8th gr.
HISTORICAL FICTION AT LAGUNA LIBRARY
Key: F=
Call# Author Title
to
the royal governor, General Gage, after his plan to sled down the steep hill at
Boston Common is
thwarted
by the masses of British troops camped there. AR level 5.2
F Breslin
Howard. Silver
Oar A tale of a young
pirate on his way to execution.
F Brown, Slater. Gray Bonnets
Quakers are accused of being witches.
F Bulla,
colony of
F Cavanna, Betty. Ruffles and Drums
Sarah, a 16-yr.-old girl witnesses the famous confrontation between British
troops and American farmers at the start of the
Revolution. A wartime romance.RL 6.1
F Chickering, Marjorie. Yankee Trader: Ben Tanner 1799
Ben is 16 when he gets his longed for chance to accompany a
trader on a trip from VT to
F Clapp,
Patricia. Constance:
A Story of Early
F Clapp, Patricia. Witches’ Children
During the winter of 1692, when the young girls of
themselves subject to fits of screaming & strange visions,
some believe that they have see the devil
&
are the victims of witches. RL 6
F Coatsworth,
Eliz. Golden Horseshoe
F Collier, J. L. & C.. War
Comes to Willy Freeman A free 13-yr.-old black girl in
horror
of theRevolutionary War and the danger of being
returned to slavery when her patriot father
is killed by the British and her mother disappears. AR 4.9
F Cooke, Donald E. Little Wolf Slayer: story of Philadelphia’s Quakers
Good historical research reveals facts
that are little known about the hardships suffered by the
early settlers of William Penn’s
F Cooney, Caroline B. The Ransom of Mercy Carter In
1704, in the English settlement of
11year-old
Mercy & her family & neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians &
their French allies, &
forced
to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives
& some still
hope
to be ransomed. AR 4.7
F Curry, Jane L. A Stolen LifeIn
1758, in
severely tested when she is abducted by ‘’Spriters’
and, after a harrowing voyage, sold as a bond
slave
to a
F Denenberg,
Barry. Journal
of William Thomas Emerson: Rev. War Patriot,
Is
Revolutionary
War Boston where he joins the cause of the patriots who are opposed to the
British
rule. AR 5.6
F Dorris,
Michael. Sees
Behind Trees A Native American boy with the gift to
“see” beyond his poor eyesight
journeys
with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.RL5.9
F Durrant,
Lynda. Beaded
Moccasins: Story of Mary Campbell After being
captured by a group of
Indians
& given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter.
travel
west with them to Ohio.RL4.8
F Durrant,
Lynda. Echohawk A 12-yr.-old white
boy adopted & raised by Mohicans in the
1730s, is sent with his
younger brother to an English settlement for schooling.RL4.8
F Faulkner,
Patriot in 1777 in Tory Philadelphia when she gets a chance to play
a vital part in the Revolution.
F Field, Rachel. Calico Bush
Set in Colonial Maine, the story tells of Marguerite, a french
girl known as Molly,
who is bound-out
to a family of American pioneers during the time of the French and
Indian War.
AR
level 6.2
F Fleischman, Paul Saturnalia
In 1681 in Boston, 14-yr.-old William, a Narraganset
Indian captured in a raid 6 years
earlier,
leads a productive & contented life as a printer’s apprentice
but is increasingly anxious to
make
some connection with his Indian past.AR level 6.4
F Fritz, Jean. Early Thunder
In pre-revolutionary
King
as the conflict between Tories and patriots increasingly divides the
townspeople. AR level 5.4
F Hildick,
E. W. Hester
Bidgood 13-yr.-old Hester
& her 15-yr.-old friend Rob investigate the stoning & branding
of
a kitten in a
1692.
F Keehn,
Sally M. I
am
onto memories of her
earlier life as she grows up. AR level 4.4
F* Kirkpatrick, K. Troubles Daughter: Story of Susana
Hutchinson, Indian Captive When her family is
massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, 9 yr.-old Susanna,
daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured
&
raised as a Lenape. AR level 4.8
F Lasky,
Kathryn. Beyond
the Burning Time When in 1691 accusations of witchcraft
rose in her small New
F* Lasky,
Kathryn. Journey
to the New World: Diary of Remember Patience Whipple(Dear
year-old
Mem presents a diary account of the trip she and her
family made on the Mayflower in 1620
and their first year in the
F Lenski,
Lois. Puritan
Adventure Young Aunt Charity comes to join the
Partridge family in Massassachuttes
Bay
Colony, bringing with her pretty clothes and a merry laugh, both strange in the
sober Puritan
Colony. But it is she who saves the colony in a time of danger.RL 6.0
F Lunn,
Janet. The
Hollow Tree In 1777 15-yr.-old Phoebe Olcott
is thrown headlong into the turmoil of war
when her beloved cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy. AR
5.8
F O’Dell, Scott. Serpent Never Sleeps: a Novel of
with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to
the
hardships of colonial life & the extraordinary Princess
Pocahontas. AR 6.5
F Osborne, Mary Pope. Standing in the Light:Captive Diary of Catharine C. Logan,
1763(Dear
America series A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the
Delaware
River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians. AR level 5.1
F Nixon, Joan Lowery. Ann’s Story: 1747
Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century
doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study
Latin or mathematics. AR level 4.9 5
F Nixon,
Joan Lowery. Caesar’s Story: 1759:
After having been a slave on Carter’s Grove plantation near
since
childhood, Caesar finally finds a way to plan his own future. AR 5.1
F Petry, Ann. Tituba
of
even
thread; of planting a garden; of caring for livestock; these hands bring Tituba to trial for
witchcraft.. AR 5.4
F Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity: Story about
the
meeting
in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy
&
accusations of witchcraft.AR 4.7
F Rinaldi, Ann. Hang a Thousand Trees with
Ribbons: Story of Phillis Wheatley
A fictionalized biography
of
the 18th century African woman who, as a child, was brought to
after
publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the
colonies as an
important black American poet.AR
4.0
F Rinaldi, Ann. Journal of Jasper Jonathan
Pierce: a pilgrim boy A 14-year-old indentured servant keeps
a
journal
of his experiences on the Mayflower and during the building of Plymouth
Plantation in 1620
and 1621. AR 4.9
F Rinaldi, Ann. Secret of Sarah Revere
Paul Revere’s daughter describes her
father’s rides and the intelligence
network of the patriotic community prior to the American
Revolution AR 3.7
F Shaik, Fatima. Melitte
In 1772, years of mistreatment force 13-yr.-old Melitte
to decide whether or not to run
away
from the Frenchman
who has kept her as a slave on his poor
young
girl who is the only person who ever loved her. AR 5.1
F Speare, Elizabeth. Calico Captive
In 1754 a raid on her small
a prisoner of the
Indians, forced to take part in a harrowing march north. AR level 6.0
F Speare, Elizabeth. Sign of the Beaver
Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in eighteenth-century
F Speare, Elizabeth. Witch
of Blackbird Pond Kit Tyler, on a visit to
friendly
with Hannah the witch, teaches a little girl to read, and is
saved in
the ensuing witchhunt.
AR level 5.7
F Stainer, M. L. The
F Stainer, M. L. The Lyon’s Roar14-yr.-old
Jess relates her sea voyage with other English families to
Island
in 1587, thei attempt to make a permanent settlement,
and Jess’s
contact with the Croatoan
Indians. AR level 5.9
F Wyeth, Sharon D. Once on this River.While
on a trip with her mother from
1760,11-yr.-old
Monday learns the horrors of slavery and the truth about her other mother.
AR level 4.4
AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEW
NATION (through 1850s)
Call # Author Title
Alder, Elizabeth. Crossing the Panther’s Path
16 year-old Bill Calder, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk
woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to
prevent the Americns from taking any more
land from the Indians in the
F Allen,
Merritt P. Red
Heritage
F Auch, Mary Jane. Frozen Summer
(1815) An exciting tale of a family who packs up a covered wagon headed for the
the wilderness of western N.Y. RL 4.8
F Avi. The
Barn In an
effort to fulfill their dying father’s last request Ben and his brother &
sister
construct
a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.RL 5.8
F Avi. Beyond the
village
in 1850, 15-yr.-old Maura & her younger brother meet their landlord’s runaway son in
Liverpool
while all 3 wait for a ship to
F Avi. Beyond the
Western Sea, Book 2: Lord Kirkle’s Money
The story continues in Book 2 as
the fate of the characters
continue to intertwine on board ship and in the New World.RL5.5
F Avi. Captian Grey
Following the Revolution in
1783, an 11-yr.-old boy becomes the captive of
ruthless man who has
set up his own nation, supported by piracy, on a remote part of
the New
F Avi. The Fighting
Ground 13-yr.-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the
Revolutionary War & discovers
the
real war is being fought within
himself.RL6.4
F Avi. True Confessions of
Charlotte Doyle As the lone “young lady” on a transatlantic
voyage in
1832,
F Ayres,
Katherine. North
by Night: Story of the Underground RailroadRL
4.8
F Banim, Lisa. The Hessian’s
Secret Diary During the summer of 1776, a 10
year-old Peggy discovers a
wounded
soldier in the woods near her
the
secret notes of a Hessian spy. RL 5.5
F
F Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: a
lived
on the family farm, records daily events in her small
remarriage, & the death of her best friend. Newbery Medal book. RL6.0
F Boyd, James. Drums
Johnny Frasier, the son of Scottish immigrants now living in
fight
in the Revolutionary War & has adventures on both sides of the
F Bruchac,
Joseph. Sacajawea Sacajawea,
a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, &
guide, & William Clark
alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis & Clark
Expedition to the Northwest. RL6.5
F Bryant, Louella. The Black Bonnet
As they near the end of their journey for freedom along the Underground
railroad,
12 yr.-old Charity & her 16-yr.-old sister Bea encounter additional perils.
RL7.9
F Carbone,
Elisa. Stealing
Freedom Based on the events of a young slave girl
from
of
mistreatment and cruelty, including being separated from her family, but who
eventually escapes
to
F Churchill, Claire. South of the Sunset: an interpretation
of Sacajawea, the Indian girl who accompanied.
F Collier, James L. My Brother Sam is Dead
Story recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family when one son
joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to
stay neutral in a Torytown. RL5.8
F Collier, James L. The Bloody Country
In the mid-18th century a family moves from
and
becomes involved in the property conflict between the 2 states.RL5.2
F Collier, James L. The Clock
When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner
workings
of
a clock, 15-yr.-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town’s new wool mill to help support her
family. Her job is full of risk especially after she discovers
that the mill’s cruel overseer is stealing
bags
of wool
& she decides to do something about it. RL6.9
F Collier, James L. Jump Ship to Freedom
By rights, young Daniel Arabus & his mother,
slaves in Captain Iver’s
house
in
sells Daniel on board a ship to the
F Collier, James L. Who is Carrie?
