Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Celebrating Women's History Month: Historical Fiction for Teens

 

Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
In 1793 Philadelphia, sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.

A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.

Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.


More Books --
And I Darken by Kiersten White
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai
The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Copper Sun by Sharon Draper
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman
Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All by M.T. Anderson
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz
Lies We Tells Ourselves by Robin Talley
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen
My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen
The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
Those Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper


Check out these books on display at the Arnold Branch through April 3, 2021.

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