HISTORY HEADINGS:

EARLY HISTORY

THE EDGE ON THE SWORD BY REBECCA TINGLE

In ninth-century Britain, fifteen-year-old Aethelflaed, daughter of King Alfred of West
Saxony, finds she must assume new responsibilities much sooner than expected when she
is betrothed to Ethelred of Mercia in order to strengthen a strategic alliance against the
Danes.

ESCAPE FROM EGYPT BY SONIA LEVITIN

When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave,
finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian,
half-Syrian Jennat.

GODDESS OF YESTERDAY BY CAROLINE COONEY

In ancient Sparta, young Anaxandra must assume a false identity to ensure her safety. She
guards against the jealousy and suspicion of Helen, the beautiful wife of King Meneleus,
whose actions will trigger a tragic war with Troy.

PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER BY JULIUS LESTER

A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a
Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as
a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

TROY BY ADELE GERAS

Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan
War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored
gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.

MIDDLE AGES AND RENAISSANCE

ANNA OF BYZANTIUM BY TRACY BARRETT

In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the
throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger
brother John because he is a boy.

THE BEDUIN’S GAZELLE BY FRANCES TEMPLE

In 1302, two cousins of the nomadic Beni Khalid tribe who are betrothed become
separated by political intrigue between warring tribes. Sequel to the Ramsay Scallop.

THE BOOK OF THE LION BY MICHAEL CADNUM

In twelfth-century England, after his master, a maker of coins for the king, is brutally
punished for alleged cheating, seventeen-year-old Edmund finds himself traveling to the
Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard
Lionheart.

THE BURNING TIME BY CAROL MATAS

After her father's sudden death, fourteen-year-old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth-century
France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her
mother and others with being witches.

CAPTIVES OF TIME BY MALCOM BOSSE

Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Anne and her gentle but mute brother
suffer great hardships as they travel across a dangerous, pestilence-ridden Europe to their
uncle, an armorer and clockmaker, and, after his death, to a distant city to deliver the
commissioned plans of his precious clock.

CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD BY AVI

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.

DAUGHTER OF VENICE BY DONNA JO NAPOLI

Frustrated with the restrictions her gender imposes on her life, fourteen-year-old Donata,
disguised as a boy, sneaks out of her noble family's house to roam the streets of late
sixteenth-century Venice and then must confront the repercussions of her actions.

DOVE AND SWORD BY NANCY GARDEN

In 1455 in France, Gabrielle is visited by Pierre d'Arc, a brother of Joan of Arc, and with
him reminisces about their childhood together in Domremy and Joan's subsequent trial
and burning at the stake at Rouen twenty-four years before.

THE EXAMINATION BY MALCOM BOSSE

Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous
rivals on their journey through fifteenth century China as Chen pursues his calling as a
scholar.

GIRL IN A CAGE BY JANE YOLEN

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.

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING BY TRACY CHEVALIER

Set in 17th-century Delft, this historical novel intertwines the art of Johannes
Vermeer with his life and that of a maiden servant in his household. From the few
facts known about the artist, Chevalier creates the reality of the Netherlands.
I RODE A HORSE OF MILK WHITE JADE BY DIANE WILSON
Oyuna tells her granddaughter the story of how love for her horse enabled her to win a
race and bring good luck to her family living in Mongolia in 1339.

MATILDA BONE BY KAREN CUSHMAN

Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a
village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both
spiritual and practical.

PAGAN’S CRUSADE BY CATHERINE JINKS

In twelfth-century Jerusalem, orphaned sixteen-year-old Pagan is assigned to work for
Lord Roland, a Templar knight, as Saladin's armies close in on the Holy City.

QUEEN’S OWN FOOL BY JANE YOLEN

When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary,
Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and
Scotland.

RAMSAY SCALLOP BY FRANCES TEMPLE

At the turn of the fourteenth century in England, fourteen-year-old Elenor finds her
betrothal to an ambitious lord's son launching her on a memorable pilgrimage to far-off
Spain.

SHAKESPEARE STEALER BY GARY BLACKWOOD

A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in
order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship
and loyalty.

SPIDER’S VOICE BY GLORIA SKURZYNSKI

Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes involved in the
adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France's most famous lovers, who lived during the
twelfth century.

COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA 1400’S TO 1800’S

BEYOND THE BURNING TIME BY KATHRYN LASKY

When, in the winter of 1691, accusations of witchcraft surface in her small New England
village, twelve-year-old Mary Chase fights to save her mother from execution.

THE BIRCHBARK HOUSE BY LOUISE ERDRICH

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the
joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

BROKEN DAYS BY ANN RINALDI

In 1811, life with her Aunt Hannah in Salem, Massachusetts, becomes even more difficult
for fourteen-year-old Ebie with the arrival of a half-Indian girl who claims to be the
daughter of Hannah's sister, Thankful, and with the threat of impending war.

CAST TWO SHADOWS: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH

BY ANN RINALDI
In South Carolina in 1780, fourteen-year-old Caroline sees the Revolutionary War take a
terrible toll among her family and friends and comes to understand the true nature of war.

CHILDREN OF THE LONGHOUSE BY JOSEPH BRUCHAC

Eleven-year-old Ohkwa'ri and his twin sister must make peace with a hostile gang of
older boys in their Mohawk village during the late 1400s.

FEVER 1793 BY LAURIE ANDERSON

In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother,
learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of
a yellow fever epidemic.

GLORY FIELD BY DEAN WALTER MYERS

Follows a family's two hundred forty-one year history, from the capture of an African boy
in the 1750s through the lives of his descendants, as their dreams and circumstances lead
them away from and back to the small plot of land in South Carolina that they call the
Glory Field.

A LITTLE BIT DEAD BY CHAP REAVER

In 1876, after interfering with the attempted lynching of a young Yahi Indian named
Shanti, eighteen-year-old Reece finds his own life in danger and becomes intimately
involved in the future of Shanti's people.

RIDE INTO THE MORNING BY ANN RINALDI

When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown,New Jersey, under
the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from
the mutinous soldiers who have need of it

SACAJAWEA: THE STORY OF BIRD WOMAN AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK
EXPEDITION BY JOSEPH BRUCHAC
Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William Clark
alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the
Northwest.

THE SACRIFICE BY DIANE MATCHECK

When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka
(Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her
dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
THE WHITE BY DEBORAH LARSON
In her first novel, Larsen mines historical territory, reinterpreting the life of Mary
Jemison, a white woman who was captured in 1758 by a Shawnee raiding party at
her home in Gettysburg, Pa., while the rest of her family was murdered and scalped.

WINTER PEOPLE BY JOSEPH BRUCHAC

As the French and Indian War rages in October of 1759, Saxso, a fourteen-year-old
Abenaki boy, pursues the English rangers who have attacked his village and taken his
mother and sisters hostage

WITCH CHILD BY CELIA REESE

In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to
the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near
Salem, Massachusetts.

YEAR OF THE HANGMAN BY GARY BLACKWOOD

In 1777, having been kidnapped and taken forcibly from England to the American
colonies, fifteen-year-old Creighton becomes part of developments in the political unrest
there that may spell defeat for the patriots and change the course of history.

CIVIL WAR

THE HEART CALLS HOME BY JOYCE HANSON

After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina
island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North.
Sequel to “Out from this Place”.

IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE BY ANN RINALDI

For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is
conflict both outside and inside their house.

NIGHTJOHN BY GARY PAULSEN

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a
newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

NUMBERING ALL THE BONES BY ANN RINALDI

"It is 1864, the Civil War is moving toward an end. President
Lincoln has proclaimed his 'great measure,' and Southern slaves
are slowly gaining their freedom. But for thirteen-year-old
Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most
difficult time of her life..."

RED BADGE OF COURAGE BY STEPHEN CRANE

As he faces battle in the Civil War for the first time, a young Union soldier gains maturity
and some peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions.
THE RIVER BETWEEN US BY RICHARD PECK
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes
in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come
north to Illinois.

SOLDIER’S HEART BY GARY PAULSEN

Eager to enlist, fifteen-year-old Charley has a change of heart
after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish
of Civil War combat.

SOONER BY PATRICIA CALVERT

With the realization that his father may not return now that the
Civil War is over, thirteen-year-old Tyler finds himself the man
of their Missouri farm and the master of a new dog, the
strikingly colored Sooner. Sequel to “Bigger”.

