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Historical Fiction Set in America
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Early America and Revolutionary War
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Cate of the Lost Colony
by Lisa Klein
When her dalliance with Sir Walter Ralegh is discovered by Queen Elizabeth in 1587, lady-in-waiting Catherine Archer is banished to the struggling colony of Roanoke, where she and the other English settlers must rely on a Croatoan Indian for their survival
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Chains : Seeds of America
by Laurie Halse Anderson
When her owner dies at the start of the Revolution, a greedy nephew keeps Isabel and her younger sister enslaved and sells them to Loyalists in New York, where Isabel is offered the chance to spy for the Patriots
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The year of the hangman
by Gary L. Blackwood
Now that the British have defeated the Americans in the Revolutionary War, seventeen-year-old Creighton Brown is given the task of spying on the remaining rebels, yet after meeting numerous patriots, Creighton begins to understand their position and soon switches sides to stand against the victorious British. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Reprint.
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The fifth of March : a story of the Boston Massacre
by Ann Rinaldi
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770
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Or give me death : a novel of Patrick Henry's family
by Ann Rinaldi
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. Reprint.
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Five 4ths of July
by Pat Hughes
Jake Mallory and his friends celebrate their nation's independence, but over the next four years Jake finds himself in dangerous situations as he battles British forces, survives captivity on a prison ship, and returns to a war-torn Connecticut
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See our Civil War list for historical fiction set during that war
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Ante Bellum & Progressive Era
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Outrun the moon
by Stacey Lee
Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school. Simultaneous eBook.
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Audacity
by Melanie Crowder
A historical fiction novel in verse inspired by the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in early 20th-century New York. Simultaneous eBook.
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The hired girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911
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A death-struck year
by Makiia Lucier
Determined to ride out the deadly Spanish influenza epic of 1918 in her home rather than in the quarantined boarding-school dorms of the Pacific Northwest, headstrong 17-year-old Cleo volunteers with the Red Cross and witnesses harrowing realities while falling in love with a handsome medical student. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.
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Silhouette of a sparrow
by Molly Beth Griffin
During the summer of 1926 in the lake resort town of Excelsior, Minnesota, sixteen-year-old Garnet, who dreams of indulging her passion for ornithology, is resigned to marrying a nice boy and settling into middle-class homemaking until she takes a liberating job in a hat shop and begins an intense, secret relationship with a daring and beautiful flapper
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See our Battle Scars list for WW2 historical fiction
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation
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Fire from the rock
by Sharon M. Draper
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. Reprint.
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Lies we tell ourselves
by Robin Talley
In 1959 Virginia, Sarah, a black student who is one of the first to attend a newly integrated school, forces Linda, a white integration opponent's daughter, to confront harsh truths when they work together on a school project
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Purple daze
by Sherry Shahan
Six high school students in Los Angeles cope with everyday life amid the turbulent events of 1965, as one girl gets involved with drugs and a boy gets drafted and sent to Vietnam, in a novel told in historical data, poetic prose, and free verse
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The rock and the river
by Kekla Magoon
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father’s nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
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Burn baby burn
by Meg Medina
Enduring the infamous New York summer of 1977 in the wake of arson fires, a massive blackout and the Son of Sam serial killings, 17-year-old Nora Lopez navigates the additional stresses of her family's limited finances, her father's absence and her brother's growing violence. By the award-winning author of Tía Isa Wants a Car.
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The revolution of Evelyn Serrano
by Sonia Manzano
It is 1969 in Spanish Harlem, and fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is trying hard to break free from her conservative Puerto Rican surroundings, but when her activist grandmother comes to stay and the neighborhood protests start, things get a lot more complicated--and dangerous
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Honey girl
by Lisa Freeman
After her father's death, Nani must move from her home in Hawaii to Santa Monica, California to live with her alcoholic mother, and in order to fit in with the State Beach mean girls, she must learn "The Rules."
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If I ever get out of here
by Eric L Gansworth
Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and whites
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