Historical Fiction Teen Reading List

YA Fiction BOLDEN T YA Paperback DONNELLY J Historical Fiction CROSSING EBENEZER CREEK A NORTHERN LIGHT When Mariah and her young brother Zeke In 1906, Mattie, determined to attend col- Teen Reading List are suddenly freed from slavery, they set lege and be a writer, takes a job at a sum- *First in a series out on Sherman's long march through mer inn where she discovers the truth Georgia during the Civil War. about the death of a guest. YA Paperback ANDERSON L YA Paperback BOYNE J YA Fiction ELLIOTT L CHAINS* THE BOY IN THE STRIPED HAMILTON AND PEGGY After being sold to a cruel couple in New PAJAMAS In the throes of the Revolutionary York City, a slave named Isabel spies for Bored and lonely, Bruno, the son of a Nazi War, Peggy Schuyler finds herself amid the rebels during the Revolutionary War. officer, befriends a boy in striped Loyalists and Patriots, and develops a relationship with Alexander Hamilton. pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. YA Paperback ANDERSON L YA Paperback BRAY L YA Fiction GAUGHEN A FEVER 1793 A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY* SCARLET In 1793 Philadelphia, Matilda Cook, In 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma Doyle is Will Scarlet, with an eye for treasure and separated from her sick mother, is forced sent to finishing school in England after deadly dagger skills, is Robin Hood’s right to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever many years in India. There she learns of hand man—but Will must hide that she is epidemic. her ability to see into the spirit world. actually a girl from the band of thieves. YA Paperback ANSERSON M YA Graphic Novel BRIDE’S v.1 YA Paperback GODBERSEN A THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF A BRIDE’S STORY* THE LUXE* OCTAVIAN NOTHING* In 19th century Mongolia, the independ- Mahattan, 1899. Pretty girls in pretty Octavian, a young African American, is ent and curious Amir strives to find her dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible brought up as a science experiment in the role in an arranged marriage with a much boys with mischievous smiles and danger- younger boy. ous intentions. years before the Revolutionary War. YA Fiction BARKER M YA Paperback CUSHMAN K YA Fiction GRANT M THE HOUSE OF ONE THOUSAND CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY FRONT LINES EYES The daughter of an English country knight In the face of reluctant colonels and skep- In 1983 East Berlin, Lena lives with her keeps a journal in which she records her tical sergeants, the soldier girls of WWII strict auntie and works nights as a janitor longing for adventures and her efforts to must prove their guts, strength, and re- avoid being married off. sourcefulness in this alternate history. at Stasi (secret police) headquarters. YA Fiction BLUNDELL J YA Paperback DAVIS T YA Fiction HESSE M WHAT I SAW AND HOW I LIED MARE’S WAR GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT When a young ex-GI who had served in Octavia and Tali take a car trip with their In 1943 Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, teen- Evie’s father’s company in WWII shows up grandmother, who tells about growing up age Hanneke—a “finder” of black market after the war, Evie is caught in a Black in 1940s Alabama and serving in goods—is tasked with finding a Jew- complicated web of lies . Europe during World War II. ish girl a customer had been hiding. YA Fiction ITURBE A YA Fiction REEVE P YA Fiction STAMPER V THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ HERE LIES ARTHUR WHAT THE NIGHT SINGS Based on real-life Auschwitz prisoner When her village is attacked, Gwyna seeks Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a protection from the bard Myrddin, who Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen- girl who risked her life to keep books uses Gwyna in his plan to transform year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for alive during the Holocaust. young Arthur into the heroic King Arthur. herself. YA Paperback LAFEVERS R YA Fiction SCHLITZ L YA Fiction TYRANNY GRAVE MERCY* THE HIRED GIRL A TYRANNY OF PETTICOATS In fifteenth-century Brittany, Ismae es- Joan, a maid in 1911 Baltimore, hopes that From pirate ships off the coast of the capes to the convent of St. Mortain, maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning & Carolinas to the protests of 1960s Chicago, where she learns that the god of Death cooking for six dollars a week can become a take a thrill ride through history in this has blessed her with dangerous gifts. woman with a future. anthology of historical fiction and fantasy. YA Fiction LARSON K YA Paperback SCHMIDT G YA Paperback WEIN E HATTIE BIG SKY THE WEDNESDAY WARS CODE NAME VERITY Hattie Brooks travels to Montana in 1917 On Wednesday afternoons in 1967, Holling In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in to make a home for herself and encoun- is alone in the classroom with his teacher, Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells ters some unexpected problems related Mrs. Baker, who Holling is convinced hates a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and to the war being fought in Europe. his guts. great courage. YA Fiction MCCORMICK P YA Fiction SEPETYS R YA Paperback WINTERS C NEVER FALL DOWN BETWEEN SHADES OF GRAY IN THE SHADOW OF BLACKBIRDS Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza defied the odds and used all of his and brother are pulled from their and World War I take their toll, Mary courage and wits to survive the Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and Shelley Black watches desperate mourners murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge. sent to Siberia. flock to séances and spirit photographers. YA Paperback PARK L YA Fiction SEPETYS R YA Paperback ZUSAK M WHEN MY NAME WAS KEOKO SALT TO THE SEA THE BOOK THIEF A brother and sister face the increasingly As thousands of refugees flock to the coast Death relates the story of Liesel—a young oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan in the winter of 1945, four paths converge, German girl whose book-stealing and during World War II, which threatens to vying for passage aboard a ship that story-telling talents help sustain her family suppress Korean culture entirely. promises safety and freedom. and the Jewish man they are hiding. YA Fiction POWELL P YA Fiction SMITH S LOVING VS VIRGINIA FLYGIRL Written in blank verse, the story of During World War II, a light-skinned African Santa Clara City Library – Youth Services Mildred and Richard Loving, who chal- American girl "passes" for white in order to 2635 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051 lenged the Virginia law forbidding inter- join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. sclibrary.org racial marriages in the 1950s. .

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