Thoughtful Historical Fiction with Moral Value

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Historical Fiction
• Moral Value
• Clean reads (mostly)

The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
F STOCKETT
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.

These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine
By Nancy Turner
F TURNER
In 1881, Sarah Agnes Prine, 17, goes from New Mexico to Texas and back, protecting her family with her rifle, and then becoming ranch manager while her second husband serves as a Texas Ranger.

Mississippi Trial, 1955By Chris Crowe
YA F CROWE
In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African American from Chicago.

Sarah’s Key
By Tatiana de Rosnay
F ROSNAY
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on investigation that leads her to long-hidden family secrets and to the ordeal of Sarah, a young girl caught up in the raid.