Historical Fiction for Grades 6-8
Good reading from the Junior High collection. Also look for the "Historical Fiction" sticker. Click here for a print-friendly version of this list.
| Author | Title | Call Number |
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| Agosín | I Lived on Butterfly Hill Celeste moves to the U.S. when revolution comes to Chile in the 1970s. (454 pp.) | Y Agosín |
| Anderson | Chains: Seeds of America A slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War. (316 pp.) | Y Anderson |
| Auch | Ashes of Roses Margaret joins the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory just before the fire of 1911. (250 pp.) | Y Auch |
| Avi | Crispin, the Cross of Lead An orphan in 14th-century England meets a juggler with a risky secret. (262 pp.) | Y Avi |
| Bartoletti | The Boy Who Dared Seventeen-year-old Helmuth dedicates himself to fighting the Nazis. (202 pp.) | Y Bartoletti |
| Blackwood | The Shakespeare Stealer An orphan boy infiltrates Shakespeare's troupe to steal the script of Hamlet. (216 pp.) | Y Blackwood |
| Bruchac | Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II Navajo men send secret messages for the Marines during World War II. (231 pp.) | Y Bruchac |
| Bunting | S.O.S. Titanic Fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill faces danger on the sinking Titanic. (246 pp.) | Y Bunting |
| Choldenko | Al Capone Does My Shirts Twelve-year-old Moose and his autistic sister move to Alcatraz in 1935. (228 pp.) | Y Choldenko |
| Compestine | Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party Ling struggles to make sense of the Cultural Revolution in 1970's China. (248 pp.) | Y Compestine |
| Couloumbis | The Misadventures of Maude March, or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse Orphaned sisters escape their guardians and find adventure on the frontier. (295 pp.) | Y Couloumbis |
| Curtis | Elijah of Buxton In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, uses his wits and skills to bring a lying preacher to justice. (341 pp.) | Y Curtis |
| Erdrich | The Birchbark House The life of Omakayas, an Ojibwa girl, on a Lake Superior island in 1847. (244 pp.) | Y Erdrich |
| Giff | Nory Ryan's Song Twelve-year-old Nory helps family and friends survive the famine of 1845. (148 pp.) | Y Giff |
| Holm | Penny from Heaven As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. (274 pp.) | Y Holm |
| Kadohata | Kira-Kira Japanese-American sisters in Georgia in the late 1950s struggle with prejudice and face despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. (244 pp.) | Y Kadohata |
| Kelly | The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate In Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie studies the natural world with her grandfather and makes an important discovery. (340 pp.) | Y Kelly |
| Kirby | Icefall A Viking chief's children must survive the winter in an ice-bound fortress. (325 pp.) | Y Kirby |
| Klages | The Green Glass Sea Dewey moves to Los Alamos so her dad can work on the atomic bomb. (321 pp.) | Y Klages |
| Larson | Hattie Big Sky Sixteen-year-old Hattie travels to Montana in 1917 to stake a claim. (289 pp.) | Y Larson |
| Lee | Under a Painted Sky A runaway slave and a Chinese girl travel the Oregon Trail as boys. (374 pp.) | Y Lee |
| Magoon | The Rock and the River In 1968, Sam is caught between peaceful protest and the Black Panthers. (290 pp.) | Y Magoon |
| Morpugo | Private Peaceful Thomas joins the British Army in World War I at the age of fourteen. (202 pp.) | Y Morpugo |
| Park | When My Name Was Keoko A brother and sister face the occupation of Korea by Japan in World War II. (199 pp.) | Y Park |
| Philbrick | Zane and the Hurricane A boy and his dog become trapped in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. (181 pp.) | Y Philbrick |
| Preus | Heart of a Samurai: Based on the True Story of Nakahama Manjiro In 1841, a shipwreck survivor becomes the first Japanese person in the U.S. (301 pp.) | Y Preus |
| Ryan | Esperanza Rising Esperanza leaves Mexico for the U.S. on the eve of the Great Depression. (262 pp.) | Y Ryan |
| Sheth | Keeping Corner In India in 1918, Leela faces life as a thirteen-year-old widow. (281 pp.) | Y Sheth |
| Smith | Elephant Run Nick must rescue his father from a Japanese POW camp in Burma in 1941. (318 pp.) | Y Smith |
| Timberlake | One Came Home In 1871 Wisconsin, thirteen-year-old Georgia sets out to find her missing sister and gains fame as a sharpshooter and foiler of counterfeiters. (257 pp.) | Y Timberlake |
| Wells | Red Moon at Sharpsburg A young Southern girl uses her wits and courage to survive the Civil War. (236 pp.) | Y Wells |
| Williams-Garcia | One Crazy Summer In 1968, Delphine travels to Oakland to meet a mother she barely knows. (218 pp.) | Y Williams-Garcia |
| Wilson | Black Storm Comin' Twelve-year-old Colton takes a job with the Pony Express in 1860. (295 pp.) | Y Wilson |
Last Updated: 7/16
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