| Powder Monkey |
Paul Dowswell |
TEEN DOWSWELL |
| Thirteen-year-old Sam endures harsh conditions, battles, and a shipwreck after being pressed into service aboard the HMS Miranda during the Napoleonic Wars. (Sequel: Prison Ship) |
| Nobody's Princess |
Esther Friesner |
TEEN FRIESNER |
| Determined to fend for herself in a world where only men have real freedom, headstrong Helen, who will be called queen of Sparta and Helen of Troy one day, learns to fight, hunt, and ride horses while disguised as a boy, and goes on an adventure throughout the Mediterranean world. (This is historical fiction with a fantasy element, as it involves mythical characters.) |
| Uprising |
Margaret P. Haddix |
TEEN HADDIX |
| In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes. |
| The Falconer's Knot |
Mary Hoffman |
TEEN HOFFMAN |
| Silvano and Chiara, teens sent to live in a friary and a nunnery in Renaissance Italy, are drawn to one another and dream of a future together, but when murders are committed in the friary, they must discover who is behind the crimes before they can realize their love. |
| The Miner's Daughter |
Gretchen Moran Laskas |
TEEN LASKAS |
| Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era West Virginia mining town, works hard to help her family, experiences love and friendship, and finds an outlet for her writing when her family becomes part of the Arthurdale, West Virginia, community supported by Eleanor Roosevelt. (Depression Era) |
| Private Peaceful |
Michael Morpurgo |
TEEN PPB MORPURGO |
| When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself. (WWI) |
| Tamar |
Mel Peet |
TEEN PEET |
| Her grandfather's suicide leads Tamar to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch Resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. |
| Curse of the Romanovs |
Staton Rabin |
TEEN RABIN |
| In 1916, teenaged hemophiliac and heir to the Russian throne, Alexei Romanov, escapes into the future to elude the murderous Rasputin, and meets his modern-day cousin, fifteen-year-old Varda, who is working on a cure for hemophilia and who wants to help change history by saving his family. (This is a fantasy/historical fiction hybrid, as it involves time travel.) |
| Shanghai Shadows |
Laura Ruby |
TEEN RUBY |
| From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China; young Ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood. |
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