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Title: Historical Fiction


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Historical Fiction
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  • What is Historical Fiction?
  • Realistic fiction set in a time far enough away
    from the present to be considered history.
  • Story is imaginary but within the realm of
    possibility and constructed around actual
    historical facts.
  • Brings history to life by putting appealing child
    characters in accurately described historical
    settings.
  • Tells stories of characters everyday lives as
    well as their triumphs and failures.
  • Makes history more real and more memorable.

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In 1925, fourteen-year-old Ida Bidson secretly
takes over as the teacher when the one-room
schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes
unexpectedly. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.1 Point Value 3.0
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned
peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees
his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler
who holds a dangerous secret. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.0 Point Value 7.0
5
In wartime Brooklyn in 1943, eleven-year-old
Howie Crispers mounts a campaign to save his
favorite teacher from being fired. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 3.6 Point Value 4.0
6
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo
relates the hardships of living on her family's
wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years
of the Depression. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 5.3 Point Value 3.0
7
When a terrible blight attacks Ireland's potato
crop in 1845, twelve-year-old Nory Ryan's courage
and ingenuity helps her family and neighbors
survive. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.3 Point Value 5.0
8
A fictionalized account of the Pakistani child
who escaped from bondage in a carpet factory and
went on to help liberate other children like him
before being gunned down at the age of thirteen.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.1 Point
Value 4.0
9
Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa bound ship, a
thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror
that he is on a slaver and his job is to play
music for the exercise periods of the human
cargo. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
6.0 Point Value 6.0
10
Rifka, a young Jewish girl, writes to her cousin,
chronicling her family's experiences fleeing
Russia in 1919, and her own trials after being
left in Belgium on her own while the others
emigrate to America. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 4.2 Point Value 4.0
11
Story of an African-American family living in
Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s,
whose children do not understand the prejudice
and discrimination aimed at them. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.7 Point Value 10.0
12
Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in
a torpedo attack at sea during World War II,
acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love
when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island
with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.3 Point
Value 4.0
13
In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark,
ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and
courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish
friend from the Nazis. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.5 Point Value 4.0
14
As English armies invade Scotland in 1306,
eleven-year-old Princess Marjorie, daughter of
the newly crowned Scottish king, Robert the
Bruce, is captured by England's King Edward
Longshanks and held in a cage on public display.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.9 Point
Value 9.0
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Thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated
arranged marriage and must either suffer a
destiny dictated by India's customs or find the
courage to oppose tradition. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.3 Point Value 5.0
16
In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African
American girl and her family befriend and give
refuge to a runaway Apache boy. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 4.9 Point Value 4.0
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While her father is in hiding after attempts on
his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in
her diary how she fears for her own safety and
hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some
day. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
6.2 Point Value 6.0
18
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines
of the Watsons, an African-American family living
in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after
they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer
of 1963. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.0 Point Value 8.0
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In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of
place in the Puritan household of her aunt,
befriends an old woman considered a witch by the
community and suddenly finds herself standing
trial for witchcraft. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level Point Value
20
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in
Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression,
escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search
of the man he believes to be his father--the
renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand
Rapids. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.0 Point Value 8.0
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Prince Brat deserves his name--he causes trouble
at every possible opportunity. Luckily for him
it's forbidden to strike a prince, so the palace
keeps a whipping boy. Jemmy, plucked from the
sewers to become the royal whipping boy, dreams
of returning to his life as a rat-catcher. One
night the prince decides to run away and orders
Jemmy to join him. The two boys embark on a
comical series of misadventures that include two
murderous highwaymen, a dancing bear, and a
journey through the rat-infested sewers beneath
the city.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 3.9 Point
Value 2.0
22
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home
in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is
hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach
him their skills. Accelerated Reader Reading
Level 4.9 Point Value 5.0
23
Thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family
travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago in
1893 to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's
Columbian Exposition which, along with an
encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell,
turns out to be a life-changing experience for
everyone. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
4.7 Point Value 4.0
24
Told in the voices of eleven characters, about
two young girls, one Jewish and the other
African-American, who come to the attention of
the newly formed Ku Klux Klan in a small Vermont
town in 1924. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.0 Point Value 2.0
25
When their father invites a mail-order bride to
come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb
and Anna are captivated by their new mother and
hope that she will stay. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 3.4 Point Value 1.0
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Sequel to Sarah, plain and tall. When a drought
tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from
Maine to her new home on the prairie, her
stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a
family. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
3.2 Point Value 1.0
27
In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save
his widowed mother from a horrendous second
marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has
life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky
as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the
great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 6.5 Point Value 10.0
28
Dear America Diary Series
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In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles
her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri
to Oregon on the Oregon Trail. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.5 Point Value 4.0
30
A fictional journal in which eleven-year-old
Minnie Swift tells how her family dealt with the
difficult times during the Depression and how the
arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their
lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.4 Point
Value 5.0
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Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving
once again to follow her father's reporting job,
cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her
tropical paradise is shattered on December 7,
1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.6 Point
Value 3.0
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Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the
conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the
Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma
and make the difficult journey to California,
where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.7 Point
Value 5.0
33
Thirteen-year-old Madeline's diaries for 1941 and
1942 reveal her experiences living on Long Island
during World War II while her father is away in
the Navy. Accelerated Reader Reading Level
5.5 Point Value 4.0
34
A fictional journal kept by twelve-year-old
Augustus Pelletier, the youngest member of Lewis
and Clark's Corps of Discovery. Accelerated
Reader Reading Level 5.6 Point Value 5.0
35
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from
Russia, keeps a diary account of the first
eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower
East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.5 Point
Value 4.0
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Eleven-year-old Nellie Lee Love records in her
diary the events of 1919, when her family moves
from Tennessee to Chicago, hoping to leave the
racism and hatred of the South behind.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 4.9 Point
Value 5.0
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A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna
Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father
succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish
his medical practice in Oregon after losing his
wife and money on their steamship journey from
New York. Includes a historical note.
Accelerated Reader Reading Level 5.5 Point
Value 5.0
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