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Historical fiction -- children's/young adult fiction

Rank Title Author Added

1

Little House in the Big Woods

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

16,382 members

289 reviews

4.1

2 Members: bookel, cej1027

2

Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

34,361 members

439 reviews

3.8

Member: cej1027

3

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

by Elizabeth George Speare

11,199 members

209 reviews

4

Member: cej1027

4

Caddie Woodlawn

by Carol Ryrie Brink

7,878 members

60 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

5

2,254 members

27 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

6

Freedom Crossing

by Margaret Goff Clark

996 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

7

by Carol Ryrie Brink

779 members

4 reviews

3.8

Member: bookel

8

After the Dancing Days

by Margaret Rostkowski

513 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: bookel

9

The Kingdom by the Sea

by Robert Westall

195 members

7 reviews

3.9

Member: bookel

10

Searching for Shona

by Margaret J. Anderson

115 members

2 reviews

4.2

Member: bookel

11

The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito

by Sheila Garrigue

103 members

1 review

3.2

Member: bookel

12

by Joan Hiatt Harlow

78 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: bookel

13

Danger at Niagara

by Margaret Goff Clark

17 members

Member: bookel

14

by David Wiseman

8 members

Member: bookel

15

by Anthony Masters

8 members

Member: bookel

16

Win or Die (Knight Books)

6 members

Member: bookel

17

A Certain Courage

by Gordon Cooper

2 members

Member: bookel

18

Sunday for Sona

by Gladys Yessayan Cretan

1 member

Member: bookel

19

by Markus Zusak

45,251 members

2,131 reviews

½ 4.4

20

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Brian Selznick

9,736 members

665 reviews

½ 4.3

21

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

by Christopher Paul Curtis

7,563 members

398 reviews

4.1

22

Catherine, Called Birdy

by Karen Cushman

5,436 members

85 reviews

3.8

23

One Crazy Summer

by Rita Williams-Garcia

4,095 members

227 reviews

4.2

24

Strawberry Girl

3,068 members

43 reviews

3.8

25

Shakespeare's Secret

by Elise Broach

1,562 members

50 reviews

3.9

26

Navigating Early

by Clare Vanderpool

1,034 members

53 reviews

4

27

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

757 members

183 reviews

½ 4.3

28

Midnight Is a Place

587 members

14 reviews

4

29

by Susan Cooper

445 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

30

Dash (Dogs of World War II)

by Kirby Larson

431 members

48 reviews

4.2

31

Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust

by Loïc Dauvillier

406 members

50 reviews

4.2

32

The Madman of Piney Woods

by Christopher Paul Curtis

374 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

33

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

by Caroline B. Cooney

364 members

7 reviews

3.8

34

by Deborah Wiles

344 members

23 reviews

½ 4.3

35

West of the Moon

313 members

22 reviews

3.8

36

Bluffton: My Summer with Buster Keaton

265 members

37 reviews

4.1

37

The Meaning of Maggie

by Megan Jean Sovern

250 members

27 reviews

4.2

38

Hero on a Bicycle

by Shirley Hughes

214 members

10 reviews

½ 3.6

39

Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent

by Beth Kephart

7 members

2 reviews

5

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July 2013
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