Historical Fiction |
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 | Blackwood, Gary | | Second Sight | | A teenage boy who performing in a mind reading act befriends a clairvoyant girl whose frightening visions foreshadow an assassination plot. |
| | Cadnum, Michael | | The Book of the Lion | Edmund finds himself traveling to the Holy Land as squire to a knight crusader on his way to join the forces of Richard the Lionheart.
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| | Chambers, Aidan | | Postcards from No Man’s Land | | Two complex and challenging narratives intertwine in this beautifully written story of Europe during the second world war. |
| | Couloumbis, Audrey | | Summer’s End | | Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers, one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965. |
| | Donnelly, Jennifer | | A Northern Light | | Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer, takes a job at an inn in the summer of 1906, and there discovers the truth about the death of a guest. |
| | Elliott, Laura | | Annie Between the States | | Instead of spending her teen years at parties and balls, Annie, finds herself nursing soldiers, hiding valuables, and running her family’s Virginia home. |
| | Fast, Howard | | April Morning | | The story of one day in the life of a young American boy in colonial Lexington, the day on which he joined the militia and saw his father shot down by the British. |
| | Holmes, Victoria | | Rider in the Dark | | In Dorset in 1740, after her father brings home a mysterious and defiant stallion, Helena is desperate to keep the horse for her own. |
| | Lawrence, Iain | | The Wreckers | | The first in a series of high-seas adventures finds John Spencer shipwrecked on an island whose inhabitants hide a dastardly secret. |
| | Lewis, Catherine | | Postcards to Father Abraham | | 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. |
| | Myers, Anna | | Assassin | | In alternating passages, a young White House seamstress named Bella and the actor John Wilkes Booth describe the events that lead to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
| | Paulsen, Gary | | Sarny | | Sarny, a young widow, flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War, a free woman in search of her sold-away children. |
| | Peck, Richard | | The River Between Us | | Within a page-turning tale of mystery and adventure, this is a portrait of the lifelong impact that one person can have on another. |
| | Peck, Robert Newton | | Bro | | When Tug witnesses a brutal act by his grandfather, he stops speaking. When his parents die, Tug’s beloved older brother feels compelled to escape from a hellish labor camp to rescue him from their grandfather’s Florida cattle ranch. |
| | Rinaldi, Ann | | Numbering the Bones | | President Lincoln has proclaimed his ’great measure,’ and Southern slaves are slowly gaining their freedom. But for Eulinda, a house slave on a Georgia plantation, it is the most difficult time of her life. |
| | Rylant, Cynthia | | I Had Seen Castles | | Now an old man, John is haunted by memories of enlisting to fight in World War II, a decision which changed his life forever. |
| | Salisbury, Graham | | Under the Blood Red Sun | | Tomi Nakaji’s biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. |
| | Schmidt, Gary | | Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy | | Based on a true story, this lovely, sensory novel shines a lovely light on a special friendship forged in impossible circumstances. |
| | Springer, Nancy | | Rowan Hood | When Rosemary’s mother dies, she changes her name to Rowan, disguises herself as a boy, and goes in search of her lost father, Robin Hood.
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| | Sturtevant, Katherine | | A True and Faithful Narrative | | Meg Moore’s desire to write takes her on a gripping adventure, when her spurned suitor is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave. |
| | Voigt, Cynthia | | On Fortunes Wheel | | Faced with the prospect of an unhappy life in the Kingdom, fourteen-year-old Birle accompanies a young runaway nobleman on a journey south and falls into slavery in the citadel of a cruel prince. |
| | Wolf, Allan | | New Found Land: Lewis and Clark’s Voyage of Discovery | | Fourteen different voices relate the journey of the Corps of Discovery in elegant, thrilling, tremendous free verse. |
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