Historical Fiction (Middle/High School)

Contributor's Form (list #14)

• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Men.
• Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women.
• Alder, Elizabeth The King's Shadow.
• Avi. The Fighting Ground.
• Barth, John. The Sot-weed Factor.
• Beatty, John and Patrica. King Knight's Pawn. (17th century Ireland)
• Beatty, John and Patricia. Holdfast. (1601 Ireland)
• Beatty, John. Master Rosalind. (Shakespearean England)
• Beckman, Thea. Crusade in Jeans. (Children's Crusade, 13th century)
• Begiebing, Robert J. The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin.
• Behn, Harry. Faraway Lurs. (Bronze Age)
• Benet, Stephen Vincent. Spanish Bayonet.
• Bird, Isabella. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.
• Bishop, Claire H. Twenty and Ten. (Germany WWII; 0140310762)
• Bosse, Malcolm J. The Examination.
• Bristow, Gwen. Calico Palace.
• Bristow, Gwen. Deep Summer.
• Brown, Rita Mae. High Hearts.
• Calvert, Patricia. Hadder MacColl. (Scotland)
• Carter, Dorothy S. His Majesty, Queen Hatshepsut.
• Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop.
• Cather, Willa. Sapphira and the Slave Girl.
• Choi, Sook Nyul. Echoes of the White Giraffe. (sequel to Year of Impossible Goodbyes)
• Choi, Sook Nyul. Year of Impossible Goodbyes. (1940's Korea)
• Churchill, Winston. The Crisis.
• Clapp, Patricia. Witches Children.
• Clark, Walter Van Tilburg. The Ox-bow Incident.
• Cohen, Barbara. Seven Daughters and Seven Sons. (Arabia)
• Collier, James Lincoln. My Brother Sam is Dead.
• Coolidge, Olivia. Egyptian Adventures.
• Coolidge, Olivia. Men of Athens.
• Cooper, James Fenimore. The Deerslayer.
• Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans.
• Cooper, James Fenimore. The Pathfinder.
• Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage.
• Cross, Gilbert B. A Witch Across Time.
• Cushman, Karen. Catherine, Called Birdy.
• Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice.
• Dailey, Janet. The Proud and the Free.
• Dana, Richard Henry. Two Years Before the Mast.
• Davis, Lindsey. Silver Pigs. (Imperial Rome and Roman Britain)
• De Angeli, Marguerite. The Door in the Wall.
• de Trevino, Eliz. B. I, Juan de Pareja. (Spain)
• De Jong, Meindert. The House of Sixty Fathers.
• De Trevino, Elizabeth Borton. I, Juan de Pareja.
• Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit.
• Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Donnell, Susan. Pocahontas.
• Drucker, Malka. Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story.
• Dubus, Elizabeth Nell. Twilight of the Dawn.
• Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo. (19th century France)
• Edmonds, Walter D. Drums Along the Mohawk.
• Elmer, Robert. The Young Underground. (tetralogy)
• Erdrich, Louise. The Crown of Columbus.
• Ferber, Edna. Cimarron.
• Ferber, Edna. So Big.
• Filipovic, Zlata Zlata's Diary.
• Forbes, Esther. A Mirror for Witches.
• Forester, C.S. The Captain from Connecticut.
• Fritz, Jean. Homesick, My Own Story.
• Fuller, Iola. The Loon Feather. (18th century Mackinac Island)
• Garfield, Leon. The December Rose. (Victorian England)
• Garfield, Leon. The Empty Sleeve. (Victorian England)
• Gilman, Dorothy. Girl in Buckskin.
• Gloss, Molly. The Jump-off Creek.
• Gray, Elizabeth. Adam of the Road. (Medieval)
• Grey, Zane. Betty Zane.
• Grey, Zane. Riders of the Purple Sage.
• Grey, Zane. The Rainbow Trail.
• Guthrie, A. B. The Big sky.
• Guthrie, A.B. Fair Land, Fair Land.
• Guthrie, A.B. These Thousand Hills.
• Haley, Alex. Roots.
• Harris, Joel Chandler. Nights with Uncle Remus.
• Harrison, Sue Mother Earth, Father Sky.
• Haugaard, Erik Christian. The Revenge of the Forty-Seven Samurai. (Medieval Japan)
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables.
• Hesse, Karen Letters From Rifka.
• Hilgartner, Beth A Murder for Her Majesty.
• Holman, Felice The Wild Children. (1917 Russia)
• Holt, Victoria. The Queen's Confession. (Marie Antoinette)
• Horgan, Paul. Distant Trumpet.
• Horgan, Paul. Whitewater.
• Houston, James. Ghost Fox.
• Hudson, Jan Sweetgrass.
