Historical Fiction
 Code Name Verity – Elizabeth WeinTwo girls – Maddie, a working class Mancunian with an interest in engines and airplanes, and ‘Verity’, an educated and refined lady from one of the most noble houses of Scotland – meet during the early days of WWII and become best friends. When their plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and Verity is captured by the Gestapo, she spends her imprisonment writing about how she got there and what went wrong… |
 The Auslander – Paul DowswellGerman soldiers take Peter from a Warsaw orphanage, and soon he is adopted by Professor Kaltenbach, a prominent Nazi, but Peter forms his own ideas about what he sees and hears and decides to take a risk that is most dangerous in 1942 Berlin. |
 Between Shades of Gray - Ruta SepetysIn 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and her brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where she fights for her life and those of her family. |
 Bright Young Things – Anna GodbersenIn the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia and her friend Letty run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships that change their lives forever. |
 March Toward the Thunder — Joseph BruchacLouis Nollette, a fifteen-year-old Abenaki Indian, joins the Irish Brigade in 1864 to fight for the Union in the Civil War. |
 Annexed – Sharon DogarEveryone knows about Anne Frank and her life hidden in the secret annex–but what about the boy who was also trapped there with her? In this powerful and gripping novel, Dogar explores what life might have been like from Peter’s point of view. |
 Fever, 1793 – Laurie Halse AndersonIn 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year old Matilda is separated from her sick mother during an outbreak of yellow fever and has to cope with the horrors and learn to depend on herself. |
 Fallen Angels – Walter Dean MyersPerry, a teenager from Harlem, is sent to fight in Vietnam in the late ’60s and comes face to face with the horrors of war. |
 The Book Thief – Markus ZusakDeath itself narrates this story about a young German girl named Liesel, her friends, neighbors and family, and the Jewish man they attempt to hide. |
 Uprising—Margaret Peterson HaddixIn 1927, at the urging of twenty-one-year-old Harriet, Mrs. Livingston reluctantly recalls her experiences at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, including miserable working conditions that led to a strike, then the fire that took the lives of her two best friends, when Harriet, the boss’s daughter, was only five years old. |
 Three Rivers Rising – Jame RichardsSixteen-year-old Celestia is a wealthy member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, where she meets and falls in love with Peter, a hired hand who lives in the valley below, and by the time of the torrential rains that lead to the disastrous Johnstown flood of 1889, she has been disowned by her family and is staying with him in Johnstown. |
 The Other Half of Life – Kim Ablon WhitneyIn 1939, fifteen-year-old Thomas sails on a German ship bound for Cuba with more than nine hundred German Jews expecting to be granted safe haven in Cuba. |
