Junior High - Historical Fiction

ISBN: 9781416905851
Title: Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson - After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War
Author: Anderson, Laurie Halse.

ISBN: 0531084930
Title: The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi - As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious
Author: Avi, 1937-

ISBN: 0027229807
Title: My brother Sam is dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier - Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town
Author: Collier, James Lincoln, 1928-

ISBN: 9780439023443
Title: Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis - In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice for his family
Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.

ISBN: 9780525426165
Title: The inquisitor's tale, or, The three magical children and their holy dog by Adam Gidwitz - Crossing paths at an inn, thirteenth-century travelers impart the tales of three characters who join forces on a chase through France to escape persecution
Author: Gidwitz, Adam, author.

ISBN: 9780545880169
Title: Projekt 1065 by Alan Gratz - It is 1943, and thirteen-year-old Michael O'Shaunessey, son of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany in Berlin, is also a spy for the British Secret Service
Author: Gratz, Alan, 1972- author.

ISBN: 9780735228511
Title: The night diary by Veera Hiranandani - Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her
Author: Hiranandani, Veera, author.

ISBN: 9780545682428
Title: A night divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen - When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz are trapped on the eastern side where they were living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic are in the West
Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A, author.

ISBN: 9780547251271
Title: A long walk to water by Linda Sue Park - When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members in search of safe haven
Author: Park, Linda Sue.

ISBN: 0618133356
Title: When my name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park - With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely
Author: Park, Linda Sue.

ISBN: 0439120411
Title: Esperanza rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan - Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California
Author: Ryan, Pam Muñoz.

ISBN: 9780763678180
Title: The hired girl by Laura Amy Schlitz - Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911
Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy, author.