Historical Fiction Reads for Tweens
Welcome to another installment of Tween Reads! This week the focus will be on historical fiction, but keep your eyes peeled for other genres as the weeks go by. This list isn’t meant to be exhaustive, but to give tweens and parents some initial guidance as they make their way over to the young adult shelves. And some of these are titles that are new to the Children’s shelves or might have flown under the radar. What are your favorite tween historical fiction reads?
Mer’s Tween Historical Fiction Reads Picks:
- Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
- March Toward the Thunder by Joseph Bruchac
- Airman by Eoin Colfer
- Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
- The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba by Margarita Engle
- 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis
- The Red Umbrella by Christina Diaz Gonzalez
- My Chocolate Year: A Novel With 12 Recipes by Charlotte Herman
- The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn by Dorothy Hoobler
- Scrib by David Ives
- How It Happened in Peach Hill by Marthe Jocelyn
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
- The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine
- A Small White Scar by K.A. Nuzum
- Best Friends Forever: A World War II Scrapbook by Beverly Patt
- The Redheaded Princess by Ann Rinaldi
- Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool
- Countdown by Deborah Wiles
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
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