Historical Fiction can breathe life into what students may have considered irrelevant and dull, thus allowing them to see that their present is part of a living past, that people as real as themselves struggled with problems similar to their own, and that today's way of life result of what these people did in finding solutions.
Historical Fiction must, of course, be set in the past. The main characters generally are fictional, though often they rub shoulders with historically prominent people. Sometimes the story's focus is not on events in history but rather on a wholly imaginary plot that is accurately set in a particular period and place from the past.
Historical Fiction must, of course, be set in the past. The main characters generally are fictional, though often they rub shoulders with historically prominent people. Sometimes the story's focus is not on events in history but rather on a wholly imaginary plot that is accurately set in a particular period and place from the past.
Banks, Lynne Reid. 2005. Tiger, Tiger. Delacorte.
Two Tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man eating "entertainment act" at the Coliseum. |
Cannon, A. E. 2002. Charlotte's Rose. Wendy Lamb Books/Random House.
As a 12-year old Welsh immigrant carries a motherless baby along the Mormon Trail in 1856, she comes to love the baby has her own and fear the day the baby's father will reclaim her. |
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NOTABLE AUTHORS OF HISTORICAL FICTION:
Avi: American and European History.
Beatty, Patricia, and John Beatty. American Civil War and westward expansion.
Blackwood Gary: Alternative American History.
Bruchac, Joseph: Native American History.
Cadnum, Michael: Medieval European History.
Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier: American Revolution.
Haugaard, Erik Christian: European History.
Hunter, Molly: British History.
Ibbotson, Eva: European History.
Lasky, Kathryn: American History.
Lester, Julius: African American History.
Meyer, Carolyn: European History.
Morpugo, Michael. World War I; World War II.
O'Dell, Scott: Native American History; American West.
Orlev, Uri: Holocaust.
Park, Linda Sue: Korean History.
Rinaldi, Ann: American History.
Speare, Elizabeth George: Colonial America.
Sutcliff, Rosemary: Early History of Britain.
Taylor, Mildred: African American History.
Uchida, Yoshiko: Japanese American History.
WIlder, Laura Ingalls: Westward expansion.
Yep, Laurence: Chinese American History.
Avi: American and European History.
Beatty, Patricia, and John Beatty. American Civil War and westward expansion.
Blackwood Gary: Alternative American History.
Bruchac, Joseph: Native American History.
Cadnum, Michael: Medieval European History.
Collier, James Lincoln, and Christopher Collier: American Revolution.
Haugaard, Erik Christian: European History.
Hunter, Molly: British History.
Ibbotson, Eva: European History.
Lasky, Kathryn: American History.
Lester, Julius: African American History.
Meyer, Carolyn: European History.
Morpugo, Michael. World War I; World War II.
O'Dell, Scott: Native American History; American West.
Orlev, Uri: Holocaust.
Park, Linda Sue: Korean History.
Rinaldi, Ann: American History.
Speare, Elizabeth George: Colonial America.
Sutcliff, Rosemary: Early History of Britain.
Taylor, Mildred: African American History.
Uchida, Yoshiko: Japanese American History.
WIlder, Laura Ingalls: Westward expansion.
Yep, Laurence: Chinese American History.
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