HistoricalFictionU.S.History1877toPresent


 * Literature Connection – U.S. History: 1877-Present (Middle School) **

__**Westward Expansion **__ //A Dangerous Place// - Joan Lowry Nixon //Devil's Paintbox// - Victoria McKernan //A Family Apart// - Joan Lowry Nixon //A Place to Belong// - Joan Lowry Nixon //Billy the Kid: A Novel// - Theodore Taylor //Caught in the Act// - Joan Lowry Nixon //Dragon's Gate// - Laurence Yep (Railroad) //Geronimo// - Joseph Bruchac //Grasslands// - Debra Seely //Hattie Big Sky// - Kirby Larson //In the Face of Danger// - Joan Lowry Nixon //Journal of Jesse Smoke Cherokee Boy// - Joseph Bruchac //Journal of Josh Loper// - Water Dean Myers //Journal of Sean Sullivan: Transcontinental Railroad Worker // <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Keeping Secrets// - Joan Lowry Nixon <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Legend of Bass Reeves// - Gary Paulsen <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Little House on the Prairie// - Laura Ingalls Wilder <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//My Face to the Wind// - Jim Murphy <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//My Heart is on the Ground// - Ann Rinaldi <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//News Girl// - Liza Ketchum (San Francisco) <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Riding Freedom// - Pam Munoz Ryan <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Sarah, Plain and Tall// - Patricia MacLachlan <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Skylark// - Patricia MacLachlan <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Tracks// - Diane Lee Wilson <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Place at the Edge of the Earth// - Bebe Faas Rice <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//West to a Land of Plenty : the Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi// - Jim Murphy <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Worth// - A. LaFaye

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Immigration **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Ashes of Roses// - Mary Jane Auch <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//At Ellis Island// - Louise Peacock <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Dreams in the golden country: the diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish immigrant girl// - Kathryn Lasky <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Double Crossing// - Eve Tal <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//It’s Only Goodbye: An Immigrant Story// - Virginia Gross <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Land of The Buffalo Bones: Diary of Mary Anne Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota// - Marion Dane Bauer //<span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">Journal of Wong Ming Chung, Chinese Miner // <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Journey of Otto Peltonon: Finnish Immigrant// - William Durbin <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Rodzina// - Karen Cushman <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Shannon: A Chinatown Adventure, San Francisco, 1880// - Kathleen Kudlinski

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Growth, Inventions after Civil War **__

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Segregation, Jim Crow post-reconstruction South **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//White Lilacs// - Carolyn Meyer <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Witness// - Karen Hess

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Big business, industry growth, life on farms **__

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Progressive movement, child labor, unions **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Bread and Roses Too// - Katherine Patterson <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Counting on Grace// - Elizabeth Winthrop <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Lyddie// - Katherine Patterson <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Notorious Izzy Fink// - Don Brown <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Ornament Tree// - Jean Thesman <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Together Apart// - Dianne Gray <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Uprising// - Margaret Peterson Haddix

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Women’s suffrage **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Mama Went to Jail for the Vote// - Kathleen Karr <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen// - Kathryn Lasky //Radical Red// - James Duffy

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Late 19th century **__ //<span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">Little Women - //<span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">Louisa May Alcott

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">World War I **__ //Don’t You Know There’s a War On?// - Avi <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Eyes Like Willy’s// - Juanita Havil <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Gay-Neck Story of a Pigeon// - Dhan Gupal Mukerji <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Good Night Mr. Tom// - Michelle Magorian <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Kipling’s Choice// - Geert Spillebean <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Lord of the Nutcracker Men// - Iain Lawrence <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Pictures, 1918// - Jeanette Ingold <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Private Peaceful// - Michael Morpurgo <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Case Against My Brother// - Libby Sternberg (Post-war, KKK, etc.) <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//War Horse// - Michael Morpurgo

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Spanish American War & Expansion **__ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Kaiulani: The People's Princess// - Ellen Emerson White

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Development of transportation, communication and electrification **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Teacher’s Funeral// - Richard Peck

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Prohibition **__ //Al Capone Does My Shirts// - Gennifer Choldenko //Al Capone Shines My Shoes// - Gennifer Choldenko <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Black Duck// - Janet Taylor Lisle <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Moonshiner’s Son// - Carolyn Reeder

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Great Migration North **__ //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> - Pat McKissack

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Georgia O’Keeffe **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Dave at Night// - Gail Carson Levine <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Harlem Summer// - Walter Dean Myers

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Great Depression **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Bud, Not Buddy// - Christopher Paul Curtis <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Christmas After All// - Kathryn Lasky <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Goodbye Walter Malinski// - Helen Recovitz <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Ghost Girl: a Blue Ridge Mountain Story// - Delia Ray //Long Way from Chicago// - RIchard Peck <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Mighty Miss Malone// - Christopher Paul Curtis <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Out of the Dust// - Karen Hesse <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry// - Mildred Taylor <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Turtle in Paradise// - Jennifer Holm <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//A Year Down Yonder// - Richard Peck