A young black girl living in
event
taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own
identity. RL5.8
F DeFelice, Cynthia. Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker
After his family dies of consumption in 1849, Lucas
becomes
a doctor’s
apprentice.AR 5.2
F DeFelice,
Cynthia. Weasel
Alone in the wilderness in 1849 while his father is recovering from an injury,
Nathan runs
afoul
of the renegade
killer known as Weasel & makes a surprising discovery about the concept of
revenge.
RL7.0
F Denenberg,
Barry. So
Far from Home: the Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish
Mill Girl (Dear
the
potato famine, young Mary Driscoll leaves her
deplorable working conditions and a false accusation of
murder force her to rally more courage than
she thought she had. AR 4.4
F Donahue, John. An Island Far from Home
The son of a Union army doctor killed in
understand
the meaning of war & the fine line between friends & enemies when he
begins
corresponding with a young Confederate prisoner of war.
RL5.5
F Durrant,
Lynda Betsy Zane, the Rose of
novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphis
to return to her brothers’homestead near
what is now
Revolution. RL5.8
F
Revolutionary War who
endured terrible hardships to form a free nation in the wilderness of the
new
world. AD
F
frontier in 1778.
F Fast, Howard. April Morning
The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial
day in which he joined the militia and saw his father shot
down by the British.RL8.0 Newbery
Award
winner.
F Finlayson, Ann. Rebecca’s
War Left in charge of her brother & sister in
occupied
old Rebecca’s
life is complicated even further when 2 British soldiers are billeted in her
house.
F Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain
The story of a young silver apprentice during the exciting time of the Tea
Party,
culminates in the Battle of Lexington. A story of
seen
in the experience of a courier for the revolutionary Committee for Public Safety.RL5.3
F Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer
Kidnapped by the crew of an African-bound ship, a 13-yr.-old boy discovers to
his
horror that he is aboard a slaver and that his job is to play music for the
exercise period of the
human
cargo.RL 6.4
F
Lorenzo Bonifacio makes some unexpected alliances and learns some
harsh truths about Genera Santa
Anna as the troops move toward the
F
series) In the journal she receives for her twelfth
birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes
the hardships her
family and other residents of the "
face the Mexicans in
a fight for their freedom. AR 5.6
F Giles Janice Holt. Hannah Fowler
1778,
headed for the fort of
death, young Hannah
Moore marries the man who saved her from the wilderness and begins a life
on
the harsh
F Goodman, Joan Eliz. Hope’s
Crossing When kidnapped by the English loyalists
during the Revolutionary War,
13-yr.-old
Hope draws on every ounce of courage within her to respond to the ordeal. AR
5.2
F Green Diana H. Lonely War of William Pinto
Chronicles the reluctance of a Jewish youth, a student at Yale, to
support
the American Revolution while prejudice against his family is so great.
F Gregory, Kristiana. Across the Wide & Lonesome Prarie:
journey from
F Gregory, Kristiana. Legend of Jimmy Spoon
Adventures of a young white boy living among the Shoshoni
Indians
during
the early frontier days.RL 5.3
F Gregory, Kristiana. Stowaway: a Tale of
arduous
1847 journey from
F Gregory, Kristiana Winter of Red Snow: Revolutionary
War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart (Dear
series)Eleven-year-old Abigail presents a diary account of
life in
July 1778 as General
Washington prepares his troops to fight the British. AR 5.5
F Hall, Marjory. The Gold-Lined Box
16-yr.-old Matilda O’Neil proves her courage when she attempts
to save her
Father’s life during the War of 1812. RL 7.6
F Hansen, Joyce. The Captive
Kofi’s safe world is suddenly shattered by
white men arriving from the coast, stealing
his people to sell into slavery. Soon Kofi
finds himself being led in chains from his African village to
a cold
F Havinghurst,
M. B. Strange
F Jones, William P. Patrick Henry: Voice of
F Karr, Kathleen. Great
turkeys from
F Kent, Louise A. He Went with John Paul Jones
Exciting history is told through the journal of young Nick who
sailed under Captain James Cook on the Endeavor I and also
with John Paul Jones. Nick tells of
exciting sea battles.
F Latham, Jean Lee. Carry on, Mr Bowditch
A fictionalized account ofthe mathemetician
& scientist who realized his
childhood desire to become a ship’s captain
& authored The American Practical Navigator.
F Lasky,
Kathrine Beyond the DivideIn
1849, a 14-yr.-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her secure home
in
F Lasky,
Kathryn. Journal
of Augustus Pelletier: the Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1804A
fictional journal
kept by twelve-year-old Augustus Pelletier, the youngest
member of Lewis and
Discovery.AR 5.6
F Lester,
Julius Day of Tears: a
Novel in Dialogue A fictionalization of a real
event: the biggest slave
auction
in American history which took place in
the
auction & its aftermath is unforgettable.
F Lyons,
Mary. Letters
from a Slave Girl A fictionalized version of the life of
Harriet Jacobs, told in the form of
letters that she might have written during her slavery in
escape to the North in 1842.
F Lyons,
Peale, & the intrigue surrounding Peale’s son’s
suspicious death.YA
F Mann, Martha. Nathan Hale, PatriotThe
facts of Nathan Hale’s life are few
& are entertwined with half-truths of
a legendary nature. This tale, however, is based very firmly
upon the few known facts between
which are strung the legends against a backdrop of the
pre-Revolutionary & Revolutionary Era.