TWENTIETH CENTURY

BRIDES OF EDEN” A TURE STORY IMAGAINED BY LINDA CREW

In this story based on true events, sixteen-year-old Eva and her female friends become
obsessed with a charismatic young man who comes to Corvallis, Oregon, in 1904,
claiming to be a Christian prophet.

EARTHQUAKE AT DAWN BY KRSTIANA GREGORY

A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the
aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-
year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion.

FORGOTTEN FIRE BY ADAM BAGDASARIAN

Up until 1915, Vahan has been the pampered son of a wealthy and influential Armenian
family. Then overnight his world is destroyed when Turkish leaders begin the systematic
massacre of the Armenian population of Turkey.

THE JUNGLE BY UPTON SINCLAIR

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a vivid portrait of life and death in a turn-of-the-century
American meat-packing factory. A grim indictment that led to government regulations of
the food industry, The Jungle is Sinclair's extraordinary contribution to literature and
social reform.

MABLE RILEY: A RELIABLE RECORD OF HUMDRUM, PERIL AND ROMANCE

BY MARTHE JOCELYN
In 1901, fourteen-year-old Mable Riley dreams of being a writer and having adventures
while stuck in Perth County, Ontario, assisting her sister in teaching school and secretly
becomin friends with a neighbor who holds scandalous opinions on women's rights.
NORTHERN LIGHT BY JENNIFER DONNELLY
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the
wishes of her father and fiance,takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth
about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.

AN OCEAN APART, A WORLD AWAY BY LENSEY NAMIOKA

Picking up where Ties that Bind, Ties that Break left off, this story focuses on Ailin’s
friend Yanyan, who pursues her dreams of becoming a doctor by enrolling in an
American university. Yanyan finds that adjusting to American life of the 1920s can be just
as difficult as the restrictive life she left behind in China.

THE SONG OF THE MOLIM BY JANE CUTLER

When twelve-year-old Harry comes from Kansas to visit the St.
Louis World's Fair in 1904, he befriends an African pygmy who is
part of an anthropology exhibit, works for the first female news
photographer, and becomes involved in a burgeoning scientific
controversy.

TIES THAT BIND, TIES THAT BREAK BY LENSY NAMIOKA

Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of upper class Chinese
society by refusing to have her feet bound.

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HARPER LEE

A story about a lawyer in a small Alabama town in the 1930’s whose defense of a black
man arouses the town’s prejudice and hostility.

WITNESS BY KAREN HESSE

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including
a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux
Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

WORLD WAR I

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT BY ERICH REMARQUE

Paul and his classmates enthusiastically enlist to fight in the War, but soon find out the
realities of war.

ART OF KEEPING COOL BY JANET TAYLOR LISLE

In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in
their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German
artist who is suspected of being a spy.
BAT 6 BY VIGINIA EUWER WOLFF
In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an
annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface

A FAREWELL TO ARMS BY ERNEST HEMINGWAY

A love story between an ambulance driver and an English nurse set againt the brutality of
World War I.

MY BROTHER, MY SISTER AND I BY YOKO KAWASHIMA WATKINS

Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-
year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false
charges of arson, theft, and murder.

PICTURES, 1918 BY JEANETTE INGOLD

Coming of age in a rural Texas community in 1918, fifteen-year-old Asia assists in the
local war effort, contemplates romance with a local boy, and expands her horizons
through her pursuit of photography.

GREAT DEPRESSION

ESPERANZA RISING BY PAMELA 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, where they must adapt to the harsh
circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.

EXTRA INNINGS BY ROBERT NEWTON PECK

After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old
Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt
Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling
with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.

GRAPES OF WRATH BY JOHN STEINBECK

The story of the Joads, set during the Great Depression, as they struggle to make ends
meet.

JIM THE BOY BY TONY EARLEY

The pleasures and fears of a ten-year old boy growing up in a North Carolina town during
The Depression.

A LONG WAY FROM CHICAGO: A NOVEL IN STORIES BY RICHARD PECK

A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great
Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

NINE MAN TREE BY ROBERT PECK

In Depression-era Florida, young Yoolee assumes the responsibility of protecting his
family from an unspeakable horror stalking the swamplands.
NOHWERE TO CALL HOME BY CYNTHIA DEFELICE
When her father kills himself after losing his money in the stock market crash, twelve-
year-old Frances, now a penniless orphan, decides to hop aboard a freight train and live
the life of a hobo.

