Historical Fiction Set in the U.S.

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• Historical Fiction
• Teen
• United States setting

The Killer Angles
By Michael Shaara
F SHAARA
Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet tell the Southern view of the battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War, while Colonel Joshua Chamberlain and General John Buford present the Northern view.

Fifth of March
By Ann Rinaldi
YA F RINALDI
Fourteen-year-old Rachel Marsh, an indentured servant in the Boston household of John and Abigail Adams, is caught up in the colonists' unrest that eventually escalates into the massacre of March 5, 1770.

Witch of Blackbird Pond
By George Elizabeth Speare
YA F SPEARE
A young woman brought up in Barbados comes to live with her uncle in Connecticut, and finds their Puritan way of life difficult after her unconventional upbringing.

The Wednesday Wars
By Gary D. Schmidt
YA F SCHMIDT
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.