Historical - Kids Fiction

The discovered artifacts from an archaeological dig in Melbourne become the backdrop for this story about a group of teenagers in 1891 who are struggling to make their way in a world that seems to be conspiring against them whichever way they turn. Lonnie...

As their father is sick, Hans Brinker and his younger sister Gretel must work to support their family. Despite this life of poverty, they long to take part in the annual ice-skating races on the frozen canal, where the victors win magnificent silver skates....

The most famous Irish legend of all in an exciting and easily understood version. Read about the feats of the famous warrior Cuchulainn who singlehandedly defends Ulster against the army of Queen Maeve. War, peace, love, greed, fate are the stuff of an epic,...

A major, beautifully-illustrated collection of favourite nursery rhymes known andloved throughout Ireland. It includes favourite international, British and Irish rhymes as well as special Irish favourites. Includes;- Sally Go Round the Moon- Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling- Two Little Dicky Birds- Are Ye Right There, Michael?-...

Charlie Green is the epitome of kindness, bold, good-natured and always seeks to find truth and put right wrongs with a cheeky grin. But Charlie is no ordinary boy, he has a secret: a magical plane that can take him anywhere including back in...

Three lives. Three worlds. Three times. Three young women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world. Meredith is just settling in for a long and lazy summer, when her mother announces that she's sending Meredith to...

In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro's national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read. When thirteen-year-old Nora tells her...

Elsi lives with her grandma, who keeps bees. By following them and noticing everything that takes place in the garden over the course of the year, Elsi comes to love each season in turn. This beautiful book offers children the chance to learn about...

Football mad, twelve- year- old Dan is a trusted messenger for Ireland's rebel leader, Michael Collins. He promises his cousin Molly to never fire a gun, but after the dramatic events of 'Bloody Sunday' in Croke Park, he is pulled deeper into the struggle....

Terror strikes The Violet Vampire, a winged monster with sharp claws and glowing eyes, has been attacking all of London Is it an advanced flying machine? An alien from another world? Could it possibly be a real vampire? And how are the notorious outlaws...

Building of the Wall is Nordic lore for children and is part of the Freyja's Schoolhouse Library collection. Read along as the wall of Asgard is rebuilt, a Jotun observes the Norse people, Loki's bad judgment, and meet Sleipnir, Odin's legendary horse. Visit www.norhalla.com...

Ginnungagap to Asgard is Nordic lore for children. Read along as Heimdall tells the beginning story - the evolution of the Norse ancestors, and about Ymir the frost giant, a jealous adversary. Learn about the Aesir-Vanir war, the formation of Asgard, and how the...

This book is an imaginative telling of the history of the San Antonio River, intended to capture the interest of small children, rather than a sober factual and detailed account. Hopefully, kids will like it and learn to relish the colorful past of this...

Your child will have fun learning about the life of one of the most famous women of all time, Cleopatra. Cleo the Cat is a charming story showing Cleopatra becoming the ruler of Egypt. Parents and grandparents will be able to teach their children...

Daniel's papá, Marcelo, used to play soccer, dance the cueca, and drive his kids to school in a beat-up green taxi--all while publishing an underground newspaper that exposed Chile's military regime.After papá's arrest in 1980, Daniel's family fled to the United States. Now Daniel...

It's a long way from Western Virginia to Texas, but recently orphaned, fourteen-year-old Ephraim Darter is determined to make the trip. He wants to find adventure, not be a farmer for the rest of his life. He sets out one spring morning in 1850...

"A Seder and cowboy clothes are beautifully woven together." - Kirkus Reviews Last year, Jacob and his family had been in Russia, but this year they were in the new land of Argentina. Jacob hoped his new friend Benito would join them for the...

Based on a true story... Once upon a time there was an Algonquin princess named Pocahontas, a curious 10-year-old who loved exploring the tidewater lands of her people. One day she encounters strangers, a group of people who look different from her own. She...

Else Ury's Nesth kchen is a Berlin doctor's daughter, Annemarie Braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential German girl. The ten book Nesth kchen series follows Annemarie from infancy (Nesth kchen and Her Dolls) to old age and grandchildren (Nesth kchen with White Hair). Volume...

Experience history's most fearsome events -- from the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the sinking of Titanic -- through the eyes of young heroines who are at the heart of the survival action. Part historical fiction, part adventure story, Girls Survive shows how girls...

One lie saved Ellary's life, but another may cause her to lose it. With just a few simple words, Ellary goes from poverty to nobility--and lands right in the middle of a society that will soon crumble under the weight of hierarchy. The only...

Medusa's Scream is a thrill ride that hurtles a train through an out-of-service gold mine in the Fraser Valley. Chase can't believe his luck when he lands a summer job in the food truck outside the ride's entrance. But then he notices strange things...

"Wild, weird, hilarious, heartfelt, imaginative, and inventive. The spirit of Kurt Vonnegut is alive and well in its pages." --Jeff Zentner, author of The Serpent King "A satisfying mix of mild adolescent angst and creature feature comedy." --BCCB (starred review) "Frighteningly fun." --Booklist (starred...

From the author of The Actual & Truthful Adventures of Becky Thatcher and Nooks & Crannies comes a "whimsical, heartwarming," (Kirkus Reviews) and profound tale of love, loss, and family. Eleven-year-old Benjamin Putter has a lump in his throat, and he's certain it's a...

A stalwart orphan sets out on a spine-tingling adventure in this wildly imaginative and darkly funny Victorian middle grade novel. High on a cliff above the gloomy Victorian town of Withering-by-Sea stands the Hotel Majestic. Inside the walls of the damp, dull hotel, eleven-year-old...