WORLD WAR II

BOYS FROM ST. PETRI BY BJARNE REUTER

A group of young men begin a series of increasingly dangerous protests against the
German invaders of their Danish homeland.

GADGET BY PAUL ZINDEL

In 1945, having joined his father at Los Alamos, where he and other scientists are
working on a secret project to end World War II, thirteen-year-old Stephen becomes
caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue.

GREATER THAN ANGELS BY CAROL MATAS

Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared
for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.

NOT A SWAN BY MICHELLE MARGORIAN

A seventeen-year-old girl in 1940's England spends an unchaperoned summer at a
cottage in a seaside village, where a series of diaries by the cottage's most recent
inhabitant, together with some intense personal experiences, open up her life to reveal
her true wants and priorities.

OTHER BELLS FOR US TO RING BY ROBERT CORMIER

When her father is transferred to an army camp in Massachusetts during the Second
World War, Darcy feels isolated in her French-Canadian neighborhood until she meets the
vivacious Kathleen Mary O'Hara and learns about Catholicism.

SOLDIER BOYS BY DEAN HUGHES

Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during
World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.

SPYING ON MISS MULLER BY EVE BUNTING

At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old
Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with
her worries about her own father's drinking problem.

SUMMER OF MY GERMAN SOLDIER BY BETTE GREENE

Sheltering an escaped prisoner of war is the beginning of some shattering experiences for
a twelve-year-old girl in Arkansas.
TIME OF FIRE BY ROBERT WESTALL
In England during World War II, with his mother dead from a German bomb and his
father off in training and action but keeping him informed by letter, Sonny tries to
understand the darkest truths of war and retribution.

TWO SUNS IN THE SKY BY MIRIAM BAT-AMI

In 1944, an Upstate New York teenager named Christine meets and falls in love with
Adam, a Yugoslavian Jew living in a refugee camp, despite their parents' conviction that
they do not belong together.

UNDER THE BLOOD-RED SUN BY GRAHAM SALISBURY

Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life
with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
in December 1941.

YEAR OF IMPOSSIBLE GOODBYES BY SOOK NYUL CHOI

A young Korean girl survives the oppressive Japanese and Russian occupation of North
Korea during the 1940s, to later escape to freedom in South Korea.

VIETNAM WAR

COME IN FROM THE COLD BY MARSHA QUALEY

The Vietnam War protest movement brings together two Minnesota teenagers.

FALLEN ANGELS BY WALTER DEAN MYERS

Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army
in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.

IN COUNTRY BY BOBBIE ANN MASON

At age 17, Sam is obsessed with the Vietnam War and the effect it has had on her life -
losing a father she never knew and living with her Uncle Emmett who is suffering from
the effects of Agent Orange.

JESSE BY GARY SOTO

Jesse and his brother Abel hope that by enrolling in Fresno City College, they can escape
a life of working in the fields or being drafted for the Vietnam War.

LIFE HISTORY OF A STAR BY KELLY EASTON

For more than a year, fourteen-year-old Kristin uses her diary to record her confused
thoughts about the physical changes brought on by adolescence and the emotional strain
on her family of living with the "ghost" of her beloved older brother who was physically
and mentally destroyed while serving in Vietnam.

LOST IN THE WAR BY NANCY ANTLE

Twelve-year-old Lisa Grey struggles to cope with a mother whose traumatic experiences
as a nurse in Vietnam during the war are still haunting her.

POSTCARDS TO FATHER ABRAHAM BY CATHERINE LEWIS

When sixteen-year-old Meghan loses her leg to cancer and her brother to Vietnam, she
expresses intense anger in postcards which she writes to her idol, Abraham Lincoln.

STRANDED IN HARMONY BY BARBARA SHOUP

While struggling with the changes he faces during his senior year in a small Indiana
town, Lucas gains insight through a unique friendship with a former Vietnam war
protester.

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED BY TIM O’BRIEN

Twenty-two stories of men who fought in Vietnam told by looking at the personal items
they carried with them.