| Chains |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
TEEN ANDERSON |
| A slave named Isabel living in a Tory household is asked to spy for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. With her own and her younger sister's life at stake and with uncertainty about which side will keep their promise to free slaves, it is not an easy decision to make. (Revolutionary War era. Sequel: Forge) |
| Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Pox Party |
M.T. Anderson |
TEEN ANDERSON |
| Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. Not an easy read, but a fascinating one. (Revolutionary War era. Sequel: Kingdom on the Waves) |
| The Boy Who Dared |
Susan Bartoletti |
TEEN BARTOLETTI |
| In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people. (WWII) |
| What I Saw and How I Lied |
Judy Blundell |
TEEN BLUNDELL |
| In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever. (post-WWII. See also Blundell's Strings Attached.) |
| Ringside, 1925 : Views From the Scopes Trial |
Jen Bryant |
TEEN BRYANT |
| Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens. (1920'S) |
| 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) |
| Fire From the Rock |
Sharon Draper |
TEEN DRAPER |
| In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school. Includes author's note and related websites. (Civil Rights era) |
| Ten Cents a Dance |
Christine Fletcher |
TEEN FLETCHER |
| In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult. (WWII era) |
| 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.) Sequel: Nobody's Prize |
| 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) |
| Spy in the House |
Y.S. Lee |
TEEN LEE |
| Rescued from the gallows in 1850s London, young orphan and thief Mary Quinn is offered a place at Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls where she is trained to be part of an all-female investigative unit called The Agency and, at age seventeen, she infiltrates a rich merchant's home in hopes of tracing his missing cargo ships. (Victorian Era. Sequel: The Body at the Tower) |
| 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) |
| Woods Runner |
Gary Paulsen |
TEEN PAULSEN |
| From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes. (Revolutionary War era) |
| 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. (WWII) |
| 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. (WWII) |
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