Books for Kids - Historical Fiction

Check out this list generated by our Youth Services Librarians for the Scotch Plains Public Library's annual summer reading challenge.


Updated May 8, 2023
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Turtle in paradise : the graphic novel
Holm, Jennifer L.
Paper Book
A graphic novel adaptation of the beloved, bestselling Newbery Honor-winning novel. Eleven-year-old Turtle is smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. After all, it's 1935 and money-and sometimes even dreams-is scarce. So when Turtle's mother...
The war that saved my life
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
Paper Book
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Newbery Honor bookWinner of the 2016 Schneider Family Book AwardTen-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war,...

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