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Tag Archives: historical fiction
Loving Vs. Virginia
Loving Vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell and illustrated by Shadra Strickland is a large, beautifully made historical novel-in-verse. Well-researched (there are lists of the author’s interviews and sources in the back) … Continue reading
Posted in Children's novels, historical, Poetry, Teen/Young Adult, Tween book
Tagged historical fiction, history, novel-in-verse
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Hidden
A historical graphic novel, Hidden, explores how one French Jewish girl was hidden during World War II. Dounia’s story encompasses the discrimination at school once she started wearing the Star of David, and the capture of her parents by the Nazis. Luckily, Dounia’s neighbours … Continue reading
Posted in Books with social studies links, Children's novels
Tagged graphic novel, historical fiction
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Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba
Beginning with June of 1939, Daniel, a German Jew, flees Germany by boat. He is alone because his parents only had enough money to pay for one person’s passage. The boat’s passengers are refused entry to the United States and Canada, … Continue reading
The Lightning Dreamer
Margarita Engle‘s biographical and historical novel-in-verse (it is a fictionalized account of the young Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda) dives into the heart and soul of a young poet who is not allowed to read books because “girls who read too much are unladylike”. Tula … Continue reading
Posted in Children's novels, Poetry, Voice
Tagged children's books, Cuba, historical fiction, novel-in-verse, poetry
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Bread and Roses, Too
A historical novel about both the mill strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts and how the people of Barre, Vermont provided help for children of the strike, Bread and Roses, Too, written by Katherine Paterson, follows Rosa and Jake and their vastly different experiences. … Continue reading
Posted in Children's novels, historical, Tween book
Tagged family, historical, historical fiction, Katherine Paterson, union strike, women
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Lindbergh: The Tale of a Flying Mouse
It takes a mouse to inspire history. Ever resourceful, imaginative and persistent, a little mouse decides to escape mouse traps and cat predators by flying like bats. He just has to figure out how to build a set of wings. … Continue reading
Posted in Books with social studies links, Love that art, Picture books
Tagged flight, historical fiction, mouse, picture book
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Bound
Xing Xing is trapped in a hard subservient life with her step-mother and step-sister during Ming China. Xing Xing’s strength never wavers; she works hard and saves her step-sister from a horrible infection by finding an ancient doctor several towns … Continue reading
Posted in Children's novels, historical, Teen/Young Adult
Tagged fairy tale, historical fiction, Ming, retelling, retold fairy tale
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Crossing Stones
Helen Frost‘s Crossing Stones consists of poems from three perspectives, each a stepping stone through the lives of teens who live in Michigan in 1917, go to war, picket for women’s rights in Washington DC and take on adult-sized responsibilities. Family and … Continue reading
Posted in Children's novels, historical, Poetry, Teen/Young Adult
Tagged books, historical fiction, history, poetry, serious book, women's suffrage, World War I
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Code Name Verity
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein is the best book I’ve read in a very long time. The problem is, I don’t want to say much about it because it’s best read without any hint of how clever, how loyal, … Continue reading
Posted in Teen/Young Adult, Voice
Tagged books, espionage, friendship, historical fiction, history, WWII
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Between Shades of Gray
When fifteen-year-old Lina’s family is exiled from Lithuania by the Soviets, they are forced to travel to remote regions, including Siberia, to work and endure under extreme hunger, cold and inadequate shelter. Maintaining hope is difficult when Lina doesn’t understand … Continue reading
Posted in historical, Michigan author/illustrator, Teen/Young Adult
Tagged books, historical fiction, serious book
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