Ancient Civilizations
The Courtesan's Daughter by Priscilla Gallow
Delacorte Press, c2002
From humble beginnings, Phano rises to become one of ancient Athens' most powerful citizens through her marriage to Theo, but they both have powerful enemies who don't share their political views.
YA FICTION GAL
Troy by Adele Geras
Harcourt, c2000
Told from the point of view of the women of Troy, portrays the last weeks of the Trojan War, when women are sick of tending the wounded, men are tired of fighting, and bored gods and goddesses find ways to stir things up.
YA FICTION GER
5th – 15th Centuries
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Clarion Books, c1994
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
YT FICTION CUS
Spider's Voice by Gloria Skurzynski
Atheneum Books c1999
Because he is a young mute person who can hear, Aran becomes involved in the adventures of Eloise and Abelard, France's most famous lovers, who lived during the twelfth century.
YA FICTION SKU
16th – 18th Centuries
Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Simon & Schuster c2000
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.
YT FICTION AND
The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Arcade Publishing, c1997
Queen Elizabeth I of England finds the diary of her mother, Henry VIII's second wife, and reads of the trials and tribulations of being queen. Filled with insight from both queen's perspectives, this novel brings English history to life.
FICTION MAX
19th Century
47 by Walter Mosley
Little, Brown, 2005
Number 47, a fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and also teaches him the meaning of freedom.
YA FICTION MOS
Grass Dancer by Susan Power
Putnam's Sons, c1994
A powerful tale of Red Dress, a young Sioux woman who works for a priest in the 1860s, and her spirit after she is violently murdered.
FICTION POW
The River Between Us by Richard Peck
Dial Books, c2003
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
YA FICTION PEC
The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman
Knopf 1985
In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
PB YA MYSTERY PUL
20th Century
Amaryllis by Craig Crist-Evans
Candlewick Press, c2003
Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.
YA FICTION CRI
China Boy by Gus Lee
Dutton, c1991
Born to Chinese parents in 1940's San Francisco, Kai Ting struggles to find his place in the world. He turns to boxing to save face and regains strength and devotion of his father.
FICTION LEE
Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Ticknor and Fields, 1984
Cold Sassy, Georgia is turned upside down when Will Teedy's grandfather marries a young woman. Will learns a lot about love, death, life and forgiveness.
FICTION BUR
Down the Yukon by Will Hobbs
HarperCollins, c2001
In the wake of Dawson City's Great Fire of 1899, sixteen-year-old Jason and his girlfriend Jamie canoe the Yukon River across Alaska in an epic race from Canada's Klondike to the new gold fields at Cape Nome.
YT FICTION HOB
The Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor
Dial Books, c1990
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
PB YA FICTION TAY
Sonny's War by Valerie Hobbs
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2002
In the late 1960s, fourteen-year-old Cori's life is greatly changed by the sudden death of her father and her brother's tour of duty in Vietnam.
YA FICTION HOB