This teen to adult short story portrays a fictional "in depth" look at the character of Jacob. At birth, his parents called him Deceiver; funny how a name moulds a person. The story of Jacob is captivating, from beginning to end. Using deception to...

Author: Carol MatasISBN-10: 1443113077ISBN-13: 9781443113076Publisher: Scholastic CanadaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/13/2013Pages: 163Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.70dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.1Point Value: 5Interest Level: Middle GradeQuiz #/Name: 157869 / Pieces of the Past: The Holocaust Diary of Rose RabinowitzAward: Sydney Taylor Book Award - Honor...

The Magic Charm It was a lovely silver necklace with a strange antique charm -- an early sixteenth birthday present from her parents. But now Samantha clutched the charm, desperate to disappear when her father discovered she'd wrecked his BMW....Suddenly she was standing in...

Nearly 150 years ago, when Alaska belonged to Russia and was called Russian America, Erinia Pavaloff lived at the Nulato odinochka on the banks of the Yukon River. Owned by the Russian American Company, an odinochka was a trading post where native people traded...

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.Author: Christopher Paul CurtisISBN-10: 143283844XISBN-13: 9781432838447Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/08/2017Format:...

Thirteen-year-old Jessie Wheller always seems to find adventure on the Newfoundland cliffs where she lives. When she stumbles upon several fenced-in Newfoundland ponies in the middle of the woods, she senses that something is amiss and soon uncovers a plot to sell the ponies...

Sixteen-year-old Nick Brynner is thrust into prehistoric Africa to make a wrenching judgment - whether to save our genetic ancestors, the real-life "Adam" and "Eve" whose genes survive in all of us - or to consider saving the planet, and resetting human history, by...

A coin.A friendship.A fast car.And a girl with a secret.Author Sneed B. Collard III puts them together to create the heart-pounding sequel to Double Eagle. Two summers after Mike and Kyle uncovered a pair of priceless $20 gold pieces in a Civil War fort...

Twelve-year-old Betsy waves a tearful goodbye to her family as the wagon takes her away from her Massachusetts farm. The money she will earn as Nyes' hired girl should help pay her family's passage to the Ohio frontier next year. But when she arrives...

1888. A little girl called Mirror and her shape-shifting guardian Goliath Honeyflower are washed up on the shores of Victorian England. Something has been wrong with Mirror since the day her grandfather locked her inside a mysterious clock that was painted all over with...

Loosely based on the Haitian slave insurrection of 1791, Babouk is a biting account of colonialism at its peak. By using the imagination of the novelist to fill in the gaps in the historical record, Endore is able to show us how slavery felt...

2010 Sydney Taylor Book Award, Notable Book for Older ReadersThe tale of Rashi's granddaughter, a young girl who defies her community to help a friend in need. In this sequel to My Guardian Angel, Sylvie Weil continues the story of Elvina, the 14-year-old granddaughter...

It is 1594 and young William Shakespeare is working on a new play, The Merchant of Venice, amid growing anti-Jewish sentiment in England. Three Jewish children try to save Queen Elizabeth's Jewish physician when he's falsely accused of spying for Spain. Not until Shakespeare...

Henry VIII's Tudor court meets time-traveling teen assassins in this riveting thriller. Twins Charlie and Alex Douglas are the newest time travelers recruited to the Forty-Eight, a clandestine military group in charge of manipulating history. The brothers are tasked with preventing Henry VIII from...

What is it like to grow up during the Depression on a small Georgia farm, where there is no electricity and the nearest paved road is miles away? For Tyler, Wilkin, and Skee, the Coley boys, it means they do morning chores when most...

Just in time for election season, a nomination teachers and students alike will endorse. Oliver has been learning about the presidentas job, and his teacher would be the perfect candidate. She loves white houses, sheas used to being followed everywhere, she attends lots of...

the year is 1648 and life in Venice is serene for Isabella Hawkins and her friends Willem, Al-Qasim and Signora Contarini. together they publish fine books like the controversial encyclopaedia, the Sum of All Knowledge. When a new Inquisitor declares war on free speech...

In this eerie book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, travel to an Indian orphanage where two new arrivals are so wild that some claim they were raised by wolves. In 1920 a missionary brought two young girls to...

"Come join me as I take you back to Charleston, South Carolina, to my father's forge in the early 1800's. Sit with me on the woodpile as he tells a tale of faith, hope, or love." In this extraordinary collection, Charlotte Jefferies and her...

Raider is almost killed boarding the LIGHTNING to save Rosie from the cruel Captain Lawrence, who has kidnapped, tormented and imprisoned her. Rosie nurses his wounds and tries to forget his surprising kiss, while she prays for his life.and for her own strength to...

Mexico, 1814, sixteen-year-old Rosie's world changes when her father's saloon is burned and her father killed. Alone, without family, home or livelihood, Rosie has no chose but to go with Raider Lyons, the young sea captain who rescued her from the fire. As American...

During my time away, I included in letters to Sybil stories that she could read to our children. I felt that they would be thrilled to read of adventures that included themselves as the primary characters. Fortunately, Sybil saved all of my letters, which...

It's 1931 . . . and Kettle Farm is starting to feel like home, but Ruby is still desperately worried about her dad. He hasn't written for weeks, and nobody knows where he is. Will Dad ever come back to them? When nobody will...

In this historical fiction-meets-fantasy novel by award-winning author Jane Yolen, readers 8-12 will experience a world where a young boy with nothing but questions may have the only answer to solving a unicorn infestation at a medieval abbey. With humor, heart, and an empowering...

Winston and the Marmalade Cat is the first in a brand-new series from award-winning author Megan Rix! Full of adventure, fascinating history and super-cute animals, this series is perfect for 6-8 year old readers and fans of Dick King-Smith and Michael Morpurgo.Nine-year-old Harry is...