Historical Fiction Booklist

Allende, Isabel. Daughter of Fortune.
A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel.
Brent, Madeleine. Golden Urchin
Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander.
In 1945, a former combat nurse, back from the war and on her honeymoon, touches a boulder in an ancient Scottish ruin and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in 1743.
Heneghan, James. The Grave.
Thirteen-year-old Tom, an unhappy foster child in Liverpool, falls into a massive open grave and is transported to Ireland in 1847, where he finds himself in the midst of the deadly potato famine.
Houston, James. Running West
Ghost Fox.
Konigsburg, E.L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.
While waiting in heaven for divine judgement to be passed on her second husband, Eleanor of Aquitaine and three of the people who knew her well recall the events of her life.
Michael, Chabon. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay.
In 1939 New York City, Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Hitler's Prague, joins forces with his Brooklyn-born cousin, Sammy Clay, to create comic-book superheroes inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams.
Murphy, Jim. The journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union soldier.
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
My Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher.
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Price, Eugenia. Savannah.
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia's war
When a Confederate general threatens to burn Hagerstown, Maryland, unless it pays an exorbitant ransom, twelve-year-old Amelia and her friend find a way to save the town.
A Stitch in Time.
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.
In my Father's House.
For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.
Keep Smiling Through.
A ten-year-old girl living in middle-class America during World War II learns the painful lesson that doing what's right is not always an easy thing to do.
Or Give Me Death.
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
The journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce, a Pilgrim boy
A fourteen-year-old indentured servant keeps a journal of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth Plantation in 1620 and 1621.
The Last Silk Dress.
During the Civil War, Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army and uncovers a series of mysterious family secrets.
Sutcliff, Rosemary. The light beyond the forest: the Quest for the Holy Grail.
A retelling of the adventures of King Arthur's knights, Sir Lancelot, Sir Galahad, Sir Bors, and Sir Percival, as they search for the Holy Grail.
The Witch's Brat.
The knowledge of herbs and healing that once prompted the villagers to stone him out of town eventually becomes the salvation for a crippled boy in twelfth-century England.
Sword at Sunset.
Thom, James Alexander. Follow the River.

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