The Best Historical Fiction List
Title	Author	Subject
Drummers of Jericho	Meyer	Civil Rights
Freedom Songs	Moore	Civil Rights
Just Like Martin	Davis	Civil Rights
Legend of Buddy Bush	Moses	Civil Rights
Mississippi Trial, 1955	Crowe	Civil Rights
The Chamber	Grisham	Civil Rights
Across Five Aprils	Hunt	Civil War
Charley Skedaddle	Beatty	Civil War
Dear Ellen Bee: Civil Scrapbook of two Union Spies	Lyons	Civil War
Gone With the Wind	Mitchell	Civil War
Numbering All the Bones	Rinaldi	Civil War
Rifles for Watie	Keith	Civil War
Silent Thunder	Pinkney	Civil War
The Last Silk Dress	Rinaldi	Civil War
The Red Badge of Courage	Crane	Civil War
The River Between Us	Peck	Civil War
With Every Drop of Blood	Collier	Civil War
A Long Way from Chicago	Peck	Great Depression
Al Capone Does My Shirts	Choldenko	Great Depression
Bud not Buddy	Curtis	Great Depression
Esperanza Rising	Ryan	Great Depression
Nothing is for Free	Sorensen	Great Depression
Out of the Dust	Hesse	Great Depression
The Amazing Thinking Machine	Haseley	Great Depression
The Barn Burner	Willis	Great Depression
The Gawgon and the Boy	Alexander	Great Depression
The Journal of C.J. Jackson	Durbin	Great Depression
The Velvet Room	Snyder	Great Depression
Worth	LaFaye	Great Depression
After the War	Matas	Holocaust
Daniel's Story	Matas	Holocaust
Good Night Maman	Mazer	Holocaust
Greater Than Angels	Matas	Holocaust
Jacob's Rescue	Drucker	Holocaust
Milkweed	Spinelli	Holocaust
Milkweed	Spinelli	Holocaust
Number the Stars	Lowry	Holocaust
The Island on Bird Street	Orlev	Holocaust
The Man from the Other Side	Orlev	Holocaust
Torn Thread	Isaacs	Holocaust
Maggie's Door	Giff	Immigration
Journey Home	Uchida	Japanese Internment-WWII
Under the Blood Red Sun	Salisbury	Japanese Internment-WWII
Year of Impossible Goodbyes	Choi	Korean War
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	Schmidt	Race Relations
April Morning	Fast	Revolutionary War
Johnny Tremain	Forbes	Revolutionary War
My Brother Sam is Dead	Collier	Revolutionary War
Sarah Bishop	O'Dell	Revolutionary War
Saratoga Secret	Sterman	Revolutionary War
Secret of Sarah Revere	Rinaldi	Revolutionary War
The Fighting Ground	Avi	Revolutionary War
The Patriot (based on the movie)	Molstad	Revolutionary War
War Comes to Willy Freeman	Collier	Revolutionary War
Jazz Kid	Collier	Roaring Twenties
Almost to Freedom	Nelson	Slavery
Breaking Free	Gaeddert	Slavery
Caleb's Choice	Wisler	Slavery
Jayhawker	Beatty	Slavery
Jump Ship to Freedom	Collier	Slavery
Letters from a Slave Girl	Lyons	Slavery
Sound the Jubilee	Forester	Slavery
Stealing South	Ayres	Slavery
Boy Who Saved Baseball	Ritter	Small Town Life
And One For All	Nelson	Vietnam War
Charlie Pippin	Boyd	Vietnam War
December Stillness	Hahn	Vietnam War
Fallen Angels	Myers	Vietnam War
Over the Wall	Ritter	Vietnam War
Park's Quest	Paterson	Vietnam War
Pocket Change	Jensen	Vietnam War
The Car	Paulsen	Vietnam War
Where Have All the Flowers Gone	White	Vietnam War
Prairie Whispers	Arrington	Westward Movement
After the Dancing Days	Rostkowski	WWI
Fire in the Hills	Myers	WWI
Johnny Got His Gun	Trumbo	WWI
Lord of the Nutcracker Men	Lawrence	WWI
The Night Flyers	Jones	WWI
The Singing Tree	Seredy	WWI
When Christmas Comes Again	Levine	WWI
A Boy No More	Mazer	WWII
Don't You Know There's A War On	Avi	WWII
Eyes of the Emperor	Salisbury	WWII
Good Night Mr. Tom	Magorian	WWII
Lily's Crossing	Giff	WWII
Lily's Crossing	Giff	WWII
Lisa's War	Matas	WWII
Shadows on the Sea	Harlow	WWII
Snow Treasure	McSwigan	WWII
Stepping On the Cracks	Hahn	WWII
Summer of My German Soldier	Greene	WWII
The Art of Keeping Cool	Lisle	WWII
The Boys from St. Petri	Reuter	WWII
The Gadget	Zindel	WWII
Under a War Torn Sky	Elliott	WWII
Willow Run	Giff	WWII
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