Historical Fiction for Teens
Teens have lived through amazing times all around the world, and sometimes make history themselves. MS=Books for middle school readers, GN = graphic novel (updated April 2025)
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Rosa by Any Other Name
After seeing her best friend Ramón fall tragically in love with a white girl in 1950s Phoenix, Rosa knows she must step forward and join the movement for justice.
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Rebellion 1776
In 1776 Boston, patriot Elspeth works for a British Loyalist, loses her father, and witnesses the devastating spread of smallpox as well as the birth of a nation. MS
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One Step Forward
Matilda Young describes her life in 1917, picketing and protesting in the streets of Washington, D.C., to earn women the right to vote, despite her father's and brother's attitudes. MS
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Vesuvius
Loren’s nightmares of destruction take a strange turn when he meets Felix, who stars in those nightmares and may hold a clue to the impending doom Vesuvius holds for them and everyone else in Pompeii.
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Under the Same Stars
Separated by many decades, three generations of teens discover the reason behind the mysterious disappearance of two girls in Nazi Germany.
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Eureka
In 1884 San Francisco, Mei Mei’s parents fear for her safety from kidnappers, so they send her north to Eureka, where she works in a rich family’s kitchen and secretly learns English. MS
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Where the Heart Should Be
In 1846 Ireland, Nell struggles to keep her family fed during the Great Famine. But things get even more complicated when she falls for a rich English boy. She knows it is forbidden, but is she willing to risk her safety for love?
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And the Trees Stare Back
In 1989 Soviet Estonia, Vik has lost her little sister to a cursed forest, but is the curse real magic, or is it somehow related to the Russian soldiers and their oppressive regime?
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Behind Five Willows
In eighteenth-century Korea, two teens resist government censorship in their own ways and are drawn together though they risk their families’ reputations and safety. MS
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Heiress of Nowhere
Lucy Nowhere, an orphan found and adopted by the wealthy owner of an estate on Orcas Island, comes under suspicion when he is found brutally murdered and she is the only heir named in his will.
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