Historical Fiction for Middle School students SMIC School MHS Library Sep. 2017 Update Title Author Title Author 47 Walter Mosley # Fighting Ground, The Avi Acquaintance with Darkness, An Ann Rinaldi Finishing Becca Ann Rinaldi Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie (DearKristiana America) Gregory Fire from the Rock Sharon M. Draper Adaline Falling Star Mary Pope Osborne # Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet American Adventure series, The (in 48 parts by various authors) Frozen Summer Mary Jane Auch Anna of Byzantium Tracey Barrett # Game of Silence, The Louise Erdrich # Art of Keeping Cool, The Janet Taylor Lisle Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli, The Mary Downing Hahn Around the World in 100 Days Gary Blackwood Geronimo Joseph Bruchac Ask me no Questions Marina Budhos Girl in Blue Ann Rinaldi Bakkad if the Civil War, A Mary Stolz Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow, The (DearAnn America) Turner Ballad of Lucy Whipple, The Karen Cushman Give Me Liberty L.M. Elliott Beware, Princess Elizabeth Carolyn Meyer Glory Field, The Walter Dean Myers Birchbark House, The Louise Erdrich Good Night, Maman Norma Foz Mazer Blood on the River Elisa Carbone Grasslands Deb Seely Bloody Country, The James Lincoln Collier # Green Glass Sea, The Ellen Klages # Bomb, The Theodore Taylor Guns for General Washington Seymour Reit Boy at War, A Harry Mazer Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons Ann Rinaldi Boy in the Striped Pajama, The John Boyne Hattie Big Sky Kirby Larson Boy No More, A Harry Mazer Heart of a Samurai: based on the true storyMargi of Nakahama Preus Manjiro Boy of the Painted Cave Justin Denzel Hiroshima : a Novella Laurence Yep Breadwinner, The Deborah Ellis Hitch Jeanette Ingold Break with Charity, A Ann Rinaldi Homesick Jean Fritz Brooklyn Bridge Karen Hesse # Honorable Prison, The Lyll Becerra de Jenkins * Bud, not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis *h House of Sixty Fathers, The Meindert DeJong Buffalo Knife, The William O. Steele I Pledge Allegiance (Vietnam 1) Chris Lynch Bull Run Paul Fleischman I remember the Alamo D. Anne Love Cannons at Dawn (Dear America) Kristiana Gregory I survived series Lauren Tarshis Captive, The Joyce Hansen Into No Man's Land Ellen Emerson White Carry on, Mr. Bowditch Jean Lee Latham * Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell Cast Two Shadows Ann Rinaldi Jar of Dreams, A Yoshiko Uchida *h Catherine Called Birdy Karen Cushman Jefferson's Sons Kimberly Brubaker Bradley # Chains Laurie Halse Anderson # Jip, His Story Katherine Paterson # Charley Skedaddle Patricia Beatty Journey Home Yoshiko Uchida Child of the Owl (1965) Laurence Yep Journey to Jo'burg Beverley Naidoo Children of the River Linda Crew Journey to the New World, A (Dear America)Kathryn Lasky Cleopatra VII (The Royal Diaries) Kristiana Gregory Journey to Topaz Yoshiko Uchida Code name Verity Elizabeth Wein Just the Dust Elizabeth Laird Coffin Quilt : The Feud between the HatfieldsAnn and Rinaldi the McCoys, The King of Shadows Susan Cooper Countdown Deborah Wiles Kite Rider, The Geraldine McCaughrean Crow Barbara Wright # Land, The Mildred Taylor Cure, The Sonia Levitin Last Mission, The Harry Mazer Dangerous Waters Gregory Mone Legend of Bass Reeves, The Gary Paulsen Diamond in the Desert, A Kathryn Fitzmaurice Let the Circle be Unbroken Mildred Taylor Down the Rabbit Hole (Dear America) Susan Campbell Bartoletti Light in the Storm (Dear America), A Karen Hesse Down to the Last Out Walter Dean Myers Like the Willow Tree (Dear America) Lois Lowry Dragon's Gate (1867) Laurence Yep Lily Pond, The Annika Thor *h Dragonwings Laurence Yep Lily's Crossing Patricia Reilly Giff Dream in the Golden Country (Dear America)Katheryn Lasky Lincoln's Grave Robbers Steve Sheinkin Drums of War Edith Morris Hemingway Long Walk to Water, A Linda Sue Park Earth Dragon Awakes, The Lawrence Yep Long Way from Chicago, A Richard Peck # Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis Lyddie Katerine Paterson Eyes of the Emperor Graham Salisbury Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers Faraway Island, A Annika Thor Fences between Us (Dear America), The Kirby Larson Fever, 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson Finding Zasha Randi Barro