Historical Fiction

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

)MISSISSIPPI 1963: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963 and violence against African-Americans intensifies, residents of the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice. Lexile: 830

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THE WALLS OF CARTAGENA (17TH CENTURY)

• Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.

• Lexile: 870

1830’S

• As the lone "young lady" on a

transatlantic voyage in 1832,

Charlotte learns that the captain

is murderous and the crew

rebellious..

• Lexile: 740

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1900’S WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE F

BEA

• In 1916, just four years after

getting the right to vote, the

women of Umatilla, Oregon

band together to throw the

mayor and other city officials

out of office, replacing them

with women.

• Lexile: 720

1906 SAN FRANCISCO

• . Tells the story of the 1906 San

Francisco earthquake as seen

through the eyes of Jacob, a

thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who

lives in a boarding house with his

father and younger sister.

Lexile: 770

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MID 1800’S F

DAH

In the mid-1800s, a

slave boy dreams of

escaping to freedom

while on a journey

from Missouri to the

gold fields of Kansas

Territory with his

master's n'er-do-well

son.

LEXILE: 820

EARLY 1900’S F

HAT

During the early 1900s,

eleven-year-old Viney

spends her summer

working for the local

midwife and learns

firsthand about birth, death,

and "catchin' babies

LEXILE: 1040

1776 F

PAU

From his 1776 Pennsylvania

homestead, thirteen-year-old

Samuel, who is a highly-skilled

woodsman, sets out toward New

York City to rescue his parents from

the band of British soldiers and

Native Americans who kidnapped

them after slaughtering most of their

community.

LEXILE: 870

CIVIL WAR: 1861 - 1865

• Homer P. Figg escapes

from his wretched foster

home in Pine Swamp,

Maine, and sets out to find

his beloved older brother,

Harold, who has been

illegally sold into the Union

Army.

• Lexile: 950

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PHI

The True Adventures of Homer

Pl. Figg

OREGON TRAIL (KATHLEEN KUDLINSKI

• As his family sets out from

Missouri to Oregon, young Ben

wonders whether he will have

more trouble with the dangers

of the journey or his debilitating

asthma.

• Lexile: 500

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:MIDDLE AGES: ENGLAND

• A medieval orphan girl

called Mouse gains the

courage she needs to follow

her dreams of becoming a

puppeteer's apprentice.

• Lexile: 760

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WORLD WAR II 1940’S

• During World War II, Molly

investigates the theft of rationed

food supplies for sale on the

black market while volunteering

as a magazine delivery girl in a

convalescent hospital.

• Lexile: 770

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DEPRESSION ERA

• Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit. They end up in a Hooverville outside of Flint, Michigan, and her brother attempts to be a performer while Deza and her mother search for a home.

• Lexile: 750

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OREGON: 1851

• Twelve-year-old Austin Ives

writes letters to his younger

brother describing his

three-thousand-mile

journey from their home in

Pennsylvania to Oregon in

1851. Lexile: 1010

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AMERICAN REVOLUTION:

• Boys of Wartime (Series): In 1776 Boston, twelve-year-old Daniel, hiding his parents' allegiance to the Sons of Liberty from the British officers who visit their tavern, tries to gather all the information he can and risks his life to reveal a traitor to George Washington.

• Lexile: 710

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COLONIAL (EARY 1700’S) F

COO

In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield,

Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her

family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk

Indians and their French allies, and forced to

march through bitter cold to French Canada,

where some adapt to new lives and some still

hope to be ransomed.

LEXILE: 730

1930’S 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