Historical Fiction

Prehistoric Times

Boy of the Painted Cave
by Denzel, Justin
Forbidden to make images, fourteen-year-old Tao, the boy with the bad foot, yearns to be a cave painter, recording the figures of the mammals, rhinos, bison, and other animals of his prehistoric times.

Ancient Times

Anna of Byzantium
by Barrett, Tracy
In the eleventh century the teenage princess Anna Comnena fights for her birthright, the throne to the Byzantine Empire, which she fears will be taken from her by her younger brother John because he is a boy.

Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt
by Lester, Julius
A fictionalized account of a Biblical story in which an Egyptian princess rescues a Hebrew infant who becomes a prophet of his people while his sister finds her true self as a priestess to the Egyptian gods.

Escape ffrom Egypt
by Levitin, Sonia
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.

The Golden Goblet
by Jarvis McGraw, Eloise
A young Egyptian boy struggles to reveal a hideous crime and reshape his own destiny.

Medieval Times

The Fated Sky
by Branford, Henrietta
Ran, a sixteen-year-old Viking girl, struggles to control the events of her life and escape from the death that is supposed to be her destiny.

Catherine, Called Birdy
by Cushman, Karen
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.

Matilda Bone
by Cushman, Karen
Fourteen-year-old Matilda, an apprentice bonesetter and practitioner of medicine in a village in medieval England, tries to reconcile the various aspects of her life, both spiritual and practical.

The Dragon of Middlethorpe
by Ellis, Anne Leo
When rumors of a dragon and its treasure stir up greed and fear in the medieval village of Middlethorpe, thirteen-year-old Kate is forbidden to join the dragon hunt because she is a maid, so she takes matters into her own hands.

Peregrine
by Goodman, Joan E.
In 1144, fifteen-year-old Lady Edith, having lost her husband and child and anxious to avoid marrying a man she detests, sets out from her home in Surrey to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Quest for a Maid
by Hendry, Frances Mary
Aware of her sister's deadly efforts to secure the Scottish throne for Robert de Brus, Meg realizes she must protect the young Norwegian princess who has been chosen as rightful heir.

The Raging Quiet
by Jordan, Sherryl
Suspicious of sixteen-year-old Marnie, a newcomer to their village, the residents accuse her of witchcraft when she discovers that the village madman is not crazy but deaf and she begins to communicate with him through hand gestures.

The Striped Ships
by McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
Juliana, an eleven-year-old Saxon girl, loses her home and family when the Normans conquer England in 1066 and seeks to order her life by becoming involved in the creation of the Bayeux tapestry.

Song of the Gargoyle
by Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
When mysterious men in black abduct his father, the court jester of Austerneve, thirteen-year-old Tymmon flees into the forest, where he acquires a strange animal companion and plots to rescue his father.

The Forestwife
by Tomlinson, Theresa
In England during the reign of King Richard I, fifteen-year-old Marian escapes from an arranged marriage to live with a community of forest folk that includes a daring young outlaw named Robert.

Europe after 1400

The Shakespeare Stealer
by Blackwood, Gary
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.

The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
by Erickson, Carolly
Marie Antoinette left her home and family at 14 for an arranged marriage to prince Louis XVI; has a Swedish lover; develops an affection and loyalty to her husband; becomes bossy with her peasants; realizes the severity of the French Revolution; goes to the guillotine.

The Throttlepenny Murder
by Green, Roger J.
Although Ezekiel Dobson was the most miserly man in Lambton, thirteen-year-old Jessie Smith never really meant to harm him. She definitely never meant to kill him.

Quest for a Kelpie
by Hendry, Frances
In the days before the Scottish uprising of 1745 against the English throne, a young girl fantasizes about riding a wild horse.

An Innocent Soldier
by Holub, Josef
A sixteen-year-old farmhand is tricked into fighting in the Napoleonic Wars by the farmer for whom he works, who secretly substitutes him for the farmer's own son.

The Pirate's Son
by McCaughrean, Geraldine
Left penniless in eighteenth century England, fourteen-year-old Nathan Gull and his mousy sister Maud accompany Tamo, the son of a notorious pirate, to his homeland of Madagascar where they are all changed by their encounter with Tamo's dangerous past.

Sworn Enemies
by Matas, Carol
In nineteenth-century Russia, betrayed by a fellow Jew, sixteen-year-old Aaron is taken by officers of the Czar and forced into military service.

