Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must clear her father of a stealing charge-or risk being separated from him foreverSuzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people's winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island.

An eleven-year-old immigrant must clear her name when things start disappearing from a Boston settlement houseInnocenza Moretti's parents died in a fire when she was two.

At the outbreak of World War II, a twelve-year-old girl comes up with an idea to help the war effortAmerica has just entered World War II, and everyone in Charlotte Campbell's family is doing his or her part, either abroad or in the Pennsylvania factory town where the Campbells live.

A twelve-year-old aspiring performer follows her dream in a novel that culminates at the 1904 St.

Winner of the Edgar Award: When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsibleWith her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family's prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm.

As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movementEleven-year-old Susan O'Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters.

On an island off the coast of Virginia, the daughter of a US Lifesaver investigates a series of suspicious shipwrecksIt's 1895.

As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserterAs the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie's father and beloved brother, Jacob, are away fighting with the Confederate army.

Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thiefAfter traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon.

Set in 1860 as the first wagon trains rumble into the American West, this adventure-filled novel centers on a frontier girl and the beloved pony she tries to saveBorn in the back of a covered wagon traveling west from Vermont, Annie Dawson dreams of someday seeing what's on the eastern side of the great Mississippi.

A twelve-year-old girl searches for answers when she finds an abandoned baby in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906Clara Curfman is awakened from a recurring swimming dream by her big, furry sheepdog, Humphrey.

The Kansas prairie in 1878 is the setting for this mystery about a girl who gets a new stepmother-a woman who may not be what she appearsIda Kate Deming lives on the Kansas prairie with her father.

Gold fever sweeps the country as a twelve-year-old aspiring writer travels to the Yukon with her family and best friend, fighting natural disasters and a clever thiefAfter traveling from San Francisco by steam ship, Hetty McKinley, her best friend, Alma, and their families prepare for the five-hundred-mile trek north to the gold fields of the Yukon.

On a rocky island outpost off the coast of Maine, a young girl once kept the lighthouse lamps burning for days while her father was held on the mainland by a violent storm.

Elsie Mae Has Something to Say is the perfect book for middle school girls and summer reading book for kids.

Our story begins in a dusty little town in California, a bustling place called Hollywood.

Carnegie Medal-winning author Tanya Landman returns with a brilliantly realised and truly accessible retelling of the book described as Dickens' "e;most perfect"e; novel.

So begins the search for a suitable bride Sarah fancies her Uncle Herb lonely and in need of a wife.

More fun and adventure on the Carolina Coast.

Coming of Age in a time of war.

This humorous, historical adventure is a fanciful look behind the scenes of our nations most venerated home, the White House.

Its 1836, and Ann Arbor folks are rallying support for their booming town, set down in the midst of grape arbors and forests in Michigan.

Benjamin Nathan Tuggle thinks hes like any other twelve-year-old growing up in eastern Kentucky in 1976until he learns he can travel back in time.

Two fifth-graders growing up in post-Civil War California, Mandy McGandy and Jebediah Wu form an unlikely friendship that teaches them about bravery, justice, and the freedom of adventure.

During a time when men think the stars are little children of the moon, thirteen-year-old Zim-ri is sold into slavery by his uncaring, debt-ridden father.

American history can be confusingand theres so much of it to learn!

In 1949, Ruthie is a skinny, flat-chested, twelve-year-old tomboy with a metal front tooth living in the Washington Heights section of New York City.

Barefoot, a memoir and sequel to Road to Mound Grove, continues the story of Betty Jean and her family in rural southeastern Oklahoma as they deal with the struggles of life during the Depression and benefits of Roosevelts New Deal leading up to World War II.

Go on an Easter journey with Wiggles the Rabbit, an Easter Bunny who follows his friend Jesus through the events of the very first Easter!

Everyone is goneeveryone except young James and Sarah Dyer and their faithful companion, Duke.

In the early 1800s, the French and the British were at war.

When Texian leaders began making plans for Texas to become a country, they gathered in a place known as Washington-on-the-Brazos.

The Missouri Compromise was intended to clearly separate slave and free states while ensuring balance between the two types of states.

In March 1846, about 4,000 U.

The 1800s saw the United States almost triple in size.

In the 1790s, trade was a major part of the U.

When President Thomas Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to lead an expedition west, Lewis wrote a letter to his friend William Clark.

The Indian Removal Act promised Native Americans money and supplies to move west to an area called Indian Territory.

AV2 Fiction Readalong by Weigl brings you timeless tales of mystery, suspense, adventure, and the lessons learned while growing up.

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language.

Cheetah boasts that, because he can run faster than any other animal, he is the real king of the beasts.

Georgian England, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, just four years after the Battle of Waterloo.

Hannah is a spirited horse who has a lot riding on her!

';If ever there was a book primed to show American children why families from other countries are often desperate to reach our shores, this is it.

Can two kids survive the events that follow a dangerous circus train wreck?

A Kirkus Best Book of the Year ';A poignant and hopeful glimpse at the past for today's curious readers.

In 1911 Pennsylvania Coal Country, can Corey overcome the panic attacks that prevent him from helping support his family?

High-spirited young Jane is excited to be part of Mr.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade Book of 2019 A Japanese-American family, reeling from their ill treatment in the Japanese internment camps, gives up their American citizenship to move back to Hiroshima, unaware of the devastation wreaked by the atomic bomb in this piercing look at the aftermath of World War II by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.

Based on a true World War II story, Isaiah Campbell tells a charming mystery about a mishap at a magic show at a POW campfeaturing magic trick how-to diagrams throughout.