Historical Fiction

Jacket	Title/Author	Annotation	Grade Level*
	Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian	Fifteen-year-old Armenian Vahan brutally and honestly describes what happens to him and his family when they suddenly lose their home and their privileges in Bitlis, Turkey.	9-12
	Star-Crossed by Linda Collison	When her father’s death forces her to leave her boarding school, Patricia stowaways on a ship in eighteenth century England in order to travel to Barbados to seek her inherited plantation.	9-12
	Revolution is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine	A young girl’s life changes dramatically when her family lives through the cultural revolution in China during the 1970’s.	9-12
	Under a War-Torn Sky by L.M. Elliott	During World War II, an idealistic 19 year-old B-24 pilot finds himself shot down behind enemy lines. Aided in his harrowing escape by the French marquis, he learns about the courage and self-sacrifice of the French.	9-12
	Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn	Lord Otori, descendant of an assassin and a peace loving tribe, rescues Takeo, a sixteen-year-old orphan in medieval Japan in a fantasy full of clans, Ninja powers, and romantic adventure.	10-12
	A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini	After her mother commits suicide, the fifteen-year-old, illigetimate daughter of an Afghan merchant is married off to a man in his forties and moved hundreds of miles from home to live in Kabul, Afghanistan. After several miscarriages and eighteen years of marriage, Mariam's husband marries a fourteen-year-old orphan named Laila for his second wife not knowing that she is pregnant and believes her lover is dead. At first enemies, the women unite against their abusive husband to become closer than sisters in this war-torn story set in the Taliban-run Afghanistan.	Adult/ 11-12
	Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes	A gripping, harsh story about World War II features two teens, one American and one German, who join the war and cross paths at the Battle of the Bulge.	9-12
	The Big Burn by Jeanette Ingold	Wildfires across Idaho threaten and forever change the lives of teens struggling to survive the raging flames.	9-12
	Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You by Hanna Jansen	In 1994 over one million Tutsis were murdered by their Hutu neighbors in Rwanda. This novel was inspired by the experiences of a young Rwandan girl during the genocide.	9-12
	Accidents of Nature by Harriet McBryde Johnson	Jean has always clung to the belief that she is perfectly normal even though she has cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair. The goal to be as normal as possible was set early in life and she's never questioned it, in fact she has never even been around anyone else with a disability - at least not until her stay at Camp Courage. And once she's there everything starts to change.	9-12
	Slap Your Sides by M.E. Kerr	Jubal Shoemaker, a Quaker teen whose religion opposes World War II, accidentally kills a person while he is protecting another.	9-12
	The Miner's Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskas	Willa Lowell lives in a coal-mining town in West Virginia and helps to take care of her family during the Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal that might just save them all.	9-12
	The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis	Native Indonesian boy Ruslan and American tourist teenager Sarah survive the tsunami in December of 2004, but must find a doctor for Sarah's sick younger brother Peter before locating both of their missing fathers.	9-12
*Grade level suggestions are based on professional review sources. Some books contain mature themes. Please discuss reading selections as a family.

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