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Historical Fiction 1800s
Historical Fiction from the 1800s for teen readers.

March
by Geraldine Brooks

In a story inspired by the father character in Little Women and drawn from the journals and letters of Louisa May Alcott's father Bronson, a man leaves behind his family to serve in the Civil War and finds his marriage and beliefs profoundly challenged by his experiences. 100,000 first printing.
My Ántonia : O pioneers!
by Willa Cather

A two-in-one volume by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer includes the 1918 story of an immigrant woman's life on the hardscrabble Nebraska plains and the classic tale of American pioneer life on a transforming frontier.
With every drop of blood
by James Lincoln Collier

Despite his promise to take care of his family, Johnny embarks on a bold mission to supply the Confederates, only to be taken prisoner by a runaway slave, in a novel that explores the reasons for the Civil War. Reprint.
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane

The glory, pride, horror, and cowardice that are associated with war are depicted in a classic account of a young soldier's Civil War experiences, in a new edition of the masterful novel, first published in 1895 and featuring an introduction by Alfred Kazin. 
Cold mountain
by Charles Frazier

Inman, a wounded soldier, walks away from the front during the Civil War to return to his prewar sweetheart, Ada, who, along with the help of a drifter, desperately works to revive a struggling farm. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
Picture the dead
by Adele Griffin

An intriguing combination of historical romance, paranormal thriller and clever mystery is illustrated by a best-selling artist who created unique visuals that were modeled from authentic Civil War daguerreotypes and transformed into eerie mementos for Jennie's scrapbook, an object that will help her solve the mystery of her fiancé's death.
Black storm comin' : Gallop Most Out Of My Skin
by Diane L. Wilson

Forced to tend to his mother and two sisters by himself while on the wagon train to California, biracial Colton Wescott and his family have great difficulties and are shunned by others, thus Colton decides to join up with the Pony Express in the hopes of making money for his family, knowing that he is risking his life if his true identity is ever discovered.
The adventures of Tom Sawyer : retold from the Mark Twain original
by Martin Woodside

Presents an abridged version of the adventures of Tom and his friends growing up in a small Missouri town on the banks of the Mississippi River in the nineteenth century.
The killer angels : a novel
by Michael Shaara

Portraits of Lee, Longstreet, and other Civil War leaders are interwoven with historical detail to provide a fictional recreation of the bloody battle at Gettysburg
The river between us
by Richard Peck

During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois
Soldier's heart : a novel of the Civil War
by Gary Paulsen

The critically acclaimed novelist adds to his Civil War novels, Nightjohn and Sarny--both classroom favorites--the story of Charley Goddard, a Minnesotan who enlists at age sixteen expecting adventure and returns with a soldier's heart.
Mr. Tucket
by Gary Paulsen

A thrilling coming-of-age Western adventure yarn follows fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket, captured by the Pawnee in 1848, as he confronts wild horses, hostile tribes, and a strange one-armed man who helps him survive. Reprint.
My name is Mary Sutter
by Robin Oliveira

Traveling to Civil War-era Washington, D.C. to tend wounded soldiers and pursue her dream of becoming a surgeon, headstrong midwife Mary receives guidance from two smitten doctors and resists her mother's pleas for her to return home. A first novel.
Riot
by Walter Dean Myers

In 1863, Claire, the daughter of an Irish mother and a black father, faces ugly truths and great danger when Irish immigrants, enraged by the Civil War and the draft, lash out against blacks and wealthy "swells" of New York City
Assassin
by Anna Myers

In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the latter's assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
A soldier's secret : the incredible true story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War hero
by Marissa Moss

Nineteen-year-old Sarah masquerades as a man during the Civil War, serving as a nurse on the battlefield and a spy for the Union Army, escaping from the Confederates and falling in love with one of her fellow soldiers. Based on the life of Sarah Emma Edmonds.
Gone with the wind
by Margaret Mitchell

The story of the tempestuous romance between Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara is set amid the drama of the Civil War
Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
Across five Aprils
by Irene Hunt

Each succeeding spring brings Jethro Creighton, a brave, young Illinois boy, closer to manhood as he faces the harsh realities of the American Civil War. A Newbery Honor Book. Reissue.
 KD 4/20

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