royal Diaries series Grades 5-8 (251 p) Boy Sherlock Holmes series The Traitor’s Gate by Avi Grades 6-9 (214 p) Princess Kazunomiya, half-sister of the Emperor of In 1867, Sherlock Holmes, an impoverished young Grades 6-10 (353 p) In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are Japan, relates in her diary and in poems the confusing outcast with a Jewish father and a highborn mother, When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, 14 being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, events occurring in the Imperial Palace in 1858, visits the scene of a woman’s brutal murder, where he -year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her including political and romantic intrigue. meets a wrongly accused young Arab. responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to determining why people are spying on him and his family. her. Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue by Julius Lester Fair Weather: A Novel by Richard Peck Grades 7-10 (177 p) Grades 4-8 (139 p) A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker Soaring Eagle by Mary Peace Finley Pierce Butler has a big slave auction to pay debts and his In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her Grades 6-9 (298 p) Grades 5-7 (166 p) family is very sad because Emma, a slave who raised the family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit In Farmington, Massachusetts, in 1839, nine-year-old Ethan Julio, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1845, finds friendship children, may be sold. Aunt Euterpe and attend the World’s Columbian experiences hardships as an indentured servant of the wealthy Lyman and a clue to his identity while living with the Cheyenne Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo family alongside Daniel, a boy scorned simply for being Irish, and the tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail.
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