Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Lexington, Kentucky, 1859.

Its the Great Depression, and times are hard.

In this third book in the Professor Tuesdays Awesome Adventures in History series, Jesse and Tamika want to learn about how slaves escaped to freedom along the western route of the Underground Railroad.

Returning safely from their adventures through time to learn about Chief Pontiacs rebellion (Book One), several members of Miss Peppers class again need Professor Tuesdays help with their studies of Michigan history.

Jackie Mitchell has always wanted to be a great pitcher, and she finally has the chance to become one!

One morning in March 1888, twelve-year-old Milton Daub awoke to find the world buried in snow.

Allen Jay's family farm is a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Match your wits against a band of pirates on the high seas and try to defeat them-or join them!

Fifteen-year-old Laurel Mawston has just moved to the Mississippi River town of New Madrid with her parents and brother when disaster strikes.

Will Sasse is sick of his pa's slow, careful ways.

Annie Quinn knows that a new life in America is her only chance.

In 1875, Ahkah, a 9-year-old Comanche girl, is the only child in a group of 72 Plains Indians brought to the Castillo de San Marcos in St.

What is it like to be 13, trapped inside a fort, and surrounded by a superior enemy?

An elementary school teacher's manual for using A Land Remembered to teach language arts, social studies, and science coordinated with the Sunshine State Standards of the Florida Department of Education.

Teachers Manual for Kidnapped in Key West.

In Old Neb and The Lighthouse Treasure, it is the 1930s and we meet Neb, a horse who belongs to himself, and two families living on a white-beached island jewel set in the blue water of the Gulf of Mexico.

Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a lector just like her grandfather, who sits on a special platform in the cigar factory, reading great novels, the newspaper, and union news to workers as they roll the cigars.

Accelerated Reader Quiz #129357.

A landmark work on one of the most important but least-written-about Indian wars, Hunted Like a Wolf chronicles the Second Seminole War.

Running Boy of the Snake Clan of the Seminoles has lived with his uncle in the Everglades since his mother, a Seminole, and his father, a white man, were taken by the Breath Maker.

A daring adventure on Henry Flaglers Over-Sea Railroad!

Fourteen-year old Frank Hollahan moves to Florida in 1943, at the height of World War II, to join his father, a navy seaman.

Accelerated Reader Quiz available: #117017Eleven-year-old Solomon Freeman and his parents, newly freed slaves, are building a homestead in north Florida's wilderness, living their dream of independence.

Accelerated Reader Quiz #109073.

A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel.

A Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel.

Short-listed for the 2011 Saskatchewan Book Awards: Children's Literature Award and Regina Book Award Who is the girl staring out of the old photograph?

Meet Little Jane Silver, the twelve year-old granddaughter of notorious Treasure Island pirate Long John Silver.

In 1910, while twelve-year-old Addy McLeod waits in a cabin in the Kootenay wilderness of southeastern British Columbia for her brother, Cask, to send for her, she fends off the unwanted advances of her alcoholic stepfather.

Moving with her mother from Vancouver to Wells, British Columbia, Elizabeth Connell longs for the excitement of the city and her father, brother, and friends left behind.

Short-listed for the 2007 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction When 17-year-old Rigg and his friend Ari hang a marauding wolf in the wilds of medieval Greenland, they get much more than they bargained for: a hint of werewolves, glimpses of human sacrifice to the old Norse gods, and an encounter with a resourceful native girl that changes their lives forever.

Will Skye and her family survive the Great Miramichi Fire?

Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they're finally heading off for university.

Short-listed for the 1997 Canadian Children's Book Centre Our Choice On the run from the authorities and the angry townspeople of Weasel City, British Columbia, in the early 1940s, teenage Loretta and her younger brother, Teddy, travel with their gambling stepfather, "e;Bean-Trap"e; Braden, as he strikes out in search of a good poker game in the Canadian and American West.

Short-listed for the 1999 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Ellen finds herself wrongly accused of stealing while selling flowers on the Liverpool docks.

The year is 1927, and the Merril children are once again in school - but one that's unlike any other.

2006 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult Fiction Sophie Mallory's American family knows everything about fighting the British.

2009 Word Guild Award - Winner, Young Adult FictionIn the aftermath of the 1838 rebellion in Lower Canada, Sophie Mallory's father is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in Australia.

Winner of the British Columbia Year 2000 Book Award Star Girl is a pint-sized superhero with gigantic appeal for 10-year-old Sophie, a French Canadian girl about to make a cross-Canada move with her family.

Short-listed for the 1995 Silver Birch Award Eleven-year-old Josie Grun escapes from Communist East Germany with her mother and father one dark night in 1989 just months before the Berlin Wall comes tumbling down.

Shortlisted for the 2009 Red Maple Award and commended in Best Books for Kids & Teens After a shipwreck in 1809, Peter finds himself the victim of amnesia.

Just a Little Later With Eevo and Sim is the continuation of Once Upon a Time Long, Long Ago, the adventures of Eevo and Sim.

Fourteen-year-old Al is spending the summer on the shores of Ontario's James Bay with his eccentric archaeologist father.

Short-listed for the Manitoba Young Reader's Choice Award, 2010 It is 1900, and 14-year-old Bertie McCross is a newspaper boy in downtown Toronto.

Plots, shots, flight, pursuit - all are part of this story from the exciting chapter in America's history when thousands of Loyalists fled to Canada to evade the vengeance of the American Revolutionaries.

Runner-up for the 2009 Chocolate Lily Book Award and commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids & Teens In 1909, 13-year-old Luc Godin arrive in British Columbia from Quebec only to discover that the house they thought they'd move into hasn't been built.

After his "e;wonderful airship"e; crashes near St.

Maggie Davis is a young girl who lives in Chester, Nova Scotia, near Halifax, when her beloved Uncle Nick is killed by diabetes.

"e;Startled, Mishbee gasped, frozen with horror.