This document provides summaries of 10 historical fiction novels set in different time periods and locations. The summaries include a brief description of the plot and characters for each novel, as well as the Lexile level. The novels cover settings such as medieval England, 17th century Caribbean, 11th century Ireland, Renaissance Italy, 1906 San Francisco, the American Civil War, Oregon Trail, the Great Depression, the pioneer era in Nebraska, Oregon in 1851, and the Holocaust. The Lexile levels range from 500 to 1010.

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 fourteenth-
century England flees his
village and meets a larger-
than-life juggler who holds
a dangerous secret.
• Lexile: 750

3. THE WALLS OF CARTAGENA (17TH CENTURY)
• Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an
African slave in the
seventeenth-century Caribbean
city of Cartagena, works as a
translator for a Jesuit priest
who tends to newly-arrived
slaves and, after working for a
Jewish doctor in a leper colony
and helping an Angolan boy
and his mother escape, he
realizes his true calling.
• Lexile: 870

4. IRELAND 1060 F
DUE
Lara and the Gray Mare
• 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

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. 1906 SAN FRANCISCO
F
• . Tells the story of the 1906 San KAR
Francisco earthquake as seen
through the eyes of Jacob, a
thirteen-year-old Jewish boy who
lives in a boarding house with his
father and younger sister.
Lexile: 770

7. CIVIL WAR: 1861 - 1865 F
PHI
• Homer P. Figg escapes The True Adventures of Homer
Pl. Figg
from his wretched foster
home in Pine
Swamp, Maine, and sets
out to find his beloved
older brother, Harold, who
has been illegally sold into
the Union Army.
• Lexile: 950

8. OREGON TRAIL (KATHLEEN KUDLINSKI
F
• As his family sets out from KUD
Missouri to Oregon, young Ben
wonders whether he will have
more trouble with the dangers
of the journey or his debilitating
asthma.
• Lexile: 500

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

10. DEPRESSION 1929 (SANDRA FORRESTER)
F
FOR
• 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

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

12. F
OREGON: 1851 WOO
• Twelve-year-old Austin Ives
writes letters to his younger
brother describing his
three-thousand-mile
journey from their home in
Pennsylvania to Oregon in
1851. Lexile: 1010

13. F
HOLOCAUST: WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945 ACK
• 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