Clean Historical Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• historical fiction
• clean
• adventurous
• available on CD

A Long Way from Chicago 
By Richard Peck
YA F PECK
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 
By Christopher Paul Curtis
YA F CURTIS
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.

The Witch of Blackbird Pond 
By Elizabeth George 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.





Books not available on Book on CD 

Boston Jane
By Jennifer L. Holm
YA F HOLM
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.

The Shakespeare Stealer 
By Gary L. Blackwood
YA F BLACKWOO Shakespe #1
A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.