• Hunter, Mollie. You Never Knew Her As I Did! (16th century Britain)
• Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona.
• Jakes, John. Heaven and Hell.
• Jakes, John. Love and War.
• Jakes, John. North and South.
• Jakes, John. The Americans.
• Jakes, John. The Bastard.
• Jakes, John. The Furies.
• Jakes, John. The Lawless.
• Jakes, John. The Rebels.
• Jakes, John. The Seekers.
• Jakes, John. The Titans.
• Jakes, John. The Warriors.
• James, Henry. Washington Square.
• Jinks, Catherine. Pagan's Crusade. (Other "Pagan's" titles in the series. Pagan is a squire to a templar knight and is very irreverent.)
• Johnson, Charles. Middle Passage.
• Kelly, Eric P. Trumpeteer of Krakow. (Poland)
• Konigsburg, E.L. A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver.
• L'Amour, Louis. Jubal Sackett.
• L'Amour, Louis. Sackett's Land.
• L'Amour, Louis. The Proving Trail.
• L'Amour, Louis. The Sackett Brand.
• Levitin, Sonya Escape From Eqypt.
• Lewis, Elizabeth Foreman. Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. (Pre-WWII China)
• Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars.
• Marlowe, Stephan. The Memoirs of Christopher Columbus : a Novel.
• McKinley, Robin. The Outlaws of Sherwood. (12th century England)
• Matthews, Greg. The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove.
• McSwigan, Marie. Snow Treasure.
• Michener, James A. Centennial.
• Michener, James A. Chesapeake.
• Michener, James. Texas.
• Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind.
• Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels.
• Namioka, Lensey. Valley of the Broken Cherry Trees. (Medieval Japan)
• O'Dell, Scott. Streams to the River.
• Orgel, Doris. The Devil in Vienna.
• Paterson, Katherine. Of Nightingales That Weep.
• Paterson, Katherine. The Master Puppeteer.
• Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie.
• Paterson, Katherine. Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom. (19th century China)
• Peck, Robert Newton. Hang for Treason.
• Pope, Eliz. Marie. The Perilous Gard. (Medieval Druids)
• Pullman, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke.
• Renault, Mary. The King Must Die. (Theseus)
• Richter, Conrad. Friedrich.
• Richter, Conrad. The Fields.
• Richter, Conrad. The Town.
• Richter, Conrad. The Trees.
• Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity.
• Rinaldi, Ann. The Last Silk Dress.
• Rinaldi, Ann. f by the Ears.
• Roberts, Kenneth. Rabble in Arms.
• Sachs, Margaret. Beyond Safe Boundaries.
• Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe.
• Serraillier, Ian. Escape From Warsaw.
• Seton, Anya. The Winthrop Woman.
• Snedeker, Caroline Dale. Uncharted Ways.
• Snyder, Zilpha Keatley. The Egypt Game.
• Speare, Elizabeth George. Sign of the Beaver.
• Speare, Elizabeth G. The Bronze Bow. (Roman-occupied Galilee at the time of Jesus)
• Stolz, Mary. The Cat in the Mirror. (Modern New York/Ancient Egypt)
• Stone, Irving. Immortal Wife.
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Streatfield, Noel. When the Sirens Wailed.
• Styron, William. The Confessions of Nat Turner.
• Sutcliffe, Rosemary. Any title.
• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club.
• Taylor, Mildred D. The Road to Memphis.
• Taylor, Theodore. The Cay.
• Temple, Frances. The Beduins' Gazelle. (1302)
• Temple, Frances. The Ramsay Scallop. (post-Crusades)
• Thom, James Alexander. Feather in the Sky.
• Thornton, Lawrence. First Woman.
• Twain, Mark. The Portable Mark Twain.
• Twain, Mark. Missippi writings
• Uchida, Yoshiko. Journey to Topaz.
• Underwood, Betty. The Forge and the Forest.
• Undset, Sigrid. Bridal Wreath. (For capable readers)
• Uris, Leon. Any title.
• Vidal, Gore. Burr.
• Vos, Ida. Anna Is Still Here.
• Vos, Ida. Hide and Seek.
• Waldo, Anna Lee. Sacajawea.
• Walker, Margaret. Jubilee.
• Watkins, Yoko Kawashima. So Far from the Bamboo Grove.
• Westall, Robert. The Machine Gunners.
• Whelan, Gloria. Goodbye Vietnam.
• Wister, Owen. The Virginian.
• Yep, Laurence. Dragonwings.

Note: See Sixties Fiction (Middle) for a list of Internet historical fiction bibliographies.