Pre-
17th Century
Banks, Lynne Reid The Dungeon
Driven by his grief over the loss of his family and by his
longing for adventure, Bruce MacLennan sets out from
Banks, Lynne Reid Moses
in
A novel inspired by “The Prince of Egypt” and the book of
Exodus.
Banks, Lynne Reid Tiger, Tiger
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient
Blackwood, Gary L. The
Shakespeare Stealer
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Blackwood, Gary L. Shakespeare's
Spy
Widge, an orphan boy turned actor, must play the spy to find out who has been stealing from Shakespeare's acting company. He also starts to write a play of his own. Will this bring him the fortune that a fortune-teller promised him?
Bosse, Malcolm J. The
Examination
Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through fifteenth century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar and Hong becomes involved with a secret society known as the White Lotus.
Bradford, Karleen There
will be Wolves
Ursula, condemned as a witch
because of her knowledge of healing, escapes being burned to death when she
joins her father and thousands of others who follow Peter the Hermit on the
first Crusade from
Brooke, William J. A
is for Aarrgh!
Mog, a young boy living during the Stone Age, discovers words and language and teaches his fellow cave dwellers how to talk, thus altering the course of history.
Cadnum, Michael The Book of the Lion
In twelfth century
Cadnum, Michael In a Dark Wood
On orders from the King, the Sheriff of Nottingham seeks to capture the outlaw Robin Hood, but he finds him to be a tricky and elusive foe.
Cadnum, Michael The Dragon Throne
At the request of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the newly knighted
Edmund and Hubert accompany a young noblewoman on her dangerous pilgrimage from
Cadnum, Michael The Leopard Sword
A knight's squire, exhausted from the Crusades, must use his
sword to fight attacking infidels during the return voyage to
Cadnum, Michael Ship
of Fire
In 1587, sailing to
Although surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute,
battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of
Cheaney, J. B. The
Playmaker
While working as an apprentice in a
Cheaney, J. B. The
True Prince
Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members of Queen Elizabeth's court.
Chibbaro, Julie Redemption
Chronicles the arduous journey of a twelve-year-old English
girl and her mother as they flee with other religious protesters to the
Cooney, Caroline B. Enter
Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth
This is a novelized version of Shakespeare's grim tale of
the depths to which the lust for power can plunge the human soul.
Fourteen-year-old Lady Mary, a ward of Lord and Lady Macbeth, tells of the
interweaving of events that cause her master's downfall and thrust her world
into turmoil.
Cooper, Susan King
of Shadows
While in
Cushman, Karen Matilda
Bone
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and
practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval
Cushman, Karen The Midwife's Apprentice
In medieval
Danticat, Edwidge Anacaona,
Golden Flower
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a
possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of
Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the
Fiedler, Lisa Dating
Hamlet: Ophelia's Story
In a story based on the Shakespeare play, Ophelia describes her relationship with Hamlet, learns the truth about her own father, and recounts the complicated events following the murder of Hamlet's father.
Fletcher, Susan Alphabet
of Dreams
Fourteen-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follows signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem. Includes historical notes.
Galloway, Priscilla The Courtesan's Daughter: A Novel
From humble beginnings, Phano rises to become one of ancient
Garfield, Henry The Lost Voyage of John Cabot
A fictionalized account of the voyages of explorer John Cabot, particularly his 1498 journey to the New World from which he and two of his sons never returned, inspiring his middle son Sebastian to eventually make his own voyages of exploration looking for the northwest passage to Asia and for some trace of his long lost father and brothers.
Goodman, Joan E. Peregrine
In 1144, fifteen-year-old Lady Edith, having lost her
husband and child and anxious to avoid marrying a man she detests, sets out
from her home in
Goodman, Joan E. The
Winter Hare
In 1140, with
Goodwin, Marie D. Where
the Towers Pierce the Sky
An apprentice astrologer traveling in time takes
thirteen-year-old Lizzie Patterson back with him to his own era, war-torn
Gormley, Beatrice Salome
Relates the life of a beautiful descendant of Herod the
Great, and events leading up to her Dance of the Seven Veils, after which her
cruel mother coerces her to ask for the head of John the Baptist, an innocent
man, on a silver platter.
Gregory, Kristiana Cleopatra
VII, Daughter of the
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life,
twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety
and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt someday.
Gregory, Kristiana Eleanor:
Crown Jewel of
The diary of Eleanor, first daughter of
the duke of
Haahr, Berit I. The Minstrel's Tale
When betrothed to a repulsive old man, thirteen-year-old
Judith runs away, assumes the identity of a young boy, and hopes to join the
King's Minstrels in fourteenth-century
Harvey, Gill Orphan
of the Sun
Meryt-Re, a thirteen-year-old orphan living in
Hawes, Louise The Vanishing Point: A Story of Lavinia Fontana
Presents the story of a young girl of
Heuston,
In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
Hoffman,
During the Spanish Inquisition, sixteen-year-old Estrella,
brought up a Catholic, discovers her family's true Jewish identity, and when
Estrella’s best friend betrays their secret, the consequences are tragic.
Hoffman, Mary The Falconer's Knot
A story of friars, flirtation, and foul play.
Humphreys, Chris Vendetta
After realizing the enormity of his Norwegian grandfather's
betrayal, fifteen-year-old Sky leaves
Hunter, Mollie The King's Swift Rider: A Novel on Robert the Bruce
Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland's rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce.
Jinks, Catherine Pagan
in Exile
After fighting the infidels in
Jinks, Catherine Pagan’s
Crusade
In twelfth-century
Jinks, Catherine Pagan’s
Scribe
In
Jinks, Catherine Pagan’s
Vows
Follows the adventures of Pagan, squire to Lord Roland,
through the years 1188 to 1189, as he accompanies his master, now determined to
be a monk, to the French monastery of
Kirwan, Anna Lady
of
In 749, the Maya princess Green Jay, of the
Lasky, Kathryn Blood
Secret
Fourteen-year-old Jerry Luna, mute since her mother's
disappearance, is sent to her great-great aunt Constanza's house, where she
discovers a trunk that draws her into the world of her ancestors during the
Spanish Inquisition.
Lester, Julius Pharaoh’s
Daughter: A Novel of Ancient
A fictionalized account of a Biblical
story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet
of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the
Egyptian gods.
McCaughrean, Geraldine The Kite Rider
In thirteenth-century
Malone, Patricia Lady
Ilena: Way of the Warrior
Now chief of Dun Alyn, fifteen-year-old Ilena disgraces herself on the battlefield and, while subsequently exiled from her people, becomes involved in a plan to rescue King Arthur from his Saxon captors.