Fifth of March, The Ann Rinaldi * = Newbery Medal *h = Newbery nomination # = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction Title Author Title Author Maroo of the Winter Caves Ann Turnbull * Slave Dancer, The Paula Fox Mary, Bloody Mary Carolyn Meyer So Far from Home (Dear America) Barry Denenberg Matilda Bone Karen Cushman So Far from the Bamboo Grove Yoko Kawashima Watkins * Midwife's Apprentice, The Karen Cushman Soldier X Don Wulffson Mighty Miss Malone, The Christopher Paul Curtis Someone Names Eva Joan M. Wolf Miles' Song Alice McGill SOS Titanic Eve Bunting Milkweed Jerry Spinelli Stealing South Katherine Ayres Mine Eyes Have Seen Ann Rinaldi # Stepping on the Cracks Mary Downing Hahn Mirror, Mirrow on the Wall (Dear America)Barry Denenberg Stolen Life, A Jane Louise Curry Mississippi Trial, 1955 Chris Crowe # Storm in the Barn, The Matt Phelan # Morning Girl Michael Dorris # Streams to the River, River to the Sea Scott O'Dell Mountain Light (1855) Laurence Yep Summer's End Audrey Couloumbis Moved-Outers, The Florence Crannell Means Sunrise over Fallujah Walter Dean Myers My Brother, My Sister, and I Yoko Kawashima Watkins Then Morris Gleitzman *h My Brother Sam is Dead James Lincoln Collier Thief of Hearts (1995) Laurence Yep Northern Light, A Jennifer Donnelly Thousand Never Ever, A Shana Burg Nortorious Benedict Arnold, The Steve Sheinkin # Time of Trouble, A Pieter van Raven Titanic Crossing Barbara Williams * Number the Stars Louis Lowry # Trouble Don't Last Shelley Pearsall Numbering All the Bones Ann Rinaldi True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The Avi Once Morris Gleitzman Turn Homeward, Hannalee Patricia Beatty # One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia Twenty and Ten Claire Hucher Bishop Other side of Truth, The Beverley Naidoo # Two Suns in the Sky Miriam Bat-Ami *# Out of the Dust Karen Hesse # Under the Blood-Red Sun Graham Salisbury Pedro's Journal Pam Conrad Under the Same Sky Cynthia DeFelice Picture of Freedom (Dear America), A Patricia C. Mckissack Under the Sun Arthur Dorros Prisoner B-3087 Alan Gratz *h Upstairs Room, The Johanna Reiss Rabble in Arms Kenneth Roberts Valley of the Moon (Dear America) Sherry Garland Redheaded Princess, The Ann Rinaldi Victoria (The Royal Diaries) Anna Kirwan Ride into Morning, A Ann Rinaldi Voyage on the Great Titanic (Dear America)Ellen Emerson White Riot Walter Dean Myers Walking Up a Rainbow Theodore Taylor # River Between Us, The Richard Peck Warrior girl Pauline Chandler Road to Memphis, The Mildred Taylor *h Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963, The Christopher Paul Curtis * Roll of Thunder, Hear My cry Mildred Taylor We were Heroes Walter Dean Myers Roman Mysteries Omnibus, The Caroline Lawrence When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Judith Kerr Romeo Blue Phoebe Stone When My Name was Keoko Linda Sue Park The Royal Diary : Elizabeth I Katheryn Lasky When Will This Cruel Wat be Over? (Dear BarryAmerica) Denenberg The Royal Diary : Marie Antoniette Katheryn Lasky Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Carolyn Meyer The Royal Diary : Catherine The Great Kristiana Gregory Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald The Royal Diary : Eleanor of Aquitaine Kristiana Gregory Will at the Battle of Gettysburg 1863 Laurie Calkhoven Sarah Bishop Scott O'Dell Winter of Red Snow, The (Dear America) Kristiana Gregory *# Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan Winter People, The Joseph Bruchac Sarny : a Life Remembered Gary Paulsen With Every Drop of Blood James Lincoln Collier Sea Glass (1970) Laurence Yep Witness Karen Hesse Second Bend in the River, The Ann Rinaldi Wolf by the Ears Ann Rinaldi Secret of Sarah Revere, The Ann Rinaldi Wood Runner Garu Paulsen Serpent's Children, The (1849) Laurence Yep # Worth A. LaFaye # Shades of Gray Carolyn Reeder * Year Down Yonder, A Ricahrd Peck Shadow Michael Morpurgo * Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze Elizabeth Foreman Lewis Shadow on the Mountain Margi Preus Shakespeare Scribe Gary Blackwood Shakespeare Stealer Gary Blackwood # Sign of Beaver, The Elizabeth Speare Sing Down the Moon Scott O'Dell * Single Shard, A Linda Sue Park * = Newbery Medal *h = Newbery nomination # = Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.