Historical Fiction Book Lists
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Kids’ Book Club: Creek Exploring with Minn of the Mississippi
This month’s kids’ book club book: Minn of the Mississippi This is a 5th grade reading level book. It’s a wonderful mix of fact and fiction, but I’d say my newly turned 5 year old had a hard time focusing. We skipped a lot. I’d recommend this book for the 7 and up age range for sure. The illustrations are beautiful! Looking forward to reading more by the author. We live in an area that is not abundant in rivers, even in the winter. The nearest thing we have is a little creek. Since it was summer when we did this one, there was just enough water to make mud.…
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Historical Fiction: The Great Depression
[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) Angels in the Dust-Raven (4.2/0.5) The Babe and I-Adler (3.2/0.5) Born and Bred in the Great Depression-Winter (no level) Don’t Forget Winona-Peterson (2.8/0.5) The Dust Bowl-Booth (3.8/0.5) Dust for Dinner-Turner (2.4/0.5) Finding Daddy-Harper (no level) The Gardener-Stewart (3.9/0.5) Hannah’s Way-Glaser (2.4/0.5) Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth-Burleigh (2.0/0.5) Lucky Beans-Birtha (4.0/0.5) The Lucky Star-Young (4.6/0.5) The Man Who Walked the Earth-Wallace (3.4/0.5) Mimmy and Sophie All Around Town-Cohen (2.9/0.5) My Heart Will Not Sit Down-Rockliff (4.4/0.5) Nobody Owns the Sky-Lindbergh (3.8/0.5) Potato: A…
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Historical Fiction: War of 1812
[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-2) An American Army of Two-Greeson (2.9/0.5) The Battle for St. Michaels-McCully (3.1/0.5) The Battle of New Orleans: The Drummer’s Story-Evans (3.4/0.5) Chet Chestnut-Sargent (4.2/0.5) Snow (White)-Sargent (4.5/0.5) (Description: A beautiful, proud white horse carries General Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.) The Star-Spangled Banner-Winstead (4.1/0.5) The Town that Fooled the British: A War of 1812 Story-Papp (4.2/0.5) Washington Is Burning-Figley (3.5/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) Abigail’s Drum-Minahan (4.6/1) A Call to Battle: The War of 1812-Chan (6.1/7) Cornstalks…
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Historical Fiction: The Civil War
[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.] Civil War Causes and Events Lower Grades (K-3) Abraham Lincoln-D’Aulaire (5.2/1) A. Lincoln and Me-Borden (3.5/0.5) Abe Lincoln’s Dream-Smith (3.0/0.5) Alec’s Primer-Walter (3.4/0.5) Billy and the Rebel-Hopkinson (3.2/0.5) The Blue and the Gray-Bunting (3.3/0.5) Cabin in the Snow-Hopkinson (3.5/1) Cassie’s Sweet Berry Pie: A Civil War Story-Winnick (2.9/0.5) The Cemetery Keepers of Gettysburg-High (4.6/0.5) Civil War Artist-Morrison (6.0/0.5) Civil War Days-Weiss (3.7/1) Civil War on Sunday-Osborne (3.4/1) Dadblamed Union Army Cow-Fletcher (4.0/0.5) Drummer Boy: Marching to the Civil War–Turner (3.8/0.5) Freedom Ship-Rappaport (2.8/0.5) From Slave to Soldier:…
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Historical Fiction: African Folktales
[This is a subtopic of Africa and also 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) The Adventures of Spider: West African Folk Tales-Arkhurst (4.4/1) The Amazing Tree-Kilaka (3.7/0.5) Anansi and the Box of Stories-Krensky (3.2/0.5) Anansi and the Magic Stick-Kimmel (2.4/0.5) Anansi and the Pot of Beans-Norflolk (2.9/0.5) Anansi and the Tug o’ War-Norfolk (2.7/0.5) Anansi and Turtle Go to Dinner-Norfolk (2.7/0.5) Anansi Does the Impossible! An Ashanti Tale-Aardema (3.2/0.5) Anansi Goes Fishing-Kimmel (2.3/0.5) Anansi’s Party Time-Kimmel (2.0/0.5) Beautiful Blackbird-Bryan (3.7/0.5) Brother to the Wind-Walter (3.4/0.5) Calabash Cat: And His Amazing Journey-Rumford…
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Historical Fiction: Africa
[This is 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.] There are a limited amount of English historical fiction books about Africa, so I included some modern and generic ones that help explain the culture, tribal life, animals and geography of Africa. And due to the oral tradition of Africa, I thought that I’d include a separate page for folk tales since they can show the culture and religious beliefs of Africans. Lower Grades (K-3) Africa Brothers and Sisters-Kroll (3.1/0.5) Africa Calling-Alderman (2.5/0.5) Africa Dream-Greenfield (2.5/0.5) An African Princess-Edmonds (3.0/0.5) Akimbo and the Baboons-McCall (5.3/1)…
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Historical Fiction: Traveling West
