Best Historical Fiction For Middle School - April 2024

The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue (True Rescue Series)

This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman tells the story of the shipwreck of two oil tankers and the harrowing Coast Guard rescue when four men in a tiny lifeboat overcame insurmountable odds and saved more than 30 stranded sailors. Now a major motion picture from Disney, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape Cod were torn in half. Wi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1250044235
• ASIN: 1250044235
• ISBN: 1250044235
• Brand: Tougias Michael J
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“Powerful and unsettling. . . . As memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” —USA Today   Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.   But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place tha... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385751532
• ASIN: 0385751532
• ISBN: 0385751532
• Brand: Ember
• Manufacturer: David Fickling Books

My Mother's Secret: A Novel Based on a True Holocaust Story

Inspired by a true story, My Mother’s Secret is a captivating and ultimately uplifting tale intertwining the lives of two Jewish families in hiding from the Nazis, a fleeing German soldier, and the mother and daughter who save them all.   Franciszka and her daughter, Helena, are simple, ordinary people...until 1939, when the Nazis invade their homeland. Providing shelter to Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland is a death sentence, but Franciszka and Helena do exactly that. In their tiny home in Sokal, they hide a Jewish family in a loft above their pigsty, a Jewish doctor with his wife and son in a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274810
• ASIN: 0425274810
• ISBN: 0425274810
• Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Miss Mabel's School for Girls (The Network Series Book 1)

*Winner of IAN 2015's Outstanding Fantasy Book*Never underestimate the power of a determined witch.Letum Wood is a forest of fog and deadfall, home to the quietly famous Miss Mabel’s School for Girls, a place where young witches learn the art of magic.Sixteen-year-old Bianca Monroe has inherited a deadly curse.Determined to break free before it kills her, she enrolls in the respected school to confront the cunning witch who cast the curse: Miss Mabel.Bianca finds herself faced with dark magic she didn’t expect, with lessons more dangerous than she could have ever imagined. Will Bianca have... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00J6AF12C
• ASIN: B00J6AF12C
• Manufacturer: Antebellum Publishing

Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life

Discover the #1 bestselling middle-grade comic that inspired a major motion picture: Children's Choice Award winner James Patterson has never been more hilarious and heartwarming.Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever: to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class: 5,000 points! Running in the hallway: 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm: 50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winni... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316101699
• UPC: 000316101699
• ASIN: 0316101699
• ISBN: 0316101699
• Brand: Little Brown and Company
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0547577311
• ASIN: 0547577311
• ISBN: 0547577311
• Brand: Clarion Books
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust

The twentieth-anniversary edition of Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s acclaimed Holocaust memoir features new material by the author, a reading group guide, a map, and additional photographs. “The writing is direct, devastating, with no rhetoric or exploitation. The truth is in what’s said and in what is left out.”—ALA Booklist (starred review) Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s unforgettable and acclaimed memoir recalls the devastating years that shaped her childhood. Following Hitler’s rise to power, the Blumenthal family—father, mother, Marion, and her brother, Albert—were trapped in Nazi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0062489968
• ASIN: 0062489968
• ISBN: 0062489968
• Brand: GREENWILLOW
• Manufacturer: Greenwillow Books

The Book Thief

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.  The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.  Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375842209
• ASIN: 0375842209
• ISBN: 9780375842207
• Brand: Alfred A. Knopf
• Manufacturer: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Refugee

A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America . . .MAHMOUD is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward Europe . . .All three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0545880831
• ASIN: 0545880831
• ISBN: 9780545880831
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142405965
• ASIN: 0142405965
• ISBN: 0142405965
• Brand: Speak
• Manufacturer: Speak

Charlotte's Web

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." This paper-over-board edition includes a foreword by two-time Newbery winning author Kate DiCamillo. Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0061124958
• ASIN: 0061124958
• ISBN: 0061124958
• Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
• Manufacturer: HarperCollins

The Kite Runner

The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over.   The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159463193X
• ASIN: 159463193X
• ISBN: 9781594631931
• Brand: Riverhead Books
• Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club (Bccb Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award (Awards))

A Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor WinnerAt the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the boys' exploits and eventual imprisonm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0374300224
• ASIN: 0374300224
• ISBN: 0374300224
• Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children)

Read the #1 New York Times best-selling series before it continues in A Map of Days.   Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs   A mysterious island.

 An abandoned orphanage.

 A strange collection of very curious photographs.
 It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he disc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1594746036
• ASIN: 1594746036
• ISBN: 9781594746031
• Brand: Quirk Books
• Manufacturer: Quirk Books

Between the World and Me

• ASIN: 0812993543
• ASIN: 0812993543
• ISBN: 0812993543
• Brand: Spiegel Grau
• Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

Rich Dad Poor Dad : What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Taking to heart the message that the poor and middle class work for money, but the rich have money work for them, the author lays out a financial philosophy based on the principle that income-generating

• UPC: 55492555
• Rating: 3.85

Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One the Lightning Thief (Paperback)

Now in paperback--the first novel of a new series that mixes classic Greek mythology with modern adventure. After learning he is a demigod, Percy Jackson is sent to a summer camp on Long Island, where

• UPC: 4406976
• Rating: 4.236

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume 2

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume

• UPC: 653836279

A Wrinkle in Time (Paperback)

This is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school), in search of Meg's missing

• UPC: 5554934
• Model: ISBN9780312367541
• Color: Multicolor
• Rating: 3.938

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume 1

History in Fiction; a Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume

• UPC: 681411457

To Save an Empire : A Novel of Ottoman History

To Save an Empire explores the impact of religious and ethnic conflict in the Ottoman Empire of the late 19th century on the lives of ordinary people. It is the story of refugees fleeing atrocities

• UPC: 192117473

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume 1

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and

• UPC: 519510033

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and Tales Volume 2

History in Fiction; A Guide to the Best Historical Romances, Sagas, Novels, and

• UPC: 697393312

Beyond the Bosporus: The Thracian Connection to Troy - eBook

Little is known about the ancient city of Troy, site of the infamous but largely unhistorical Trojan War. Much more has attention has been focused to finding out about the city-state itself but not much

• UPC: 104093180

The Middle Ages

9781440862311

• UPC: 825305555