Plots and Players
by Melnikoff, Pamela
Robin, Philip, and Frances, exiled Portuguese Jews secretly practicing their faith in intolerant sixteenth-century London, fight against the poison of prejudice in trying to save the life of Queen Elizabeth's Jewish doctor.

Mary, Bloody Mary
by Meyer, Carolyn
Mary Tudor, who would reign briefly as Queen of England during the mid sixteenth century, tells the story of her troubled childhood as daughter of King Henry VIII.

The Perilous Gard
by Pope, Elizabeth Marie
In 1558 while imprisoned in a remote castle, a young girl becomes involved in a series of events that lead to an underground labyrinth peopled by the last practitioners of druidic magic.

At the Sign of the Star
by Sturtevant, Katherine
In seventeenth-century London, Meg, who has little interest in cooking, needlework, or other homemaking skills, dreams of becoming a bookseller and someday inheriting her widowed father's book store.

Flame Colored Taffeta
by Sutcliff, Rosemary
Twelve-year-old Damaris and her friends become involved with smugglers and a young man who may be a spy, in a rural community near the southern coast of England in the eighteenth century.

The Queen's Own Fool
by Yolen, Jane
When twelve-year-old Nicola leaves Troupe Brufort and serves as the fool for Mary, Queen of Scots, she experiences the political and religious upheavals in both France and Scotland

Colonial & Revolutionary America

The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
As the lone "young lady" on a transatlantic voyage in 1832,Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious.

Abenaki Captive
by Dubois, Muriel L.
In 1752, nineteen-year-old Abenaki warrior Ogistin is present when a band of his people capture an English trapper, John Stark, and as Stark is carried into captivity in Canada, a bond of hate and competition develops between him and Ogistin.

Saturnalia
by Fleischman, Paul
In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.

The Captive
by Hansen, Joyce
Find out how Kofi's world is shattered when ghostly white men arrive to sell his people into slavery.

My Brother, My Enemy
by Harrah, Madge
Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year-old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehannock Indians of Virginia.

The Primrose Way
by Koller, Jackie French
Sixteen-year-old Rebekah joins her missionary father in the New World in the 1630's and, after being introduced to Indian culture, begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.

The Serpent Never Sleeps : A Novel of Jamestown and Pocahontas
by O'Dell, Scott
In the early seventeenth century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the New World and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.

The Blue Door
by Rinaldi, Ann
When her grandmother sends her alone on a difficult journey up North, fourteen-year-old Amanda encounters the exploitation of women in textile mills.

A Break with Charity: A Story about the Salem Witch Trials
by Rinaldi, Ann
While waiting for a church meeting in 1706, Susanna English, daughter of a wealthy Salem merchant, recalls the malice, fear, and accusations of witchcraft that tore her village apart in 1692.

The Fifth of March : a Story of the Boston Massacre
by Rinaldi, Ann
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

A Ride into Morning : the Story of Tempe Wick
by Rinaldi, Ann
When unrest spreads at the Revolutionary War camp in Morristown, New Jersey, under the command of General Anthony Wayne, a young woman cleverly hides her horse from the mutinous soldiers who have need of it.

The secret of Sarah Revere
by Rinaldi, Ann
Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's "rides" and the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.

A Stitch in Time
by Rinaldi, Ann
Shortly after the War of Independence, Hannah sees her family being torn apart by old secrets and new developments, as her sister resolves to marry a sea captain and other siblings prepare to help start a new town in the Northwestern Territory.

Wolf by the Ears
by Rinaldi, Ann
Harriet Hemings, rumored to be the daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, one of his black slaves, struggles with the problems facing her--to escape from the velvet cage that is Monticello, or to stay, and thus remain a slave.

Melitte
by Shaik, Fatima
In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.

American Frontier & Native Americans

The Clock
by Collier, James Lincoln
In 1810 in Connecticut, trapped in a grueling job in the local textile mill to help pay her father's debts, fifteen-year-old Annie becomes the victim of the cruel overseer and plots revenge against him.

Fortune's Journey
by Coville, Bruce
Sixteen-year-old Jenny faces many challenges on an overland journey to California in 1853 with the acting company that she inherited from her father.

Dark Shade
by Curry, Jane Louise
Sixteen-year-old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.

The Gentleman Outlaw and Me--Eli : a Story of the Old West
by Hahn, Mary Downing
In 1887 twelve-year-old Eliza, disguised as a boy and traveling towards Colorado in search of her missing father, falls in with a Gentleman Outlaw and joins him in his illegal schemes.

