Barrington Area Library

Kids' Catalog | History

Historical fiction books are realistic stories about times or events that took place at least a generation before the book was written.

Grade 3 | Grades 4–5  | Grades 6–8

Grade 3

Beginning Readers | Fiction | Nonfiction

Beginning Readers

Avi.  Abigail Takes the Wheel.
Avi.  Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams.
Benchley, Nathaniel.  Sam, the Minuteman.
Brenner, Barbara.  Wagon Wheels.
Brenner, Martha.  Abe Lincoln’s Hat.
Byars, Betsy Cromer.  The Golly Sisters Go West.
Coerr, Eleanor.  Buffalo Bill and the Pony Express.
Coerr, Eleanor.  The Josefina Story Quilt.
Griest, Lisa.  Lost at the White House: A 1909 Easter Story.
Hopkinson, Deborah.  Billy and the Rebel: Based on a True Civil War Story.
Hopkinson, Deborah.  From Slave to Soldier: Based on a True Civil War Story.
Levinson, Nancy Smiler.  Clara and the Bookwagon.
Levinson, Nancy Smiler.  Snowshoe Thompson.
Lowrey, Janette Sebring.  Six Silver Spoons.
McMorrow, Catherine.  Gold Fever!
Monjo, F. N.  The Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad.
Ransom, Candice.  Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown.
Rappaport, Doreen.  The Boston Coffee Party.
Ross, Alice.  The Copper Lady.
Sandin, Joan.  The Long Way to a New Land.
Sandin, Joan.  Pioneer Bear: Based on a True Story.
Shea, George.  First Flight: The Story of Tom Tate and the Wright Brothers.
Walker, Sally M.  The 18 Penny Goose.
White, Tekla N.  The Flight of the Union.

Fiction

Borden, Louise.  The Greatest Skating Race: A World War II Story from the Netherlands.
Brill, Marlene Targ.  Diary of a Drummer Boy.
Burgan, Michael.  Hot Iron: The Adventures of a Civil War Powder Boy.
Cohen, Miriam.  Mimmy and Sophie: All around the Town.
dePaola, Tomie.  26 Fairmount Avenue.
Dorris, Michael.  Morning Girl.
Foreman, Michael.  The Boy Who Sailed with Columbus.
Fredericks, Anthony D.  The Tsunami Quilt: Grandfather's Story.
Goodman, Susan E.  Robert Henry Hendershot.
Gunderson, Jessica.  The Last Rider: The Final Days of the Pony Express.
Hesse, Karen.  The Cats in Krasinski Square.
Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie.  Lumber Camp Library.
Kimmel, Eric A.  A Picture for Marc.
MacLachlan, Patricia.  Sarah, Plain and Tall.
McKissack, Pat.  A Song for Harlem.
Mochizuki, Ken.  Baseball Saved Us.
Moses, Sheila P.  Sallie Gal and the Wall-a-Kee Man.
Moss, Marissa.  Young American Voices series.
O'Donnell, Liam.  Blackbeard's Sword: The Pirate King of the Carolinas.
Roy, Ron.  Mayflower Treasure Hunt.
Skurzynski, Gloria.  The Minstrel in the Tower.
Stevens, Carla.  Lily and Miss Liberty.
Whelan, Gloria.  The Indian School.
Whelan, Gloria.  Next Spring an Oriole.
Wilder, Laura Ingalls.  Little House in the Big Woods.

Nonfiction

Adkins, Jan. What If You Met a Knight?
Branse, J. L.  A Day in the Life of a Colonial Sea Captain.
Bruchac, Joseph.  The Trail of Tears.
Cheney, Lynne V. Our 50 States: A Family Adventure across America.
Donnelly, Judy.  Tut’s Mummy Lost—and Found.
Dubowski, Mark.  Titanic: The Disaster That Shocked the World!
Gates, Phil.  Terror on the Amazon.
Gibbons, Gail.  Yippee-Yay! A Book about Cowboys and Cowgirls.
Graves, Kerry A.  Going to School in Pioneer Times.
Herman, John.  Red, White, and Blue: The Story of the American Flag.
Klobuchar, Lisa. The History and Activities of the Wagon Trail.
Krensky, Stephen.  Egypt.
Leavitt, Caroline.  Samurai.
Nickles, Greg.  Pirates.
Osborne, Mary Pope. Ancient Rome and Pompeii: A Nonfiction Companion to "Vacation under the Volcano."
Pipe, Jim.  Mystery History of the Trojan Horse.
Schanzer, Rosalyn.  How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark.
Walker, Sally M. Shipwreck Search: Discovery of the H. L. Hunley.
Wilkinson, Philip.  Spacebusters: The Race to the Moon.
You Wouldn't Want to... series.

