Great historical fiction books for teens list 1
Discover the best historical fiction books for teens with our curated list! Dive into captivating stories set in the past, perfect for young readers who love adventure, drama, and history.
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An Avon True Romance: Belle and the Beau
by Beverly Jenkins
It is 1859, and Daniel, an African-American, is educated and engaged to be married, but nothing can prepare him for the beautiful stranger from Kentucky who turns his world upside down. Original.
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An Avon True Romance: Samantha and the Cowboy
by Lorraine Heath
Samantha When she manages to get herself hired for the cattle drive, all of Samantha's prayers seem to be answered. The hundred dollars she'll earn will pull her family's Texas farm out of ruin and pay off their debts. But keeping the cowhands fooled that she's a boy becomes harder than she'd expected where one cowboy in particular is concerned. The Cowboy Matthew Hart wants two things: to forget the tragedies he witnessed on the front lines of the War Between the States, and to reclaim his cowboy life. The last thing he wants is the responsibility of a tagalong youngster on the cattle drive. His closed mind and hardened heart are territory best left unexplored, until a fateful moment turns his world upside down. Matt discovers what and who "Sam" really is, and he is furious. But soon a stronger emotion takes hold, and bound by Samantha's secret, Matt is torn between revealing her identity and his own sudden and frightening love for her.
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Nicola and the Viscount
by Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Nicola Sparks is infuriated when Nathanial Sheridan casts aspersions on the character of Lord Sebastian Bartholomew, the man she hopes to marry, and is sure that nothing Nathanial can say will change her opinion.
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An Avon True Romance: Amelia and the Outlaw
by Lorraine Heath
Jesse, a nineteen-year-old trying to reform his ways, takes interest in Amelia, the daughter of a judge.
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An Avon True Romance: Miranda and the Warrior
by Elaine Barbieri
It's 1852. Defiant 17–year–old Miranda leaves her South Dakota fort in spite of her father's warnings of the presence of Cheyenne war tribes. Before she knows what has happened, she's nabbed by a celebrated warrior who is just as stubborn as Miranda.
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Washington Avalanche, 1910
by Cameron Dokey
Ginny meets a desperate heiress on a train and on impulse they switch identities but as an avalanche engulfs the train, the limits of human endurance and loyalty are tested.
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High Trail to Danger
by Joan Lowery Nixon
In 1879 seventeen-year-old Sarah travels from Chicago to the violent town of Leadtown, Colorado, to locate her missing father, but she finds that the mention of his name brings her strange looks and an attempt on her life.
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A Deadly Promise
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Sarah risks her life to clear her murdered father's name and expose big time criminal activity in the lawless mining town of Leadville. Sequel to "High Trail to Danger."
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Boston Jane: An Adventure
by Jennifer L. Holm
Sixteen-year-old Jane Peck has ventured to the unknown wilds of the Northwest to wed her childhood idol, William Baldt. But her impeccable training at Miss Hepplewhite's Young Ladies Academy in Philadelphia is hardly preparation for the colorful characters and crude life that await her in Washington Territory. Thrown upon her wits in the wild, Jane must determine for herself whether she is truly proper Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia, faultless young lady and fiancée, or Boston Jane, as the Chinook dub her, fearless and loyal woman of the frontier. An exciting new novel from Jennifer L. Holm, author of the Newbery Honor Book Our Only May Amelia.
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Boston Jane: Wilderness Days
by Jennifer L. Holm
"Remember -- you make your own luck." Abandoned in Washington Territory by her faithless fiancé, Jane Peck prepares to return home to Philadelphia -- only to learn that the life she once knew is no more. Lost and alone, Jane must make a new home for herself as the only pioneer woman in the primitive settlement of Shoalwater Bay. Armed with little more than her finishing-school education, Jane is left to survive everything from the disagreeable habits of her unkempt landlord to the infuriating flawlessness of Shoalwater's latest arrival, Mrs. Frink. All this, as well as a blossoming romance and a perilous manhunt, awaits Jane as she matches wits with the wilderness. The second book of the Boston Jane trilogy, this remarkable, suspense-filled adventure pits Jane Peck against some of her deepest fears in the wild, uncharted frontiers of friendship, love, and the Pacific Northwest.
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Land of Hope
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions of the future and endure life on the overcrowded ship. Once they reach Ellis Island the girls must separate and Rebekah and her family settle in New York on the Lower East Side. Instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop. Will Rebekah find the courage to conquer the odds and find happiness in the United States of America.
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Land of Promise
by Joan Lowery Nixon
Rose Carney, a young girl from Ireland, befriends Rebecca, from Russia, and Kristen, from Sweden, during the long journey to America. They part ways at Ellis Island and Rose continues onto a new life in Chicago.
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Land of Dreams
by Joan Lowery Nixon
As Kristin Swensen anxiously awaits her first glimpse of America, she is filled with a sense of the freedom that her new life promises. But she soon finds herself living on a farm in Minnesota where her parents and neighbors cling as closely as possible to the life they had known in Sweden. Kristin can't accept coming all this way only to re-create what she left behind. She longs to speak English and help the cause of women's rights. Her parents, however, want her to settle down and get married. Must Kristin give up her dream of independence and accept her parents' Old World values?
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The Coffin Quilt
by Ann Rinaldi
In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
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An Acquaintance with Darkness
by Ann Rinaldi
Fourteen-year-old Emily Pigbush suspects that her uncle, a respected physician, is involved in body snatching.
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The Root Cellar
by Janet Lunn
Twelve-year-old orphan Rose, sent to live with unknown relatives on a farm in Canada, ventures into her aunt's root cellar and finds herself making friends with people who lived on the farm more than a century earlier.
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Janey G. Blue, Pearl Harbor, 1941
by Kathleen Duey
In Hawaii in 1941, sixth grader Janey G. Blue experiences the terror of the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Emma Eileen Grove
by Kathleen Duey
Twelve-year-old Emma receives unexpected friendship from a Black roustabout and a Union soldier during an explosion on the steamboat Sultana in 1865.
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Beloved Enemy
by Al Lacy
During the Civil War, Jenny is torn between devotion to the South and feelings for Buck, a Union soldier. She becomes a Confederate spy and is caught in Union territory. Will Buck find a way to save her from execution?
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Timeless Love
by Judith O'Brien
Fifteen-year-old Samantha is transported back in time to 1553 and the court of the ailing King Edward VI. Suspecting that Edward has allergies, she is determined to save his life.
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Roanoke
by Sonia Levitin
An English youth and an Indian girl are caught up in the events leading to the mysterious disappearance of the colony at Roanoke Island.
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Escape from Egypt
by Sonia Levitin
When Moses comes to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land, Jesse, a Hebrew slave, finds his life changed by his growing faith in God and his attraction to the half-Egyptian, half-Syrian Jennat.
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The Ghosts of Elkhorn
by Kerry Newcomb
Hiding out in a rural, 1927 Colorado town from the mafia bag man they robbed, Roman and Lainey get unexpected help from the Wind River Kid, a retired gunfighter
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Pearl Harbor 1941
by Nancy Holder
Bekah Martin completes her nurse's training in San Francisco, and is scheduled to return to the Territory of Hawaii to keep her promise of marriage to a man she doesn't love. But on her way home, her chance encounter with a handsome naval ensign changes the direction of her life, as she's faced with making the choice between happiness and responsibility on the morning of December 7, 1941.