Barrington Area Library

Teens' Catalog | History

Historical fiction books are realistic stories about times or events that took place at least a generation before the book was written.

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Fever, 1793.
Armstrong, Jennifer.  Steal Away.
Avi.  Crispin: At the Edge of the World.
Avi.  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
Blackwood, Gary L.  The Shakespeare Stealer.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.  For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy.
Brown, Don.  The Notorious Izzy Fink.
Bruchac, Joseph.  Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
Bruchac, Joseph.  Pocahontas.
Cadnum, Michael.  Ship of Fire.
Cannon, A. E.  Charlotte's Rose.
Choi, Sook Nyul.  Year of Impossible Goodbyes.
Choldenko, Gennifer.  Al Capone Does My Shirts.
Cooney, Caroline B.  The Ransom of Mercy Carter.
Cooper, Susan.  Victory.
Couloumbis, Audrey.  Summer's End.
Crum, Shutta.  Spitting Image.
Curtis, Christopher Paul.  The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963: A Novel.
Cushman, Karen.  The Midwife's Apprentice.
deFelice, Cynthia C.  Nowhere to Call Home.
Donnelly, Jennifer.  A Northern Light.
Durrant, Lynda.  Betsy Zane, the Rose of Fort Henry.
Elliott, Laura.  Annie, between the States.
Goodman, Joan E.  Hope's Crossing.
Gratz, Alan.  Samurai Shortstop.
Hale, Marian.  Dark Water Rising.
Heneghan, James.  Wish Me Luck.
Hesse, Karen.  Out of the Dust.
Hesse, Karen.  Stowaway.
Hite, Sid.  Stick and Whittle.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Boston Jane: An Adventure.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Our Only May Amelia.
Horowitz, Anthony.  The Devil and His Boy.
Hughes, Dean.  Soldier Boys.
Larson, Kirby.  Hattie Big Sky.
Lavender, William.  Just Jane: A Daughter of England Caught in the Struggle of the American Revolution.
Lawrence, Iain.  B for Buster.
Lawrence, Iain.  The Wreckers.
Lisle, Janet Taylor.  The Art of Keeping Cool.
Malone, Patricia.  The Legend of Lady Ilena.
Mazer, Harry.  A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor.
McCaughrean, Geraldine.  Stop the Train! A Novel.
Namioka, Lensey.  Ties That Bind, Ties That Break: A Novel.
Orlev, Uri.  Run, Boy, Run.
Park, Linda Sue.  When My Name Was Keoko.
Peck, Richard.  A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories.
Peck, Richard.  The River between Us.
Roop, Peter.  Girl of the Shining Mountains: Sacagawea's Story.
Ryan, Pam Muñoz.  Esperanza Rising.
Salisbury, Graham.  Eyes of the Emperor.
Spain, Susan Rosson.  The Deep Cut.
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Taylor, Theodore.  Billy the Kid: A Novel.
Tingle, Rebecca.  The Edge on the Sword.
Turnbull, Ann.  No Shame, No Fear.
Veciana-Suarez, Ana.  Flight to Freedom.
Warner, Sally.  Finding Hattie.
Whelan, Gloria.  Summer of the War.
Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward.  Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale.

Nonfiction

Allen, Thomas B.  Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories.
Armstrong, Jennifer.  Photo by Brady: A Picture of the Civil War.
Armstrong, Jennifer.  Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow.
Buckley, Susan.  Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story.
Donoughue, Carol.  The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs: The Story of the Rosetta Stone and the Race to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Finkelstein, Norman H.  The Way Things Never Were: The Truth about the "Good Old Days."
Fleischman, John.  Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science.
Freedman, Russell.  Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts.
Freedman, Russell.  Give Me Liberty! The Story of the Declaration of Independence.
Langley, Wanda.  Flying Higher: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.
Malam, John.  Mummies and the Secrets of Ancient Egypt.
Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.
Myers, Walter Dean.  Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam.
Nardo, Don.  Games of Ancient Rome.
Nir, Yehuda.  The Lost Childhood: A World War II Memoir.
Philbrick, Nathaniel.  Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex.
Pringle, Laurence P.  Dog of Discovery: A Newfoundland's Adventures with Lewis and Clark.
Warren, Andrea.  Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.
Warren, Andrea.  We Rode the Orphan Trains.
Woods, Michael.  Ancient Construction: From Tents to Towers.