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Looking Back: Teen Historical Fiction
If you think history is boring, read one of these historical fiction titles for a pleasant surprise.
Click the title below to see if the book is in the library at this time.
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Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever, 1793
Mattie Cook is a witty fourteen-year-old living in Philadelphia when yellow fever strikes the city. When her
mother falls ill, they become separated and Mattie must fight for her survival.
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Bruchac, Joseph
Code Talker: a Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
At boarding school, Ned is not permitted to speak his first language, Navajo. When he lies about his age and joins the
Marines during WWII, he discovers that Navajo is being used as a code. But will the Japanese break this code like
they have every other one?
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Cushman, Karen
The Loud Silence of Francine Green
Eight grader Francine has nuns for teachers who don't exactly encourage the students to think for themselves.
Then she makes a new best friend, Sophie, who is her exact opposite. When Sophie is expelled from school, what will Francine do?
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Draper, Sharon
Copper Sun
Amari is fifteen when men kill her family and sell her as a slave in the New World. She suffers many
indignities, but her spirit is strong.
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Ingold, Jeanette
Big Burn
The mountains are burning and many are terrified. Three teens must decide how they will respond to the conflagration
of 1910. One thing is for sure: nobody's life will ever be the same.
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Levitin, Sonia
Room in the Heart
When Nazi soldiers occupy Denmark, everyone's life is affected. There are armed guard posted on the street corners, a
curfew, and it's hard to know who to trust.
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Salisbury, Graham
Eyes of the Emperor
Eddy, a 16-year-old Japanese American, joins the military around the time Pearl Harbor is bombed and encounters racism because of his
ancestry. He is sent to an island on a special assignment: to act as bait in the training of attack dogs.
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Whelan, Gloria
Listening for Lions
After the influenza epidemic of 1919 leaves her an orphan, Rachel -- the daughter of missionary parents living in Africa --
is manipulated by neighbors into traveling to England and assuming their dead daughter's identity. How will Rachel
make things right?
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Wulffson, Don
Soldier X
Erik, only 16, is fighting in a war he doesn't know much about. When his platoon's position is overrun and Erik
is injured, he plays dead but has to think fast. What will he be willing to do in order to survive?
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List compiled by Gwen, April 2007.
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