YA/JUV Historical Fiction List | Metro Nashville Public Schools

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1) When stars are scattered

Author

Jamieson, Victoria

Formats:

Talking Book, eAudiobook, Playaway, Comic

Description

"Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in a refugee camp, and when an opportunity for Omar to get an education comes along, he must decide between going to school every day or caring for his nonverbal brother in this intimate and touching portrayal of family and daily life in a refugee camp"--

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Comic, eComic

Description

"Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after girl scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with the on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to deal with: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends that turn out to be not so friendly. Raina's story...

3) The natural history of pollination

Author

Proctor, Michael C. F

4) Experiment with Pollination

Author

Series

Lightning bolt books. Plant experiments

Formats:

eBook, eAudiobook

Description

A plant can form fruit and seeds when it is pollinated. Animals and wind help spread pollen from one plant to another. But do you know how insects pick up pollen from flowers? Or how each part of a flower helps pollination? Let's experiment to find out! Simple step-by-step instructions help readers explore science concepts and analyze information.

5) Angel of Greenwood

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street." Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...

6) Ash

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, Talking Book

Description

Embarrassed about gathering watercress from a roadside ditch, a girl learns to appreciate her Chinese heritage after learning why the plant is so important to her parents.

8) Sweet dreaming

Author

Rawlinson, Julia

Description

Molly's mother imagines stories to lull her to sleep, from swooping birds to a quiet beach, and soon one of them has nodded off.

9) If the fire comes: a story of segregation during the Great Depression

Author

Series

Description

"Joseph McCoy plans a secret project to help save an all-black Civilian Conservation Corps camp from being forced out of town in 1935 Elsinore, California"--

10) Don't tell the Nazis: a novel

Author

Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk

Series

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

"It is June 1941 and after the brutal rule of the Soviets the people of Krystia's small Ukrainian village are inclined to look on the German invaders as liberators; but soon the Nazis start rounding up Jewish Ukrainians, and Krystia is faced with a terrible choice--risk everything by helping her Jewish friends and neighbors to hide, or save herself and her family by doing nothing"--OCLC.

11) The day the world stopped turning

Author

Morpurgo, Michael

Description

In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....

Author

Description

France sends the Merci Train to the United States to thank America for helping France during and after WWII, and one of the train stops will be the small town of Gladiola, Texas, where ten-year-old Glory Bea hopes for the greatest miracle--that her missing-in-action father will be on the train.

13) What the night sings: a novel

Author

Stamper, Vesper

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

Description

Liberated from Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, sixteen-year-old Gerta tries to make a new life for herself, aided by Lev, a fellow survivor, and Michah, who helps Jews reach Palestine.

14) As fast as words could fly

Author

Formats:

Description

"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's note"--Provided by publisher.

Author

Rhodes, Jewell Parker

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook, Playaway, CD audio book

Description

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a ghost, he observes the devastation that's been unleashed on his family and community in the wake of what they see as an unjust and brutal killing.

16) A sky full of stars

Author

Jackson, Linda Williams

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.

17) Midnight without a moon

Author

Jackson, Linda Williams

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.

18) The unsung hero of Birdsong, USA

Author

Description

Twelve-year-old Gabriel gains new perspective when he becomes friends with Meriwether, an African American World War II hero who has recently returned to the unwelcoming Jim Crow South.

19) Crossing the line

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Fifth-grader Billy must transfer from his all-white, Catholic school to a public school, where he becomes best friends with Foster, who is black, just before the Red Summer of 1919.

20) It all comes down to this

Author

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"--Provided by publisher.