Just for Teens: Historical Fiction Books			Back to Booklist
	Daniel Half Human		Fic Chotjewitz
		Chotjewitz, David
		In 1933, best friends Daniel and Armin admire Hitler, but as anti-Semitism buoys Hitler to power, Daniel learns he is half Jewish, threatening the friendship even as life in their beloved Hamburg, Germany, is becoming nightmarish. Also details Daniel and Armin's reunion in 1945 in interspersed chapters.
	Blood Red Horse		Fic Grant, K. M.
		Grant, K. M.
		A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's armies during the Third Crusades. First book in a trilogy.
	Chains Seeds of America		YA FIC Anderson
		Anderson, Laurie
		After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War.
	God of Mischief		YA FIC Bajoria, P.
		Bajoria, Paul
		In 18th century London,the twins, Mog and Nick have to unearth the secrets of their past to escape the dangers they face in their present life.
	Boy Who Dared		YA Fic Bartoletti
		Bartoletti, Susan
		In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
	Revolution is not a Dinner Party		YA FIC COMPESTINE
		Compestine, Ying Cha
		Starting in 1972 when she is nine years old, Ling, the daughter of two doctors, struggles to make sense of the communists' Cultural Revolution, which empties stores of food, homes of appliances deemed "bourgeois," and people of laughter.
	I am Rembrandt's Daughter		YA FIC CULLEN, L
		Cullen, Lynn
		In Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, Cornelia's life as the illegitimate child of renowned painter Rembrandt is marked by plague, poverty, and despair at ever earning her father's love, until she sees hope for a better future in the eyes of a weathy suitor.
	Voice of Her Own		YA FIC DANA, B.
		Dana, Barbara.
		A fictionalized first-person account of revered American poet Emily Dickinson's girlhood in mid-nineteenth-century Amherst, Massachusetts.
	Fire from the Rock		YA FIC DRAPER, S
		Draper, Sharon M.
		In 1957, Sylvia Patterson's life--that of a normal African American teenager--is disrupted by the impending integration of Little Rock's Central High when she is selected to be one of the first black students to attend the previously all white school.
	Samurai Shortstop		YA Fic Gratz
		Gratz, Alan
		While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
	Leonardo's Shadow		YA FIC GREY, C.
		Grey, Christopher Pe
		Fifteen-year-old Giacomo--servant to Leonardo da Vinci--helps his procrastinating master finish painting "The Last Supper" while also trying to find clues to his parentage and pursue his own career as an artist in late fifteenth-century Milan.
	Samurai Never Fears Death		YA Fic Hoobler
		Hoobler, Dorothy
		Returning home to investigate the possible connection of his family's tea shop with smugglers, Seikei, now a samauri in eighteenth-century Japan, becomes involved in murder at a local puppet theater and saving the life of his sister's accused boyfriend.
	Guardian		YA Fic Lester
		Lester, Julius
		In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching.
	When I Crossed No Bob		YA Fic McMullan
		McMullan, Margaret
		Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.
	In the belly of the bloodhound		YA Fic Meyer
		Meyer, L. A.
		Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.
	Hush		YA Fic Napoli, D.
		Napoli, Donna Jo
		Fifteen-year-old Melkorka, an Irish princess, is kidnapped by Russian slave traders and not only learns how to survive but to challenge some of the brutality of her captors, who are fascinated by her apparent muteness and the possibility that she is enchanted.
	Letter Writer		YA FIC RINALDI, A.
		Rinaldi, Ann
		Rinaldi depicts a time of slavery, revolution, and divided loyalties through the eyes of eleven-year-old Harriet. Two intertwined plots tell of the uprising led by Nat Turner and the family story of the Whiteheads
	Shanghai Shadows		YA Fic Ruby
		Ruby, Lois
		From 1939 to 1945, a Jewish family struggles to survive in occupied China; young Ilse by remaining optimistic, her older brother by joining a resistance movement, her mother by maintaining connections to the past, and her father by playing the violin that had been his livelihood.
	Parade of Shadows		YA FIC Whelan, G.
		Whelan, Gloria
		In 1907, sixteen-year-old Julia Hamilton, happy to accompany her diplomat father on a tour of the Ottoman-controlled cities of Istambul, Damascus, Palmyra, and Aleppo, soon finds the journey increasingly hazardous as she begins to uncover her father's true mission and the secret motivations of the other travelers in their group.