Fiction Book List for Young Readers (mid-18th century to present)
This list of fiction books for young readers includes classics and more modern works, about historical periods from the mid-18th century to the present day. Enjoy!
In Grandma’s Attic – Richardson (late 1800s USA)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Baum
The House at Pooh Corner – Milne
Mary on Horseback – Wells (1920s USA)
James Herriot’s Treasury for Children – Herriot (Pre WWII England)
Twenty and Ten – Bishop (WW II)
The Story About Ping – Flack (Pre-Rev. China)
Capyboppy – Peet (author’s true-life story)
Hero Tales – Jackson (modern missionaries)
Granny Han’s Breakfast – Groves (China missionary)
Five True Dog Stories (modern)
Dolphin Adventure – Grover (Author’s true story)
Dolphin Treasure – Grover (Author’s true story)
Pasteur’s Fight Against Microbes – Birch & Birmingham SL1 (late 1800s)
Little Pear – Lattimore (early 1900’s China)
The Bravest Dog Ever – Standiford (1925 true dog story)
The Year of Miss Agnes – Hill SL1 (1948, Alaska)
Missionary Stories with the Martins – Martin X SL1
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie – Roop SL2 (1856 Maine)
The Secret Valley – Bulla SL2 (California Gold Rush)
Riding the Pony Express – Bulla (1860)
The Long Way to a New Land – Sandin (1868 Sweden emigrate to US)
The Long Way Westward – Sandin (1868 sequel to above)
The Big Balloon Race – Coerr (1880s)
Prairie School – Avi (1880s)
Wagon Wheels – Brenner SL2 (post Civil War family)
Little House on Rocky Ridge – MacBride (1894 pioneer life)
More Stories from Grandma’s Attic – Richardson (Late 1800s USA)
Betsy & Tacy Go Over the Big Hill – Lovelace (early 1900s USA)
Lumber Camp Library – Kinsey-Warnock (USA)
B is for Betsy – Haywood (1910s USA)
Emily’s Runaway Imagination – Cleary (1920s Oregon)
Cora Frear – Goodman (late 1800s prairies)
Clara and the Bookwagon – Levinson (1905 USA)
A Child’s Garden of Verse – Stevenson
Marie Curie’s Search for Radium – Birch & Birmingham SL2 (early 1900s)
A Little Princess – Burnett (Victorian England & India)
The Secret Garden – Burnett (Victorian England & India)
The House on Walenska Street – Herman SL2 (1913 Russia)
More Stories from Grandma’s Attic – Richardson (1920s)
Strawberry Girl – Lenski (1930’s America)
Gladys Aylward: The Adventure of a Lifetime – Benge
The Little Riders – Shemin (WWII)
Hill of Fire – Lewis (Mexico volcano; Post WWII)
And the Word Came with Power – Shelter (modern Joanne Shelter)
Catching Their Talk in a Box – Hocket (Author’s true story)
Still More Stories from Grandma’s Attic – Richardson (Late 1800s USA)
Brighty of the Grand Canyon – Henry
Misty of Chincoteague – Henry (1940s horse)
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West – Henry SL (Wild Horse Annie 1950s)
Across Five Aprils – Hunt (Civil War)
Behind Rebel Lines – Reit (Civil War)
Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman – Sterling
Turn Homeward, Hannalee (Civil War)
Shades of Gray , by Carolyn Reeder (Post Civil War)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry – Taylor (Post Civil War)
The Great Wheel – Lawson (First Ferris Wheel)
Moccasin Trail – McGraw (Native American, Oregon)
All Sail Set – Sperry (true story)
Caddie Woodlawn – Brink (pioneer life)
By the Great Horn Spoon – Fleischman (California Gold Rush)
The Terrible Wave – Dahlsted (1889 Johnstown PA flood)
Shoes for Everyone – Mitchell (Jan Matzeliger)
Sing Down the Moon – O’Dell (Native Americans)
Little Britches – Moody SL4 (early 1900s ranching)
Hero Over Here – Kudlinski SL4 (WW I)
Cheaper By the Dozen – Gilbreth SL4 (1930s)
Old Yeller – Gipson SL4 (Texas frontier)
All of a Kind Family – Taylor SL4 (1900s New York)
Thimble Summer – Enright SL4 (1900s farm family)
Miracles on Maple Hill – Sorensen (post WW II)
In Search of the Source – Anderson & Moore (missionary)
Chucaro: Wild Pony of the Pampa – Kalnay (1950s Argentina)
