Fiction+-+Historical

=// New Fiction Books at Cal Young ~ 2009-2010 //=

// ** Historical Fiction ~ **// **In another time and place in history… **
FIC Bun Bunce, Elizabeth C. //**A Curse Dark as Gold**// 2009. Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in the face of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price. (Fantasy - Romance - Historical Fiction) //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//

FIC Bur Burg, Shana //**A Thousand Never Evers**// 2008. As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.

FIC Coo Cooney, Caroline B. //**Enter Three Witches: A Story of Macbeth**// 2007 When her father betrays the Scottish king and is hung as a traitor, Lady Mary's future is bleak after she loses her only true protector and ends up locked away in the tower by the powerful and deadly Lord and lady Macbeth. //2010 YRCA Nominee//

FIC Dow Dowd, Siobhan //**Bog Child** 2008.// In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog. MC/8th grade or parent permission //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//

FIC Dun Dunlap, Susanne Emily //**The Musician's Daughter**// 2009. Amid the glamor of Prince Nicholas Esterhazy's court in 18th-century Vienna, murder is afoot. Or so fifteen-year-old Theresa Maria is convinced when her musician father turns up dead on Christmas Eve, his valuable violin missing, and the only clue to his death a strange gold pendant around his neck. Then her father's mentor, the acclaimed composer Franz Joseph Haydn, helps her through a difficult time by making her his copyist and giving her insight into her father's secret life. It's there that Theresa begins to uncover a trail of blackmail and extortion, even as she discovers honor, and the possibility of a first, tentative love. Thrumming with the weeping strains of violins, as well as danger and deception, this is an engrossing tale of murder, romance, and music that readers will find hard to forget.

FIC Eng Engle, Margarita //**Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba**// 2009. Escaping from Nazi Germany to Cuba in 1939, a young Jewish refugee dreams of finding his parents again, befriends a local girl with painful secrets of her own, and discovers that the Nazi darkness is never far away.

FIC Erd Erdrich, Louise //**The Porcupine Year**// 2008. In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.

FIC Fle Fletcher, Christine //**Ten Cents a Dance**// 2009. In 1940s Chicago, fifteen-year-old Ruby hopes to escape poverty by becoming a taxi dancer in a nightclub, but the work has unforeseen dangers and hiding the truth from her family and friends becomes increasingly difficult. MC/8th grade or parent consent //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//

FIC Fle Fleischman, Sid //**The Entertainer and the Dybbuk** 2008.// A struggling American ventriloquist in post-World War II Europe is possessed by the mischievous spirit of a young Jewish boy killed in the Holocaust. Author's note details the murder of over one million children by the Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s.

FIC Had Haddix, Margaret Peterson //**Sent**//: //**Missing, Book 2**// 2009. Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.

FIC Hij Hijuelos, Oscar //**Dark Dude**// 2008. In the 1960s, Rico Fuentes, a pale-skinned Cuban American teenager, abandons drug-infested New York City for the picket fence and apple pie world of Wisconsin, only to discover that he still feels like an outsider and that violent and judgmental people can be found even in the wholesome Midwest. MC/8th grade or parent permission //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//

FIC Kel Kelly, Jacqueline //**The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate**// 2009. In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.

FIC Laf La Fevers, R. L. //**Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos**// 2007. Twelve-year-old Theo uses arcane knowledge and her own special talent when she encounters two secret societies, one sworn to protect the world from ancient Egyptian magic and one planning to harness it to bring chaos to the world, both of which want a valuable artifact stolen from the London museum for which her parents work.

FIC Laf La Fevers, R. L. 2008. When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
 * //Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris//**

FIC Lem Lemna, Don 2008. In 1946 when his father returns from the war, a ten year old boy and his family move from the Montana town where they had been living to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere, where they work hard trying to make ends meet.
 * //When the Sergeant Came Marching Home//**

FIC Les Lester, Julius 2008. In a rural southern town in 1946, a white man and his son witness the lynching of an innocent black man. Includes historical note on lynching. MC/8th grade or parent permission
 * //Guardian//**

FIC Lev Levine, Kristin //**The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had**// 2009. In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.