Malone, Patricia The Legend of Lady Ilena
In sixth-century
Marston, Elsa The Ugly Goddess
Fourteen-year-old Princess Meret is unhappy with her future
as consort of the Egyptian god Amun, especially after meeting Hector, a
handsome Greek soldier, but when she is kidnapped, it is up to Hector and a
young servant boy to help rescue her with the aid of the goddess Taweret.
Matas, Carol The Burning Time
After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose
Rives finds that sixteenth-century
Meyer, Carolyn Beware,
Princess Elizabeth
After the death of her father, King Henry VIII, in 1547, thirteen-year-old Elizabeth must endure the political intrigues and dangers of the reigns of her half-brother Edward and her half-sister Mary before finally becoming Queen of England eleven years later.
Meyer, Carolyn Doomed
Queen Anne
In 1520, thirteen-year-old Anne Boleyn, jealous of her older sister's beauty and position at court, declares that she will one day be queen of England, and that her sister will kneel at her feet.
Meyer, Carolyn Isabel:
Jewel of Castilla
While waiting anxiously for others to choose a husband for her, Isabella, the future Queen of Spain, keeps a diary account of her life as a member of the royal family.
Meyer, Carolyn Mary, Bloody Mary
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.
Meyer, Carolyn Patience,
Princess Catherine
In 1501 fifteen-year-old Catherine of Aragon arrives in
Miklowitz, Gloria D. Secrets in the House of Delgado
In
Morris, Gerald The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
Though he would rather pursue his talent as a musician, eighteen-year-old Dinadan is forced to follow his older brother Tristram's path and become a knight. Set at the time of King Arthur.
Morris, Gerald Parsifal’s
Page
In medieval
In a novel based on Chinese Cinderella tales, fourteen-year-old stepchild Xing-Xing endures a life of neglect and servitude, as her stepmother cruelly mutilates her own child's feet so that she alone might marry well.
Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata, disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.
Pressler, Mirjam Shylock’s
Daughter
Sixteen-year-old Jessica, who longs to be free of the
restrictions of her father and life in the Jewish ghetto of sixteen-century
Rees, Elizabeth M. The
Wedding: An Encounter with Jan Van Eyck
In 1433, fourteen-year-old Giovanna Cenami falls in love with a mysterious stranger employed by Flemish painter Jan van Eyck, but when she defies her father, refuses to marry a wealthy family friend, and elopes with her love, her reputation, her family's honor, and her very life are at stake.
Rinaldi, Ann Nine Days a Queen:
The Short Life and Reign of Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey, who at sixteen was Queen of England for nine days before being executed, recounts her life story from the age of nine.
Siegel, Deborah Spector The Cross by Day, the Mezuzzah by Night
Because she is a Marrano, thirteen-year-old Isabel suffers
the harrowing experience of expulsion from
Skurzynski, Gloria Spider’s Voice
Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes
involved in the adventures of Eloise and
Sutcliff, Rosemary Sword
Song
At sixteen, Bjarni is cast out of the Norse settlement in
the Angles' Land for an act of oath-breaking and spends five years sailing the
west coast of
In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become separated by political intrigue between warring tribes.
At the turn of the fourteenth century in
Thomson, Sarah L. The
Secret of the Rose
When her father is imprisoned in 1592
Tingle, Rebecca The Edge on the Sword
In ninth-century
Tingle, Rebecca Far
Traveler
After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia,
seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward and, in
the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled
political enmities of tenth century
Tomlinson, Theresa Child
of the May
Fifteen-year-old Magda helps Robin Hood's men rescue Lady Matilda and her daughter Isabelle from the clutches of the Sheriff of Nottingham’s evil henchman.
Tomlinson, Theresa The Forestwife
In
Torrey, Michele To the Edge of the World
In 1519, after the death of his parents, fourteen-year-old
Mateo Macias becomes cabin boy to Ferdinand Magellan on a dangerous journey in
search of a route to the fabled
Townley, Rod The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations
Bothered by insomnia, nightmares, and claustrophobia, sixteen-year-old Dana sees a therapist who hypnotizes her into remembering past lives, involving her in an age-old mystery and causing her to question what kind of person she is.
Vick, H. H. Walker’s Journey Home
Still trapped in ancient times, fifteen-year-old Walker
reluctantly accepts the responsibility of leading a group of Indians on a
difficult and dangerous journey across the high desert country of northern
Wein, Elizabeth The Sunbird
When, in the sixth century, plague spreads from
Yolen, Jane Queen’s
Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves
as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and
religious upheavals in both
Clapp, Patricia Witches' Children
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of
Collison, Linda Star-Crossed
Having been discovered as a stowaway as she tries to reach Barbados in 1760 to claim her father's estate, teenaged English orphan Patricia Kelley struggles to survive by learning to be a ship's doctor and by disguising herself as a man when necessary. Includes glossary of nautical terms.
Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter
In 1704, in the English settlement of
Draper, Sharon M. Copper
Sun
Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
Duble, Kathleen Benner The Sacrifice
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve,
are accused of witchcraft in
Fleischman, Paul Saturnalia
In 1681 in
Gavin, Jamila Coram
Boy
In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music.
Hearn, Julie The Minister's Daughter
In 1645 in England, the daughters of the town minister successfully accuse a local healer and her granddaughter of witchcraft to conceal an out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but years later during the 1692 Salem trials their lie has unexpected repercussions.
In
Hooper, Mary Petals
in the Ashes
Hannah and Sarah escape
Kirkpatrick,
Katherine Trouble’s
Daughter: The Story of Susanna Hutchinson, Indian Captive
When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.
Koller, Jackie French The
A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
Lasky, Kathryn Beyond the Burning Time
When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft
surface in her small
Lasky, Kathryn Jahanara,
Princess of Princesses
Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah
Jahan of
McAllister, Margaret Hold
My Hand & Run
When the beatings she receives from her cruel aunt get worse, Kazy decides to run away from her home in seventeenth-century England and take her little sister Beth with her.
McCaughrean, Geraldine The Pirate’s Son
Left penniless in eighteenth century
Matcheck, Diane The Sacrifice
When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old girl sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
Moore, Robin The Man with the Silver Oar
In 1718, fifteen-year-old Daniel leaves his guardian uncle's
Quaker household to stowaway on a ship in pursuit of a pirate captain bent on
raiding the coast of
Peck, Robert Newton Eagle
Fur
A story about Abbott
Coe, 16-year-old orphan boy, set in the wilds of
Rees, Celia Pirates!: The True and Remarkable Adventures of Minerva Sharpe and
Nancy Kington, Female Pirates
In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.
