Historical fiction is a literary genre that takes place in the past and blends actual events with the author's imagination. The stories adhere to the norms of the time period and often explore notable historical figures. While the characters, actions, and other details are fictionalized, historical fiction pays close attention to the manners, social conditions, and other details of the depicted period.
Westside by
From TitlePeek: In 1921 New York City, young detective Gilda Carr specializes in solving "tiny mysteries"-the impossible puzzles that keep us up at night, against a hellish landscape, in this thrilling historical fantasy steeped in the supernatural.
Death Coming up the Hill by
From TitlePeek: Douglas Ashe keeps a weekly record of historical and personal events in 1968, the year he turns seventeen, including the escalating war in Vietnam, assassinations, rampant racism, and rioting; his first girlfriend, his parents' separation, and a longed-for sister.
All the Light We Cannot See by
From TitlePeek: A blind French girl on the run from the German occupation and a German orphan-turned-Resistance tracker struggle with their respective beliefs after meeting on the Brittany coast. By the award-winning author of About Grace.
All Is Fair by
From TitlePeek: Upset that she cannot do her part to support the war effort, Mina jumps at the chance to work with a family friend and a mysterious young American in the world of cryptic messages, spycraft, and the international intrigue of World War I.
Silver in the Blood by
From TitlePeek:
In 1897, seventeen-year-old cousins and New York socialites Dacia and Lou visit Romania, their mothers homeland, where they learn the family secret-that they are shapeshifters, expected to take their rightful places and marry proper husbands.
Dread Nation by
From TitlePeek: When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
A Very Large Expanse of Sea by
From TitlePeek: A year after 9/11, Muslim teenager Shirin has completely withdrawn from social life, until she meets Ocean James in her biology class and is tempted to actually let her guard down.
The Edge of Lost by
From TitlePeek: On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through the darkness around Alcatraz. A prison guard's only daughter-one of the youngest civilians who lives on the island-has gone missing. Tending the warden's greenhouse, convicted bank robber Tommy Capello waits anxiously. Only he knows the truth about the little girl's whereabouts, and that both of their lives depend on the search's outcome. Almost two decades earlier and thousands of miles away, a young boy named Shanley Keagan ekes out a living as an aspiring vaudevillian in Dublin pubs. Talented and shrewd, Shan dreams of shedding his dingy existence and finding his real father in America. The chance finally comes to cross the Atlantic, but when tragedy strikes, Shan must summon all his ingenuity to forge a new life in a volatile and foreign world. Skillfully weaving these two stories, Kristina McMorris delivers a compelling novel that moves from Ireland to New York to San Francisco Bay. As her finely crafted characters discover the true nature of loyalty, sacrifice, and betrayal, they are forced to confront the lies we tell-and believe-in order to survive.
Within These Lines by
From TitlePeek: talian-American Evalina and Japanese-American Taichi's vow to be together, although interracial marriage is illegal in 1941 San Francisco, is tested when Taichi's family is sent to Manzanar internment camp. Includes historical notes.
Anya's War by
In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan.
Fever 1793 by
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
Blood Red Snow White by
From TitlePeek: "A novel based on the life of children's book author Arthur Ransome, who left his home, his wife, and daughter and fell in love with Russia and a Russian woman and was suspected, by both sides, of being a spy"-
The Blossom and the Firefly by
From TitlePeek: Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old kamikaze pilot Taro and fifteen-year-old war worker Hana meet in 1945 Japan, he with no future and she, haunted by the past. Includes historical notes and glossary.
The Boy Who Dared by
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hèubener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Home by
"The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"-
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