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Juvenile Book Collection: Historical Fiction

The guide is to assist education and library media students as they review children's and young adult literature for their coursework.

Holocaust Literature

Hide and Seek by Ida Vos; Terese Edelstein (Translator); Inez Smidt (Translator)
ISBN: 9780395564707
Publication Date: 1991-03-25
Escape from the Holocaust by Kenneth D. Roseman
ISBN: 9780807403075
Publication Date: 1985-09-01
The Winter Horses by Philip Kerr
ISBN: 9780385755436
Publication Date: 2014-03-25
Alan and Naomi by Myron Levoy
ISBN: 9780064402095
Publication Date: 1987-11-20
Finding Sophie by Irene N. Watts
ISBN: 9780887766138
Publication Date: 2002-08-20
North to Freedom by Anne Holm
ISBN: 9780152575533
Publication Date: 1990-03-15
Hidden on the High Wire by Kathy Kacer
ISBN: 9781772602517
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
ISBN: 9780440490173
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780547577098
Publication Date: 2011-05-02
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
ISBN: 9780141306001
Publication Date: 1999-10-25
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
ISBN: 9780152046798
Publication Date: 2003-05-01
Final Journey by Gudrun Pausewang; Patricia Crampton (Translator)
ISBN: 9780670864560
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Escape to the Forest by Ruth Y. Radin; Janet Hamlin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780060285203
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
Friedrich by Hans-Peter Richter; Edite Kroll (Translator)
ISBN: 9780140322057
Publication Date: 1987-05-01
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
ISBN: 9780545071017
Publication Date: 2008
A Pocket Full of Seeds by Marilyn Sachs
ISBN: 9780140365931
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Mara's Stories by Gary D. Schmidt
ISBN: 9780805067941
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
The Shadow Children by Steven Schnur; Herbert Tauss (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780688132811
Publication Date: 1994-10-18
Of Heroes, Hooks and Heirlooms by Faye Silton
ISBN: 9780827606494
Publication Date: 1997-08-01
Soldier with the Golden Buttons by Miriam Steiner-Aviezer; Miriam Arad (Translator)
ISBN: 9789653082243
Publication Date: 2005-02-15
Behind the bedroom wall by Laura E. Williams
ISBN: 9780439872065
Publication Date: 1996
Katarina by Kathryn Winter
ISBN: 9780439099042
Publication Date: 1999-10-01
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
ISBN: 9780140345353
Publication Date: 1990-10-01
Mordechai Anielewicz by Rachel Hausfater; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
ISBN: 9781644211328
Publication Date: 2022-09-27
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe; Lilit Thwaites (Translator)
ISBN: 9781627796187
Publication Date: 2017-10-10
Good Night, Maman by Norma Fox Mazer (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064409230
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
The Lady with the Hat by Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin (Translator)
ISBN: 9780140385717
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
Room in the Heart by Sonia Levitin
ISBN: 9780525468714
Publication Date: 2003-10-13
Departure : a story of holocaust survival by Mary Ann Marger
ISBN: 9780578060125
Publication Date: 2010
Jacob's Rescue by Malka Drucker; Michael Halperin
ISBN: 9780440409656
Publication Date: 1994-07-01
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
ISBN: 9780064403702
Publication Date: 1990-10-30
Waiting for Anya by Michael Morpurgo
ISBN: 9780140384314
Publication Date: 1997-01-01
We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport (Scholastic Focus) by Deborah Hopkinson
ISBN: 9781338255720
Publication Date: 2020-02-04
Boy in the striped pajamas : a fable by John Boyne
ISBN: 9780552773805
Publication Date: 2006
The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron
ISBN: 9781338355932
Publication Date: 2020-03-03
Terrible Things by Eve Bunting
ISBN: 9780827605077
Publication Date: 1989-09-01
The Christmas Menorahs by Janice Cohn; Bill Farnsworth (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780807511527
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9780375813740
Publication Date: 2003-09-09
A Knock at the Door by Eric Sonderling; Wendy Wassink Ackison (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780817244347
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Bridge to Freedom by Isabel R. Marvin
ISBN: 9780827603776
Publication Date: 1991-04-01
A Secret Star by Sharon Flitterman-King
ISBN: 9781935534839
Publication Date: 2010-11-30

African American Historical Fiction

Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780439227537
Publication Date: 1999
Elijah of Buxton (Scholastic Gold) by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780439023450
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
M. C. Higgins, the Great by Virginia Hamilton
ISBN: 9781416914075
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor
ISBN: 9780142501467
Publication Date: 2003-10-14
Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
ISBN: 9781416953487
Publication Date: 2008-01-08
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
ISBN: 9780786804900
Publication Date: 2005-04-13
Day of Tears by Julius Lester
ISBN: 9780786804900
Publication Date: 2005-04-13
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule by Harriette Gillem Robinet; Bessie Nickens (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689820786
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
ISBN: 9780142401125
Publication Date: 2004-04-12
Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN: 9780062215871
Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064402378
Publication Date: 2002-12-24
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780440228004
Publication Date: 2000-12-12
Go South to Freedom by Frye Gaillard; Anne Kent Rush (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781588383167
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
ISBN: 9780060935481
Publication Date: 2001-05-15

