Historical Fiction

OUTCOME: I CAN FIND A HISTORICAL NOVEL WITHIN MY LEXILE RANGE.

MIDDLE AGES 1100-1300 (EUROPE)

• Falsely accused of theft

and murder, an orphaned

peasant boy in fourteenth-

century England flees his

village and meets a larger-

than-life juggler who holds

a dangerous secret.

• Lexile: 750

MIDDLE AGES: 1100 – 1500 (EUROPE)

• In medieval England, a nameless, homeless girl is taken in by a sharp-tempered midwife, and in spite of obstacles and hardship, eventually gains the three things she most wants: a full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.

• Lexile: 1240

IRELAND 1060

• While her father is away fighting

the Normans and other Irish

clans, nine-year-old Lara works

hard to help harvest food and

also cares for the pregnant gray

mare that she loves.

• Lexile: 810

F

DUE

Lara and the Gray Mare

RENAISSANCE -- ITALY -- FICTION

• In Italy in 1491, Mangus the

magician and his apprentice

are summoned to the castle

of Duke Claudio to

determine if his daughter is

indeed being haunted by a

ghost.

• Lexile: 660

CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865

• Thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll

takes his place as head of the

family after his father dies fighting

for the Union; but his job at the

local ironworks, where he helps

build an iron ship for the Union

army, and his loyalty come into

question when he is approached

by Confederate spies to sell

secrets about the ship to the

South.

• Lexile: 620

F

AVI

Iron Thunder

1928 NORTH CAROLINA

• Accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother, as she attempts to clear her name

• Lexile: 980

F

DOW

The True Adventures of Homer

Pl. Figg

CIVIL WAR (PRE)

• Eleven-year-old Elijah

Freeman, the first free-born

child in Buxton, Canada, which

is a haven for slaves fleeing

the American South in 1859,

uses his wits and skills to try to

bring to justice the lying

preacher who has stolen

money that was to be used to

buy a family's freedom.

• Lexile: 1070

F

CUR

DEPRESSION 1929

• In a 1930s Massachusetts town

torn by the Depression and

other hardships, as well as

racial tension, Charlie Anne

and Phoebe, the African-

American girl who moves to the

farm next door, form a

friendship that begins to

transform their community.

• Lexile: 970

F

FUS

The Wonder of Charlie Anne

DEPRESSION 1929

• In Depression-era Alabama,

twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss

Pettigrew struggles to

understand why her beloved

older brother, Leo, died and

whether she, miraculously,

survived for some special

purpose.

• Lexile: 870

F

FOR

PIONEER: 1830 – (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

• After breaking his leg, eleven-

year-old Nate feels useless

because he cannot work on

the family farm in nineteenth-

century Nebraska, so when

his father brings home an

orphan boy to help with the

chores, Nate feels even worse

• Lexile: 830

F

LAF

HOLOCAUST: WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945

• Two Jewish sisters,

escapees of the infamous

Warsaw ghetto, devise a

plan to thwart an attempt

by the Gestapo to intercept

food bound for starving

people behind the dark

Wall.

• Lexile: 990

F

HES

The Cats in Krasinski Square

HOLOCAUST: WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945

• In 1938, having begun to

feel the persecution that all

Jews are experiencing in

their Austrian city, Clara and

her family escape over the

mountains into Switzerland.

• Lexile: 960

F

ACK

HAWAII 1836 F

FRE

• In 1836, fourteen-year-old

Patience Goodspeed,

daughter of a ship's captain,

is unexpectedly sent to a

boarding school along with

her brother when danger

arrives at sea, and she soon

suspects that her etiquette

teacher is seeking out her

father for a husband.

1935 BISMARK, ND F

TOO

• Twelve-year-old Nick loves

baseball so after a year in

the hospital fighting polio

and with a brace on one leg,

Nick takes a job with the

team for which his father is

catcher and gets to see the

great pitcher, Satchel Paige,

play during the 1935 season

• Lexile: 900