F Marco, Katherine M. Away to
F Meader, Stephen W. River of the WolvesThe French
and Indian War is the setting for this adventurous tale when the
Indians,
egged on by the French, came stealing out of the North to capture white
American scalps.
F Meadowcroft, Enid. We Were There at the Opening of the
the exciting time of the newly opened
F Myers, Anna. The Keeping Room
Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their
home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old
Joey Kershaw finds all his
resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and
chooses the Kershaw house as
his headquarters. AR level 4.9
F Montgomery, Jean. Wrath of Coyote
Fictionalized biography of Chief Marin, last leader of the Miwok
people, whose
way of life on the site of present-day
F O’Dell, Scott. Carlota
Raised to take theplace of her dead brother, Carlota
de Zubaran can do anthing
that Carlos
could have done. She races her stallion in the
searching for gold and fights in the Battle of San Pasqual in 1846.
F O’Dell, Scott. Sarah Bishop
Left alone after the deaths of her father & brother who took opposite sides
in the
War
for
new life for herself in the wilderness.RL6.8
F Paterson, Katherine. Lyddie
Impoverished
becoming a factory worker in
F Pearsall, Shelley. Trouble Don’t Last
Samuel, an eleven-year-old
who helped raise him, attempt to escape to
F Peck, Robert Newton. Rabbits and Redcoats
2 beardless boys with rabbit guns wait in the dark of a 1775
F Reit,
Seymour. Guns for
General Washington : a story of the American
Revolution. Frustrated with life
under seige in George Washington’s army, 19-yr.-old
Will Knox and his brother, Colonel Henry
Knox,
undertake the task of moving 183 cannons from
winter.RL5.5
F Rinaldi, Ann. The Blue Door (Quilt
Trilogy#3) Abigail is sent north to
great-grandfather’s mill. She witnesses
the horrible working conditions of the mill firsthand. YA
F Rinaldi,
Ann. Broken Days (Quilt Trilogy#2)
Walking Breeze, a half-Shawnee girl, has come to the
family claiming to be Thankful Chelmsford’s daughter. Thankful
was kidnapped by Indians 22
years ago. Ebie makes it her mission to prove that
Walking Breeze is not Thankful’s daughter. YA
F Rinaldi,
Ann Cast Two Shadows: the
American Revolution in the SouthIn South
old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a terrible toll
among her family & friends & comes to
understand the true nature of war.RL7.9
F Rinaldi, Ann. Fifth of March: Story of
the
eventually escalates into the massacre
of March 5, 1770.
F Rinaldi, Ann. Ride into Morning
When unrest spreads at the Rev. War camp in
command of Gen. Anthony Wayne,
a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous
soldiers
who have need of it.R.4.6
F Rinaldi, Ann. Stitch in Time (Quilt
Trilogy#1) Shortly after the
War of Independence, Hannah sees her family
being torn apart by old secrets and a few new developments,
as her sister resolves to marry a sea
captain & other siblings prepare to start a new town in
the
F Rinaldi,
Ann. Time
Enough for Drums16-yr.-old Jem
and her servant struggle to keep things going in
N.
J. when the family men join the War of
Independence from the English king.YA
F Rinaldi,
Ann. Wolf
by the Ears Harriet Hemings,
rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson & Sally
Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the
problems facing her: to escape
from
the velvet cage that is Montecello or to stay and
thus remain a slave.
F Rosenburg,
John M. First
in Peace : George Washington, the Constitution and the
Presidency A fictionalized
biography of the 1st president of the newly
formed
in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, through his two
terms as president, up to his death in
1799.
YA
F Rosenburg,
John M. First
in War: George Washington in the American Revolution
Chronicles George
Washington’s role in the American Revolution,
from his appointment as commander-in-chief of the
Continental
Army to the British surrender at
F Rosenburg, John M. Young George Washington :
the making of a hero A fictionalized biography,
with emphasis
on the early life, of the
Revolutionary
War leader & first President of the United States.RL6.7
F
cousin, a light-skinned slave who is the daughter of the plantation
owner.
F Sterman,
Betsy.
valley,16-yr.-old Amity must carry a secret message to the
Continental Army to give warning of an
impending attack. RL 7.7
F Stowe, Harriet
Beecher. Uncle
Tom’s
Cabin This is a remarkable
novel of the pre-Civil War South. It was
revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of
slavery and for its presentation of Tom, a man
of humanity, as the first black hero in American fiction.
Labeled racist & condescending by some
contemporary critics, it remains a shocking, controversial,
& powerful work. YA
F Taylor, Theodore. Walking up the Rainbow: Being the True
Version of the Long & Hazardous
crew, take several thousand sheep from
Canal, to save the girl’s
home from a villainous debt collector. YA
F Vinton, Iris. We Were There with Jean Lafitte at
F Walter, Mildred Pitts. Second Daughter: Story of a Slave Girl
Aissa, the teenage fictional sister of
Freeman,
struggles against a system which declares that she is property & is to
remain silent.
F* Webb, Robert N. We were there with Ethan Allen
& the Green Mountain Boys
F Wibberley, Leonard. The Last
as Captain and midshipman respectively during the War of
1812. RL 8.6
F Wibberley, Leonard. Red Pawns
While their father is in
yr.-old brother Peter, go to the
1812)
RL 8.0
F Wibberley, Leonard. Treegate’s
Raiders Peter Treegate
watches the Revolution draw to a close in the South, then
goes to
F Yep, Laurence. Journal of Wong Ming-Chung:
a Chinese Miner, CA 1852 (My Name is
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Call # Author Title
E Hopkinson, Deborah.
