Ancient Times

Speare, Elizabeth George: The Bronze Bow

The Middle Ages

De Angeli, Marguerite: The Door in the Wall

The Renaissance and the Age of Exploration

Blackwood, Gary: The Shakespeare Stealer

Colonial through Post -Revolutionary War Times

Speare, Elizabeth George: The Sign of the Beaver & The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Slavery, the Civil War, and Its Aftermath

Fleischman, Paul: Bull Run
Hunt, Irene: Across Five Aprils

Westward Migration

Fritz, Jean: The Cabin Faced West
MacLachlan, Patricia: Sarah, Plain and Tall
O'Dell, Scott: Sing Down the Moon

The New Century

Giff, Patricia Reilly: Nory Ryan's Song

The Great Depression

Taylor, Mildred: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Historic Fiction

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

~BarbaraW. Tuchman

History text books are full of facts and dates, but reading stories helps history come alive. These stories help take readers beyond the basic historical facts and right into the acition of the time.The fictional events could have happened, and the fictional people could have really lived. The stories are realistic and are set in the past.