Rees, Celia Sorceress
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
Reuter, Bjarne B. The Ring of the Slave Prince
Fourteen-year-old Tom O'Connor, a poor, adventurous,
charming liar who lives with his mother and half-sister at a tavern on the
Richardson, V. A. The House of Windjammer
In the fall of 1636, Adam, fourteen-year-old heir to the
House of Windjammer, must find a way to keep his family afloat after his father
dies and tulip fever sweeps
Richardson, V. A. The Moneylender’s
Daughter
In 1637, Adam Windjammer, now sixteen years old, confronts danger in the New World as he tries to restore his family's fortune, while fourteen-year-old Jade van Helsen struggles in Amsterdam against her moneylender father's decree that she marry a wealthy, elderly Englishman. Sequel to “The House if Windjammer.”
Rinaldi, Ann The Fifth of March: A Story of the
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the
Ruemmler,
John Smoke
on the Water: A Novel of
Near
Shoup, Barbara Vermeer’s Daughter
Novel based on the life of seventeenth-century painter Johannes Vermeer, as seen through his daughter's eyes.
Smith, Patricia Clark Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
Sturtevant, Katherine A True and Faithful Narrative
In
Turnbull, Ann Forged in the Fire
After spending three years apart, eighteen-year-old Susanna is eager to be reunited with her fiancé Will who is due to arrive from London so that they can be married, but it is the summer of 1665 and, unbeknownst to Susanna, the plague is beginning to spread throughout the city.
Turnbull, Ann No Shame, No Fear
In
Yolen, Jane Prince Across the Water
In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.
Birth
of the Nation: 1763 – 1789
Alsheimer, Jeanette E. The Trouble with Tea
Patience and her friend Anne both find themselves swept up
in the political climate of colonial
Anderson, Joan 1787
As James Madison's aide during the 1787 Constitutional
Convention in
Kanefield, Teri Rivka’s Way
Unsure about her upcoming marriage and eager to see what lies beyond the walls of Prague's Jewish quarter in 1778, fifteen-year-old Rivka Lieberman takes great risks to venture outside, where her many new experiences include friendship with a Christian boy.
Keehan, Sally M. The Moon of Two Dark Horses
At the beginning of the Revolutionary War,
hoping to keep bloodshed away from their valley, a twelve-year-old Delaware Indian boy and his
white friend search sacred land for the bones of a legendary beast.
Lavender,
William Just
Jane: A Daughter of
Fourteen-year-old
Jane Prentice, orphaned daughter of an English Earl, arrives in
American independence.
Lunn, Janet
Louise Swoboda The Hollow Tree
In 1777, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Olcott finds a secret
message from her cousin, Gideon, containing the names of Loyalist families to
be protected by the king's soldiers and decides to deliver it herself to the
British general at
Rinaldi, Ann Cast
Two Shadows: The American Revolution in the South
In
Rinaldi, Ann Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick
Henry’s Family
With their father away most of the time advocating independence for the American colonies, the children of Patrick Henry try to raise themselves, manage the family plantation, and care for their mentally ill mother.
Rinaldi, Ann A Ride into Morning: The Story of
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in
Rinaldi, Ann A
Stitch in Time
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her
family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister
resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new
town in the
Rinaldi, Ann Taking
When Oney realizes that she will never be a part of General
Washington's family at
Rinaldi, Ann Time
Enough for Drums
Sixteen-year-old Jem and her servant struggle to keep things
going at home in
Rinaldi, Ann Wolf by the Ears
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the
daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves,
struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is
Sterman, Betsy
In 1777, as General Burgoyne and his British troops invade
the
Wisler, G. Clifton King’s Mountain
Fourteen-year-old Frank leaves his mountain home in
1789
– 1860
Ambrose,
Stephen E. This
A young man's journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Fever, 1793
In 1793
Armstrong, Jennifer Steal
Away
In 1855
Armstrong, Jennifer Thomas Jefferson: Letters
from a
An educated, inquisitive young girl in
Avi Beyond the
Driven from their impoverished Irish village,
fifteen-year-old Maura and her younger brother meet their landlord's runaway
son in
Avi The Traitors' Gate
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849
Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage
in 1832,
Ayres, Katherine Stealing
South: A Story of the Underground Railroad
Sixteen-year-old Will Spencer leaves home to become a
peddler, but gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to go to
Bray, Libba Rebel
Angels
Gemma and her friends from the
Bruchac,
Joseph Sacajawea:
The Story of Bird Woman and the Lewis and
Sacajawea – a Shoshoni Indian interpreter and guide – and William Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest.
Cadnum, Michael Blood Gold
After an arduous journey, Will Dwinelle and his friend Ben
finally reach
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave
girl from
Clements, Bruce A Chapel of Thieves
In 1849, Henry, a resourceful young man, sets off from
Coville, Bruce Fortune's Journey
Sixteen-year-old Jenny faces many challenges on an overland
journey to
DeFelice, Cynthia C. Bringing Ezra Back
In the mid-1800s, twelve-year-old Nathan journeys from his
farm on the
Yearning for adventure and tired of farm life in
Fleischman, Paul The Borning Room
Lying at the end of her life in the room where she was born
in 1851,
Fleischman, Sid The Giant Rat of
A cabin boy on a pirate ship finds himself in
Conscripted into the Mexican Army, fifteen-year-old Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected
alliances and learns some harsh truths about General Santa Ana as the troops move toward the
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old
Maria, servant to a wealthy Spanish family that took her in when her Indian
mother died. Includes a historical note about the
settlement and early history of
Giff, Patricia Reilly Maggie's
Door
In the mid-1800s, Nory and her neighbor and friend, Sean,
set out separately on a dangerous journey from famine-plagued
Giff, Patricia Reilly Nory
Ryan's Song
When a terrible blight attacks
Hausman, Gerald Escape
from
In 1791, after being transported to
Hausman, Gerald Tom
Cringle:
During the War of 1812, a thirteen-year-old officer in the
British navy records in his logbook his capture by pirates off the coast of
Hausman, Gerald Tom
Cringle: The Pirate and the Patriot
In 1813, a fourteen-year-old British navy lieutenant records in his logbook a perilous journey as he and his men attempt to return a group of slaves to the Jamaican plantation from which pirates stole them; pirates who are determined to reclaim their booty.
