Historical Fiction

Reading historical fiction is a fun way to learn about history. These are all great books. These are in the approximate order they come in history. These books are of varying reading level from 7th - college level.
*easiest reading

COLONIAL AMERICA
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond
The Scarlett Letter
The Courtship of Miles Standish
The Devil and Daniel Webster

FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Bulletproof George Washington - an amazing, true story
*Calico Captive - Elizabeth Spear

REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD
Common Sense - Thomas Paine
*Johnny Tremain
Poor Richard's Almanac - Ben Franklin
Autobiography of Ben Franklin

FRONTIER
The Light in the Forest - Conrad Richter - boy raised by indians
The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper - NY 1740
*Sign of the Beaver
Wilderness Wife - Etta DeGering - Rebecca Boone
*Streams to the River, River to the Sea - Scott O'Dell - Sacagawea
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

CIVIL WAR PERIOD
Clara Barton - Mildred Pace
Gone With the Wind
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abe Lincoln at Gettysburg - in - All Around America
Freedom Train - Dorothy Sterling - Harriet Tubman
Little Women

1800s
*Helen Keller, Story of My Life
Sorrow Built a Bridge - Katherine Burton - Rose hawthorne, helping the poor
Victorian Cinderella - Phyllis Jackson - Harriet Beecher Stowe
*Medals for Morse
*Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggins
Marcus and Narcissa Whitman - James Daugherty or Jeanette Easton
Pony Express Goes Through - Howard Driggs

1900s
*Girl of the Limberlost
The Grapes of Wrath depression era
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor - Depression era
Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls - Ozarks
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Hiding Place -WWII  (Subject matter-16yrs or older.)
Shackleton's Valient Voyage

World Historical Fiction

Greek and Roman Mythology
Ulysses and the Cyclops
They Lived Like this in Ancient Britain
Ancient Rome
The Greek Slave and the Little Roman Boy
The Lance of Kanana Ethan - Shepherd Boy
North of Nowhere
Grimms Fairy Tales
The Boy's King Arthur, Sidney Lanier
Tales of Shakespeare, Charles and Mary Lamb
Marco Polo
Men of Iron, Elizabeth Janeway
The Trumpeter of Kracov
The Three Musketeers
The King's Fifth, Scott O'Dell
Isaac Newton
In Pursuit of the Spanish Galleon (1740)
White Reindeer
Way of the Condor - (Peru)
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