Reading Lists: Young Adult Historical Fiction

HISTORICAL NOVELS (Set prior to 1959)
Little Women (1868) / Little Men (1871) / Jo's Boys (1886) - Louisa May Alcott
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation (2006 - 2009) - M.T. Anderson
*The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1992) - Avi
A Great and Terrible Beauty (2003) / Rebel Angels (2006) / The Sweet Far Thing (2007) - Libby Bray
*Caddie Woodlawn (1936) - Carol Ryrie Brink
A Little Princess (1905) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (1911) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
*My Brother Sam Is Dead (1975) - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
What Katy Did series (5 books, 1872 - 1890) - Susan Coolidge
*Lord of the Flies (1954) - William Golding
Captain's Corageous (1897) – Rudyard Kipling
Kim (1901) - Rudyard Kipling
A Separate Peace (1959) - John Knowles
Pippi Longstocking (1945) / Pippi Goes on Board (1946) / Pippi in the South Seas (1948) - Astrid Lindgren
*Sarah, Plain and Tall (1985) / Skylark (1994) / Caleb's Story (2001) - Patricia MacLachlan
The Children of the New Forest (1847) - Frederick Marryat
Bloody Jack series (7 books, 2002 - 2009) - L.A. Meyer
The Anne of Green Gables Novels (8 books, 1908 - 1921) - L.M. Montgomery
Pollyanna (1913) / Pollyanna Grows Up (1915) - Eleanor H. Porter
Fire from Heaven (1969) / The Persian Boy (1972) - Mary Renault
The King Must Die (1958) / The Bull from the Sea (1962) - Mary Renault
Catcher in the Rye (1951) - JD Salinger
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) – Betty Smith
*The Bronze Bow (1962) - Elizabeth Speare
*The Witch of Blackbird Pond (1958) - Elizabeth George Speare
Kidnapped (1886) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (1883) – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) / Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894) / Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896) – Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper (1882) - Mark Twain
The Boxcar Children series (19 books, 1924 - 1974) - Gertrude Chandler Warner
*Little House series (11 books, 1932 - 1974) – Laura Ingalls Wilder