Story set in a specific period in history with realistic events and characters that could have actually existed in that time period.
Badgasarian, Adam - Forgotten fire (1915 Armenian genocide)
Berry, Julie-The Passion of Dolssa
Brooks, Geraldine - Year of wonders (1666 – The Great Plague in England)
Brown, Teri - Velvet undercover (World War I)
Chevalier, Tracy - Girl with a pearl earring (1660’s Holland/artist Vermeer)
Clapp, Patricia - Witches’ children (Salem witch trials)
Cooley, Mark - Frozen Football (Vietnam War era in the USA)
Crowder, Melanie-Audacity
Crowder, Melanie-An Uninterrupted View of the Sky
Kingsolver, Barbara - The poisonwood Bible (American missionaries in 1960’s Africa)
Lake, Nick - In Darkness (1791/2010 Haiti)
WWII / Holocaust
Bartoletti, Susan - The boy who dared
Berger, Zdena - Tell me another morning
Bergman, Tamar - Along the tracks
Bruchac, Joseph - Code talker
Lee, Harper - Go set a watchman (Civil Rights Era Southern USA)
Levine, Kristin - The best bad luck I ever had (1917 Alabama)
Little, Melanie - The apprentice’s masterpiece (Spanish Inquisition)
McGinnis, Mindy - A madness so discreet (Serial Killer in 1891 Boston/Ohio)
Meyer, L. A. - Bloody Jack series (Pirate adventures in the 1800’s)
Chambers, Aidan - Postcards from No Man's Land
Dillon, Eilis - Children of Bach
Fink, Ida -Traces
Forman, James - Ceremony of innocence
Forman, James - Horses of anger
Gille, Elisabeth - Shadows of a childhood
Gleitzman, Morris - Once
Greene, Bette - Summer of my German soldier
Hughes, Dean-Soldier Boys
Ibbotson, Eva - A song for summer
Curtis, Christopher Paul - The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963 (1960’s USA)
Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bud not Buddy (1930’s USA)
Donnelly, Jennifer - Revolution (French revolution, 1789)
Farish, Terry - The good braider : a novel (Immigration story spanning life from Sudan to Portland)
Grisham, John - A painted house (1950’s American south)
Gruen, Sara - Water for elephants (1920’s – 1930’s USA)
Gup, Ted-A Secret Gift (1933 Canton, OH)
Meyers, Walter Dean - Sunrise over Fallujah (Iraq War)
O’Brien, Tim - The things they carried (The Vietnam War)
Petry, Ann - Tituba of Salem Village (Salem witch trials)
Rees, Celia - Witch Child (1659 New England/Massachusetts)
Rees, Celia - Sorceress (1660’s New England/Present day)
Reeves, Amy - Ripper series (Ripper, Renegade, Resurrection) (1880’s London, Jack the Ripper)
Schlitz, Laura Amy - The Hired Girl (1910 Rural Pennsylvania)
Schwartz, Christina - Drowning Ruth (Between World War 1 & 2)
Shaara, Michael - The killer angels (American Civil War)
Shabazz, Ilyasha and Kekla Magoon - X : a novel (Story of Malcolm X from childhood to age 20)
Jacot, Michael - The last butterfly
Matas, Carol - Daniel’s story
McEwan, Ian - Atonement
Moskin, Marietta - I am Rosemarie
Murphy, Louise - The true story of Hansel & Gretel
Napoli, Donna Jo - Stones in water
Orlev, Uri - Run, boy, run
Pausewang, Gudrun - Traitor
Peet, Mal - Tamar
Polak, Monique - What world is left
Richter, Hans Peter - Friedrich
Roy, Jennifer - Yellow star
Sepetys, Ruta - Salt to the sea: a novel
Hoffman, Alice - Incantation (Spanish Inquisition)
Hooper, Mary - Newes from the dead (1650’s England)
Hooper, Mary - Velvet (Victorian England)
Hosseini, Khaled - And the mountains echoed : a novel (Pre-war Afghanistan)
Hosseini, Khaled - The kite runner (Afghanistan – mid 20th century to present)
Hosseini, Khaled - A thousand splendid suns (Afghanistan – mid 20thcentury to present)
Jordan, Sherryl - The raging quiet (Middle Ages – accusation of witchcraft)
Kidd, Sue Monk - The secret life of bees (1960’s USA)
Spinelli, Jerry - Milkweed
Suhl, Yuri - The other side of the gate
Vos, Ida - The key is lost
Wein, Elizabeth - Code name Verity
Wein, Elizabeth - Rose under fire
Wolf, Joan M. - Someone named Eva
Zail, Suzy - Playing for the Commandant
Zusak, Markus - The book thief