Under the Quilt of Night A young girls flees
from the farm where she has been working as a
slave and uses the Underground Railroad to escape north to
freedom.
soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern
troops. RL 4.9
F Avi. Something
Upstairs. When he moves from
discovers his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black
slave boy who asks Kenny to return with
him to the early 19th century & prevent his
murder by slave traders.RL 5.1
F Allen, Meritt P. Johnny Reb
Spirited fighting and day-by-day army camp life are portrayed and a fair
picture
of both sides of the Civil War is given.
F Allen,
Merritt P. Blow,
Bugles, Blow
F Altsheler,
Joseph A. Tree of
F Armstrong,
Jennifer. Mary
Mehan Awake While working
as a servant in the home of a naturalist, Mary Mehan
gradually recovers from the numbing effects as a Civil War
nurse and falls in love with a man who
had lost his hearing. YA
F Armstrong,
Jennifer.
Dreams of Mairhe Mehan
Maihre, who lives in the Irish slums of
the1880s, struggles to come to grips with the effects of the
Civil War on her family. YA
F Beatty,
Patricia. Be
Ever Hopeful, Hannalee
The war is over, but the struggle continues for 14-yr.-old Hannah
and her family. Blaming the Yankees for her misfortunes, Hannalee gets a job in
begin to look hopeful again until her brother is arrested
for a crime he did not commit.. RL 6.5
F Beatty,
Patricia. Charley
Skedaddle Charley is a member of one of the toughest
gangs in
older brother is killed at
Union
Army as a drummer boy. RL 6.3
F Beatty,
Patricia. Jayhawker
In the early years of the Civil War, teenage
Jayhawker,
an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of
goes undercover there as a spy. RL 6.2
F Beatty,
Patricia. Turn
Homeward, Hannalee12-yr.-old Hannalee
Reed, forced to relocate in
other
soon as the war ends. RL 6.5
F Beatty,
Patricia. Who
Comes with Cannons?In
1861 12 yr.-old Truth, a Quaker girl from
relatives who run a
by the beginning of the Civil War. RL 5.5
F Borland,
Hal. The Amulet RL
6.0
F Bryant, Louella.
Father by Blood Although 15-yr.-old Annie Brown
becomes drawn into her father’s battle against
slavery & his raid on
F
Burchard, Peter.
Jed: the story of a Yankee solider and a southern boy
F
Burchard, Peter. The Deserter;
a spy story of the Civil War
F Calvert,
Patricia.
Bigger When his father disappears near the Mexican
War after the end of the Civil War, 12-yr.-old
F Carbone, Elisa. Stealing Freedom
A novel based on the events in the life of a young slave girl from
endures all kinds of mistreatment & cruelty, including
being separated from her family, but who
eventually escapes to freedom in
F Clapp,
Patricia.
The Tamarack Tree Orphaned at 13, Rosemary Leigh was
transplanted from
city, she writes about what she has been through.RL
6.3
F Collier, James
Lincoln. With Every Drop of
Blood While trying to transport food to
Civil
War, 14-yr.-old
Johnny is captured by an African American Union soldier. R. 5.9
F
Crane, Stephen.
Red Badge of Courage A youth joins the Union Army. Classic.
F Crisp,
Marty.
Private Captain: A Story of
Captain
set off in search of Ben’s brother, who has gone missing from the Union Army. RL 6.5
F Crist-Evans, Craig
Moon over Tennessee: a Boy’s Civil War Journal A thirteen-year-old boy
sets off
father
from their farm in
Gettysburg.Told in the form of
diary entries. AR level 4.9
F Daringer, Helen F.
Mary Montgomery, Rebel A young Southern girl tells of the charm
of plantation life and the
grim days of the Civil War and Reconstruction. YA
F Davis, Paxton.,
Three Days Describes the Battle of Gettysburg through
the eyes of Robert E. Lee, following that
great General from his entry into
troops. YA
F
Denenberg, Barry. When Will This Cruel War Be Over: Civil
War Diary of Emma Simpson (Dear
series) R. L.6.5
F Donahue,
John.
Island Far from Home The 12-yr.-old son of a Union army
doctor killed in the fight during
Fredricksburg comes to understand the meaning of war and
the fine line between friends and
enemies when he begins corresponding with a young
Confederate prisoner of war. R. 5.5
F Ellison, Pierson. Best of Enemies
3 young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New
pair of horse thieves and learn to look beyond their
differences.
F Fleischman,
Paul.
describe the glory, the horror the thrill, and the
disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
AR Level 5.3
F
Forrester, Sandra.
Sound the Jubilee A slave and her family find refuge on
the Civil War. AR. 4.0
F Hahn, Mary Downing. Promises to the Dead
12-yr.-old Jesse leaves his home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to help a
young runaway slave find a safe haven in the early days of
the Civil War. AR 5.5
F Hamilton, Virginia House of Dies Drear
A hundred years ago, Dies Drear & 2 slaves he was hiding in his house, an
Underground
Railroad station in
F
Hansen, Joyce.
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: Diary
of Patsy a Freed Girl (Dear
F
Hansen, Joyce.
