Barrington Area Library

Teens' Catalog | History

Historical fiction books are realistic stories about times or events that took place at least a generation before the book was written.

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Abadzis, Nick.  Laika.
Anderson, Laurie Halse.  Fever, 1793.
Bruchac, Joseph.  Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two.
Cadnum, Michael.  Ship of Fire.
Carbone, Elisa.  Blood on the River: James Town 1607.
Choi, Sook Nyul.  Year of Impossible Goodbyes.
Choldenko, Gennifer.  Al Capone Does My Shirts.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton.
Cushman, Karen.  The Midwife's Apprentice.
Donnelly, Jennifer.  A Northern Light.
Elliott, Laura.  Annie, between the States.
Gratz, Alan.  Samurai Shortstop.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson.  Uprising.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Boston Jane: An Adventure.
Holm, Jennifer L.  Penny from Heaven.
Horowitz, Anthony.  The Devil and His Boy.
Hughes, Dean.  Soldier Boys.
Kadohata, Cynthia.  Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam.
Key, Watt.  Alabama Moon.
Klages, Ellen.  The Green Glass Sea.
Larson, Kirby.  Hattie Big Sky.
Lawrence, Iain.  The Wreckers.
Lisle, Janet Taylor. Black Duck.
Malone, Patricia.  The Legend of Lady Ilena.
Mazer, Harry.  A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor.
McMullan, Margaret.  When I Crossed No-Bob.
Miller, Sarah.  Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller.
Murphy, Pat.  The Wild Girls.
Orlev, Uri.  Run, Boy, Run.
Park, Linda Sue.  When My Name Was Keoko.
Peck, Richard.  The River between Us.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.  A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama.
Schmidt, Gary D.  The Wednesday Wars.
Speare, Elizabeth George.  The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Sturtevant, Katherine.  At the Sign of the Star.
Turnbull, Ann.  No Shame, No Fear.
Veciana-Suarez, Ana.  Flight to Freedom.
Whitesel, Cheryl Aylward.  Blue Fingers: A Ninja's Tale.

Nonfiction

Allen, Thomas B.  Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories.
Armstrong, Jennifer.  Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance.
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.  Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler's Shadow.
Buckley, Susan.  Journeys for Freedom: A New Look at America's Story.
Fleischman, John.  Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science.
Freedman, Russell.  Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Freedman, Russell.  Who Was First? Discovering the Americas.
Jeffrey, Gary.  Spectacular Shipwrecks.
Murphy, Jim.  An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.
Nardo, Don.  Games of Ancient Rome.
Philbrick, Nathaniel.  Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex.
Schlitz, Laura Amy.  Good Masters, Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village.
Shone, Rob.  Ancient Treasures.
Walker, Sally M.  Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley.
Warren, Andrea.  Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps.
Weatherford, Carole Boston.  Birmingham, 1963.