Recommended Young Adult United States Historical Fiction

Recommended Young Adult United States Historical Fiction

Witch Child by Celia Rees -- Puritans

Sorceress by Celia Rees -- sequel to above

The Primrose Way by Jackie French Koller -- Puritans

Only Brave Tomorrows by Winifred Luhrmann -- 1675-6
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare -- 1687

Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry -- Salem Witch trials
A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials by Ann Rinaldi

The Ransom of Mercy Carter by Caroline B. Cooney-1704

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper -- 1738 slavery

I Am Regina by Sally M. Keehn -- French and Indian war

Calico Captive by Elizabeth George Speare -- French and Indian war

Beaded Moccasins by Lynda Durrant -- 1759

The Fifth of March : A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi

Time Enough for Drums by Ann Rinaldi -- Revolutionary War

The Secret of Sarah Revere by Ann Rinaldi -- Revolutionary War

Cast Two Shadows : The American Revolution in the South by Ann Rinaldi

Finishing Becca : A Story about Peggy Shippen and Benedict Arnold by Ann Rinaldi

A Ride into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick by Ann Rinaldi -- Rev. War

Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley by Ann Rinaldi

Taking Liberty : The Story of Oney Judge, George Washington's Runaway Slave by Ann Rinaldi

Or Give Me Death: A Novel of Patrick Henry's Family by Ann Rinaldi

April Morning -- Rev. War by Howard Fast

Ruffles and Drums -- Rev. War by Betty Cavanna

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson

Wolf By The Ears by Ann Rinaldi -- Thomas Jefferson time

The Quilt Trilogy by Ann Rinaldi -- post Revolution-1841

The Escape From Home (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 1) by Avi -- 19th century

Lord Kirkle's Money (Beyond the Western Sea, Book 2) by Avi

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi -- 1830s

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 by Joan W. Blos

The Education of Mary : A Little Miss of Color, 1832 by Ann Rianldi

Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies & Little Misses of Color by Elizabeth Alexander, Marilyn Nelson, and Floyd Cooper -- 1833-1834

Last Child by Michael Spooner -- 1837 Mandan Tribe - smallpox epidemic

Adaline Falling Star by Mary Pope Osborne -- 1840

A Heart For Any Fate Westward to Oregon 1845 by Linda Crew -- 1845 Oregon Trail

The Braid by Helen Frost -- 1850s

Nightjohn and Sarny by Gary Paulsen -- 1850s slavery

The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman --pre-Civil War-WWI

Mine Eyes Have Seen by Ann Rinaldi - 1859 John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

The Ever After Bird by Ann Rinaldi -- Underground Railroad

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt -- Civil War

Evvy's Civil War by Miriam Brenaman

Amelia's War by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

The Last Silk Dress by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

Sarah's Ground by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

In My Father's House by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

Juliet's Moon by Ann Rinaldi -- Civil War

The River Between Us by Richard Peck -- Civil War

Annie Between the States by L. M. Elliott -- Civil War

Letters from Vinnie by Maureen Stack Sappey -- Civil War

Red Moon at Sharpsburg by Rosemary Wells -- Civil War

Over Jordan by Norma Johnston -- Civil War

The Tamarack Tree : a novel of the Siege of Vicksburg by Patricia Clapp -- Civil War

Stella Stands Alone by A. LaFaye -- Civil War

Two Girls of Gettysburg by Lisa Klein -- Civil War

Numbering All the Bones by Ann Rinaldi -- 1865

An Acquaintance with Darkness by Ann Rinaldi -- 1865

Come Juneteenth by Ann Rinaldi -- 1865 slavery and race relations

Dancing at the Odinochka by Kirkpatrick Hill -- 1860s-70s Russian America/Alaska

Beyond the Divide by Kathryn Lasky -- Westward expansion

Prairie Songs by Pam Conrad -- prairie

The Staircase by Ann Rinaldi --1870s New Mexico

Finding Hattie: A Novel by Sally Warner -- 1882

Booth's Daughter by Raymond Wemmlinger -- 1880s

Together Apart by Dianne Gray -- 1888 prairie

Tomorrow the River by Dianne E. Gray --1896

A Sea So Far and Rising Tide by Jean Thesman -- early 1900s

I Am Lavina Cumming by Susan Lowell -- California 1905

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix-- 1909-1911

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska -- early 1900s Jewish family

Double Crossing by Eve Tal -- Jewish Ellis Island immigration

Ashes of Roses by Mary Jane Auch -- triangle factory fire

Gilbert & Sullivan Set Me Free by Kathleen Karr -- 1914

Time of Angels by Karen Hesse -- 1918 - influenza - Jewish character

The Ornament Tree and Tree of Bells by Jean Thesman -- 1918 and 1920s

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson -- 1917-1918

Pictures 1918 by Jeanette Ingold -- 1918

Fire in the Hills by Anna Myers -- 1918

Listening For Lions by Gloria Whelan -- 1919

The Christmas Barn by C. L. Davis -- 1930s

The Miner's Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas --1930s

Back Home by Michelle Magorian --WWII

Homefront by Doris Gwaltney -- 1930s

The War at Home by Connie Jordan Green

Holding Up The Earth by Dianne E. Gray -- 1869, 1900, 1936, 1960s, present day