Out from this Place A 14-yr.-old black girl tries to find
a fellow exslave who had joined the
Union
Army during the Civil War, during the confusing times of the emancipation of
the slaves.
AR
4.6
F
Hansen, Joyce.
Which Way Freedom? Obi escapes from
slavery during the Civil War, joins a black
regiment and soon becomes involved in the bloody fighting at
F
Herrin, Lamar.
The Unwritten Chronicles of Robert E. Lee Explores the
psychological motivations of Robert
E.
Lee & Thomas. “Stonewall”
F
Hesse, Karen. Light in the Storm:Civil War diary of Amelia
Martin,
F Hill, Pamela Srnith. A
Voice from the BorderLiving in the border state
of
Reeves tries to understand her father’s decision regarding their slaves. YA
F Houston,
Gloria.
Bright Freedom’s Song: Story of the Underground
Railroad In the years before the Civil
War,
Bright discovers that her parents are providing a safe house for the
Underground Railroad and
helps to save a runaway slave named Marcus. RL 6.0
F Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils
With men in the family in both the Confederate & Union armies, young
Jethro runs the farm & comes to have serious doubts
about the fraticidal war.RL5.2
F
Keith, Harold.
Rifles for Watie
J Jeff Bussey is 16 when the
Civil War begins. He can’t wait to leave his
F Lasky, Katherine. True North: a novel of the Underground
Railroad Becauwhich her
grandfather, an
abolitionist, has in her life, 14 yr. old Lucy assists a
fugitive slave
SC Lester,
Julian.
This Strange New Feeling (Short Stories) 3
stories about freedom and how it first tasted to
those who had been deprived of it all their lives. It is
also about being a slave, but most of all a love
story about men & women who rose above their situation.
F
Lorenzo, Allen.
Fifer for the
F Love, D.
Anne. Three Against the
Tide After her father is called away from their
plantation near
S.C.,
during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a
difficult journey in
hopes of being reunited with him. AR level 3.8
F McGill,
Alice.
Miles’
Song In 1851 in
have his spirit broken but endures the experience by secretely taking reading lessons from another
slave.AR 5.6
F McKissack, Patricia. Picture
of Freedom: Diary of Clotee,
a Slave Girl (Dear America series) RL 5.2
F Meader, Stephen W. Phantom of the Blockade
Life aboard a Confederate blockade runner plying between
F Mitchell,
Margaret.
Gone with the Wind After the Civil War sweeps away the
genteel life to which she has become
accustomed, Scarlett O’Hara sets about to salvage her
Georgian plantation home. The book was made
into a major motion picture. YA
F
Murphy, Jim. Journal
of James EdmondPease:
Civil War Union Soldier,
F Myers, Walter Dean. The GloryField
This book takes the reader on a journey crossing miles & generations. It
begins in
1743
with Muhammad Bilal, a frightened 11 yr.-old African
boy & continues through 1979, dropping
on family members at crucial times in their lives. YA
F Nixon, Joan Lowry. DangerousPromise(Orphan Train Adventures)
In 1861, while living with his foster parents at
boys. Their dreams of glory end when they experience the
full horrors of war at the
F O’Dell, Scott. The 290
The ship that Ted has been working on at Laids
Brothers’
Shipyard in
being secretely built for the
Confederate Navy. This secret information was to have a profound
influence in Jim’s life.
F Paterson,
Katherine.
Jip, His Story While living on a
that of his mother (a fugitive slave) & comes to
understand how she arrived at this place. RL 5.5
F
Paulson, Gary.
Soldier’s
Heart Story of enlistment & service of the boy Charley
Goddard in the 1st
Volunteers. RL YA
F Perez, Norah. Slopes of War
Buck Summerhill knew that somewhere on the far side
of the
Mountains
a gray-clad army was snaking ahead, determined to prove on the northern soil of
F Pinkney, Andrea D. Silent Thunder: a Civil War Story In
1862 eleven-year-old Summer and her thirteen-year-old
brother Rosco take turns
describing how life on the quiet
is affected by the Civil War.AR
level 5.4
F Reeder,
Carolyn.
Across the Lines Edward, the son of a white plantation
owner, & his black house servant,
Simon,
witness the siege of
F Reeder,
Carolyn. Captain Kate
Determined to take her father’s coal-carrying barge on the
F Reeder,
Carolyn. Shades
of Grey At the end of the Civil War 12-yr.-old Will,
having lost all his immediate family,
reluctantly leaves his city home to live in the
considers a traitor
because he refused to take part in the war. AR 5.3
F Rinaldi, Ann. An Acquaintancewith
Darkness When her mother dies & her best friend’s family is implicated
in the assassination of President Lincoln, 14-yr.-old Emily Pigbush must go live with an uncle she
suspects of being involved in stealing bodies for medical
research. AR 3.6
F
Rinaldi, Ann. Amelia’s War
When a Confederate general threatens to burn
exorbitant ransom, 12 yr. old Amelia & her friend find a
way to save the town. AR
4.0
F
Rinaldi, Ann. Girl in Blue
To escape an abusive father & an arranged marriage, 14-yr.-old Sarah,
dressed as a
boy, leaves her
of
Greenhow in Washington, D. C. AR level 5.0
F
Rinaldi, Ann. In My Father’s House
For 2 sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict
both outside and inside their house. AR 4.4
F
Rinaldi, Ann. Last Silk Dress
During the Civil War Susan finds a way to help the Confederate Army &
uncovers
a series of mysterious family secrets. AR 4.1
F
Rinaldi, Ann. Mine Eyes Have Seen
In the summer of 1859, fifteen-yr.-old Annie travels to the
where her father, John Brown, is secretely
assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on
the
F
Rinaldi, Ann. Numbering all the Bones
13
year-old Eulinda, a houseslave
on a
turns
to Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross for help finding her
brother Neddy,
rumored
to be at Andersonville Prison. AR level 4.2.