Sweet Grass
by Hudson, Jan
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

The Second Bend in the River
by Rinaldi, Ann
In 1798 Rebecca, a young settler in the Ohio territory, meets the Shawnee called Tecumseh and later develops a deep friendship with him.

Civil War through 1900

Punch with Judy
by Avi
An outcast eight-year-old boy, orphaned by the Civil War, is taken in by the owner of a traveling medicine show and, despite the doubts of others, years later he confirms the man's faith in him.

Where I'm Bound: A Novel
by Ballard, Allen B.
"An engrossing fictional account of the important role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War. Joe Duckett, whose father was African and whose mother was "part colored, part Choctaw," escaped from the Mississippi plantation where he and his family were enslaved. He joins the Union army and the strong and skillful man moves up the ranks of the Third United States Colored Cavalry." - excerpt from School Library Journal Review

March: A Novel
by Brooks, Geraldine
"As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the Civil War, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs." "From Louisa May Alcott's classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, Mr. March, who has gone off to war leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. In Brooks's telling, Mr. March emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known backwaters of a war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause as he learns that his side, too, is capable of acts of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near mortal illness, he must reassemble his shattered mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through."--BOOK JACKET.

With Every Drop of Blood
by Collier, James Lincoln
While trying to transport food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier.

Sound the Jubilee
by Forrester, Sandra
A slave and her family find refuge on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, during the Civil War.

The Courtship of Joanna
by Gourley, Catherine
At sixteen, Joanna leaves her family to become a housekeeper for widowed Irish miner and his mother. See how Joanna becomes part of the mining community and grows into a woman.

Earthquake at Dawn
by Gregory, Kristiana
A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion.

The Heart Calls Home
by Hansen, Joyce
After the Civil War, former slave Obi Booker tries to make a new life on a South Carolina island while waiting to be joined by his beloved Easter, who is studying in the North.

Behind the Lines
by Holland, Isabelle
During the New York Draft Riot of 1863, a young Irish Catholic girl helps an African American make a daring escape from an angry mob.

Keeping Secrets
by Nixon, Joan Lowery
In 1863, eleven-year-old Peg Kelly is drawn into the dangerous activities of a mysterious young woman who had come to her home in Missouri after fleeing the raid of William Quantrill and his raiders on Lawrence, Kansas.

Jip : His Story
by Paterson, Katherine
While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.

Lyddie
by Paterson, Katherine
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.

Preacher's Boy
by Paterson, Katherine
In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.

The Coffin Quilt : The Feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys
by Rinaldi, Ann
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.

In My Father's House
by Rinaldi, Ann
For two sisters growing up surrounded by the Civil War, there is conflict both outside and inside their house.

Letters from Vinnie
by Sappey, Maureen Stack
A fictionalized account of the Washington, D.C., Civil War years experienced by Vinnie Ream the sculptress, best known for the statue of Abraham Lincoln that is in the Capitol building.

20th Century Immigrants & Black Americans

The Song of the Molimo
by Cutler, Jane
When twelve-year-old Harry comes from Kansas to visit the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, he befriends an African pygmy who is part of an anthropology exhibit, works for the first female news photographer, and becomes involved in a burgeoning scientific controversy.

The summer we got saved
by Devoto, Pat Cunningham
"Tab is fast growing into an opinionated, intransigent teenager, appalled by the attitudes of her liberal Berkeley-based aunt - until Aunt Eugenia comes for a summer visit and whisks Tab, and her sister Tina, off to a strange place in the mountains of Tennessee where integration flourishes." --BOOK JACKET.

A Time of Angels
by Hesse, Karen
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and separated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, to get better and to reunite herself with her family.

Promise Song
by Holeman, Linda
The year is 1900 and orphaned 14-year-old Rosetta and her beloved younger sister Flora sail from England as “home girls.” They are sent to Canada so that they can have a chance at family life. Their dreams are shattered when Flora is adopted, but Rosetta is deemed to be too old. She is to become a farm worker, far from Flora’s new home.

In the Kaiser's Clutch
by Karr, Kathleen
While starring in a series of cliffhangers for Pathmark Studios during the summer of 1918, fifteen-year-old twins Fitz and Nelly Dalton uncover a German saboteur.

