Grade 5 Recommended Historical Fiction Book List

Title
Author
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure
Elanor Coerr
Secret Signs
Jacqueline Guest
The Courage of Sarah Noble
Alice Dalgliesh
The Starving Time: Elizabeths Jamestown
Patricia Hermes
Colony Diary, Book Two, 1609
Children of the Fire
Harriette G. Robinet
The Matchlock Gun
Walter Edmonds
A Song for Harlem
Patricia McKissack
Away West
Patricia McKissack
Coolies
Yin
Henrys Freedom Box
Ellen Levine
Caddie Woodlawn
Carol R. Brink
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Marguerite Henry
On this Long Journey, The Journal of Jesse
Joseph Bruchac
Smoke, A Cherokee Boy, The Trail of Tears
1838
Our Only May Amelia
Jennifer L. Holm
Phoebe the Sky
Judith Berry Griffin
Shadows of the Sea
Joan Hiatt Harlow
The Bracelet
Yoshiko Uchida
Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia
Carolyn Meyer
1914
Hachiko Waits
Leslea Newman
I Thought my Soul Would Rise and Fly:
Joyce Hansen
The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl, Mars
Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
Mississippi Bridge
Mildred D. Taylor
The Kite Fighters
Sue Linda Park
When Jessie Came Across the Sea
Amy Hest
Bluffton
Matt Phelan
Fair Weather
Richard Peck
Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles,
Kathryn Lasky
Austria-France, 1769
The Luck of the Buttons
Anne Ylvisaker
Unsinkable
Gordon Korman
Worth
A. LaFaye
Bud, Not Buddy
Christopher Paul Curtis
Keeping Score
Linda Sue Park
Number The Stars
Lois Lowry
The Mighty Miss Malone
Christopher Paul Curtis
Sugar
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Way Down Deep
Ruth White
Bird in a Box
Andrea D. Pinkney
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Harriette G. Robinet
Heroes Dont Run
Harry Mazer

Genre
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Reading Level
O
O
O
O

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R
R

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S

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T
T
T

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U

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V

Title
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
The Liberation of Gabriel King
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
A Drowned Maidens Hair
Blood on the River: James Town, 1607
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
My Name is Sally Little Song
Roman Diary: The Journl of lliona, Young
Slave
Stumptown Kid
Timothy of the Cay
The Apothecary
Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
Celestes Harlem Renaissance
Jeffersons Sons: A Founding Fathers
Secret Children
Matilda Bone
The Diamond of Drury Lane
The Lions of Little Rock
An Elephant in the Garden
Okay for Now
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
When My Name Was Keoko
Bat 6
Black Duck
Chains
Fever 1793
Friedrich
Johnny Tremain
The Land
Witness
When the Whistle Blows

Author
Natalie Babbitt
K.L. Going
Avi
Amy Laura Schiltz
Elisa Carbone
Avi
Brenda Woods
R. Platt/D. Parkins

Genre
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Reading Level
V
V
V
W
W
W
W
W

Carol Gorman
R. Findley
Theodore Taylor
Maile Meloy
Elizabeth F. Lewis
Eleanora Tate
Kimberly Bradley

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W
W
X
X

Karen Cushman
Julia Golding
Kristin Levine
Michael Morpurgo
Gary D. Schmidt
Jacqueline Kelly
Linda Sue Park
Virginia Wolff
Janet Taylor Lisle
Laurie H. Anderson
Laurie H. Anderson
Hans Peter Richter
Esther H. Forbes
Mildred D. Taylor
Karen Hesse
Fran Slayton

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