Prisoner B-3087
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 107
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: gruener, jack, jews, holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), holocaust survivors, krak?w (poland), poland, holocaust, 1939-1945, krak?ow (poland), children's audiobooks, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction
More Than Anything Else
Nine-year-old Booker works with his father and brother at the saltworks but dreams of the day when he will be able to read.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 72
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: washington, booker t., salt workers, african americans, books and reading, chinese language materials, biographical fiction, historical fiction, chinese language, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction, picture books for children
Girl With A Pearl Earring
In 1664, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the Vermeer household as a servant.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: vermeer, johannes, artists' models, women domestics, biographical fiction, delft (netherlands), women, historical fiction, artists's models, audiobooks, women household employees, biographical fiction [X]
The Red Queen
Although widowed in her early teens, Margaret Beaufort, the child-bride of Edmund Tudor, uses her determination of character and wily plotting to infiltrate the house of York under the guise of loyal friend and servant, undermine the support for Richard III, and ultimately ensure that her only son, Henry Tudor, triumphs as King of England.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: elizabeth, edward, richard, queens, great britain, biographical fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction
The Widow Of The South
Presents an historical fiction based upon the true story of Carrie McGavock, who spent the years following the Civil War caring for the graves of over fifteen hundred soldiers from the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, who were buried on designated ground in her back yard.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mcgavock, caroline e. winder, franklin, battle of, franklin, tenn., 1864, plantation owners' spouses, plantation life, cemeteries, tennessee, williamson county (tenn.), war, wives, biographical fiction, war stories, historical fiction, confederate states of america, biographical fiction [X], war stories
Burial Rites
Historical fiction novel based on the story of Anna Kristine Magn?sd?ttir.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
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Me, Frida
Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: kahlo, frida, rivera, diego, artists, san francisco (calif.), biographical fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction
Regeneration
In 1917, Siegfried Sassoon, a combat officer and poet, writes a letter publicly disavowing the war.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: sassoon, siegfried, rivers, w. h. r., world war, 1914-1918, anthropologists, poets, english, soldiers, english poets, biographical fiction, war stories, biographical fiction [X], war stories
The Case Of The Missing Moonstone
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 840
subjects: shelley, mary wollstonecraft, lovelace, ada king, mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction, challenges, london (england), great britain, detective and mystery stories, detective and mystery fiction, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X]
Hit & Miss
Young Derek Jeter's friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 38
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: jeter, derek, families, friendship, bullying, baseball, family life, bullies, biographical fiction [X]
Juba!
In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: lane, william henry, dancers, african americans, prejudices, juvenile fiction / people & places / united states / african american, juvenile fiction / historical / united states / civil war period (1850-1877), five points (new york, n.y.), new york (n.y.), london (england), great britain, biographical fiction [X]
Mary Jemison Native American Captive
A fictional retelling of the early life of Mary Jemison who was captured during the French and Indian War and lived for most of her life with the Seneca Indians.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: jemison, mary, indian captivities, frontier and pioneer life, seneca indians, native americans, united states, genesee river valley (pa. and n.y.), historical fiction, biographical fiction [X]
Tru & Nelle
In their small town of Monroeville, Alabama in 1930, misfits Tru and Nelle strike up a friendship and find a mystery to solve when someone breaks into the drugstore and steals some candy and a fancy brooch.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
subjects: capote, truman, lee, harper, friendship, monroeville (ala.), biographical fiction [X], detective and mystery fiction
Sybil Ludington
A fictionalized account of sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington, trained to handle a musket, who rode alone over forty miles in New York to bring out the militia before the Battle of Ridgefield.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: ludington, sybil, gender role, united states, connecticut, historical fiction, biographical fiction [X]
The Other Einstein
A fictionalized account of the untold story of Albert Einstein's first wife, a brilliant scientist in her own right, whose contributions to the theory of relativity were not given a voice at a time when only one genius was allowed in the marriage.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: einstein-mari?, mileva, einstein, albert, women physicists, marriage, biographical fiction [X], historical fiction