1. OUTCOME: I CAN FIND A HISTORICAL
NOVEL WITHIN MY LEXILE RANGE.
Historical Fiction

2. MIDDLE AGES 1100-1300 (EUROPE)
• Falsely accused of theft
and murder, an orphaned
peasant boy in fourteenthcentury England flees his
village and meets a largerthan-life juggler who holds
a dangerous secret.
• Lexile: 750

3. MIDDLE AGES: 1100 – 1500 (EUROPE)
• In medieval England, a
nameless, homeless girl is
taken in by a sharptempered midwife, and in
spite of obstacles and
hardship, eventually gains
the three things she most
wants: a full belly, a
contented heart, and a place
in this world.
• Lexile: 1240

4. IRELAND 1060
• While her father is away fighting
the Normans and other Irish
clans, nine-year-old Lara works
hard to help harvest food and
also cares for the pregnant gray
mare that she loves.
• Lexile: 810
F
DUE
Lara and the Gray Mare

5. RENAISSANCE -- ITALY -- FICTION
• In Italy in 1491, Mangus the
magician and his apprentice
are summoned to the castle
of Duke Claudio to
determine if his daughter is
indeed being haunted by a
ghost.
• Lexile: 660

6. CIVIL WAR 1861 - 1865
• Thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll
takes his place as head of the
family after his father dies fighting
for the Union; but his job at the
local ironworks, where he helps
build an iron ship for the Union
army, and his loyalty come into
question when he is approached
by Confederate spies to sell
secrets about the ship to the
South.
• Lexile: 620
F
AVI
Iron Thunder

7. 1928 NORTH CAROLINA
• Accused of murder in her
North Carolina mountain
town in 1928, Dovey Coe,
a stronged-willed twelveyear-old girl, comes to a
new understanding of
others, including her deaf
brother, as she attempts to
clear her name
• Lexile: 980
F
DOW
The True Adventures of Homer
Pl. Figg

8. CIVIL WAR (PRE)
• Eleven-year-old Elijah
Freeman, the first free-born
child in Buxton, Canada, which
is a haven for slaves fleeing
the American South in 1859,
uses his wits and skills to try to
bring to justice the lying
preacher who has stolen
money that was to be used to
buy a family's freedom.
• Lexile: 1070
F
CUR

9. DEPRESSION 1929
• In a 1930s Massachusetts town
torn by the Depression and
other hardships, as well as
racial tension, Charlie Anne
and Phoebe, the AfricanAmerican girl who moves to the
farm next door, form a
friendship that begins to
transform their community.
• Lexile: 970
F
FUS
The Wonder of Charlie Anne

10. DEPRESSION 1929
• In Depression-era Alabama,
twelve-year-old Mary Bayliss
Pettigrew struggles to
understand why her beloved
older brother, Leo, died and
whether she, miraculously,
survived for some special
purpose.
• Lexile: 870
F
FOR

11. PIONEER: 1830 – (EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
• After breaking his leg, elevenyear-old Nate feels useless
because he cannot work on
the family farm in nineteenthcentury Nebraska, so when
his father brings home an
orphan boy to help with the
chores, Nate feels even worse
• Lexile: 830
F
LAF

12. HOLOCAUST: WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945
• Two Jewish sisters,
escapees of the infamous
Warsaw ghetto, devise a
plan to thwart an attempt
by the Gestapo to intercept
food bound for starving
people behind the dark
Wall.
• Lexile: 990
F
HES
The Cats in Krasinski Square

13. HOLOCAUST: WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945
• In 1938, having begun to
feel the persecution that all
Jews are experiencing in
their Austrian city, Clara and
her family escape over the
mountains into Switzerland.
• Lexile: 960
F
ACK

14. HAWAII 1836
• In 1836, fourteen-year-old
Patience Goodspeed,
daughter of a ship's captain,
is unexpectedly sent to a
boarding school along with
her brother when danger
arrives at sea, and she soon
suspects that her etiquette
teacher is seeking out her
father for a husband.
F
FRE

15. 1935 BISMARK, ND
• Twelve-year-old Nick loves
baseball so after a year in
the hospital fighting polio
and with a brace on one leg,
Nick takes a job with the
team for which his father is
catcher and gets to see the
great pitcher, Satchel Paige,
play during the 1935 season
• Lexile: 900
F
TOO