Historical Fiction
Type of mysteries:
- Historical Mysteries
- American History Fiction
- Historical War Fiction
- World Historical Fiction
- Important People Historical Fiction
- Historical Fiction Series
- History Mystery Series
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (FIC/SPE) Set in colonical New England, the novel involves a witch hunt by the neighbors of Kit Tyler, a young girl finds comfort at Blackbird Pond.
- The Keeping Room by Anna Myers (FIC/MYE) Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters.
- Where Have all the Flowers Gone?: The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty (Dear America series) by Ellen Emerson White (FIC/WHI) In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States. Includes historical notes.
- The Keeping Room by Anna Myers (FIC/MYE) Left in charge of the family when his father leaves their South Carolina home to fight in the American Revolutionary War, thirteen year-old Joey Kershaw finds all his resources tested when General Cornwallis comes to town and chooses the Kershaw house as his headquarters.
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (FIC/HUN) Civil War
- Crispin by Avi (FIC/AVI) Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth century England flees his village and meets a larger-than life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
- Royal Diaries - fictional diaries of such persons as
- American Girl History Mysteries
- Dear America
/ My Name is America
- The Journal of Douglas Allen Deeds: The Donner Party Expedition 1846 by Rodman Philbrick. (FIC/PHI) Douglas Deeds, a fifteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his travels by wagon train as a member of the ill-fated Donner Party, which became stranded in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the winter of 1846-47.
- The Journal of Joshua Loper: a Black Cowboy by Walter Dean Myers (FIC/MYE) In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixte en-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
- Voyage on the Great Titanic: the Diary of Margaret Ann Brady by Ellen Emerson White (FIC/WHI) In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphanage to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.
Important People Historical Fiction
- Thank you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! by Eleanora E. Tate (FIC/TAT) Mary Elouise gains a better understanding of herself and her heritage when she becomes narrator of a Black History skit at school.