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.
White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R.J. Palacio
Told from the perspective of Julian’s Grandmere, who was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II; and how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. (intermediate)
On the Horizon
by Lois Lowry
Written in verse, this is the story of people whose lives were lost or forever altered by the twin tragedies of Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima during WWII. Based on the lives of soldiers at Pearl Harbor and civilians in Hiroshima. (beginning-intermediate)
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series by Nathan Hale
Book 1: One Dead Spy (series)
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)
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).
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)
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)
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)
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