Kids: Historical tales

Browse this list for stories from times gone by in different periods of history, including some specific time periods and events.

Updated July 28, 2025
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Kids: Historical tales

Browse this list for stories from times gone by in different periods of history, including some specific time periods and events.

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The wolves of Willoughby Chase
Aiken, Joan
Ebook
Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is...
Rebellion 1776
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Paper Book
Three starred reviews! From New York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson comes an "thoroughly researched, emotionally resonant" (Booklist, starred review) historical fiction middle grade adventure about a girl struggling to survive amid a smallpox...
The war that saved my life
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker.
Paper Book
* Newbery Honor Book * Forbes 25 Top Historical Fiction Books Of All Time selection * #1 New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Schneider Family Book Award * Wall Street Journal Best Children's Books of the Year selection * New York Public...
Heroes
Gratz, Alan
Paper Book
The instant #1 New York Times bestseller! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, Ground Zero, and Two Degrees comes this heart-pounding, inventive, and powerful new novel about the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor... as only Alan...
The eagle of the Ninth
Sutcliff, Rosemary.
Ebook
An ALA Notable Children's Book, The Eagle is the first in Rosemary Sutcliff's Carnegie Medal-winning Roman Britain Trilogy--and the basis for the film starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, and Donald Sutherland. The Ninth Legion marched into the mists of Northern Britain...
Little house on the prairie
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Audiobook
The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered...
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