World War II

Journey to America by Sonia Levitin; Charles Robinson (Illustrator); Sonia Levitin
ISBN: 9780689318290
Publication Date: 1993-04-30
The Journey That Saved Curious George by Louise Borden; Allan Drummond (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780618339242
Publication Date: 2005-09-26
Anelia by Clare Pastore
ISBN: 9780425177846
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida; Donald Carrick (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781890771911
Publication Date: 2015-10-01
Love You, Soldier by Amy Hest; Sonja Lamut (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780763609436
Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
ISBN: 9780810989818
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
ISBN: 9780385321426
Publication Date: 1997-02-10
In My Enemy's House by Carol Matas
ISBN: 9780689813542
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
Lydia, Queen of Palestine by Uri Orlev; Hillel Halkin (Translator)
ISBN: 9780140370898
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
To Cross a Line by Karen Ray
ISBN: 9780140375879
Publication Date: 1995-11-01
A Traitor among Us by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk
ISBN: 9780606176019
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf
ISBN: 9780547237664
Publication Date: 2009-06-15
The Book Thief (Anniversary Edition) by Markus Zusak
ISBN: 9781101934180
Publication Date: 2016-03-08
Best Friends by Elisabeth Reuter
ISBN: 9780943706184
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration During World War II and a Librarian Who Made a Difference by Joanne Oppenheim
ISBN: 9780439569927
Publication Date: 2006-02-01
My Mother's Secret by J. L. Witterick
ISBN: 9780399168543
Publication Date: 2013-09-05

Native Americans

Sing down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
ISBN: 9780395109199
Publication Date: 1970-09-09
Streams to the River, River to the Sea by Scott O'Dell
ISBN: 9780395404300
Publication Date: 1986-04-28
Runner in the Sun by D'Arcy McNickle; Alfonso Ortiz (Afterword by); Allan C. Houser (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780826309747
Publication Date: 1987-08-01

Historical Fiction

The Salem Witch Trials by Jane Yolen; Heidi E. Y. Stemple; Roger Roth (Illustrator); Roger Roth (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780689846205
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Christopher Bing (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781929766130
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Massacre Island by Anne Chancey Dalton
ISBN: 9780970953407
Publication Date: 2002
A Gathering of Days by Joan W. Blos
ISBN: 9780689714191
Publication Date: 1990-10-31
Lost colony by Christie Merriman Breault
ISBN: 9781602019867
Publication Date: 2009
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
ISBN: 9780385737630
Publication Date: 2010-10-12
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
ISBN: 9780786814541
Publication Date: 2002-06-03
Freedom's Fire by Elizabeth Sullivan Falk; Qi Z. Wang (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781593363215
Publication Date: 2004-09-01
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
ISBN: 9780805088410
Publication Date: 2009-05-12
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
ISBN: 9780758702111
Publication Date: 1980
Secret of the Andes by Ann Nolan Clark
ISBN: 9780758702111
Publication Date: 1980
Dreams in the Golden Country by Kathryn Lasky
ISBN: 9780590029735
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
ISBN: 9780316517294
Publication Date: 1988-10-03
Autumn Street by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780440403449
Publication Date: 1986-04-01
Baby by Patricia Maclachlan; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
ISBN: 9780785762263
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan
ISBN: 9780808599852
Publication Date: 1987-06-01
Single shard by Linda Sue Park
ISBN: 9780606275170
Publication Date: 2001
Park's Quest by Katherine Paterson
ISBN: 9780606027434
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
The Winter Room by Gary Paulsen
ISBN: 9780440227830
Publication Date: 1998-11-10
Here Lies the Librarian by Richard Peck
ISBN: 9780142409084
Publication Date: 2007-09-06
A Year down Yonder by Richard Peck; BookSource Staff (Compiled by)
ISBN: 9780613579346
Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
ISBN: 9781467742023
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
The Captain's Dog by Roland Smith
ISBN: 9780756904760
Publication Date: 2000-09-01
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
ISBN: 9780395137192
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
ISBN: 9780547550299
Publication Date: 2011-01-10
Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780805092165
Publication Date: 2011-09-27
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
ISBN: 9780439796644
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
ISBN: 9780689856402
Publication Date: 2006-12-26
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains by Elizabeth Hall; Scott O'Dell
ISBN: 9780440408796
Publication Date: 1993-10-01
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse
ISBN: 9780140363913
Publication Date: 1993-11-01
Gideon's People by Carolyn Meyer
ISBN: 9780152003036
Publication Date: 1996-07-22
The Cross by Day, the Mezuzzah by Night by Deborah Spector Siegel
ISBN: 9780827605978
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
ISBN: 9781416933953
Publication Date: 2007-02-27
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
ISBN: 9780803730816
Publication Date: 2007-02-15
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George; John Schoenherr (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780064400589
Publication Date: 2019-07-02
Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN: 9780375836909
Publication Date: 2011-12-27
Crushing the Red Flowers by Jennifer Voigt Kaplan
ISBN: 9781632460943
Publication Date: 2019-12-17
Kit's Wilderness by David Almond
ISBN: 9780385906883
Publication Date: 2009-11-10
The Barn by Avi
ISBN: 9780613377607
Publication Date: 1996-08-01
Crispin: the Cross of Lead (Newbery Medal Winner) by Avi
ISBN: 9780786816583
Publication Date: 2004-06-01
The Escape from Home by Avi
ISBN: 9780613067959
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
ISBN: 9780439327312
Publication Date: 2003-10-01
Postcards from no man's land by Aidan Chambers
ISBN: 9781862302846
Publication Date: 2007