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- Historical fiction is a well-loved genre, but it can be tricky to find books for 5th graders or a specific age range inside the huge pool of middle school options. Generally, publishing pegs middle grade books as being for kids between the ages of 8 and 12, and 5th graders are typically aged 10-11.
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If you are looking for a short list of historical fiction books for 5th grade then keep on reading! It contains books from WWII as well as early American history. If you need books from 4th or 6th grade, click the links below!
- Pre-History
- 12th-15th Centuries
- 16th-18th Centuries
- 19th Century
- 20th Century
The Windeby Puzzle: History and Storyby Lois Lowry Find it: Bookshop | Amazon Lowry introduces her book with facts about the discovery of a 2,000-year-old bog body in Northern Germany which inspired her book. She gives historical, scientific and archaeological background to set the context for her two intersecting narratives. In the first narrative...
A Single Shardby Linda Sue Park Find it: Bookshop | Amazon In 12th century Korea, Tree-Ear, an orphan, lives under the bridge with the disabled Crane-man. The two survive from day to day but Tree-Ear is fascinated by the local revered potter, Min. Circumstances collide and Tree-Ear becomes Min's apprentice. Tree-Ear must learn patience, an apprecia...
All the World's a Stage: A Novel in Five Acts by Gretchen Woelfle. Find it: Amazon This is a historical novel where the great Shakespeare himself plays a role. Twelve-year-old Kit gets caught pickpocketing in the audience during a performance and instead of sending him off to prison, the Lord Chamberlain's Men decide he will work for them instead. ...
Show Me A Sign(series) by Ann Clare LeZotte Find it: Bookshop | Amazon In 1805, Mary Lambert lives in a community where everyone speaks sign language and a quarter of the population is deaf. One day, a young man arrives in the village hoping to research the reason for the high rate of deafness. Mary narrates the story and her observations of the in...
Daring Darlene, Queen of the Screen by Anne Nesbet Find it: Amazon | Bookshop In 1914, 12-year-old Darlene is a silent film star whose daring adventures have captivated screen audiences. A publicity stunt meant to revive her popularity has her inadvertently getting mixed up with the orphaned heiress, Victoria Berryman, who is the object of a kidnap...
Age Range: 9 – 12 years Grade Level: 4 – 7 4_5 stars. Among the great historical fiction books for fifth graders, “Serafina and the Black Cloak” is an amazing one. It is about a hidden girl, who lives and grows in the basement of Biltmore Estate.
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- Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich. This is the book I hand kids and parents who tell me they love Little House on the Prairie. Set in the 1840s, it’s about an Ojibway family living near Lake Superior.
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan. When Esperanza and her family are forced to flee their privileged lives on a ranch in Mexico to a farm camp in California during the Great Depression, Esperanza must adapt to a new life of hard work and rise to meet the challenges of her new home.
- Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm. Jobs are scarce in the 1930s, so when Turtle’s mama gets a job as a housekeeper for a lady who doesn’t like children, she’s sent to live with family she’s never met in Key West, Florida.
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. When sisters Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are sent to stay with their mother, Cecile, in Oakland, California, for the summer, they’re excited for Disneyland and reconnecting with their mother.
Mar 28, 2023 · These middle-grade historical fiction picks also tackle other topics such as living with war, grief, moving, children with special needs and more. Need specific grade recommendations? Check out the posts below: 5th grade historical fiction; 6th grade historical fiction; 7th grade historical fiction; 8th grade historical fiction
Introduce your kids to important American and World history with these 4th & 5th grader historical fiction books. WWII, American Revolution, the Jew’s struggle in Nazi Germany, the Great Depression, ancient China – the books cover a wide timeline in history.
