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Ancient Times

Cleopatra VII, Daughter of the Nile by Kristiana Gregory

Galen: My Life in Imperial Rome by Marissa Moss

A Place In the Sun by Jill Rubalcaba

Rome Antics by David Macaulay

The Secrets of Vesuvius by Caroline Lawrence

Sunset of the Sabertooth by Mary Pope Osborne

Middle Ages

Arthur, High King of Britain by Michael Morpurgo

Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess, Page by Richard Platt

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

Day of the Unicorn by Mollie Hunter

Fire, Bed and Bone by Henrietta Branford

Merlin and the Dragons by Jane Yolen

Puppeteer's Apprentice by Anne Love

18th Century/American Revolution

The Battlefield Ghost by Margery Cuyler

Caesar's Story: 1759 by Joan Lowery Nixon

Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl by Marissa Moss

Freedom's Light by Pamela Dell

Love Thy Neighbor by Ann Turner

Redcoats and Petticoats by Katherine Kirkpatrick

Thomas by Bonnie Pryor

The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart by Kristiana Gregory

Civil War

Abraham's Battle: A Novel of Gettysburg by Sara H. Banks

All Their Names Were Courage by Sharon Philips Denslow

Before the Creeks Ran Red by Carolyn Reeder

Ghosts of Vicksburg by Kathleen Ernst

Grace's Letter to Lincoln by Connie Roop

How I Found the Strong by Margaret McMullan

Joseph: 1861 - A Rumble of War by Bonnie Pryor

The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier by Jim Murphy

The Journal of Rufus Rowe: Witness to the Battle of Fredericksburg by Sid Hite

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin by Karen Hesse

Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney

19th Century

The Battle for St. Michael's by Emily Arnold McCully

Blackwater Ben by William Durbin

Charlotte's Rose by A.E. Cannon

Gifts From the Sea by Natalie Kinsey Warnock

Grasslands by Debra Seely

The Journal of Finn Reardon, Newsie by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Maggie's Door by Patricia Reilly Giff

Prairie Whispers by Frances Arrington

The School at Crooked Creek by Laurie Lawlor

The Spirit and Gilly Bucket by Maurine F. Dahlberg

World War I

Ruthie's Gift by Kimberly Bradley

Trouble with Jeremy Chance by George Harrar

Great Depression

The Amazing Thinking Machine by Dennis Haseley

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Chig and the Second Spread by Gwenyth Swain

Goodbye, Walter Malinski by Helen Ricorvits

Kit's Tree House by Valerie Tripp

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

Macaroni Boy by Katherine Ayres

Nowhere To Call Home by Cynthia Defelice

Saving Grace by Priscilla Cummings

Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards by Katelan Janke

Treasures in the Dust by Tracey Porter

World War II

Captain's Command by Anna Myers

Dear Papa by Anne Ylvisaker

Easter Parade by Eloise Greenfield

The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen #13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp by Barry Denenberg

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Sweet By and By by Patricia Hermes

When Mack Came Back by Brad Strickland

20th Century

Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis

The Legend of Billy Bush by Sheila P. Moses

Mirror, Mirror On the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan by Barry Denenberg

Tonight On the Titanic by Mary Pope Osborne

Voyage On the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady by Ellen E. White

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie by Ellen E. White

Worlds Afire by Paul B. Janeczko

Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman

YA Historical Fiction

Catherine Called Birdie (Karen Cushman)
Humorous view of Medieval England as expressed through the diary of a young girl.

A Single Shard (Linda Sue Park)
Set in 12-century Korea , the story of a 10-year-old orphan and his transition from apprentice to artist.

Constance : a story of early Plymouth (Patricia Clapp)
Constance records her journey to America on the Mayflower as well as the joys and hardships she experiences once she arrives.

Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes)
Johnny delivers newspapers published by the Sons of Liberty and becomes involved in the activities surrounding the Revolutionary War.

Sweetgrass (Jan Hudson)
Coming of age story of Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl living on the Canadian Prairie.

Dragon's Gate (Lawrence Yep)
Otter travels from China to the Sierra Mountains to help his father and grandfather build the transcontinental railroad.

Soldier's Heart (Gary Paulsen)
Charlie believes that the war will be his ticket out of Minnesota , but he soon comes to realize that war is much different than he imagined.

Summer of My German Soldier (Bette Greene)
Patty's Arkansas home has been converted into a camp for German prisoners of war. Although she is Jewish, she develops a friendship with Anton, a young German soldier.

Under the Persimmon Tree (Suzanne Fisher Staples)
In Afghanistan in the months following September 11 2001 , the paths of Najmah and Nusrat cross when Najmah is brought to Nusrat's school for refugees. Sharing a deep sense of loss, anxiety for their loved ones' safety and a passionate interest in the stars, Najmah and Nusrat give each other strength to face an uncertain future.

Along the Tracks (Tamar Bergman)
Tells of the adventures of a young Jewish boy who is driven from his home by the German invasion, becomes a refugee in the Soviet Union , is separated from his family, and undergoes many hardships before enjoying a normal home again.