Showing 101–150 of 196 titles
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The Lie Tree
In Victorian Britain, Faith Sunderly investigates the mysterious murder of her father, discovering a tree that feeds that feeds upon lies and gives visions to those who eat its fruit.- Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
- Notable Children's Books 2017
- Older
- ISBN: 9781419718953
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Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
Recalling the fight for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a 100-year-old woman on the way to cast her ballot recounts the journey her family faced in gaining the right to vote.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2016
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780385390286
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Lily's Crossing
During her 1944 summer vacation in the Rockaways, ten-year-old Lily's best friend moves away and her beloved father Poppy goes off to war. Then Lily meets Albert, a young Hungarian refugee with whom she builds a poignant friendship based on shared loneliness, secrets, and lies.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1998 (Honor Title)
- Middle, Older
- ISBN: (0-385-32142-2)
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Little Town on the Prairie
Laura is fifteen and, in warm weather, working hard with Ma and Pa on their Dakota Territory claim. She earns what she can to help pay for Mary's courses at the College for the Blind, and, with her family, she spends the long, cold, but friend-filled winters in town.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1942 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780064400077
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
Set in Maine in 1912 and propelled by a tragic historical event, Schmidt's powerfully haunting novel probes a forbidden friendship between a preacher's son and a dark-skinned girl from a nearby island. Steeped in imagery and laced with surprising humor, Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy explores powerlessness, possibility, and the profound impact individuals can make.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2005 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-618-43929-3
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A Long Way from Chicago
An old man looks back on rollicking summers spent with his larger-than-life grandmother during the Great Depression in this colorful novel made up of seven masterfully interwoven tales.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1999 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: (0-8037-2290-7)
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The Long Winter
The Ingalls family, pioneering in the Dakota Territory, stoically endure a dreary succession of blizzards. Huddled in the family store, they and their neighbors must depend upon their ingenuity to prevent freezing and starvation.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1941 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780060264611
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Louisiana's Way Home
Louisiana finds her own inner strength when her granny abandons her in a run-down motel while they attempt to lift a curse that has plagued their family for generations.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2019
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780763694630
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Magic Maize
With the invading world encroaches on the old ways of the people of Guatemala, a father continues to teach his son the old ways of farming and of praying to the gods of planting and harvest. Yet when their crop fails, it is the settlers who come to the family's aid.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1954 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780395066669
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The Man from the Other Side
A gripping story of a fourteen-year-old boy's involvement in the struggle to save Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1992 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780395538081
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The Matchlock Gun
Edward, his mother, and his little sister have only one defense against the French and the Indians—a huge matchlock gun. When attacked, his mother is wounded, and Edward must use the gun to save their lives.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1942 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780698116801
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Me, Frida
“Me, Frida” tells the story of newly married Frida Kahlo and her husband, Mexican painter Diego Rivera, and their time spent in San Francisco in 1930. Diaz's paintings resemble Kahlo's folkloric style. The charcoal and acrylic paintings created in warm vibrant colors picture detailed cityscapes, landscapes, and building interiors as well as Frida and other figures.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Pura Belpré Youth Illustrator Award 2011 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780810989696
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Meggy MacIntosh
In 1775 orphaned fifteen-year-old Meggy leaves her native Scotland to sail for the colony of North Carolina. There she joins Flora MacDonald, who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape. Meggy becomes involved in the revolutionary cause and moves away from Flora, a loyalist.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1931 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780670466412
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Men of Athens
The golden age of Greece comes to life through the men and women who lived during and immediately before and after that brief fifty-year period. The battles they waged to make Greece strong and free; the brilliance of the leading artists, philosophers, and statesmen; and the excitement of the time make exciting reading.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1963 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780395067277
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Midnight without a Moon
In the summer of 1955, Rose Lee Carter dreams of life beyond her Mississippi cotton fields. Emmett Till's murder places her on a new trajectory.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2018
- Older
- ISBN: 9780544785106
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The Midwife's Apprentice
The central character, Brat, is a homeless waif who first appears sleeping in a dung heap “unwashed, unnourished, unloved, and unlovely. . . .” From a person with no hopes, no dreams, and no expectations she becomes the midwife's apprentice— a person with a name and a place in the world. An excellent portrayal of medieval England.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1996 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: (0-395-69229-6)
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Mister Orange
When his older brother enlists in 1943, Linus Muller assumes family responsibilities that introduce him to “Mister Orange,” Dutch painter Piet Mondrian. At once a coming of age story and a celebration of the power of art, “Mister Orange” beautifully captures Linus' awaking to the larger world around him.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2014 (Medal Winner)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9781592701230
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Moccasin Trail