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson – Lord (Chinese immigrant)
Bruchko – Olson (missionary in Columbia)
The Winged Watchman – Van Stockum SL4 (WWII Holland)
The Great Turkey Walk – Karr SL4
The Perilous Road – Steele SL4 (Civil War)
Peter Pan – Barrie SLK (Classic)
The Bandit of Ashley Downs – Jackson (George Mueller)
Thieves of Tyburn Square – Jackson (Elizabeth Fry)
To the Top – Kramer SL2 (Mt. Everest)
American Adventures 2 – Greenberg SL4 (many topics)
Dog Jack – Biros SL4 (Civil War)
Li Lun, Lad of Courage – Treffinger SL5 (Chinese village life)
Mission to Cathay – Polland SL5 (Ambassador to China)
The Big Wave – Buck SL5 (Japanese village life)
Commodore Perry in the Land of Shogun – Blumberg SL5
Born in the Year of Courage -Crofford SL5 (Japan 1853)
Louis Braille – Davidson SL5
Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Aiken SL5 (Victorian era)
Around the World in Eighty Days – Verne SL5 (Victorian, Classic)
Daughter of the Mountains – Rankin SL5 (1900s Tibet)
Young Fu of the Upper Yang Tze – Lewis SL5 (1920s China)
House of Sixty Fathers – DeJong SL5 (WW II)
Sadako & the 1000 Paper Cranes – Coerr SL5 (Hiroshima)
The Land I Lost – Nhuong SL5 (Vietnamese life)
Homesick – Fritz SL5 (life in China)
Ali and the Golden Eagle – Grover SL5 (1970s Saudi Arabia)
Betty Greene, Wings to Serve – Benge SL6 (WWII)
Hitler – Wepman SL6
The Endless Steppe – Hautzig SL6 (Russia WW II)
Snow Treasure – McSwigan SL6 (WW II)
Number the Stars – Lowry SL6 (WW II)
Escape from Warsaw – Serraillier SL6 (WW II)
North to Freedom – Holm SL6 (Iron Curtain)
Anna and the King – Landon SL6 (1862-1867 Siam)
The Home Ranch – Moody SL7
Farewell to Manzanar – Houston SL7 (WW II Japanese internment camp)
Rifles for Watie – Keith SL7 (Civil War)
Dragon’s Gate – Yep SL7 (Civil War Transcontinental Railroad)
Bonanza Girl – Beatty SL7 (1880s)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Twain SL7 (1880s town life, Classic)
Patty Reed’s Doll – Laurgaard SL7 (Donner Party)
Sounder – Armstrong SL7 (1900s sharecroppers)
After the Dancing Days – Rostkowski SL7 (WW I)
Blue Willow – Gates SL7 (Depression)
To Kill a Mockingbird – Lee SL7 (Depression, Classic)
Moonshiner’s Son – Reeder SL7 (Prohibition)
Out of the Dust – Hesse SL7 (Depression)
Anne of Green Gables – Montgomery SL6 (1900s Canada, Classic)
The Good Master – Seredy SL6 (1900s Hungary)
Nothing Daunted – Repp X SL6 (missionary in China)
Dragonwings – Yep SL7 (San Francisco earthquake Chinese immigrant)
Running 1000 Miles for Freedom – Craft SL7 (slavery)
A Jar of Dreams – Uchida SL7 (Depression)
Martin Luther King, Jr: A Man to Remember – Darby SL7
Two Tickets to Freedom – Freedman SL7 (slavery)
Going Solo – Dahl SL8 (WW II)
Little Women – Alcott SL8 (Classic)
Little Men – Alcott SL8 (Classic)
Parallel Journeys – Ayer (WWII) SL 9
After the War – Matas SL9 (Jews in Palestine, post WWII)
The Great Brain – Fitzgerald SL9 (turn of the century)
Murder on the Orient Express – Christie SL9
Kon-Tiki – Heyerdahl SL9 (1947)
The Road From Home – Kherdian SL9 (Turkey)
Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity – Cwiklik SL9
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit – Kerr SL9 (WW II)
The Snow Goose – Gallico SL9 (WW II)
Fallen Angels – Myers SL9 (Viet Nam War)
On the Devil’s Doorstep – McClung SL9
Run, Baby, Run – Cruz SL9
Children of the River – Crew SL9 (Cambodian refugee)
Life During the Russian Revolution – Sherrow SL9
Red Scarf Girl – Jiang SL9 (Chinese Cultural Revolution 1960s)
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats – Meyer SL10 (1850s Native Indians)
Bud, Not Buddy – Curtis SL10 (Depression)
The Chosen – Potok SL10 (1940s)
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Doyle SLBL (Victorian)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass – Carroll SLBL (Classic)
Mrs. Miniver – Struther (WWII)
My Side of the Mountain
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