Heuston,
While searching for her true self and for the way to meet
the needs of her personal sense of spirituality, an orphaned teenaged girl
joins a Shaker community in mid-nineteenth century
Holm, Jennifer L.
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of
1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her
long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American
traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
Holm, Jennifer L.
The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiancé Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.
Holm, Jennifer L. Wilderness
Days
Far from her native
Holub, Josef An Innocent Soldier
A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked by a farmer into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars in place of his son.
Hotze,
Captured by a roving band of Sioux Indians and brought up as the chief's daughter, Rachel is recaptured by her white family and finds it difficult to adjust, as she longs to return to the tribe.
Kirwan, Anna
In 1829, nine-year-old Victoria begins a journal chronicling
her life as an English princess. Includes information on the
reign, marriage, and family life of Queen
Krisher, Trudy Uncommon Faith
In 1837-38, residents of
Lasky, Kathryn True
North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad
Because of the strong influence that her grandfather, an abolitionist, has in her life, fourteen-year-old Lucy assists a fugitive slave girl in her escape.
Lawrence, Iain The Buccaneers
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
Lawrence, Iain The Smugglers
In eighteenth-century
Lawrence, Iain The
Wreckers
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
Lee, Tanith Piratica:
Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl’s Adventure Upon
the High Seas
A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and
the exciting life they led, so the sixteen-year-old leaves
Lester, Julius Time’s
Memory
Ekundayo, a Dogon spirit brought to
Levine,
Ellen The Journal of Jedediah Barstow, an
Emigrant on the
In his 1845 diary, thirteen-year-old orphan Jedediah
describes his wagon train journey to
In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow
travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration,
slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from
Lyons, Mary E. The
A former slave named Moses reminisces about his famous owner, Charles Willson Peale, and the intrigue surrounding Peale's son's suspicious death.
McClung, Robert M.
Hugh Glass, Mountain Man
A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.
Matas, Carol Sworn
Enemies
In nineteenth-century
Meyer, L. A. Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship’s Boy
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of
Moses, Shelia P. I, Dred Scott: A
Fictional Slave Narrative Based on the Life and Legal Precedent of Dred Scott
Having served his master in northern states, under the
provisions of the
Mosley, Walter 47
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
Paterson, Katherine Lyddie
Impoverished
Paton Walsh, Jill Grace
After helping her father rescue the survivors of a shipwreck
on the coast of
Paulsen, Gary Call
Me Francis Tucket
Having separated from the one-armed trapper who taught him how to survive in the wilderness of the Old West, fifteen-year-old Francis gets lost and continues to have adventures involving dangerous men and a friendly mule.
Paulsen,
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
Paulsen,
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
Paulsen,
Fifteen-year-old Francis and the two children he has adopted travel across the Old West, evade Comancheros, discover a treasure, and wind up rich beyond their wildest dreams.
Paulsen,
When fifteen-year-old Francis and two younger children lose their way in the wilderness of the Southwest, they face capture at the hands of dangerous men.
Pennington, Kate Brief Candle
Along with losing herself in romantic poetry, 14-year-old Emily Bronte loves to wander the wild landscape around her father's parsonage, declaring that "a walk on [the] moor is worth a thousand stuttering conversations." Her two passions thrillingly collide when she encounters a distraught young man, whose courtship of a girl outside his station has left him jobless and desperate.
Peyton, K. M. Snowfall
Desperate to see the world beyond her grandfather's
vicarage, sixteen-year-old Charlotte convinces her older brother to take her
along on a mountain-climbing trip to
Rabin, Staton Betsy and the Emperor
Exiled French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's life on
Rees,
Fourteen-year-old Theodore Worth struggles with the
decision to leave his home in
Rinaldi, Ann The Blue Door
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.
Rinaldi, Ann Broken Days
In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.
Rinaldi, Ann Mine Eyes Have Seen
In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to
the
Rinaldi, Ann
Mutiny’s
Daughter
Gives voice, as a teenager returned to the Christian
family in
Rinaldi, Ann The Second Bend in the River
In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the
Ruby, Lois Soon
Be Free: A Companion to “Steal Away Home”
Thirteen-year-old Dana investigates a mystery involving
the old
Ruby, Lois Steal
Away Home
In two parallel stories, a Quaker family in
Schneider, Mical Annie
Quinn in
To escape the Irish potato famine of the 1840s,
twelve-year-old Annie and her brother emigrate to
Schur, Maxine The Circlemaker
In mid-nineteenth century
Smith,
Roland The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with the Lewis and
Captain Meriwether Lewis's dog Seaman describes his experiences as he accompanies his master on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness.
Spooner, Michael Daniel’s Walk
With little more than a bedroll, a change of clothes, and a Bible, fourteen-year-old Daniel LeBlanc begins walking the Oregon Trail in search of his father who, according to a mysterious visitor, is in big trouble and needs his son's help.
Updale, Eleanor Montmorency and the Assassins
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
In 1835 in rural
Whelan, Gloria Farewell
to the
In 1816,
sixteen-year-old Mary O'Shea accepts her married sister's invitation to visit
her in
Whelan, Gloria Once
on this
Twelve-year-old Mary and her older brother and sister
tend the family farm on
Whelan,
Gloria Return to the
In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on
Wolf, Allan New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery
The letters and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson, members of
the Corps of Discovery, their guide Sacagawea, and Captain Lewis's
Civil
War: 1860 – 1865
Armstrong, Jennifer The
Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Mairhe, who lives in an Irish slum in
Armstrong, Jennifer Mary Mehan Awake
While working as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan gradually recovers from the numbing effects of her experience as a Civil War nurse and falls in love with a man who had lost his hearing.
Brenaman, Miriam Evvy's Civil War
In
Collier, James Lincoln With Every Drop of Blood
While trying to transport food to
Durrant, Lynda My
Last Skirt: The Story of Jennie Hodgers, Union Soldier
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in
order to earn higher pay after emigrating from
Elliott, Laura Annie,
Between the States
Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls,
Annie, an idealistic, poetry-loving patriot, finds herself nursing soldiers,
hiding valuables, and running the household as the Civil War rages around her
family's
Ernst, Kathleen Ghosts
of
When Jamie Carswell joins the 14th Wisconsin Infantry
Regiment fighting in
Ernst, Kathleen The Night Riders of Harpers Ferry
During the Civil War, a seventeen-year-old Union soldier
must adjust to army life, with the additional complications peculiar to the
region where the Shenandoah and
Fleischman, Paul
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Forstchen, William
We Look like Men
of War
Though still a boy, Sam, who has escaped from slavery
returns to the South and becomes a regimental drummer with a "colored
regiment". He sees action in the Wilderness campaign at
Hahn, Mary Hear
the Wind Blow
With their mother dead and their home burned, a
thirteen-year-old boy and his little sister set out across
Hahn, Mary
Promises to the
Dead
Twelve-year-old Jesse leaves his home on
During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African American make a daring escape from an angry mob.