A runaway who is clawed by a grizzly and left for dead, Jim is raised by the Crow Indians and becomes a mountain man. Receiving a letter from his little brother asking for help, Jim finds his orphaned family on a wagon train heading to Oregon. He agrees to stay with them on the dangerous journey west. It is Jim's courage and Crow training that help them survive.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1953 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780140321708
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Moon Over Manifest
This big-hearted, multi-generational epic set in small-town Kansas alternates between World War I and the Great Depression, but never strays too far from the tough-yet-vulnerable heroine Abilene Tucker. With a mix of letters, newspaper articles and a fortune teller's tales, the eclectic people and mysteries of Manifest spring to life.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2011 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780385738835
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The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg
This rollicking yarn, presented through the voice of twelve-year-old Homer, uses humor and pluck to mitigate the horrors of the Civil War.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2010 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780439668187
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Mountains Are Free
Bruno, a young Swiss orphan who is being raised by the Tells, suddenly decides to become a page to an Austrian, saying he will return when he can earn his own way. The stirring of democracy causes conflicts as the Swiss try to rebel against the harshness of their Habsburg rulers.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1931 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789997489043
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The Moved-Outers
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Ohara family, who have always thought of themselves as Americans, are suddenly “Japanese.” Put into internment camps with only the barest of necessities, Sue and her family try not only to survive but to stay loyal Americans.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1946 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780802773869
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
Tim's older brother, Sam, defies their father and runs off to join the Continental Army. When their father is imprisoned by the rebels and dies and Sam is hung by his own army, Tim sees how devastating war can be.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1975 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780590073394
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My Family for the War
The book tells the story of 11-year-old Ziska who is Protestant but because of her Jewish heritage flees Nazi Germany via one of the secret trains called kindertransports. When she joins an Orthodox Jewish household in London, she gains a new family for the war.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2013 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780803733602
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The Night Diary
Told in the form of diary entries addressed to Nisha's dead mother, this novel traces a mixed-faith family's flight from Mirpur Khas, Pakistan, to Jodhpur, India, during the partitioning of India in 1947.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2019 (Honor Title), Notable Children's Books 2019
- Older
- ISBN: 9780780418462
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Nine Open Arms
In this intricately plotted book, Fing's loving but fractious family moves into a new house outside of town and gradually discovers a “tragical tragedy” concerning the mysterious man living in the hedge. Combining elements of historical fiction, mystery and magical realism with large doses of humor, this book enthralls.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2015 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 9781592701469
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No Hero for the Kaiser
A fourteen-year-old Polish boy adopted by German soldiers during World War I relates military events and war experiences.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1987 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780688060930
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
After finally reaching Minnesota and planting a wheat crop, the Ingalls lose it to a horde of grasshoppers. Determined to stay, Pa goes to work for other farmers. Laura goes to school, shares adventures with friends, but most of all enjoys the moments when her family is together and Pa is back playing the fiddle.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1938 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780590488150
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One Crazy Summer
The voices of sisters Delphine, Vonetta and Fern sing in three-part harmony in this wonderfully nuanced, humorous novel set in 1968 Oakland, Calif. One crazy summer, the three girls find adventure when they are sent to meet their estranged poet-mother Cecile, who prints flyers for the Black Panthers.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2011 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: 9780060760885
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Our Eddie
Eddie's father is a stern, insensitive zealot who refuses, until it is too late, to see that his son is gradually succumbing to a debilitating disease. Set in London and New York in the 1920s, most of this story of a warm Jewish immigrant family is told by Eddie's insightful sister.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1970 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780394814551
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Our Only May Amelia
Growing up as the only girl in a large Finnish-American farming family along Washington's Nasel River in 1899, 12-year-old May Amelia prefers tricks and adventures to being a “proper young lady.” Unjustly blamed for tragedy, May must leave home before returning to claim her rightful place.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2000 (Honor Title)
- Middle
- ISBN: (0-06-027822-6)
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Out of the Dust
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo relates how her mother dies after an accident with burning kerosene. Blaming both herself and her father, she is unable to express herself through her piano playing because of the burns that scar her hands. She leaves but quickly returns to her home “of dust” and she realizes how much a part of her it is.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1998 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: (0-590-36080-9)
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Out of the Flame
In the sixteenth century, Pierre is first a page then a squire as he becomes trained to be a knight in the court of Francis I. He attends tournaments, visits with great intellectuals, and learns music and botany with the royal children. Before the story ends, he and the children are abducted and released by pirates.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1932 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789997489111
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Overground Railroad
Told in verse and set during the Great Migration, a family journeying north experiences changing societal differences that are mirrored in the changing landscape outside the train’s window.
