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Copper Sun

draperTwo fifteen-year-old girls — one a slave and the other an indentured servant — escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Escape, plantation, slavery
Categories: AmericasAmericas, Historical FictionAmericas, Historical Fiction, United StatesAmericas, Historical Fiction, United States, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

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Nightfather

A young girl and her two brothers try to come to terms with their father, who feels compelled to recount his concentration camp experiences over and over again.

Published: 2004,
Tags: Children, War and conflict
Categories: EuropeEurope, GermanyEurope, Germany, Historical FictionEurope, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Stories Of The Caliphs: The Rulers Of Islam

This collection of stories concerns the lives of the early Muslim leaders, known as Caliphs or successors to the Prophet, who ruled from Medina, then Damascus, and later from Baghdad, over an empire that included a large part of the world.

Published: 1999,
Tags: Family life, Mother and child
Categories: AfricaAfrica, EgyptAfrica, Egypt, Historical FictionAfrica, Egypt, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Echoes Of The White Giraffe

Fifteen-year-old Sookan adjusts to life in the refugee village in Pusan but continues to hope that the civil war will end and her family will be reunited in Seoul. Sequel to Year of impossible goodbyes.

Published: 1993,
Tags: Adolescence, Love stories
Categories: AsiaAsia, Historical FictionAsia, Historical Fiction, KoreaAsia, Historical Fiction, Korea, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Daniel Half Human: And The Good Nazi

Young Daniel Kraushaar and his friends dream of joining the Hitler Youth in 1930s Germany, but when Daniel learns his mother is Jewish his connections to the Nazis will have fateful consequences.

Published: 2004,
Tags: Art and artists, Children
Categories: EuropeEurope, GermanyEurope, Germany, Historical FictionEurope, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

The King’s Swift Rider: A Novel On Robert The Bruce

Unwilling to fight but feeling a sense of duty, sixteen-year-old Martin joins Scotland’s rebel army as a swift rider and master of espionage for the leader, Robert the Bruce.

Published: 2000,
Tags: Foxes
Categories: EuropeEurope, Historical FictionEurope, Historical Fiction, Scotland (UK)Europe, Historical Fiction, Scotland (UK), Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Freya On The Wall

Fourteen-year-old Freya, whose home has always been in East Germany, offers her view of the complex events leading to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Published: 1997,
Tags: Compassion and kindness
Categories: EuropeEurope, GermanyEurope, Germany, Historical FictionEurope, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

The African Mask

Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.

Published: 1994,
Tags: Birds
Categories: AfricaAfrica, Historical FictionAfrica, Historical Fiction, NigeriaAfrica, Historical Fiction, Nigeria, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

The Conch Bearer

In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home many hundreds of miles away, high in the Himalayan mountains.

Published: 2003,
Tags: Compassion and kindness, Concentration camps, War and conflict
Categories: AsiaAsia, Historical FictionAsia, Historical Fiction, IndiaAsia, Historical Fiction, India, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

In Flanders Fields :The Story Of The Poem By John Mccrae

Presents the context for the writing of the famous poem by the Canadian medical officer, John McCrae, who attended injured soldiers in Flanders during the First World War.

Featured in WOW Review Volume X, Issue 2.

Published: 1995,
Tags: Dance, Dreams, World War I
Categories: AmericasAmericas, CanadaAmericas, Canada, Historical FictionAmericas, Canada, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

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