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HISTORICAL FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
| BURGESS, Melvin |
Burning Issy |
In seventeenth-century England, twelve-year-old Issy is accused of being a witch and she struggles with the belief that she actually does have strange powers.
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| CARBONE, Elisa Lynn |
Stealing Freedom |
Based on the life of Ann Maria Weems, a Maryland slave, who disguises herself as a boy and escapes to Canada and freedom during the mid-1800s.
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| GARDEN, Nancy |
Dove and Sword: A Novel of Joan of Arc |
Gabrielle realizes that her friend Jeanette speaks to God, but finds herself going down a very dangerous path when she follows her friend into battle.
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| 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 his leader, Robert the Bruce.
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| JOHNSTON, Julie |
The Only Outcast |
Fred comes of age during the summer of 1904, which he spends with his siblings at their grandparents' home, escaping from his domineering father and trying to get over the loss of his mother.
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| LEVITIN, Sonia |
Escape from Egypt: a Novel |
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
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| MCCAUGHREAN, Geraldine |
The Pirate's Son |
Left penniless in eighteenth-century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar, where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.
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| NAPOLI, Donna Jo |
Song of the Magdalene |
This is the story of Miriam, a young girl being raised by her widowed father in ancient Israel, who grows up to be Mary Magdalene.
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Stones in Water |
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 Germany. Escaping into the Ukranian winter, Roberto desperately tries to make his way back home to Venice.
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| PAULSEN, Gary |
Sarny, a Life Remembered |
The story of a former slave child, who at the age of 94, looks back on her life during and after the Civil War.
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Soldier's Heart: a Novel of the Civil War |
Based on the life of a real person, this is the story of Charley Goddard, a fifteen year old boy, who has lied in order to enlist in the Union Army. Living through many horrendous battles, Charley is wounded and destroyed by combat fatigue, and goes home a defeated old man who hasn't even reached his twentieth birthday.
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| PAUSEWANG, Gudrun |
The Final Journey |
The journey of an ll-year-old Jewish girl in a cattle car bound for Auschwitz.
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| PULLMAN, Philip |
The Ruby in the Smoke |
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
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| RINALDI, Ann |
The Coffin Quilt: the Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys |
In the 1880's, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated even further by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield. The roots of the feud stem from the Civil War and seems to escalate, adding insult to injury until the reason for the conflict no longer seems to matter.
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In My Father's House |
When her father was killed in the hated war, Oscie attempted to manage the slaves, but now, with a stepfather she suspects of being an abolitionist, she rebels. Oscie is trapped between her luxurious Southern life and the war practically taking place on her front lawn, ravaging her loyalties and her heart.
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| SNELLING, Lauraine |
Daughter of Twin Oaks |
Struggling to bring her younger brother and her family's thoroughbred horses to safety during the Civil War, eighteen year-old Jesselynn Highwood embarks on a perilous journey, avoiding troops and a scorned suitor, losing her faith along the way in the face of endless difficulties.
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| SUTCLIFF, Rosemary |
Sword Song |
Bjarni Sigurdson is only sixteen when he is banished from his village on Scotland's west coast for killing a man accidentally. Bjarni hires on as a mercenary on a ship sailing from Ireland along the coast of Scotland, and during his years on board the ship, grows into a man, living and learning the life of a seaman.
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| Time Capsule: Short Stories About Teenagers Throughout the Twentieth Century |
Ten stories by notable authors, each of which presents the life of a teenager in a different decade of the twentieth century, accompanied by a brief description of the historical and cultural highlights of that decade.
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| WILSON, Diane L. |
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade |
Oyuna relates the story of her adventures in Mongolia in 1939 to her granddaughter, including how she dressed up as a boy and joined Khan's army and how the love of her horse enabled her to win a race and bring good luck to her family.
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