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9780823438730
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Paperboy
Little Man, a sensitive and resilient 11-year-old boy who stutters, ventures beyond the familiar and finds his voice while taking over his best friend's paper route. Set in the summer heat of 1959 Memphis, “Paperboy” is a moving coming-of-age novel.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2014 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780385742443
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Penny from Heaven
Eleven-year-old Penny looks forward to spending the summer rooting for the Brooklyn Dodgers and scheming with her cousin Frankie. Instead she navigates the space between her two families and uncovers the reason for their estrangement in this funny and touching tale of intergenerational love set in 1953.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 2007 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 0-375-83687-X
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Peppe the Lamplighter
Lewin vividly captures the bustling market scenes, bleak tenement rooms, and the lamplit streets of turn-of-the-century New York's Little Italy. Dramatic watercolors portray young Peppe's struggle to help support his immigrant family and to win his father's respect.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Randolph Caldecott Medal 1994 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780688102692
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The Perilous Gard
Banished by Queen Mary to the remote castle of Elvenwood, Kate Sutton quickly learns the castle's secret: It guards the last practitioners of the old religions. To keep their power, the fairy folk decide to sacrifice the man Kate loves on All Hallow's Eve.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1975 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780441659562
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The Perilous Road
Eleven-year-old Chris passionately hates the Yankees invading his Tennessee homeland and wants to do anything to help the South. He is deaf to his father's words when he says war is the worst thing that can happen to people. Then Chris is caught in the middle of a savage battle and realizes how horrible war really is.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1959 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9780152606473
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Petros' War
When the German army occupies his homeland during World War II, a Greek boy changes his ideas about the adventure of war.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1974 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780525369622
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Phebe Fairchild: Her Book
When Phebe's mother decides to join Phebe's father on a sea voyage, the ten-yearold is sent to stay with relatives in the country. Life in 1830 rural Connecticut at first seems rigid to Phebe, and her copy of Mother Goose is a constant source of support. The child comes to appreciate her relatives, their simple life, their generosity, and their sense of fun.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1937 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789998894266
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A Place to Belong
After her Japanese American parents are released from an internment camp, twelve-year-old Hanako travels with her family to start a new life in post-war Japan.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2020
- Older
- ISBN: 9781481446648
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Prairie Days
An ode to the amazing sights only the prairie can provide, this simple, quiet story is an accurate reflection of life outside the city limits.
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Younger
- ISBN: 9781442441910
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Prairie Lotus
Hanna, a biracial Chinese American, and her White father move to the Dakota Territory in the 1880’s to start over after her mother’s death. Hanna struggles to find her own strengths and voice within an unwelcoming community.
- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Notable Children's Books 2021
- Middle
- ISBN: 9781328781505
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Pran of Albania
In post–World War I Albania amidst a threat of attack from Slavs, fourteen-year-old Pran falls in love. Rather than submit to an arranged marriage, she vows to never marry. After a truce is made, Pran realizes the man she loves is the same man her parents had arranged for her to marry.- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Action, Adventure
- John Newbery Medal 1930 (Honor Title)
- ISBN: 9789997488916
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The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano
In her debut novel, Manzano beautifully recreates a world of turmoil in 1969 Spanish Harlem. Fourteen-year-old Evelyn Serrano is caught in a whirlwind of events led by the revolutionary Young Lords. Navigating the tensions between her activist abuela and conservative mother, Evelyn learns to value her own culture and history.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Pura Belpré Children's Author Award 2013 (Honor Title)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780545325059
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Rifles for Watie
Sixteen-year-old Jeff, already a combat veteran in the Union Army and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, is captured by the rebel troops of General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, and forced to become one of his scouts.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1958 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780064470308
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Cassie Logan and her brothers are part of a warm, intelligent, and courageous black family in rural Mississippi during the Depression. They try to maintain their pride as they take abuse from white children and then recognize that their personal difficulties are only symptoms of greater problems within their community.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- John Newbery Medal 1977 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9780803774735
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Rose Blanche
This picture book for older children relates the death of a young girl who tries to share food with Jewish concentration camp prisoners.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 1986 (Medal Winner)
- ISBN: 9781568461892
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Run, Boy, Run
At the age of eight, Srulik is left alone in the Warsaw Ghetto, and must fend for himself, even forgetting his name, in order to survive the Holocaust.- Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award 2004 (Medal Winner)
- Older
- ISBN: 9780618164653
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