Historical

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

An optimistic story set in an internment camp

Bud, Not Buddy

A 10-year-old searches for family during the Great Depression.

Caddie Woodlawn book cover

Caddie Woodlawn

Fiction inspired by an 1860s tomboy

Catherine’s War

Historical fiction set in Nazi-occupied France during World War II

Esperanza Rising

A wealthy Mexican family flees to California during the Great Depression.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Left behind by her fleeing tribe, Karana survives alone on an island.

Jackie & Me

A top-choice novel for sports lovers in grades 3 to 5

Little House In the Big Woods

The first novel in the popular Little House series

Little House on the Prairie

The third novel in a popular series about frontier life

Number the Stars

A family joins the Danish resistance against Nazis during World War II. 

The Blackbird Girls

A story set in the Soviet Union amid the Chernobyl power plant explosion 

The Watsons Go to Birmingham

Historical fiction about the Civil Rights Movement in 1963 Alabama

We Dream of Space

Fiction about three young students amid the Challenger disaster

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