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Historical Fiction

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  • Code Talker

    Code Talker

    By Joseph Bruchac

    After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War Two in their native tongue.

  • Door in the Wall

    Door in the Wall

    By Marguerite De Angeli

    Young Robin, the crippled son of a mighty lord, proves his special courage and earns recognition from the king.
    Also available as an eBook and audiobook. 

  • Elijah of Buxton

    Elijah of Buxton

    By Christopher Paul Curtis

    In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

    Also available as an audiobook. 

     

  • Johnny Tremain

    Johnny Tremain

    By Esther Forbes

    After injuring his hand, a silversmith's apprentice in Boston becomes a messenger for the Sons of Liberty in the days before the American Revolution.

    Also available as an audiobook. 

  • Kira Kira

    Kira Kira

    By Cynthia Kadohata

    Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. 

    Also available as an audiobook. 

  • Number the Stars

    Number the Stars

    By Lois Lowry

    In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

    Also available as an eBook and audiobook. 

     

  • Out of the Dust

    Out of the Dust

    By Karen Hesse

    Fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

    Also available as an audiobook. 

  • Sign of the Beaver

    Sign of the Beaver

    By Elizabeth George Speare

    Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

    Also available as an audiobook. 

  • Single Shard

    Single Shard

    By Linda Sue Park

    Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

    Also available as an audiobook. 

     

  • Soldier Bear

    Soldier Bear

    By Bibi Dumon Taki

    An orphaned Syrian brown bear cub is adopted by Polish soldiers during World War II and serves for five years as their mischievous mascot in Iran and Italy. Based on a true story.