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Here are our favorite historical fiction books for teens. These titles can be found in the Teen section of the library. Please note that these titles include both Teen Middle and Teen High selections.
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Family of Liars
by E. Lockhart
A fiery, addicted heiress and an irresistible, unpredictable boy are plunged into a world of unforgivable betrayal, shocking secrets and terrible mistakes.
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I Must Betray You
by Ruta Sepetys
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country.
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One for All
by Lillie Lainoff
Finally finding a place where she belongs, Tania de Batz, a girl with a chronic illness secretly training as a Musketeer, must decide where her loyalties lie when she is torn between duty and dizzying emotion.
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Foul Lady Fortune
by Chloe Gong
As a series of murders cause unrest in Shanghai, Rosalind, aka Fortune, must team up with a spy who has his own agenda and attempt to unravel a conspiracy that is more horrifying than they could have ever imagined.
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Rust in the Root
by Justina Ireland
It is 1937 and America is divided between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism, the country has been rebuilding for a better future.
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Outrun the Moon
by Stacey Lee
Gaining admittance into an elite school usually limited to white girls, 15-year-old Mercy Wong, who strives to escape from her disadvantaged life through education, endures harsh conditions in a park encampment when the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroys her home and school.
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An Elephant in the Garden
by Michael Morpurgo
Devastated to learn that a beloved elephant in the zoo where their mother works is to be euthanized to keep it from panicking if bombs are dropped nearby, Lizzie and Karl of World War II-era Dresden persuade the zoo director to let the elephant be temporarily relocated to their family garden and are challenged to move the elephant to safety when bombs begin to fall on the city.
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And I Darken
by Kiersten White
Ever since Lada Dragwlya and her brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival, and when she meets Mehmed, the heir to the very empire that Lada has sworn to fight against, complications arise as Lada, Radu and Mehmed form a toxic triangle that strains the bonds of love and loyalty to the breaking point.
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Front Lines
by Michael Grant
A New York Times best-selling author unleashes an epic, genre-bending, transformative new series that reimagines World War II with girl soldiers fighting on the front lines.
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The Hired Girl
by Laura Amy Schlitz
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs chronicles her life in a journal when she leaves her family's farm in Pennsylvania to work as a hired girl in Baltimore in the summer of 1911.
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The Executioner's Daughter
by Jane Hardstaff
A U.S. release of an award-winning tale follows the experiences of a girl in Tudor-era England who confronts unexpected paranormal consequences when she flees her grisly life as the daughter of an executioner and seeks refuge in the tunnels beneath the River Thames.
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Blackhearts
by Nicole Castroman
A reimagining of the infamous Blackbeard the Pirate story follows the experiences of a wealthy merchant's son whose longing for a life at sea is complicated by a forbidden love affair with an impoverished orphan girl who dreams of sailing to Curaçao, her mother's birthplace.
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Better to Wish
by Ann M. Martin
In 1930 Abby Nichols is an eight-year-old girl growing up in Maine, but as the Depression deepens, and her mother dies, the responsibility of taking care of her family falls to her, and she has to put her dreams of going to college and becoming a writer on hold.
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Flygirl
by Sherri L. Smith
.During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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The Last Girls of Pompeii
by Kathryn Lasky
When Julia, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, discovers that her parents are planning to put her in service at the Temple of Dania and sell her slave, Mitka, to an abusive man, the two face equal fears about their future--until a catastrophic event changes everything in both their lives in the ancient city of Pompeii in A.D. 79.
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Catherine, Called Birdy
by Karen Cushman
(1090 Lexile) The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas : A Fable
by John Boyne
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.
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My Brother Sam Is Dead
by James Lincoln Collier
When Sam Meeker leaves his home in Redding, Connecticut, a town loyal to the king, to fight with the rebel army, he places his family in a very difficult position.
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Sekret
by Lindsay Smith
Taught by her father to hide her thoughts and control her emotions in order to survive the harsh realities of Soviet Russia, clairvoyant Yulia is captured by the KGB and forced to work as a psychic spy to help undermine the U.S. space program.
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Copper Sun
by Sharon M. Draper
Having watched her village torched, witnessed her family killed, and been kidnapped by slave traders, Amari arrives on Mr. Derby's Carolina plantation afraid and confused, yet with time and hard work, she learns the language, befriends another slave, and struggles to attain her one true goal: to be a free person once again.
*This title can be found in the Teen High (TH) section of the library.
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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.
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Esperanza Rising
by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Fever, 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
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. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.
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Hattie Big Sky
by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.
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