Lyons, Mary E. Dear
Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies
A scrapbook kept by a young black girl details her
experiences and those of the older white woman, "Miss Bet," who had
freed her and her family, sent her north from
Lytle, Robert A. A
Pitch in Time
Tells the tale of a modern-day boy who tumbles from his bike and wakes up to find he has traveled back in time to the spring of 1864 in rural Michigan during the Civil War
Meyer,
Carolyn Where
the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
Having been taken as a child and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life and her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy.
Rinaldi, Ann Amelia’s War
When a Confederate general threatens to burn
Rinaldi, Ann Girl in Blue
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage,
fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her
In 1861, eighteen-year-old Sarah Tracy, from
Stolz, Mary Cezanne Pinto
In his old age Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on
a
Wells, Rosemary Red
Moon at
As the Civil War breaks out,
Bray, Libba A
Great and Terrible Beauty
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895,
sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to
Burks, Brian Soldier Boy
A boy who grew up in the slums of late nineteenth-century Chicago runs away, joins the cavalry, and fights with General Custer in the battle of Little Big Horn.
Collier, James Chipper
Orphaned and homeless, twelve-year-old Chipper Carey is a
street-wise gang member in 1890s
Duffy, James Radical
Red
The life of a twelve-year-old Irish girl living in
Ellison, Suzanne Pierson The Last Warrior
Unable to complete his warrior training, hounded by an Apache outlaw, and uneasy with the attempts of the "white-eyes" to educate him, Solito, a teenage Chiricahua Apache brave, tries to find his own place in a changing world.
Farrell, Mary Cronk Fire
in the Hole!
A claustrophobic boy dreams of going to college and becoming a newspaperman rather than a miner like his father, but when all union miners in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District are arrested, Mick develops new respect for his father while taking over responsibility for his family.
Ferris, Jean Much
When two city folks arrive in the depressed mining town of
Fletcher, Susan Walk Across the Sea
In late nineteenth-century California, when Chinese immigrants are being driven out or even killed for fear they will take jobs from whites, fifteen-year-old Eliza Jane McCully defies the townspeople and her lighthouse-keeper father to help a Chinese boy who has been kind to her.
Hill, Pamela Smith Ghost
Horses
Sixteen-year-old Tabitha, the daughter of a preacher who believes science is Satan's work, longs to study at a university and dig for dinosaur bones, but in South Dakota at the end of the nineteenth century such ambitions are discouraged.
Hite, Sid Stick
and Whittle
In 1872, while journeying from
In the wake of
When news of the discovery of gold in
Two orphan sisters in the late 1800s leave
Karr, Kathleen Born for Adventure
In 1887, as assistant to Henry Morton Stanley, renowned explorer of the African continent, sixteen-year-old Tom Ormsby makes a perilous trek to help rescue the kidnapped Emin Pasha, learning much about leadership, African people, and himself along the way.
Kirkpatrick, Katherine The Voyage of the Continental
In 1866, young orphan Emeline McCullough leaves her mill job
in
Lasky, Kathryn Broken
Song
In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
McCaughrean, Geraldine Stop
the Train!: A Novel
Despite the opposition of the owner of the Red Rock Runner
railroad in 1893, the new settlers of
Newbery, Linda Set in Stone
The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and
governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898
Nixon, Joan Lowery Circle of Love
Nineteen-year-old Frances Mary Kelly, herself an orphan
train rider six years before, returns to
Nixon, Joan Lowery High
Trail to Danger
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from
O’Dell Scott Thunder
Rolling in the Mountains
In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Percé girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
Paulsen,
Continues the adventures of Sarny, the slave girl Nightjohn
taught to read, through the aftermath of the Civil War during which time she
taught other Blacks and lived a full life until age ninety-four.
Pullman Philip The Tin Princess
In 1882 sixteen-year-old Becky applies for a tutoring job in
Rees, Douglas Smoking
Mirror: An Encounter with Paul Gauguin
In
Rinaldi, Ann The
Coffin Quilt: The Feud Between the Hatfields and the McCoys
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a
terrible and violent feud between her
In 1878, after her mother's death on the way West, thirteen-year-old Lizzy Enders is left by her father at a convent school in Sante Fe, where she must deal with being the only non-Catholic student and where she plays a part in what some consider a miracle.
Seely, Debra The Last of the Roundup Boys
In 1886 in
Taylor, Mildred D. The
Land
After the Civil War, Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land.
Taylor, Theodore Billy
the Kid: A Novel
Young William Bonney is talked into committing his first
train robbery, unaware that his cousin and best friend, Willie Monroe, is now
sheriff of the nearest town, and that his fellow robbers are already wanted in
four states.
Wemmlinger, Raymond Booth’s
Daughter
In nineteenth-century
White, Ellen Emerson Kaiulani:
The People’s Princess
Follows
the life of Victoria Kaiulani Cleghorn from 1889 to 1893 as she studies to be a
better princess while American Businessmen undermine
Wilson, Diane L. Firehorse
Spirited fifteen-year-old horse lover Rachel Selby
determines to become a veterinarian, despite the opposition of her rigid
father, her proper mother, and the norms of
Yep, Laurence Dragon’s Gate
When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a fifteen-year-old
Chinese boy is sent to
Early
20th Century: 1900 – 1940
Auch, Mary Jane Ashes
of Roses
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from
Barth-Grözinger, Inge Something
Remains
In 1933, as Hitler becomes Chancellor, twelve-year-old Erich and his family, who are Jewish, find they need to make changes in their everyday lives as hatred of the Jews grows.
Bloor, Edward
Seventh-grader Martin Conway believes that his life is
monotonous and dull until the night the antique radio he uses as a night-light
transports him to the bombing of
Breslin, Theresa Remembrance
The destinies of two Scottish families, one of shopkeepers and one of wealth and power, become entwined through their involvement in World War I, social causes, and love.
Carney, Jeff The Adventures of Michael MacInnes
In 1924, high school junior Michael MacInnes, a freethinking poet and orphaned scholarship student, stirs up trouble when he challenges the rules and traditions of his prep school.
