Award-Winning Historical Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:
  • historical fiction
  • award winners (especially Newbery Award Winners)
Rifles for Watie 
By Harold Keith
F Keith
With fighting erupting around his Kansas farm, 16-year-old Jefferson Davis Bussey can hardly wait to join the Union forces. When he infiltrates Colonel Watie's Confederate camp as a spy, he discovers the enemy is much like himself--only fighting for a different cause.

My Brother Sam Is Dead 
By James Lincoln Collier
YA F Collier
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral.

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle 
By Avi
YA F Avi
Charlotte Doyle begins as a proper 19th century girl, but after being accused of murder and surviving a hurricane during a transatlantic voyage, ends up being anything but.

The King's Fifth 
By Scott O’Dell
YA F O’Dell
In 1541, 17 year old Esteban de Sandoval sets down his story while awaiting his trail for hoarding king’s share of treasure, or he king’s fifth’. Esteban is a mapmaker, not a treasure hunter, and only joined Mendoza's expedition to the famed Seven Cities of Cibola in order to draw the first maps of the region. So how is he accused of treason?

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