Technically, this series is more of a time travel story than true historical fiction, but there's no better way to introduce kids to world history than "the Jack & Annie books." (Bridging Fiction Grades 2-4)

Prehistoric

A fast-paced fantasy epic set in ancient Rome that fuses archaeology, history, and mythological magic. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Ancient Rome

The first book in the popular I Survived series about surviving famous historical disasters from a child's point of view features one of the most dramatic moments in modern history: the sinking of the Titanic. (Children's Fiction Grades 3-5)

Twentieth Century US | 1912

A spunky teen girl avoids her embroidery, plays pranks, and tries to avoid an arranged marriage in this Newbery Honor-winning classic. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Medieval England | 1290

A monk, a Jewish refugee, and a psychic peasant join forces in this medieval road trip story loosely inspired by Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Medieval France | 1242

LAFAYETTE! Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, written by a modern graphic novel artist who shares his name with a famous revolutionary war spy, tells engaging true stories from US history--including this tale of the Marquis de Lafayette, French solider and Revolutionary War hero.

American Revolution | 1777

A girl with a clubfoot blossoms when she's evacuated to the country as part of a World War II effort to move British children out of London during the Blitz. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 3-5)

World War II

The first in the popular series of lightly fictionalized memoirs about Wilder's childhood in the upper Midwest. (Children's Fiction Grades 3-5)

Nineteenth Century US | 1871

The true story of the bear was adopted by a Canadian regiment in World War I and inspired Christopher Robin Milne to name his stuffed bear--who would later go on to star in his father's classic children's books--Winnie the Pooh. (Children's Fiction Grades 3-5)

World War I

A tween boy moves to Alcatraz when his father becomes a guard at the famous prison. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Great Depression | 1935

Based on the author's experiences as a Vietnam War refugee, this novel in verse tells the story of a young girl's arrival in Alabama following the fall of Saigon in 1975. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Vietnam War | 1975

National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich draws on her Ojibwe heritage in this series of books inspired by 19th-century Indigenous communities in northern Minnesota. (Children's Fiction Grades 3-5)

Nineteenth Century US | 1847

A mixed faith Muslim and Hindu girl chronicles her family's flight to India during the Partition of India and Pakistan. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Twentienth Century | 1947

The first book in Deborah Wiles' 60s trilogy zooms in on one girl's experience during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sequels focus on the Civil Rights era in 1964 Mississippi and two cousins grappling with the Vietnam draft in 1968. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Cold War | 1962

A family road trip to Birmingham in September 1963 brings a Michigan family a little too close to one of the most devastating tragedies of the Civil Rights Era. Introduces kids to a difficult historical era with humor and grace. (Children's Fiction Grades 3-5)

Civil Rights Era | 1963

A young girl separated from her father with the rise of the Berlin wall makes a daring escape to join him in West Berlin in one of many gripping historical fiction adventures by Jennifer A. Nielsen. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Cold War | 1965

A classic novel from Gary D. Schmidt about a Protestant boy who learns to love Shakespeare during an independent study class held while his Catholic and Jewish classmates take religious studies classes. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Twentieth Century | 1967

A trio of sisters spend the summer of 1968 with their estranged activist mother in Berkeley, where she tries to repair their relationship and sends the girls to a Black Panther-run summer camp. (Young Teen Fiction Grades 5-7)

Twentieth Century | 1968

A tween girl spends the summer at her grandparents' retirement community in Florida in this graphic novel series starter about a middle schooler in the mid-1970s. (Young Teen Graphic Novels Grades 5-7)

Twentieth Century | 1970s