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">FDR’s New Deal **__

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">World War II – at war and on homefront **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Ashes -// Kathryn Lasky <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Boy At War// - Harry Mazer <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Boy No More// - Harry Mazer <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Burying the Sun// - Gloria Whelan <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Far Away Island// - Annika Thor <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Traitor Among Us// - Elizabeth Van Steenwyk <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Troubled Peace// - L.M. Elliot <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Separate Peace// - John Knowles <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Best Friend Forever// - Beverly Patt <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Boy Who Dared// - Susan Campbell Bartoletti //Code Talker// - Joseph Bruchac //Dancing on the Bridge of Avignon// - Ida Vos //Daniel Half Human// - David Chotjewitz //The Devil’s Arithmetic// - Jane Yolen //Elephant Run// - Roland Smith //Eyes of the Emperor// - Graham Salisbury //Foster's War// - Carolyn Reeder //FlyGirl// - Sherri L. Smith //Good Night Maman// - Norma Fox Mazer (Pre-WWII France) //Journey To America// - Sonia Levittin (Holocaust) //Hitler’s Canary// - Sandi Toksvig //House of the Red Fish// - Graham Salisbury //Is It Night or Day// - Fran Shumer Chapman //Lost in America// - Marilyn Sacks //Jimmy's Star// - Mary Ann Rodman //Jump into the Sky// - Shelly Pearsall //The Good Liar// - Gregory Maguire (Pre-WWII France) //The Island on Bird Street// - Uri Orlev <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins// (Dear America) - Walter Dean Myers <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Malka// - Mirjam Pressler (Holocaust) <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Mara's Stories// - Gary Schmidt (Holocaust) <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//My Wartime Summer// - Jane Cutler //Milkweed// - Jerry Spinelli //Number the Stars// - Lois Lowry //On the Wings of Heroes// - Richard Peck //Queen of Hearts Coming of Age in a Hospital Bed// - Martha Brooks //Run Boy Run// - Uri Orlev (Holocaust) //Shanghai Shadows// - Lois Ruby //Slap Your Sides// - M.E. Kerr //Shadow Children// - Steven Schnur //Soldier Boys// - Dean Hughes //Soldier X// - Don Wulffson //Star of Luis// - Marc Talbert //Summer of My German Soldier//<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> - Bette Greene <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Summer of the War// - Gloria Whelan <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//T4// - Ann Clare LeZotte (Holocaust) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//The Dragonfly Pool// - Eva Ibbotson (Pre-WWII) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//The Entertainer and the Dybbuk// - Sid Fleishman <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//The Island on Bird Street// - Uri Orlev (Holocaust) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Torn Thread// - Anne Isaacs (Holocaust) <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba// - Margaret Enofor <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Tunes For Bears To Dance To// - Robert Cormier //Under the Blood Red Sun// - Graham Salisbury <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Under a War Torn Sky// - L.M. (Laura) Elliot <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Warriors at the Crossroads// - Nancy Bo Flood <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Weedflower// - Cynthia Kadohata (Internment) //When My Name was Keoko// - Linda Sue Park //When The Soldiers Were Gone// - Vera W. Propp

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">United Nations **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Operation Sippacik// - Rumer Godden

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Pearl Harbor **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbor// - Harry Mazer //Early Sunday Morning: the Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows// - Barry Denenberg

__**Post WWII - US**__ //Little Audrey// - Ruth White //The Green Glass Sea// - Ellen Klages

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Rebuilding of Europe & Japan after WWII **__

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cold War **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Countdown -// Deborah Wiles <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Escape to West Berlin// - Maurine F. Dahlberg <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Bomb// - Theodore Taylor <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Till Tomorrow Comes// - John Donahue <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Gadget// - Paul Zindel <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//White Sands, Red Menace// - Ellen Klages

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Korean War **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//I am the Cay// - Chaim Potok <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Year of Impossible Goodbyes// - Sook Nyul Choi

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Vietnam War **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//All the Broken Pieces: a Novel in Verse// - Ann Burg <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Cracker: The Best Dog in Vietnam// - Cynthia Kadohata //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">A Dream Come True: Coming to America from Vietnam, 1975 //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> - M.J. Cosson <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Inside Out and Back Again// - Thanhha Lai <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Letters From Wolfie// - Patti Sherlock <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Little Cricket// - Jackie Brown //Lost in the War// - Nancy Antle //Patrol// - Walter Dean Myers <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Mailbox// - Audrey Shafer //Search and Destroy// - Dean Hughes //Shooting The Moon// - Frances O'Roark Dowell //The Wednesday Wars// - Gary D. Schmidt //Vietnam Book 1: I Pledge Allegiance// - Chris Lynch //Vietnam Book 2: Sharpshooter// - Chris Lynch

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cuban Missile Crisis **__ <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//The Fire-Eaters// - David Almond

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Collapse of communism in Europe **__ //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Loud Silence of Francine Green //<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">- Karen Cushman

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Civil Rights Movement **__ <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Eleanor Hill// - Lisa Williams Kline <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Golden Cadillac// - Mildred Taylor <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Fire from the Rock// - Sharon Draper <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Glory Be// - Augusta Scattergood <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//My Life With the Lincolns// - Gayle Brandeis //One Crazy Summer// - Rita Williams Garcia //The Rock and the River// - Kekla Magoon //Sources of Light// - Margaret McMullan <span style="font-family: "arial","sans-serif";">//Watson’s Go to Birmingham// – Christopher Paul Curtis

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Feminist Movement **__

__**<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Watergate **__

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Back Home// - Julia Keller <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Control Under Fire// - M Zachary Sherman <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Soldier Mom// - Alec Mead <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Sunrise over Fallujah// - Walter Dean Myers <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">//Under the Persimmon Tree// - Suzanne Fisher Staples
 * __<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Afghan/Gulf War __**