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Historical Fiction

Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle L740; Crispin

Bruchac – Sacajawea L840

Chibbaro -- Deadly

Collier – My Brother Sam is Dead    L770

Crowe – Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Utah author) -- [Both of Crowe's book about the Emmett Till case are now used in other junior high classes, so do not use them for a project.]

Cushman, Karen –  Catherine Called Birdy L1170,

Midwife’s Apprentice L1240 (might be used as a class book -- ask your teacher)

Edmunds and Lanz – The Matchlock Gun  (80 pages)

Fox - The Slave Dancer L970

Greene  – Summer of My German Soldier  L800

Hesse – Out of the Dust

Kelly, Jacqueline --  The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

Lowry, Lois  – Number the Stars L670, [The Giver L760 is used as a class book, so do not use it for an individual project.]

Paterson – Lyddie L860   

Philbrick, Rodman  -- The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg (950L)

Schmidt - Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy   1000L pages 217

Selden, Bernice – The Mill Girls: Lucy Larcom, Harriet Hanson Robinson, Sarah G. Bagley

Spinelli, Honus and Me  L690

Uchida– Journey to Topaz  L970 (Reading Class Book)

Houston – Farewell to Manzanar  L1040

Vanderpool, Clare -- Moon Over Manifest

Walters – War of the Eagles, Caged Eagles L650,690