Keeping the Good Light
by Kirkpatrick, Katherine A.
Bored with living in a New York lighthouse at the turn of the twentieth century, sixteen-year-old Eliza seeks a teaching position away from home.

Nothing to Fear
by Koller, Jackie French
When his father moves away to find work and his mother becomes ill, Danny struggles to help his family during the Great Depression.

A Bride for Anna's Papa
by Marvin, Isabel R.
In 1907, thirteen-year-old Anna tries to find a bride for her father who works in the iron mines of northern Minnesota.

Fire in the Hills
by Myers, Anna
After her mother's death, sixteen-year-old Hallie faces changes in her life in the hills of eastern Oklahoma in 1918, as she takes over caring for her family and begins thinking about life as a woman.

Land of Dreams
by Nixon, Joan Lowery
In 1902 sixteen-year-old Kristin travels with her family from Sweden to a new life in Minnesota, where she finds herself frustrated by the restrictions placed on what girls of her age are expected or allowed to do.

Land of Hope
by Nixon, Joan Lowery
Rebekah, a fifteen-year-old Jewish immigrant arriving in New York City in 1902, almost abandons her dream of getting an education when she is forced to work in a sweatshop.

Land of Promise
by Nixon, Joan Lowery
In 1902 fifteen-year-old Rose travels from Ireland to join family members in Chicago, where she must use all her resources to deal with her father's drinking and her brothers' dangerous involvement in politics.

Race to a Dream
by Savage, Deborah
In 1906, fifteen-year-old Theodora disguises herself as a boy to pursue her dream of becoming a race horse driver.

Goodbye to the Trees
by Shiefman, Vicky
Despite the excitement and confusion of her new life in America, thirteen-year-old Fagel can't forget the family she left behind in Russia.

Independance Avenue
by Sherman, Eileen Bluestone
Elias, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant, arrives alone in Kansas City in 1907, finding new employment and friends but also receiving bad news about his family back in Russia.

The Ornament Tree
by Thesman, Jean
When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there.

The Storyteller's Daughter
by Thesman, Jean
Fifteen-year-old Quinn, the middle child in a Depression-era working class family, learns some secrets about her beloved father, who has always been a source of strength and optimism for his family, friends, and neighbors.

Titanic Crossing
by Williams, Barbara
In 1912, thirteen-year-old Albert considers his younger sister a pest, but things change when they travel with their mother and uncle aboard the Titanic and are caught up in its tragic sinking.

World at War and Beyond

Under the Domim Tree
by Almagor, Gila
Chronicles the joys and troubles experienced by a group of teenagers, mostly Holocaust survivors, living at an Israeli youth settlement in 1953.

Frost in the Night : A Novel
by Baer, Edith
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl growing up in a city in southern Germany during the period of Hitler's rise to power.

Walk the Dark Streets
by Baer, Edith
Continues the story of Eva, a young Jewish girl living in Nazi Germany where she and her parents experience increasing tensions in daily life while considering possibilities of escape.

Two Suns in the Sky
by Bat-Ami, Miriam
Fifteen-year-old Adam, a Yugoslav Jew is living in the refugee camp at Oswego, New York when he begins a romance with a local girl named Chris.

Code Talker : A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
by Bruchac, Joseph
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

Spying on Miss Müller
by Bunting, Eve
At Alveara boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II, thirteen-year-old Jessie must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was German and with her worries about her own father's drinking problem.

Echoes of the White Giraffe
by Choi, Sook Nyul
Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul.

Jacob's Ladder
by Collins, Alan
The world of Jacob and his younger brother Solly falls apart when they are orphaned and pitched into a Sydney children's home, where other refugee Jewish children are gathering as Hitler rises to power in Europe.

Summer's End
by Couloumbis, Audrey
Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers, the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the family farm in the summer of 1965.

The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963
by Curtis, Christopher Paul
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 Alabama in the summer of 1963.

Transport 7-41-R
by Degens, T.
A thirteen-year-old girl describes her journey from the Russian sector of defeated Germany to Cologne on a transport carrying returning refugees in 1946.

The Poetry Girl
by Dunlop, Beverley
Growing up in New Zealand following World War II, twelve-year-old Natalia uses poetry to escape from her problems at home and at school.

Following My Own Footsteps
by Hahn, Mary Downing
In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.

A Different Kind of Courage
by Howard, Ellen
While escaping the horrors of war-torn France, refugee children struggle to overcome the misconception that their parents are abandoning them.