Grades 4–5

Fiction | Nonfiction

Fiction

Armstrong, Alan W.  Raleigh's Page.
Avi.  "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
Ayres, Katherine.  Silver Dollar Girl.
Birney, Betty G.  The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs.
Blume, Lesley M. M.  The Rising Star of Rusty Nail.
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.  The Lacemaker and the Princess.
Carbone, Elisa Lynn.  Storm Warriors.
Couloumbis, Audrey.  The Misadventures of Maude March; or, Trouble Rides a Fast Horse.
Cummings, Priscilla.  Saving Grace.
Curtis, Christopher Paul.  Bud, Not Buddy.
Denslow, Sharon Phillips.  All Their Names Were Courage: A Novel of the Civil War.
Dowell, Frances O'Roark.  Chicken Boy.
Fleischman, Paul.  Bull Run.
Fleischman, Sid.  Bandit's Moon.
Forbes, Esther.  Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old and Young.
Franklin, Kristine L.  Cuss.
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Lily's Crossing.
Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Nory Ryan's Song.
Giff, Patricia Reilly. Water Street.
Glaser, Linda.  Bridge to America: Based on a True Story.
Going, K. L.  The Liberation of Gabriel King.
Harlow, Joan Hiatt.  Joshua's Song.
Hesse, Karen.  Letters from Rifka.
Hilgartner, Beth.  A Murder for Her Majesty.
Ibbotson, Eva.  Journey to the River Sea.
Ibbotson, Eva.  The Star of Kazan.
Koponen, Libby. Blow Out the Moon.
Lowry, Lois.  Number the Stars.
Matas, Carol.  The War Within: A Novel of the Civil War.
Murphy, Jim. Desperate Journey.
My Name Is America series.
Park, Linda Sue.  A Single Shard.
Porter, Tracey.  Billy Creekmore.
Ransom, Candice F.  Finding Day's Bottom.
Rodman, Mary Ann. Yankee Girl.
Royal Diaries series.
Rubalcaba, Jill.  A Place in the Sun.
Salisbury, Graham.  Night of the Howling Dogs.
Selznick, Brian.  The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering.  Annie's War.
Taylor, Theodore.  The Cay.
Wiles, Deborah.  The Aurora County All-Stars.
Wilson, Diane L.  Black Storm Comin'.
Winthrop, Elizabeth.  Counting on Grace.
Wolf, Joan M.  Someone Named Eva. 

Nonfiction

Ballard, Robert D.  Ghost Liners: Exploring the World's Greatest Lost Ships.
Borden, Louise.  The Journey That Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey.
Burgan, Michael.  The Battle of Bunker Hill: An Interactive History Adventure.
Chrisp, Peter.  Welcome to the Globe! The Story of Shakespeare's Theater.
Fleming, Thomas. Everybody's Revolution: A New Look at the People Who Won America's Freedom.
Freedman, Russell.  The Adventures of Marco Polo.
Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Freedman, Russell.  Who Was First? Discovering the Americas.
Granfield, Linda.  Where Poppies Grow: A World War I Companion.
Greenwood, Barbara.  Factory Girl.
Guiberson, Brenda Z.  Mummy Mysteries: Tales from North America.
How Would You Survive series
Keenan, Sheila.  Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People.
Lauber, Patricia.  What You Never Knew about Fingers, Forks, and Chopsticks.
Levine, Karen.  Hana's Suitcase.
Macdonald, Fiona.  The Stone Age News.
McPherson, James M.  Into the West: From Reconstruction to the Final Days of the American Frontier.
Murphy, Claire Rudolf.  Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock.
Pipe, Jim.  Mystery History of a Medieval Castle.
Rappaport, Doreen.  United No More! Stories of the Civil War.
Raum, Elizabeth.  The California Gold Rush: An Interactive History Adventure.
St. George, Judith.  So You Want to Be an Inventor?
Taylor, Peter Lane.  The Secret of Priest's Grotto: A Holocaust Survival Story.
You Wouldn't Want to... series.