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- 2. WHAT IS HISTORICALFICTION? Historical fiction is fiction set in the past. It contains a rich mixture of fact and fiction.
- 3. WHAT IS HISTORICALFICTION? Through novels and short stories, an author may combine factual information about time, place, events, and real people of the period with fictional characters, dialogue, and details.
- 4. WHAT IS HISTORICALFICTION? All of these help you experience what it was like to live during the era when the story takes place.
- 5. CHARACTERISTICS OF HISTORICAL FICTION Presents a well-told story that doesn’t conflict with historical records Portrays characters realistically Artfully folds in historical facts Avoids stereotypes and myths
- 6. MORE CHARACTERISTICS .. . Believable setting and characters Plot supported by historical evidence Tells a compelling story first and relates historical information second
- 7. In 1925, fourteen-year-old IdaBidson secretly takes over as the teacher when the one-room schoolhouse in her remote Colorado area closes unexpectedly.
- 8. Falsely accused oftheft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth- century England flees his village and meets a larger- than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
- 9. In a seriesof poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.
- 10. Kidnapped by thecrew of an Africa bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
- 11. Story of anAfrican- American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s, whose children do not understand the prejudice and discrimination aimed at them.
- 12. In 1943, duringthe German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
- 13. Thirteen-year-old Koly enters intoan ill-fated arranged marriage and must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's customs or find the courage to oppose tradition.
- 14. The ordinary interactionsand everyday routines of the Watsons, an African- American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
- 15. In 1687 inConnecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
- 16. Ten-year-old Bud, amotherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
- 17. Prince Brat deserveshis name--he causes trouble at every possible opportunity. Luckily for him it's forbidden to strike a prince, so the palace keeps a whipping boy. Jemmy, plucked from the sewers to become the royal whipping boy, dreams of returning to his life as a rat-catcher. One night the prince decides to run away and orders Jemmy to join him. The two boys embark on a comical series of misadventures that include two murderous highwaymen, a dancing bear, and a journey through the rat-infested sewers beneath the city.
- 18. Left alone toguard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
- 19. When their fatherinvites a mail-order bride to come live with them in their prairie home, Caleb and Anna are captivated by their new mother and hope that she will stay.