But Can the Phoenix Sing
by Laird, Christa
Seventeen-year-old Richard discovers the incredible details of his stern and remote stepfather's hidden past when he is left a manuscript to read while his stepfather is away in Australia.

Tug of War
by Lingard, Joan
Follows the fortunes of the Petersons family as they flee their native Latvia before the advancing Russian armies in late 1944 and find themselves homeless refugees in a war-torn Germany.

Atonement : A Novel
by McEwan, Ian
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper’s son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony’s sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl’s scheming imagination. And Briony will have committed a dreadful crime, the guilt for which will color her entire life. From the Hardcover edition.

After the War
by Matas, Carol
After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

Daniel's Story
by Matas, Carol
Daniel, whose family suffers as the Nazis rise to power in Germany, describes his imprisonment in a concentration camp and his eventual liberation.

Greater than Angels
by Matas, Carol
Anna, a teenaged German refugee, relates how she and other Jewish children were cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, during the German occupation.

Good Night, Maman
by Mazer, Norma Fox
After spending years fleeing from the Nazis in war-torn Europe, twelve-year-old Karin Levi and her older brother Marc find a new home in a refugee camp in Oswego, New York.

The Moved-outers
by Means, Florence (Crannell)
After the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor in 1941, life changes drastically for eighteen-year-old Sumiko Ohara and her family when they are sent from their home in California to a series of relocation camps.

Freedom Songs
by Moore, Yvette
In the sixties, when Sheryl's Uncle Pete joins the Freedom Riders down South, she organizes a gospel concert in Brooklyn to help him.

And One for All
by Nelson, Theresa
Geraldine's close relationship with her older brother Wing and his friend Sam changes when Wing joins the Marines and Sam leaves for Washington to join a peace march.

The Lady with the Hat
by Orlev, Uri
In 1947, seventeen-year-old Yulek, the only member of his immediate family to survive the German concentration camps, joins a group of young Jews preparing to live on a kibbutz in Israel, unaware that his aunt living in London is looking for him.

The Final Journey
by Pausewang, Gudrun
Alice Dubsky, an 11-year-old Jewish girl, tells her story of what it was like in the railway cattle cars bound for Auschwitz.

The Sky is Falling
by Pearson, Kit
The experiences of a girl and her younger brother who are evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War II and find that they will be staying with complete strangers.

As Far as Mill Springs
by Pendergraft, Patricia
Tired of being bounced from one foster home to another during the Depression, twelve-year-old Robert embarks with his friend Abiah on a long journey to find his mother, hoping to reach her in time to celebrate Christmas with her.

Bethie
by Rabinowitz, Ann
Growing up in New York City during World War II, Beth's friendship with Grace is strained as Grace grows more and more despondent following her parents' divorce.

Foster's War
by Reeder, Carolyn
When his older brother joins the army during World War II in order to escape the rages of an authoritarian father, eleven-year-old Foster fights his battles on the homefront.

Andi's War
by Rosen, Billi
With her parents away fighting on the Communist side during Greece's Civil War, Andi fights her own battle against Aristo, the cruel son of the oppressive Chief of Police.

Beyond Safe Boundries
by Sacks, Margaret
Elizabeth comes of age in 1960s South Africa as her older sister joins a secret group opposed to the country's racial policies.

Eyes of the Emperor
by Salisbury, Graham
Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the army in his hometown of Honolulu only weeks before the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Suddenly Americans see him as the enemy--even the U.S. Army doubts the loyalty of Japanese American soldiers. Then the army sends Eddy and a small band of Japanese American soldiers on a secret mission to a small island off the coast of Mississippi. Here they are given a special job, one that only they can do. Eddy's going to help train attack dogs. He's going to be the bait.

We were not like other people
by Sevela, Efraim
Separated from his family when the Germans invade Russia during World War II, a young boy learns to fend for himself and earn a living whenever and however he can.

The Bomb
by Taylor, Theodore
In 1945, when the Americans liberate the Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that the next year he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

Anna is Still Here
by Vos, Ida
Thirteen-year-old Anna, who was a "hidden child" in Nazi-occupied Holland during World War II, gradually learns to deal with the realities of being a survivor.

Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon
by Vos, Ida
Relates the experiences of a young Jewish girl and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

Echoes of War
by Westall, Robert
A collection of five short stories examining the lingering repercussions of war on the lives of young people.