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Here are our favorite historical fiction books for teens. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Family of Liars
by E. Lockhart
A fiery, addicted heiress and an irresistible, unpredictable boy are plunged into a world of unforgivable betrayal, shocking secrets and terrible mistakes.
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I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
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One for All
by Lillie Lainoff
Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.
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Rust in the Root
by Justina Ireland
It is 1937 and America is divided between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism, the country has been rebuilding for a better future.
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Foul Lady Fortune
by Chloe Gong
As a series of murders cause unrest in Shanghai, Rosalind, aka Fortune, must team up with a spy who has his own agenda and attempt to unravel a conspiracy that is more horrifying than they could have ever imagined.
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My Contrary Mary
by Cynthia Hand
Welcome to Renaissance France, a place of poison and plots, of beauties and beasts, of mice and . . . queens? Mary is the queen of Scotland and the jewel of the French court. Except when she's a mouse. Yes, reader, Mary is a shapeshifter in a kingdom where Verities rule. It's a secret that could cost her a head--or a tail. Luckily, Mary has a confidant in her betrothed, Francis. But things at the gilded court take a treacherous turn after the king meets a suspicious end. Thrust onto the throne, Mary and Francis face a viper's nest of conspiracies, traps, and treason. And if Mary's secret is revealed, heads are bound to roll.
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Pride and Premeditation
by Tirzah Price
A first entry in a murder-mystery trilogy inspired by three of Jane Austen’s classic novels follows the efforts of an aspiring lawyer who would prove herself to the heir of a prestigious firm.
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
When Lily realizes she has feelings for a girl in her math class, it threatens Lily's oldest friendships and even her father's citizenship status and eventually, Lily must decide if owning her truth is worth everything she has ever known.
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Courting Darkness
by Robin LaFevers
When Sybella discovers there is another trained assassin from St. Mortain's convent deep undercover in the French court, she must use every skill in her arsenal to navigate the deadly royal politics and find her sister-in-arms before her time--and that of the newly crowned queen--runs out.
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The Fountains of Silence: A Novel
by Ruta Sepetys
Drawn back to his mother’s homeland by the utopian promises of the Franco regime in 1957 Madrid, the photographer son of an oil tycoon bonds with a girl who raises his awareness about the lingering shadows of the Spanish Civil War.
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Butterfly Yellow
by Thanhha Lai
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
by Laura Ruby
Abandoned in a Depression-era Chicago orphanage with her sister, a young woman endures injustice, poverty and violence while struggling to survive in the years leading up to World War II.
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Blood Water Paint
by Joy McCullough
Buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women in Renaissance Italy including her rape, the ensuing trial, and torture, as well as enduring her father taking credit for her extraordinary paintings.
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
by Antonio Iturbe
A tale based on true events follows the experiences of a teen prisoner in Auschwitz who risks her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.
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March: Book One
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
This title can be found in the Adult Graphic Novels section.
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You Bring the Distant Near
by Mitali Perkins
From 1965 through the present, an Indian American family adjusts to life in New York City, alternately fending off and welcoming challenges to their own traditions.
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The Downstairs Girl
by Stacey Lee
When the advice column she secretly writes becomes wildly popular, a young lady’s maid uses her influence to question her society’s fixed ideas about race and gender.
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Lovely War
by Julie Berry
The goddess Aphrodite tells her husband Hephaestus and lover Ares a tale of two couples, brought together and then separated by World War I, questioning why Love and War are always drawn together.
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Flame in the Mist
by Renée Ahdieh
The daughter of a prominent samurai in feudal Japan is targeted by a dangerous gang of bandits who want to prevent her political marriage, a situation that compels her to disguise herself as a boy and infiltrate the gang's ranks in order to stop the individual behind the plot.
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My Plain Jane
by Cynthia Hand
The author presents a riotously gothic reimagining of Jane Eyre that features an orphan with a tragic past, an aspiring author and a supernatural investigator who team up for an epic ghost hunt.
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