Choldenko, Gennifer Al
Capone Does My Shirts
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to
Chotjewitz, David Daniel,
Half Human and the Good Nazi
In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as
anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish,
threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved
Collins, Pat Lowery Just
Imagine
During the Depression, having discovered that she has the ability to have out-of-body experiences, twelve-year-old Mary Francis tries to use it to deal with the "peculiar domestic situation" caused by her family's financial plight.
Crew, Linda Brides
of
In this story based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and
her female friends become obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to
Crew, Linda Fire on the Wind
The summer before her fourteenth birthday, a fierce forest
fire rages throughout northwestern
Donnelly, Jennifer A Northern Light
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiancé, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Erickson, John R. Discovery at Flint
Springs
When Dr. Montrose visits their
Frank, Rudolf No
Hero for the Kaiser
Jan, a fourteen-year-old Polish boy whose town is invaded in World War I, joins a German battalion and experiences the horrors of battle.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson Uprising
In 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss's daughter, was only five years old. Includes historical notes.
Haugaard, Erik Christian Chase
Me, Catch Nobody!
On a school trip to
Hesse, Karen A Time of Angels
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated
from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in
Holman, Felice Real
In 1932, while exploring the
Hough, Richard Flight to Victory
Sixteen-year-old Will leaves his home, his school, and his youth behind to become a pilot in World War I.
Hurwitz, Johanna Dear Emma
In her letters to a
Hurwitz,
Johanna The Unsigned Valentine: And Other Events
in the Life of
Emma Meade
In early twentieth-century
Ingold, Jeanette Airfield
In 1933 fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small
Ingold, Jeanette The Big Burn
Three teenagers battle the flames of the Big Burn of 1910, one of the century's biggest wildfires.
Ingold, Jeanette Hitch
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a new camp near Monroe, Montana, and leads the other men in making the camp a success.
Kerr, M. E. Your Eyes in Stars: A Novel
In their small
Kidd, Ronald
When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
Kinkade, Thomas Rose’s Story
In 1906, mortified by her mother's suffragist activities
that cause the family to move from
Kirby, Susan E. Prairie
Rose
17-year-old Elizabeth Watson inherits a general store from her late uncle and learns many valuable life lessons.
Koller, Jackie French Someday
In 1938, fourteen-year-old Celie must cope with leaving her
Larson, Kirby Hattie
Big Sky
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in
Laskas, Gretchen Moran The Miner’s Daughter
Sixteen-year-old Willa, living in a Depression-era
Lavender, William Aftershocks
In
Lawrence, Iain Lord of the Nutcracker Men
An English boy during World War I comes to believe that the battles he enacts with his toy soldiers control the war his father is fighting on the front.
Matthews, Kezi Flying Lessons
In 1937, when LaMarr's glamorous mother is lost in a plane crash and she goes to live with her aunt and uncle, it takes the thirteen-year-old some time to reconcile herself to the idea that her mother has not gone to Hollywood to become a movie star.
Meyer, Carolyn Anastasia, the Last Grand Duchess
A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them.
Meyer, Carolyn Marie, Dancing
A fictionalized autobiography of Marie Van Goethem, the impoverished student from the Paris Opéra ballet school who became the model for Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, "The Little Dancer."
Meyer, Carolyn The Summer I Learned About Life
More interested in learning about Life than domestic arts, as her parents wish, fifteen-year-old Teddie learns perhaps a bit more about life than she's bargained for during the summer of 1928.
Morpurgo, Michael Private Peaceful
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family, his childhood love, Molly, and himself.
Mowll, Joshua Operation
Red
The posthumous papers of Rebecca MacKenzie document her
adventures, along with her brother Doug, in 1920s
Myers, Walter Dean
In 1920s
Namioka, Lensey An Ocean Apart, a World Away: A Novel
Sixteen-year-old Yanyan is determined to become a doctor
even though in 1911 it is unusual for a woman to attend a university in
Nixon, Joan Lowery
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family
from
Nixon, Joan Lowery
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in
Jake and Rosa, two children, form an unlikely friendship as
they try to survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Roses strike of mill
workers in
Peck, Richard Here Lies the Librarian
Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a
tomboy and automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future
after the 1914 arrival in her small
Peck, Robert Newton Bro:
A Novel
Young Tug Dockery witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather
that leaves him unable to speak, so when his parents die, Tug's beloved older
brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from
their grandfather's
Peck, Robert Newton Cowboy Ghost
Growing up without a mother and with an aloof father on a
cattle ranch in
Peck, Robert Newton The Horse Hunters
In 1932 in Florida, despite his older brother's objections, fifteen-year-old Ladd finds himself, through a series of unforeseen circumstances, traveling alone more than 100 miles to bring back wild horses for the rodeo and for breeding.
Peck, Robert Newton The Horse Thief: A Novel
In 1938, with the help of a doctor and her elderly,
horse-thieving father, a seventeen-year-old orphan steals thirteen horses from
Perez, Norah A. Breaker
After his father's death, fourteen-year-old Pat is forced to
go to work in the coalmines that dominate his
Peterson, Tracie City
of
Kit Shannon, an orphan, journeys to
Raymond, Patrick Daniel and Esther
In 1936, while attending Dartington Hall, an English progressive school, thirteen-year-old Daniel meets Esther, a slightly younger classmate who, as the years go by, becomes the focus of his life.
Rinaldi, Ann
On
Ritter, John H. Choosing Up Sides
In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.
Rostkowski, Margaret I. After the Dancing Days
A forbidden friendship with a badly disfigured soldier in the aftermath of World War I forces thirteen-year-old Annie to redefine the word "hero" and to question conventional ideas of patriotism.
Sayres, Meghan Nuttall Anahita’s Woven Riddle
In
Schur, Maxine Sacred Shadows
When her German hometown becomes part of
Sedgwick, Marcus The Foreshadowing
Having always been able to know when someone is going to
die, Alexandra poses as a nurse to go to
Sherman,
Elias, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant, arrives alone
in
Skurzynski, Gloria Rockbuster
In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of
executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers
of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old
Spillebeen, Geert Kipling’s Choice
In 1915, mortally wounded in
Sullivan, Paul Maata’s Journal: A Novel
Stranded on an island during a mapping expedition in 1924, a
seventeen-year-old Inuit girl writes about her life on the tundra and the
changes brought about by the Europeans who settled
Tanaka, Shelley On Board the Titanic: What it was like When the Great Liner Sank
Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner.
