Young Adult Historical Novels
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Article in Young Adult Fiction and Historical categories.
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18th Century
- The Pox Party by M.T. Anderson
- The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson.
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20th Century
- Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
- A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
- After Tupac and D Foster by Jacqueline Woodson
- In the New York City borough of Queens in 1996, three girls bond over their shared love of Tupac Shakur's music, as together they try to make sense of the unpredictable world in which they live.
- Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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World War II
- Ten Cents A Dance by Christine Fletcher
- At fifteen, Ruby Jacinski, has had to drop out of school and get a job to support her mother and sister. They live "back of the yards" (the stockyards) in Chicago, and the job Ruby gets, like almost all the other people in her neighborhood, is in one of the factories of the yards, shoving pigs feet into a pickle jar all day long. It's dangerous, filthy, exhausting work, the kind that left her mother with crippling arthritis. When crazily alluring bad boy Paulie Suelze, a small time operator aspiring to the big time life of crime, takes an interest in her, and tips her off to the better money and cushier job of taxi dancing, a shady world where illusion is all, and a girl can score money and benefits besides her nickel cut from each dance, Ruby's life becomes a tangled web of lies and deception. For Ruby, the question is where the line lies that crosses over into wrong, and whether she can continue to reconcile Paulie's disturbing behavior with her idea of love.
- The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
- Eleven year old Dewey Kerrigan has mixed feelings about her life on "the hill." Everything, even the location in New Mexico, is a big secret. Dewey knows that the adults who are working on "the gadget" are some of the top scientists and mathematicians in the world. Many of them help her with her own inventions, like building a radio. On the other hand, the kids on the hill think she's weird, and call her "Screwy Dewey." Meanest of all is a girl named Suze who pushes the other kids around. As the scientists approach their goal, which they hope will end the war, Dewey is sent to Suze's house to stay while her father is away. The girls must learn to get along with each other. When "the gadget" is finally complete, celebrations are tempered with the realization of what the A-bomb is really capable of doing.