FIC Lew Lewis, Richard //**The Killing Sea**// 2008. In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together their arduous climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother. Includes maps and author's note about the tsunami on which the story is based.

FIC Mar Marsden, John //**Hamlet : A Novel**// 2009. Grieving for the recent death of his beloved father and appalled by his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Hamlet, heir to the Danish throne, struggles with conflicting emotions, particularly after his father's ghost appeals to him to avenge his death. MC/8th grade or parent permission

FIC Mat Matthews, Andrew 2008. In 16th century Japan Jimmu Shimomura is raised to avenge his father's death caused by Lord Ankan, but after training as a samurai warrior and becoming a bodyguard for his sworn enemy he becomes sympathetic toward Ankan and is unsure what the right thing to do is.
 * The Way of the Warrior**

FIC Mcm McMullan, Margaret 2007. Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind. //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//
 * //When I Crossed No-Bob//**

FIC Mit Mitchell, Jack //**The Ancient Ocean Blues**// 2008. Given a dangerous mission by his cousin, Marcus Oppius Sabinus risks a shipwreck, enslavement, a pirate attack, and love to spy on and undermine Cicero's supporters so that Julius Caesar can continue his power grab.

FIC Mor Moran, Katy 2009. While traveling through early seventh-century Britain trying to stop an impending war, Essa, who bears the blood of native British tribes and of the invading Anglish, makes discoveries that divide his loyalties. //2009 Teens' Top Ten Nominee//
 * //Bloodline//**

FIC Nai Naidoo, Beverley 2007. Two boys -- one white, one black -- share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s, a country shaken by a rebellion of Africans against white landowners, but suspicions and accusations are escalating, and an act of betrayal could change everything.
 * //Burn My Heart//**

FIC Rin Rinaldi, Ann 2009. During the siege of Vicksburg, thirteen-year-old Claire Louise struggles with difficult choices when family and friends join opposing sides of the war.
 * //My Vicksburg//**

FIC Rod Rodman, Mary Ann //**Jimmy's Stars**// 2008. In 1943, eleven-year-old Ellie is her brother Jimmy's "best girl," and when he leaves Pittsburgh just before Thanksgiving to fight in World War II, he promises he will return, asks her to leave the Christmas tree up until he does, and reminds her to "let the joy out."

FIC She Sheth, Kashmira //**Keeping Corner**// 2007. In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and political reforms. //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//

FIC Smi Smith, Sherri L. //**Flygirl**// 2008. During World War II, a light-skinned African American girl "passes" for white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots. //2009 Teens' Top Ten Nominee//

FIC Toc Tocher, Timothy 2009. In 1920, sixteen-year-old Hank finds his loyalties divided when he is assigned to care for the Giants' mascot, a wildcat named Bill Pennant, as well as keep an eye on Babe Ruth in Ruth's first season with the New York Yankees.
 * //Bill Pennant, Babe Ruth, and Me//**

FIC Ven Venkatraman, Padma 2008. In India, in 1941, when her father becomes brain-damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life. //A 2009 Best Book for Young Adults//
 * //Climbing the Stairs//**

FIC Wey Weyn, Suzanne 2009. In the early twentieth century, four sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances, journalist W.T. Stead, scientist Nikola Tesla, and industrialist John Jacob Astor, home, Tesla's inventions will either doom or save them all.
 * Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic**

FIC Whe Whelan, Gloria 2009. Ten years after the end of the Second World War, the town of Rolfen, West Germany, looks just as peaceful and beautiful as ever, until young Peter Liebig discovers a secret about his past that leads him to question everything, including the town's calm facade and his own sense of comfort and belonging.
 * //After the Train//**