Thesman, Jean The Ornament Tree
When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's
boardinghouse in
Thesman, Jean Rising Tide
In 1908, Kate and Ellen set up shop and begin to sell
handmade Irish linens to a select
Thesman, Jean A Sea So Far
After surviving the 1906
Thesman, Jean The Storyteller’s Daughter
Fifteen-year-old Quinn, the middle child in a Depression-era working class family, learns some secrets about her beloved father, who has always been a source of strength and optimism for his family, friends, and neighbors.
Twomey, Cathleen Charlotte’s Choice
A young woman, burdened by a terrible secret, must decide to
reveal the secret and betray her best friend or to keep the secret and send her
friend to prison in this coming-of-age story set in
Whelan, Gerard The Guns of Easter
When war disrupts
the streets of twelve-year-old Jimmy's neighborhood, his loyalties are divided
between his father and his uncle, one of the rebels occupying the government
offices in
Whelan, Gloria The Impossible Journey
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother,
Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into
Whelan, Gloria Listening
for Lions
Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in
Whelan, Gloria Parade of Shadows
In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany
her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul,
Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward Rebel: A Tibetan Odyssey
Although he rebels
against life in the Tibetan Buddhist monastery where he had been sent,
fourteen-year-old Thunder comes to some amazing realizations about himself.
Willis, Patricia The
Barn Burner
In 1933 while running from a bad situation at home and suspected of having set fire to a barn, fourteen-year-old Ross finds haven with a loving family which helps him make an important decision.
Wilson, John And in the Morning
Jim Hay, 16, is caught up in the patriotic fervor
sweeping across
Wulf, Linda Press The Night of the Burning: Devorah’s Story
Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehrman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start.
Yee, Paul The Bone Collector’s Son
In 1907
Avi Don't
You Know There's a War On?
In wartime
Baer, Edith Walk the Dark Streets
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.
Baer, Frank Max's
Gang
Five German children make their way home from
Bat-Ami, Miriam Two Suns in the Sky
Fifteen-year-old Chris Cook meets a Yugoslavian refugee when
a shelter for war refugees opens nearby in
Bennett, Cherie Anne Frank and Me
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a
Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in
Bored and lonely after his family moves from
Bradley, Kimberly For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
Despite the horrors of World War II, a French teenager pursues her dream of becoming an opera singer, which takes her to places where she gains information about what the Nazis are doing--information that the French Resistance needs.
Bunin, Sherry
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Lee's letters to a correspondence
school describe her life in a small
Choi, Sook Nyul Year
of Impossible Goodbyes
A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and
Russian occupation of
Copeland, Cynthia L . Elin's
Thirteen-year-old Elin can't imagine living anywhere but the
island off the coast of
Cormier, Robert Other Bells for Us to Ring
When her father is transferred to an army camp in
Disher, Garry The
Divine Wind: A Love Story
On
the eve of World War II, Hart, an Australian boy and Mitsy, a
Japanese-Australian girl, fall in love but are driven apart.
Drucker, Malka Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story
In answer to his daughter's questions, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple, Alex and Mela Roslan, hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis. Based on a true story.
Elliott, Laura Under a War-Torn Sky
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe,
nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of
Ferry, Charles Raspberry One
Nick and Hildy, two young aircrew men flying bombing support
against
Friedman, D. Dina Escaping Into the Night
Thirteen-year-old Halina Rudowski narrowly escapes the Polish ghetto and flees to the forest, where she is taken in by an encampment of Jews trying to survive World War II.
Gehrts, Barbara Don't Say a Word
Living in
Harlow, Joan Hiatt Shadows on the Sea
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Jill goes to stay with her
grandmother on the coast of
Howard, Ellen A Different Kind of Courage
While escaping the horrors of war-torn
Hughes, Dean Soldier Boys
Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join
their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the
Kerr, M. E. Slap
Your Sides: A Novel
Life in their
Kositsky, Lynn The Thought of High Windows
When trapped or frightened, Esther sees windows - and flying
out of them - as her only salvation. Young, Jewish, and on the run from the
Nazis, Esther is one of a group of children who manage to flee
Lawrence, Iain B for Buster
In the spring of 1943, sixteen-year-old Kak, desperate to
escape his abusive parents, lies about his age to enlist in the Canadian Air
Force and soon finds himself based in
Levitin, Sonia Room in the Heart
After German forces occupy Denmark during World War II, fifteen-year-old Julie Weinstein and fifteen-year-old Niels Nelson and their friends and families try to cope with their daily lives, finding various ways to resist the Nazis and, ultimately, to survive.
Lingard, Joan Tug of War
Follows the ordeal of fourteen-year-old
twins Astra and Hugo Petersons, as they and their family flee their native
Lisle, Janet Taylor The Art of Keeping Cool
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden
family secrets while staying in their grandparents'
Magorian, Michelle Good
Night, Mr. Tom
A battered child learns to embrace life when he is adopted by an old man in the English countryside during the Second World War.
Matas, Carol Greater than
Angels
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other
Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of
Matas, Carol In My Enemy’s House
When German soldiers arrive in Zloczow during World War II,
a young Jewish girl must decide whether or not to conceal her identity and work
for a Nazi in
Mazer, Norma Fox Good
Night, Maman
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn
Melnikoff, Pamela Prisoner
in Time: A Child of the Holocaust
In 1942, tired of hiding from the Nazis in a
Myers, Walter Dean The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier
A seventeen-year-old soldier from central
Upon returning to
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie
theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is
forced to work in
Park, Linda Sue When
My Name Was Keoko
With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and
sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of
Patneaude, David Thin
Wood Walls
When the Japanese bomb
Pausewang, Gudrun The Final Journey
This German import imagines an 11-year-old Jewish girl's
experience on a train bound for
Peck, Richard On the Wings of Heroes
A boy in
Peet, Mal Tamar:
A Novel of Espionage, Passion, and Betrayal
In
Pressler, Mirjam Malka
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older
daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to
Rabinowitz, Ann Bethie
Growing up in
Ruby, Lois
From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive
in occupied China; young Ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by
joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the
past, and her father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood.
Rylant, Cynthia I
Had Seen Castles: A Novel
Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which forced him to face the horrors of war and changed his life forever.
Sachs, Marilyn Lost
in
Follows the experiences of Nicole, a
teenaged French Jew, from 1943 to 1948, as she loses her parents and sister to
the concentration camps and then leaves her native
Following orders from the United States Army, several young Japanese American men train K-9 units to hunt Asians during World War II.