F Robinet, Harriette Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Born with a withered
leg and hand, Pascal, 12 years old, joins
other
former slaves in a search for a farm and the freedom which it promises. AR 4.3
F
Stolz, Mary. Cezanne Pinto
Cezanne Pinto recalls his youth as a slave on a
a new life in the North. AR 5.5
F
Turner, Ann.
Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow:Diary
of Sarah Nita, A Navajo Girl,
(Dear
Grandmother’s account of
the Long Walk of 1864, during which the Navajo people were driven off
their
land & forced by soldiers to take refuge in
F
Wibberley, Leonard. Peter Treegate’s War
Further adventures of the Treegate family portrayed
against the
background of the Civil War Peter is torn between his
loyalty to his own father and to the wild
Maclaren of Spey who acted as a
foster father to him. (Sequel to John Treegate’sMusket.)
RL 8.0
F Wisler,
G. Clifton Caleb’s Choice
While living in
whether or not to assistfugitive
slaves in their run for freedom. AR 4.8
F Wisler,
G. Clifton. Mr. Lincoln’s Drummer
Willie Johnston, a skinny boy from
in the
determination, Willie showed that he was worthy of being
named a hero. AR 5.3
F Wisler,
G. Clifton.RedCap
A young Yankee drummer boy displays great courage when
he’s captured
& sent to
F Wisler,
G. Clifton. Run the Blockade
During the Civil War, 14-yr.-old Henry finds adventure working as a ship’s
boy
and lookout aboard the Banshee, a new British ship attempting
to get past the Yankee blockade of
the Southern coast.
F
Woodruff, Elvira.
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad
In 1853, letters to his older brother,
11-yr.-old
Levi describes his adventures in the
Jupiter and his experiences with the Underground Railroad.
AR 5.2
WESTWARD
EXPANSION, WOMEN’S RIGHTS,
Call
# Author Title
F Adams, Samuel H. Wagons to the Wilderness: A Story of
the Westward Expansion*In 1822,
conveyers of the flying stores to carry on profitable trade with the Indians & the suppliers of
permanent settlements
that would send Western harvests to Eastern markets and the forerunners of
the railroads and
trucks.
F Auch, Mary Jane.
Frozen Summer Twelve-year-old Mem's new life in the wilderness of western
even more difficult
in the cold summer of 1816 when her mother fails to recover from the birth of a
new
baby. AR level 4.8
F Beatty,
Patricia.
By Crumbs, It’s Mine
While stranded in the
finds herself the owner of a traveling hotel.
F
Beatty, Patricia. Me,
reunites her parents. this is a true depiction of an early,
run-down mining town.
F Beatty,
Patricia. Wait
for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee
With his father & brother serving in the Confederate
Army
& the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west
Lewellen seeks to free himself & his younger sister
from their Indian captivity. RL 7.5
F
Beatty, Patricia.
Something to Shout About A gold-mining town in
setting for this spirited tale of a group of townwomen with a mission to build the town a school.
F
Benchley, Nathaniel. Only Earth and Sky Last Forever
Based on the story of Crazy Horse and the tragic
Little Big Horn.
F Binns,
Archie. The Land is
Bright (
F
Blakeslee, Ann R. Dfferent Kind of Hero Pride and prejudice pit
Whites against Chinese in a
in the 1880s AR Level
4.4
F
Boyd, Thomas. Shadow
of the Long Knives (Early
F Bristow, Gwen Jubilee Trail
F
Bruchac, Joseph. The journal of Jesse Smoke: a Cherokee
Boy Describes the Trail of Tears in 1838.
F
Burks, Brian. Soldier
Boy Johnny ends up a Private in Gen. Custer’s cavalry learning how to fight
the Sioux
Indians.YA
F
Burks, Brian. Walks
AloneBurks,
After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, 15-yr.-old Walks
Alone,
an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to
survive & rejoin the refugee band.
AR
level 5.4
F
Burks, Brian. Runs
with Horses Sixteen years old in
1886, Runs With Horses trains to become a warrior
with
Geronimo's
band of Apaches in the American Southwest. AR level 5.2
F
Burt, Olive. Petticoats
West This is the story of one of the “Mercer Belles” who accepted the
challenge of an
exciting
new world in the American West & brought to life those qualities of courage
and daring that
helped to make
F
educated by whites after members of his tribe were
slaughtered by another tribe.
F
Calvert, Patricia. Betrayed!
In 1867, after his father’s death & his mother’s remarriage, 14 year-old
black
friend Issac set out on the
unsavory keelboat captain & Sioux chief along the way.
RL 5.0
F Carr, Mary Jane. Young Mac of
F
Cather, Willa. My Antonia
A successful lawyer remembers his boyhood in
immigrant Bohemian pioneer girl. YA
E
Chambers, C. E. Log
Cabin FeverRL
3.0
F Churchill, Claire
W. South of the Sunset: Interpretation of Sacajawea
F
Conrad, Pam.
Prarie Songs Louisa’s life in a loving pioneer
family on the
arrival of a new doctor and his beautiful & tragically
frail wife. RL 5.2
F
Cousins, Margaret. We Were There at the
F
Cushman, Karen.
