Historical Fiction

For Middle School Students

 

The King's Shadow by Elizabeth Adler
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
North by Night:  A Story of the Underground Railroad by Katherine Ayres
The Shakespeare Stealer and Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood
War Dog by Martin Booth
Evvy's Civil War by Miriam Brenaman
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
The Leopard Sword and Ship of Fire by Michael Cadnum
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
Prairie Songs by Jane Curry
Rodzina and Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
A Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter Dickinson
The Young Underground series by Robert Elmer
April Morning by Howard Fast
Saturnalia by Paul Fleischman
Peregrine by Joan Goodman
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Hear the Wind Blow by Gerald Hausen
Stowaway by Karen Hesse
Search of the Moon King's Daughter by Linda Holeman
Devil and His Boy by Anthony Horowitz
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
The Raging Quiet by Sherryl Jordan
Slap Your Sides M. E. Kerr
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
B for Buster and Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iain Lawrence
Journey to America by Sonia Levitin
The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle
Letters from a Slave Girl by Mary Lyons
I Am Regina by Sall Keehn
The Spirit Catchers by Kathleen Kudlinski
After the War by Carol Matas
The Last Mission by Harry Mazer
Mary, Bloody Mary and Patience Princess Catherine by Carolyn Meyer
Bloody Jack by L. A. Meyer
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
Tulsa Burning by Anna Myers
Daughter of Venice by Donna Jo Napoli
High Trail to Danger by Joan Lowery Nixon
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
Jip by Katherine Paterson
Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Malka by Mirjam Pressler
Boys from St. Petri by Bjarne Reuter
Friedrich by Hans Peter Richter
Brooklyn Rose; Color of Fire and Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi
After the Dancing Days by Margaret Rostkowski
The Wadjet Eye by Jill Rubalcaba
Under the Blood Red Sun and Eyes of the Emperor by Graham Salisbury
Words by Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
Dust by Arthur Slade
The Land by Mildred Taylor
Walking Up a Rainbow by Theodore Taylor
Molly Donnelly Jean Thesman
The Edge on the Sword by Rebecca Tingle
Waiting for Deliverance by Betsy Urban
The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall
The Angel on the Square and Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson
Prince Across the Water by Jane Yolen
 
Some of these authors have other titles that can also be described as historical fiction -
please check the shelves or talk to a librarian for additional help.
 

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