Amil and his family have fled what is now Pakistan after India's partition and are forced to make a new home in Bombay. As Amil sorts out his identity and what it means, he processes his feelings with pictures drawn as messages to his late mother.
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Historical Fiction Books for Kids
Discover historical fiction stories from around the world. Many of these titles are available in multiple formats.
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- Myung-gi and his family are separated from his father during the Korean War. Despite being underage, Myung-gi becomes responsible for his mother and sister and joins the South Korean Army in an attempt to find his father.
- On the 11th century Silk Road, a young man travels with a savvy and shady merchant who is always getting into (and out of) serious trouble.
- A young man must choose between going to live with the Eagle god who killed his two brothers, or dying. Piŋa learns to sing, dance, build, and play the drums while struggling to survive in this retelling of the Iñupiaq story of the Messenger Feast.
- After fleeing the plantation where they were enslaved, siblings Ada and Homer discover the secret community of Freewater, and work with freeborn Sanzi to protect their new home from the encroaching dangers of the outside world.
- In 1941, as German U-boat submarines stalk American ships, Louisa June must help her mother after her father and brother are caught in the crossfire.
- Love blossoms in the library for Tama and George while detained at Minidoka, a Japanese internment camp in Idaho, during WWII.
- Regardless of their differences, Mia and Lara have been best friends since kindergarten. Growing up in Prince Rupert, Canada, in the 1980s, their paths diverge as Mia’s indigenous heritage results in conflicting expectations from the community.
- Sofia’s diary entries describe growing up in New Zealand in the 1970s, and show her family’s growing involvement in the movement for Pacific Islanders’ rights.
- William, Edmund and Anna must leave London after the death of their grandmother during World War II. The children are evacuated to the countryside and endure cruelty and hunger, but find solace and hope in the local kind librarian.
- Despite passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Mei tries to remain focused on her job, her close friendship with the camp foreman's daughter, and telling stories about Paul Bunyan--reinvented as Po Pan Yin (Auntie Po), an elderly Chinese matriarch.
- After the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant kills both of their fathers, fifth graders Valentina and Oksana are forced to evacuate and relocate in Leningrad.
- 12-year-old Ellie and her family retreat to an untamed mountain to try to eke out a living after the Great Depression bankrupts them and forces them from their previously comfortable town life.
- This entry in the Girls Survive series tells the story of Mary, a Cherokee native. First her grandfather is killed, then her family forced out of their homes, and coerced into a thousand mile march to resettle in faraway lands.
- It’s 1880 and Hanna, 14, and her dad have been on the move since her mother’s death 3 years before. Will this town in Dakota territory be the one to accept a half-Chinese girl, and let her attend their school?
- Growing up in 1805 on Martha’s Vineyard, Mary has always felt safe as a member of their largely deaf community. That changes when visiting scientists want to begin experimenting on the children.
- This graphic novel follows the story of Sara, a young Jewish girl who is hidden from the Nazis in her village in occupied France. Despite the danger, a boy Sara had previously shunned does everything he can to help her survive the horrors of WWII.
- Anjali’s comfortable life is upended when her mother steps forward to heed Gandhi’s call for volunteers in the fight for Indian independence in 1942.
- In France in 1242, three children and their dog are sought after for their various abilities that the authorities find threatening. Different travelers at an inn each offer a piece of the story.
- Eleven-year-old Zomorod, originally from Iran, tells her story of growing up Iranian in Southern California during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis of the late 1970s.
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