Middle Grade Historical Fiction -- 4th grade and upLike this list

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• Gold Rush Girl

  Avi, 1937-

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  Also available in eBook. Life for the Blaisdell family in 1840s Providence, Rhode Island, is nice and normal, but this state of affairs chafes at 13-year-old Victoria (Tory), who yearns for adventure. She’s frustrated by the lack of opportunities in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Esperanza Rising

  Ryan, Pam Muñoz

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  In 1930, Esperanza lives a privileged life on a ranch in Aguascalientes, Mexico. But when her father dies, the post-Revolutionary culture and politics force her to leave with her mother for California. Now they are indebted to the family who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Tell the Nazis

  a Novel

  Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk,

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  Krystia, around 12 years old, is living under Soviet occupation in a small Ukrainian village in 1941. When the Germans arrive, the townspeople are initially celebratory, anticipating that their lives will improve, but their hopes are soon dashed.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Bird

  a Wonder Story

  Palacio, R. J.,

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  Also available in eBook and eAudiobook. A grandmother shares her story of survival as a Jew in France during World War II.As part of a homework assignment, Julian (Auggie's chief tormentor in Wonder, 2012) video chats with Grandmère, who finally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crushing the Red Flowers

  Voigt Kaplan, Jennifer,

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  Two boys forge a brief and dangerous alliance in 1938 Germany. Friedrich Weber is a 12-year-old member of the Jungvolk in Hannover. Membership is mandatory if quietly reluctant on his part. Emil Rosen is a 12-year-old Jewish boy in Hannover.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The War That Saved My Life

  Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker,

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook, Audiobook and Large Print. With the threat of German bombs being dropped on London, most parents are anxious to get their children out of the city. But Ada’s mother, shamed by her daughter’s deformed foot,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lifeboat 12

  Hood, Susan, 1954-

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  It's 1940, the beginning of the Blitz, and 13-year-old Kenneth Sparks is selected to go to Canada as part of a program to send British children to the safety of the U.K.'s overseas dominions. When his ship is torpedoed, Kenneth, five other boys from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Refugee

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Audiobook. In the midst of political turmoil, how do you escape the only country that you've ever known and navigate a new life? Parallel stories of three different middle school-aged refugees—Josef from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Allies

  Gratz, Alan, 1972-

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Audiobook. The action begins just before dawn on June 6, 1944, and ends near midnight that same day. Six different operations in settings across Europe, each fictionalized with imagined characters but based…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under the Broken Sky

  Nagai, Mariko,

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  Natsu’s twelfth birthday finds her in Manchuria with her small family, Japanese farmers with an unyielding belief in their Emperor’s preeminence. When her father is called up to WWII’s Manchurian front, Natsu is left to care for her little sister…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Paper Wishes

  Sepahban, Lois,

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  During World War II, Manami and her parents and grandfather are forced to relocate from Bainbridge Island in Washington to Manzanar, an internment camp in California for Japanese-Americans. As they're about to leave behind everything they own,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Brother's Keeper

  Lee, Julie (Children's fiction writer),

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  A harrowing, heartbreaking tale of hope, love, and survival against insurmountable odds. Twelve-year-old Sora and her family live under the oppressive North Korean communist regime of 1950. As the South Korean army begins to lose ground to the Red…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stella by Starlight

  Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills),

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  Also available on eBook, eAudiobook and Audiobook CD. When a young girl gains confidence from her failures and strength from what her community dreads most, life delivers magic and hope. Stella Mills and her brother Jojo witness the Ku Klux Klan…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  Taylor, Mildred D

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook, Audiobook CD and Large Print. A Black family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which their children don't understand.

• The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

  Curtis, Christopher Paul

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook, Audiobook CD and Large Print. 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• One Crazy Summer

  Williams-Garcia, Rita

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  Also available in eBook, eAudiobook and Large Print. It is 1968, and three black sisters from Brooklyn have been put on a California-bound plane by their father to spend a month with their mother, a poet who ran off years before and is living in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Long Ride

  Budhos, Marina Tamar,

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  A quiet but stirring historical novel about the awkward, thrilling, and often painful moments that make middle school a pivotal time.It's 1971, and best friends Jamila, Josie, and Francesca are excited to start seventh grade. But when their school…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• House Without Walls

  May 10, 1979 to June 7, 1980

  Russell, Ching Yeung,

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  Set soon after the 1975 Fall of Saigon, Russell’s novel reveals how life in Communist Vietnam becomes especially difficult for ethnic Chinese residents. Eleven-year-old Lam and her brothers, Daigo and Dee Dee, flee, hoping to join their baba in San…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Blackbird Girls

  Blankman, Anne,

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  Available in eBook. The citizens of the town of Pripyat, Ukraine, have always been assured that "an accident at a nuclear power station was a statistical impossibility."So when the morning of April 26, 1986, dawns red, with "unearthly blue" smoke…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shooting Kabul

  Senzai, N. H

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  In July 2001, as 11-year-old Fadi and his family hastily board a truck to begin their escape from Afghanistan, six-year-old Mariam lets go of her brother's hand and is tragically left behind. Their arrival in San Francisco is bittersweet as they are…Read moreRead more of this annotation