Historical Fiction (Tamariki).

Get transported back to the past and learn all about history without setting foot in classroom with this selection of Historical themed fiction. You'll read about fictional, (and sometimes real) people; about how they lived and what they felt.

Updated August 21, 2024
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Wellington City Libraries Children's team at Wellington City Libraries
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Little women
Alcott, Louisa May
Ebook
Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Little Women, originally...
The secret garden
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Ebook
What Katy did
Coolidge, Susan
Ebook
Times were tough for tomboys in nineteenth-century America. In an era during which the prescribed notions of proper behavior for women and girls were much stricter than they are today, the rough-and-tumble types who couldn't get enough of team sports and the great outdoors were often shunned. This...
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M.
Audiobook
The railway children
Nesbit, E.
Ebook
When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis's father is taken away and they move to a tiny cottage in the countryside, the only advantage is the nearby railway. Join them on their adventures as they befriend all those who work with the trains, prevent a railway disaster and try to discover the truth behind...
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Ebook
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Ebook

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