Over a year after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the arrest of Tomi's father and grandfather, Tomi and his friends, battling anti-Japanese-American sentiment in Hawaii, try to find a way to salvage his father's sunken fishing boat.
Sevela, Efraim We Were Not Like Other People
Separated from his family when the Germans invade
Thesman, Jean Molly Donnelly
Twelve-year-old Molly, who lives next door to a Japanese
American family and whose cousin is a nurse in the
Tunnell, Michael O. Brothers in Valor: A Story of Resistance
Three German teenagers who are members of the Mormon Church join forces to create a youth resistance movement during World War II, putting their lives at risk.
Twomey, Cathleen Beachmont Letters
Scarred by a fire that killed her father, a seventeen-year-old girl begins a correspondence with a young soldier in 1944.
Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth A Traitor Among Us
In occupied
Westall, Robert Blitzcat
During World War II a black cat journeys all across
war-ravaged
Westall, Robert The Kingdom by the Sea
During World War II twelve-year-old Harry and a stray dog
travel through war-torn
Whelan, Gloria Burying the Sun
In
Whelan, Gloria Summer of the War
Fourteen-year-old Belle resents the presence of her
sophisticated cousin on a family vacation in the summer of 1942, but their
strained relationship is overshadowed by the war in
Winter, Kathryn Katarína: A Novel
During World War II in
In small town, post-World War
Wulffson, Don L. Soldier X
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.
Yolen, Jane The Devil’s Arithmetic
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until
time travel places her in the middle of a small Jewish village in Nazi-occupied
Zindel, Paul The Gadget
In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.
Zusak, Markus The Book Thief
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Almond, David The Fire-Eaters
In 1962 England, despite observing his father's illness and
the suffering of the fire-eating Mr. McNulty, as well as enduring abuse at
school and the stress of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bobby Burns and his family
and friends still find reasons to rejoice in their lives and to have hope for
the future.
Banerjee, Anjali Maya Running
Maya, a Canadian of East Indian descent, struggles with her
ethnic identity, infatuation with a classmate, and the presence of her
beautiful Bengali cousin, Pinky, who comes for a visit bearing a powerful
statue of the god Ganesh, the Hindu elephant boy.
Bond,
Anticipating a lonely spring vacation because her parents
and grown brothers and sister are preoccupied with their own pursuits,
Choi, Sook Nyul Echoes
of the White Giraffe
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee
village in
Choi, Sook Nyul Gathering of Pearls
Sookan struggles to balance her new life as a college
freshman in the
Couloumbis, Audrey Summer's
End
When one cousin went to serve in
Crew, Linda Long
Time Passing
In her sophomore year of high school Kathy Shay begins the
difficult process of coming of age in a small town in
Crist-Evans, Craig Amaryllis
Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.
Cormier, Robert Heroes: A Novel
After joining the army at fifteen and having his face blown away by a grenade in a battle in France, Francis returns home to Frenchtown hoping to find--and kill--the former childhood hero he feels betrayed him.
Cushman, Karen The Loud Silence of Francine Green
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school
in
Draper, Sharon M. Fire
from the Rock
In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
Dubosarsky, Ursula The Red Shoe
Three sisters growing up in post-World War II Sydney, Australia, deal with their mentally unstable father, their possibly unfaithful mother, and the defecting Russian spy who lives next door.
Ellis, Ella Thorp The Year of My Indian Prince
A fictionalized version of the author's
experiences in 1946 when, at the age of sixteen, she was admitted to a
Fuqua, Jonathon Scott The
In 1950s
Hinton, Nigel Time
Bomb
Now grown, Andy tells the story of the summer of 1949 when, embittered after enduring injustice at their English school and disappointed by the adults in their lives, he and his friends wrestle with thoughts of revenge and deal with several life-changing secrets.
Hughes, Dean Search
and Destroy
Recent high school graduate Rick Ward, undecided about his
future and eager to escape his unhappy home life, joins the army and
experiences the horrors of the war in
Kadohata, Cynthia Kira-kira
Chronicles the close friendship between
two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural
Krisher, Trudy Fallout
The move of an unconventional Hollywood family to a coastal North Carolina town in the early 1950s results not only in an unlikely friendship between high school age Genevieve and newcomer Brenda but also in a challenge to traditional ways of thinking.
L’Engle, Madeleine And Both Were Young
Philippa is miserable at an all girls' boarding school in
Les Becquets, Diane The Stones of Mourning Creek
In
Lingard, Joan Between Two Worlds
Arriving in their new homeland,
In 1959 fifteen-year-old Dove, the daughter of a prosperous
orange grower in Benevolence,
Mackall, Dandi Daley Eva
Underground
In 1978, a high school senior is forced by her widowed
father to move from their comfortable
Mankell, Henning A
Bridge to the Stars
In
Matas, Carol After the War
After being released from
Matas, Carol The Garden
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to
Moore, Yvette Freedom Song
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom
Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in
Moranville, Sharelle Byars A Higher Geometry
While grieving the death of her grandmother in 1959, teenager Anna is torn between her aspirations to study math in college and her family's expectations that she will marry and become a homemaker after high school.
Nolan, Han A Summer of Kings
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
O’Dell Kathleen Bad
Tickets
Rebelling against her strict Catholic upbringing in 1967, teenager Mary Elizabeth sorts through her feelings about her parents and friends, and about sex, while making some decisions about the type of life she wants for herself.
Parker, Robert B. Edenville Owls
Fourteen-year-old Bobby, living in a small
Qualey, Marsha Too
Big a Storm
When serious worrier Brady Callahan meets vivacious Sally
Cooper, daughter of a wealthy
Rostkowski, Margaret I. The Best of Friends
Three very different teenagers, once close friends, struggle to understand the changes in their relationships and the turmoil around them as the Vietnam War encroaches on their lives.
Sherlock, Patti Letters from Wolfie
Certain that he is doing the right thing by donating his dog, Wolfie, to the Army's scout program in Vietnam, thirteen-year-old Mark begins to have second thoughts when the Army refuses to say when and if Wolfie will ever return.
Stephenson, Lynda Dancing with Elvis
In Clover, Texas, in the late 1950s, high-schooler Frankilee deals with a devious and manipulative, not to mention prettier and more talented, foster sister, a boyfriend she does not want, and a community divided over school integration.
Whelan, Gloria The Turning
In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt
that resulted in the collapse of communism in the
White, Ellen
Emerson The
Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty, United States Marine Corps
An eighteen-year-old Marine records in his journal his
experiences in
Yep, Laurence The Lost Garden
The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in