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Historical Fiction. FICTION Based on a historical event or person Accurate for the time period and place One or more characters that really existed. Historical events. Historical person.
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Historical Fiction • FICTION • Based on a historical event or person • Accurate for the time period and place • One or more characters that really existed
Historical events Historical person
An eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family. Historical fiction THE COURAGE OF SARAH NOBLE by Alice Dalgliesh
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew. Historical fiction THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF CHARLOTTE DOYLE By Avi
An account of American children's lives in early colonial times, including what they wore, the toys they played with, and subjects studied in school. Historical Nonfiction CHILD LIFE IN COLONIAL DAYS by Alice Morse Earle
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. Historical fiction THE SIGN OF THE BEAVER by Elizabeth George Speare
A photo-illustrated look at the youth organizations Adolf Hitler founded and used to meet his sociopolitical and military ends; includes profiles of individual Hitler Youth members as well as young people who opposed the Nazis, such as Hans and Sophie Scholl. Historical Nonfiction HITLER YOUTH: GROWING UP IN HITLER’S SHADOW by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Twelve-year-old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to slaves. Historical fiction I THOUGHT MY SOUL WOULD RISE AND FLY: THE DIARY OF PATSY, A FREED GIRL by Joyce Hansen