2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age (Historical Fiction)
Explore the 2006 NYPL Books for the Teen Age list featuring top historical fiction picks for teens. Discover captivating stories and must-read novels curated by the New York Public Library.
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Zorro
by Isabel Allende
A child of two worlds -- the son of an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner and a Shoshone warrior woman -- young Diego de …
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Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
An epidemic of fever sweeps through the streets of 1793 Philadelphia in this novel from Laurie Halse Anderson where "the plot rages like the epidemic …
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Tiger, Tiger
by Lynne Reid Banks
Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes …
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Last Dance on Holladay Street
by Elisa Lynn Carbone
In 1878, thirteen-year-old Eva seeks her birth mother in Colorado, only to find the city and her mother are not what she imagined.
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Bread and Dreams
by Jonatha Ceely
Pursuing her dream of building a new life for herself, Mina heads for America in 1848 to seek her fortune in New York City and …
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Mississippi Trial, 1955
by Chris Crowe
Winner of the 2003 International Reading Association Award for Young Adult Novel. This gripping read is based on the true events of the murder of …
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A Northern Light
by Jennifer Donnelly
Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy," this Printz Honor Book effortlessly weaves romance, history, and …
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Blood Red Horse
by K. M. Grant
A special horse named Hosanna changes the lives of two English brothers and those around them as they fight with King Richard I against Saladin's …
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Shakespeare's Daughter
by Peter W. Hassinger
Susanna Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her father, to experience the world of actors and poets and to follow her own dream of …
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Witness
by Karen Hesse
The characters in a Vermont town, both adult and children, tell from their perspectives the effect that the Ku Klux Klan has in the town.
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The Foretelling
by Alice Hoffman
Growing up the daughter of an Amazon queen who shuns her, Rain rebels against the ways of her tribe through her sister-like relationship with Io …
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Hitch
by Jeanette Ingold
To help his family during the Depression and avoid becoming a drunk like his father, Moss Trawnley joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, helps build a …
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Dead Reckoning
by Laurie Lawlor
Emmet, a fifteen-year-old orphan, learns hard lessons about survival when he sails from England in 1577 as a servant aboard the Golden Hind.
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B for Buster
by Iain Lawrence
Kak is underage when he joins the Air Force during WWII. Kak soon learns that the war is nothing like his comic-book adventures.
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Smiler's Bones
by Peter Lerangis
Provides the story of an Eskimo boy who, after being brought from his home in Greenland to New York City by explorer Robert Peary, was …
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Day of Tears
by Julius Lester
Through flashbacks, foreshadowing, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and space. They come to discover that …
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Catch a Tiger by the Toe
by Ellen Levine
In the Bronx, New York, during the McCarthy era, twelve-year-old Jamie keeps a terrible secret about her family, but when the truth is exposed, her …
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Not the End of the World
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Everyone knows the story of the Flood, the men God chose to survive, the animals that went in two by two. But what about the …
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Shackleton's Stowaway
by Victoria McKernan
On October 26, 1914, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance set sail from Buenos Aires in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in exploration: the crossing of the …
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Marie, Dancing
by Carolyn Meyer
In Stratford-upon-Avon in the sixteenth century, Anne Hathaway suffers her stepmother's cruelty and yearns for love and escape, finally finding it in the arms of …
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Peter Raven Under Fire
by Michael Molloy
When Napoleon Bonaparte makes a pact with a murderous pirate to add America to his empire, Royal Navy midshipman Peter Raven and a swashbuckling secret …
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Pirates!
by Celia Rees
In 1722, after arriving in Jamaica where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together …
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Montmorency
by Eleanor Updale
Fleeing across a roof on a dark night in Victorian London, a thief crashes through a glass skylight to almost certain death. But an ambitious …
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Black Storm Comin'
by Diane L. Wilson
Diane Lee Wilson is the author of "Black Storm Comin', " a "Booklist" Editors' Choice, a "VOYA" Top Shelf Fiction Pick and a "Book Links" …