E.L.L.
HISTORICAL FICTION
Reading levels are indicated: “beginning” is for readers who are starting to learn English, while “intermediate” and “advanced” are for readers with some experience in the language. Click on the cover art to order the title from Amazon.
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Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series by Nathan Hale
Book 1: One Dead Spy (also by this author: One Trick Pony) The author begins his series retelling the roughest, toughest, craziest stories from history with this tale of his namesake, Nathan Hale, America’s first spy. (graphic novel) (beginning) |
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Chains
By Laurie Halse Anderson Isabel must fight for freedom--and spy on the enemy-- for herself and her sister after she is re-sold into slavery to a Loyalist household during the Revolutionary War. (advanced). |
 
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Ghost Hawk
by Susan Cooper At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village has been the victim of a white man's plague. (advanced) |
 
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In The Footsteps of Crazy Horse
by Joseph Marshall & James M. Yellowhawk The story of the life of Crazy Horse, Lakota leader and warrior who stood with Sitting Bull against the US government, as told to Jimmy Maclean, a young boy struggling to understand his own Scottish/Lakota ancestry. (intermediate) |
 
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Half a Man
by Michael Morpurgo Michael has always been fascinated and afraid of his war-scarred grandfather, until he eventually spends his summers with him and learns the story behind the scars and the man beneath them. (intermediate) |
 
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I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011
by Lauren Tarshis A huge earthquake and wave hit Japan while Ben is visiting, leaving him stranded alone. (beginning) |