Historical Fiction

Tales set in the past, from ancient times in books like Wolf Brother (F-8) to the more recent past in books like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (I-1).

Level D

Journey to Jo'Burg: A South African Story (D-3)

by Beverley Naidoo

Level E

Castle Diary (E-4)

by Richard Platt and Chris Riddell

The Sign of the Beaver (E-20)

by Elizabeth George Speare

Little House in the Big Woods (E-28)

by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Level F

Number the Stars (F-2)

by Lois Lowry

Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) (F-8)

by Michelle Paver

Lyddie (F-12)

by Katherine Paterson

Treasure Island (F-25)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Level G

A Gathering Light (G-3)

by Jennifer Donnelly

The Yearling (G-4)

by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Goodnight Mister Tom (G-15)

by Michelle Magorian

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (G-23)

by Mildred D Taylor

Moonfleet (G-26)

by J Meade Falkner

Level H

Kidnapped (H-10)

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Cry, the Beloved Country (H-11)

by Alan Paton

Little Women (H-27)

by Louisa M Alcott

Level I

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (I-1)

by John Boyne

The Joy Luck Club (I-3)

by Amy Tan

Wide Sargasso Sea (I-11)

by Jean Rhys

David Copperfield (I-22)

by Charles Dickens

Further Reading

The Great Gatsby (FR-6)

by F Scott Fitzgerald

Things Fall Apart (FR-12)

by Chinua Achebe

All Quiet on the Western Front (FR-16)

by Erich Maria Remarque

The Three Musketeers (FR-20)

by Alexandre Dumas