RecommendedReads: JFiction:HistoricalFiction
OneBigOpenSky
LesaCline-Ransome
JRANS, L
In the 1870s, a Black family undertakes a perilous wagon journey westward for a tenuous shot at freedom in Nebraska.
AcrossSoManySeas RuthBehar
JBEHA, R
Spanning over five hundred years, a novel telling the stories of four girls from different generations of a Jewish family, many of them forced to leave their country and start a new life.
WarriorontheMound
SandraW.Headen
JHEAD, S
In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.
TheLuminousLifeofLucyLandry AnnaRoseJohnson
JJOHN, A
Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers—and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking.
AmilandtheAfter VeeraHiranandani
JHIRA, V
At the turn of the new year in 1948, Amil and his family are trying to make a home in India, now independent of British rule. To make sense of a chaotic world, Nisha, his twin sister, suggests that Amil begin to tell his story through drawings meant for their mother, who died when they were just babies.
CodeNameKingfisher LizKessler
JKESS, L
A young girl learns of her grandmother and greataunt's involvement in the Dutch Resistance during World War II in this heartbreaking story of family, history, resilience, and hope.
LightandAir
MindyNicholsWendell
JWEND, M
It's 1935, and tuberculosis is ravaging the nation. When Halle and her mother both come down with TB, they are shunned--and then they are sent to the J.N. Adam Tuberculosis Hospital: far from home, far from family, far from the world.
TheBletchleyRiddle
RutaSepetys&SteveSheinkin
JSEPE, R
This middle grade historical adventure follows two siblings at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers, as they try to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance.
TheFirstStateofBeing ErinEntradaKelly
JKELL
, E
When Ridge, a time-traveling teenager from the future, gets trapped in 1999, he befriends Michael, a lonely twelve-year-old boy, changing the course of their lives forever.
TheWindebyPuzzle LoisLowry
JLOWR, L
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Lifeboat5 SusanHood
JHOOD, S
A World War II novel-in-verse about two girls who clung together when their evacuee ship was torpedoed, their lifeboat capsized, and they spent nineteen hours in the Atlantic Ocean, waiting for rescue.
TheLostYear KatherineMarsh
JMARS
, K
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
Safiyyah’sWar HibaNoorKhan
JKHAN, H
Inspired by the true story of how the Grand Mosque of Paris saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during World War II, Khan weaves a breathtaking tale of suspense, compassion, and courage.
Rebellion1776 LaurieHalseAnderson
JANDE
, L
Set in 1776, this is the story of thirteen-year-old Elsbeth, who struggles to find her missing father amidst the smallpox epidemic sweeping across Boston duriing the American revolution.
TheSongbirdandtheRambutanTree LucilleAbendanon
JABEN, L
After sabotaging her only chance to evacuate before the Japanese army invades Batavia in 1942, twelveyear-old Emmy is confined in the Tjideng prisoner-ofwar camp, where she must overcome a tragedy from her past to find her voice and be free.