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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) The Adventures of Laura and Jack-Wilder (3.5/1) Aurora Means Dawn-Sanders (4.1/0.5) (1800, OH) Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story-Lester (4.5/0.5) A Book for Black-Eyed Susan-Young (3.5/0.5) The Buffalo Storm-Applegate (4.3/0.5) Chub-Sargent (4.0/0.5) (Santa Fe Trail) Covered Wagons, Bumpy Trails-Kay (2.0/0.5) A Cowboy Named Ernestine-Rubel (4.3/0.5) Diary of a Pioneer Boy-Massie (3.5/1) The Elephant Quilt: Stitch by Stitch to California!-Lowell (3.5/0.5) A Fourth of July on the Plains-Van Leeuwen (4.0/0.5) Going West-Van Leeuwen (3.5/0.5) Going West-Wilder (3.6/0.5)…
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Historical Fiction: Lewis and Clark/Louisiana Territory
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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) Bad River Boys: A Meeting of the Lakota Sioux with Lewis and Clark-Sneve (4.6/0.5) The Crossing-Napoli (3.6/0.5) Mack-Sargent (4.4/0.5) My Name Is York-Van Steenwyk (4.4/0.5) Sacagawea’s Strength-Deutsch (4.6/2) Seaman’s Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark-Eubank (4.4/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) Bold Journey: West with Lewis and Clark-Bohner (5.5/6) The Codfish Musket-Hewes (7.3/20) Cross-Country with Lewis and Clark-Smith (4.0/3) Girl of the Shining Mountains: Sacagawea’s Story-Roop (5.5/6) John Colter: The First Mountain Man-Boga (3.2/1) The Journal of…
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Historical Fiction: Texas Revolution/Mexican-American War
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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) Grady-Sargent (4.1/.5) Francisca Alvarez: The Angel of Goliad-Egan (5.3/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) The Alamo Cat-Kerr (4.4/1) All for Texas: A Story of Texas Liberation-Wisler (5.3/5) At the Battle of San Jacinto with Rip Cavitt-Carter (4.1/2) Blood in Water: A Story of Friendship During the Mexican War-Dell (5.8/1) BSpirit of the Cimarron: Bonita-Duey (5.7/3) Clouds over Texas-Matthews (5.2/5) Davy’s Dawg-Matthews (4.9/1) A Fair Wind to Glory-Townsend (5.9/7) The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or Pirates Galore-Fleischman (4.5/4) Girl of…
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Historical Fiction: Transcontinental Railroad
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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) Buck Buckskin-Sargent (4.6/0.5) Coolies-Yin (4.8/0.5) Death of the Iron Horse-Goble (4.5/0.5) Iron Horses-Kay (2.6/0.5) Railroad! A Story of the Transcontinental Railroad-Bailer (4.0/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) The Great Race: The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad-Mercati (3.5/1) The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West-Gregory (5.7/5)* The Iron Dragon Never Sleeps-Krensky (3.2/2) The Iron Dragon: The Courageous Story of Lee Chin-Pryor (4.9/5) The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker-Durbin* (5.9/5) The Last Rail: The Building…
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Historical Fiction: California History
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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) Amelia’s Road-Altman (4.1/0.5) Astro: The Stellar Sea Lion-Harvey (4.5/0.5) Barrio: Jose’s Neighborhood–Ancona(5.6/0.5) Boom Town-Levitin (3.7/0.5) Brothers-Yin (3.1/0.5) Calling the Doves-Herrera (4.5/0.5) Chang’s Paper Pony-Coerr (2.8/0.5) Cehlonia: Return of the Sea Turtle-Navarro (4.7/0.5) City of Angels: In and Around Los Angeles-Jaskol (7.9/1) Condor’s Egg-London (3.2/0.5) The Day Roy Riegels Ran the Wrong Way-Gutman (2.5/0.5) A Day’s Work-Bunting (2.7/0.5) Dust for Dinner-Turner* (2.4/0.5) Earthquake in the Early Morning-Osborne (3.3/1) Earthquake! A Story of Old San Francisco-Kudlinski (3.7/1) Fish for Jimmy:…
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Historical Fiction: Gold Rush
[This is a subtopic of The West and also 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.] This does not include California’s gold rush, that is under California History. Lower Grades (K-3) Adventure in Gold Town-Hopkinson (3.9/1) Crazy for Gold-Wishinsky (3.5/1) Gold Fever-Kay (2.4/0.5) Gold Rush Winter-Murphy (3.1/0.5) Klondike Gold-Provensen 96.0/1) Sailing for Gold-Hopkinson (3.7/1) Sitka Rose-Gill (4.1/0.5) Stinky-Sargent (4.4/0.5) Middle Grades (4-8) Bonanza Gold-Berton (7.1/3) Fire and Snow: A Tale of the Alaskan Gold Rush-Gunderson (3.2/0.5) Gold Fever Trail-Hughes (4.9/3) Gold in the Hills: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Rush-Ransom (3.6/2) The Gold Miners’ Rescue-Jackson…
