Historical Fiction: Reconstruction

[Part of an ongoing series of historical fiction book lists for students and teachers. For the full list and to see more info, click here.]

Lower Grades (K-3)

1. A Band of Angels-Hopkinson (4.4/0.5)
2. More Than Anything Else-Bradby (3.3/0.5)
3. Walking Home to Rosie Lee-LaFaye (4.1/0.5)
   

Middle Grades (4-8)

1. Bigger-Calvert (5.7/6)

2. Brotherhood-Westrick (4.7/10)

3. Cause: Reconstruction America, 1863-1877-Bolden (9.5/7) Nonfiction
4. Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule-Robinet (4.3/5)
5. The Forty-Acre Swindle: George Washington Carver-Jackson (5.3/4)
6. He Will Go Fearless-Lawlor (4.9/8.0)
7. Janie’s Freedom: African-Americans in the Aftermath of the Civil War-Grant (4.9/5)
8. The Journal of Joshua Loper:  A Black Cowboy-Myers* (5.0/4)
9. The Land-Taylor (5.0/18)
10. The Road to Freedom: A Story of Reconstruction-Asim (5.2/5)
11. Sugar-Rhodes (2.9/4)

Upper Grades (9-12)

1. Black Voices from Reconstruction-Smith (10.1/7) Nonfiction
2. Cane River-Tademy (6.5/20)
3. The Debt-Jones (3.8/1.0)
4. Family-Cooper (4.7/6)
5. The Hamlet-Faulkner (7.3/24)
6. My Home Is Over Jordan-Forrester (4.4/6)
7. Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow, 1864-1896-Collier (9.3/3) Nonfiction
8. The Sound of Fury-Faulkner (4.4/14)
9. Toward the Sunrising-Morris (6.8/18)
10. The Unvanquished-Faulkner (6.1/11)