Books for Units of Study in Writer's Workshop

Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction ~ fiction that is based on historical truth. Paraphrased from Study Driven by Katie Wood Ray: Contains all the elements of story: plot, setting, characters, change and movement through time. Events in the historial time period in which the story is set must impact both the characters and events in the story in ways that are true. Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill White Socks Only by Evelyn Coleman More Than Anything Else by Mariee Bradby My Name Was Hussein by Hristo Kyuchukov From Katie Wood Ray's list in Study Driven Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki Paperboy by Mary Kay Kroeger and Louise Borden True Hear by Marissa Moss The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II by Louise Borden Patrol: An Amerian Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey Sunsets of the West by Tony Johnston Dandelions by Eve Bunting Train to Somewhere by Eve Bunting   Revolutionary War / Civil War REDCOATS AND PETTICOATS: Kirkpatrick, Katherine Young Thomas and his mother are members of the Setauket Spy Ring in New York during the Revolutionary War. KATIE'S TRUNK: Turner, Ann Warren Katie, a child of Loyalists, finds that her survival rests in the hands of her Patriot enemies. THE BLUE AND THE GRAY. Bunting, Eve This one is really good to discuss how factual information is embedded into fictional text.   Slavery BAREFOOT: ESCAPE ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. Edwards, Pamela Duncan In the forest, a group of animals helps a runaway slave escape his pursuers. SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT: Hopkinson, Deborah Clara, a young slave, stitches a quilt with a map pattern showing the way to freedom in the North.   World War II ROSE BLANCHE. Innocenti, Roberto When Rose sees a little boy trying to escape from the back of a truck, only to be captured and shoved back in, she decides to follow thetruck. At a desolate place out of town she discovers many other children, staring hungrily from behind an electric barbed wire fence. Holocaust Fireflies in the Dark: The Story of Friedl Dicker- Brandeis and the Children of Terezin Remember Not To Forget Me by Norman H. Finkelstein A Picture Book of Anne Frank by David A. Adler Always Remember Me: How One Family Survived WW II by Marisabina Russo Flowers on the Wall by Miriam Nerlove. STAR OF FEAR, STAR OF HOPE by Hoestlandt, Jo Nine-year-old Helen is confused by the disappearance of her Jewishfriend during the German occupation of Paris. Japanese Internment The Bracelet, by Yoshiko Uchida BASEBALL SAVED US: Mochizuki, Ken Shorty, a young boy living in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II, helps form a baseball league.   Immigration / Emigration WHEN JESSIE CAME ACROSS THE SEA: Hest, Amy Thirteen-year-old Jessie, a Jewish immigrant, works for three years to earn money to bring her grandmother to America. This one is long. But good. DANDELIONS. Bunting, Eve A pioneer family moves west and faces hardship. LEAH'S PONY: Elizabeth Friedrichs. A young girl's effort to save her family farm during the dust bowl. She does this by selling her beloved pony so she has the money to bid on the tractor during the farm auction. It is a beautiful story and the pictures are beautiful, as well.

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