Children's Genre List for Teacher Education: Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction – Use the Advanced Search and select “Juvenile” under “Audience”.  For your search terms, use “fiction” in one line and then the period of history that you want, i.e., Civil War, Holocaust, World War I, World War II,  etc. For some of these, you may need to add “United States” as another search term.

• Nightjohn/ Gary Paulsen PZ 7 P2843 NJ 1995X Young Adult

• Day of the blizzard / Marietta Moskin ; drawings by Stephen Gammell. PZ 7 M849 DAY 1978 Children

• Charley Skedaddle / Patricia Beatty. PZ 7 B380544 CH 1987 Young Adult

• Number the Stars / Lois Lowry.PZ 7 L9673 NU 1989 Children

• The sign of the chrysanthemum / Katherine Paterson ; illustrated by Peter Landa. PZ 7 P273 SI 1988 Children

• These hands / written by Margaret H. Mason ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper. PZ 7 M4138 Th 2011 Children

• Unspoken : a story from the Underground Railroad / Henry Cole. PZ 7 C67345 Un 2012 Children

• The quiet place / Sarah Stewart ; pictures by David Small. PZ 7 S84985 Qu 2012 Children

• Imogene's last stand / written by Candace Fleming ; illustrated by Nancy Carpenter.PZ 7 F59936 IM 2009 Children.

• Red kite, blue kite / Ji-li Jiang ; illustrated by Greg Ruth.PZ 7 J57396 Red 2013 Children

• The soccer fence : a story of friendship, hope and apartheid in South Africa / Phil Bildner ; illustrated by Jesse Joshua Watson. PZ 7 .B4923 Soc 2014 Children

• Roughing it on the Oregon Trail / by Diane Stanley ; illustrated by Holly Berry. PZ 7 S7869 RO 2001 Children

• Togo / Robert J. Blake. PZ 7 B564 TO 2002 Children

• The Green Glass Sea/ Ellen Klages  PZ 7 K6768 GR 2008  Children