Ballad of Lucy Whipple In 1849, a 12-yr.-old girl who calls
herself Lucy is distraught when her
mother
moves the family from
run
a rough boarding house & looks for comforting books while trying to find a
way to get home
F
Durbin, William. Journal of Sean Sullivan: a
Transcontinental Railroad Worker (in 1867)(My Name is
F Friermood,
Eliz. One of Fred’s Girls
“WANTED: Young women, 18-30 years of
age, attractive & intelligent of
good
moral character, as waitresses in Harvey Eating Houses on the Santa Fe Railroad
in the West.
Experience not necessary. Write Fred Harvey. Bonny thought this
was her chance to see the country
and
excape her thankless job as a hired girl. This
romance is set in 1891 and gives a good picture of
what
it was like to be a Harvey Girl.
F Gregory, Kristiana.
Great Railroad Race: Diary of Libby West,
the daughter of a
newspaper reporter, 14 yr. old Libby keeps a diary account of exciting events
surrounding her
during the building of the railroad in the West.RL
7.7
F Gregory, Kristiana. Seeds
of Hope: Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild
Dear
F Hardman, Ric Lynden.
Sunshine Rider: the first Vegetarian Western
In the late 1880’s
while on a cattle drive
which takes him north from
run
from the father he never knew. YA
F
old
Jason, he embarks on a 5,000 mile journey to strike it rich. AR 5.5
F
Kjelgaard, Jim. We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run
3 children contribute to their families’ request for
a
homestead after the signal for the claims race is fired
prematurely.
F
LaFaye, A. Edith Shay
Leaving her home in
prove
to her family that she can make a life for herself. AR 5.4
F Lampman, Evelyn. Bargain
Bride Because married settlers could claim twice
the land of a bachelor, orphaned Ginny
was married when she was ten. Now fifteen, her husband comes
to claim her. Hilarious with
spunky heroine.
F
Lasky, Katherine. Beyond the Divide
In 1814 a 14-year-old Amish girl defies convention by leaving her
F
Loveday, John. Goodbye,
people
he loves, including an Indian woman from the
F Mitchner, James A. Centennial
A story of
trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers,
up
in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our
legendary West. AD
F
Moeri, Louise. Save Queen of
brother
and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers. A.R.Level 5.8
F
Murphy, Jim. My
Face to the Wind: the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Praries
Teacher Broken Bow,
F
Murphy, Jim. West to a
F Myers, Walter Dean.Journal of Joshua Loper: Black Cowboy,
Chisholm Trail, 1871 (My
Name is
F Myers, Walter Dean. Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonne
15 yr.-old Artemis journeys from
F
O’Dell,
Scott. Sing
Down the Moon A young Navajo girl recounts the
events of 1864 when her tribe was forced
to
march to
F
Patrick, Denise L. The Longest Ride
At the end of the Civil War, Midnight, a 14-yr.-old black cowboy & runaway
slave
who nutures the dream of being reunited with his family,
finds his destiny linked with that of
two Arapaho Indians.AR 4.1
F
Paulsen, Gary. Tucket’s Gold
15-yr.-old Francis and the 2 childred he has adopted
travel across the Old West,
evade
Comancheros, discover a treasure, & wind up rich
beyond their wildest dreams. (Bk 4 of
Tucket Adventures) AR 5.2
F
Paulson, Gary. Tucket’s
Home Francis, Lottie
& Billy survive a series of hair-raising adventures while on their
way west to the
Adventures) AR 5.2
F
Rinaldi, Ann. The Coffin Quilt: the Feud Between
the Hatfields and McCoys:
In the 1880’s,
young
Fanny
McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud
between her
West
Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister
Roseanna’s
romance with a Hatfield.AR 4.0
F
Rinaldi, Ann. The Education of Mary: A Little
Miss of Color, 1832. In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins
admitting
black girls to her exclusive
causing her arrest and the closure of her school. AR 5.5
F
Rinaldi, Ann. My Heart Is on the Ground: Diary
of Nannie Little Rose, Sioux Girl(Dear
F
Roop, Peter. Sacagawea: Girl of the
tells her young son
how she came to be a part of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, where she served
as an interpreter and
guide, and survived many dangerous adventures on the historic journey
through
the wilderness. RL 5.6
F
Smith, Roland. The
Captain’s
Dog: My Journey with the Lewis & Clark Tribe
Captain Merriwether
Lewis’s dog, Seaman, describes his
experience as he accompanies his master on the Lewis &
Clark
Expedition to explore the uncharted western wilderness. AR 5.8
F
Turner, Ann. Nettie’s
Trip South A ten-year old northern girl encounters the
ugly realities of slavery when she
visits
F
Wagoner, David. Tracker
This Western tale begins in 1889 with the day the First National Bank of
Sheepshank,
trail tracker on the trail of the bank robbers. RL 6.5
F
Wibberley, Leonard. The Wound of Peter Wayne
Peter Wayne fought with the Army of Northern Virginia. He later
heads
West and becomes partners with a once-hated Union veteran & they see the
West together:
Indian fighting, gold mining, & working on the Union Pacific.
F
Yep, Laurence. Dragons
Gate When he accidentally kills a Manchu, a 15
yr.-old Chinese boy is sent to
to
join his father, an uncle and other Chinese working to build a tunnel for the
transcontinental
railroad through the