Historical Fiction 2023

Historical Fiction Book Options

By Definition: Historical Fiction is set in a real place, during a culturally recognizable time, and may include historically accurate facts while the characters and story are fictional.

Iceberg
by Nielsen

Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship Titanic…as a stowaway. With the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, Hazel explores the opulent ship in secret, but a haunting mystery quickly finds her. The danger only intensifies when calamity strikes.

Door of No Return
by Alexander

Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin is going to prove his worth, but before he can, a festival comes to the villages of Upper and Lower Kwanta and Kofi’s brother is chosen to represent Upper Kwanta in a wrestling contest. The match is over before it has barely begun, when the unthinkable—a sudden death—occurs….As his world turns upside down, Kofi soon ends up in a fight for his life. Verse novel.

Salt to Sea
by Sepetys

World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Just when it seems freedom is within their grasp, tragedy strikes. Not country, nor culture, nor status matter as all ten thousand people—adults and children alike—aboard must fight for the same thing: survival. Alternating points of view. 

Seed in the Sun
by Salazar

A farm-working girl with big dreams meets activist Dolores Huerta and joins the 1965 protest for workers’ rights in this tender-hearted novel in verse.

Island of Spies
by Turnage 

They call themselves the Dime Novel Kids. And the only thing Stick wants more than a paying case for them to solve is the respect that comes with it. But on Hatteras, the tides are changing. World War II looms, curious newcomers have appeared on the small island, and in the waters off its shores, a wartime menace lurks that will upend Stick’s life and those of everyone she loves.