Historical Fiction
If history is your cup of tea and you don't like your reading to be dull,
boring and completely factual, here ya go!
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Crazy to Fly by Martha Orr Conn
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Crazy to Fly is about a boy named Tommy
Davison who learns to be a mechanic, then runs away from home and joins
a flying circus. There he learns to work on planes and how to fly
them. He becomes a stuntman and then returns home when he learns his
father has been injured. Tommy later starts his own airport for mail
carrier planes and provides a place for them to refuel. With a
friend, Tommy opens a flight school.
Reviewed by Eric Allen, entered
7-2002
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The Private Notebook of Katie
Roberts, age 11 by Amy Hest
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This book is written like a journal,
it is about a girl named Katie who's father dies in a war. Katie's mother
falls in love and Katie has to move from New York to Texas. Katie hates
Texas and her new school. She has only two friends, a girl named
Linda and a guy Matthew. Matthew is going to New York on a train and
invites Katie to come. They do not tell anyone that they are going,
but Katie leaves a note for her Mom. They get caught however and have to
go back home. Will Katie ever like Texas?
Reviewed by local teen, entered
7-2002
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Our Only May Amelia by
Jennifer L. Holm
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May Amelia is the only girl in her
family out of eight children. Her dad is all unfair about it too.
She just hopes the baby in her mother's stomach is a girl. Then she would
have a sister. Then things around here will change, but she will
still be her family's only May Amelia.
Reviewed by local teen, entered 7-2002
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The Last Mission by Henry Mazer
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During World War II, Jack, (the main
character) takes his brother's birth certificate so he can enlist in the
military. His brother has a heart problem which makes it impossible for
him to be accepted. Jack flies twenty seven missions. On the twenty
seventh mission his plane is shot down. He is caught and sent to a POW
camp. He met a man named Stan. After ten days as a POW he is
freed. He finds out his whole crew died. Jack tells a Major his age
and is discharged.
Reviewed by a local teen, entered 6-2002
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Mary, Bloody Mary by Carolyn Meyers
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This is a great book to get hooked
on, because not many books take place in the mid sixteenth century,
none the less a fictitious suspense story. Each page gives out a
"sub-story" so the main setting seems to "pop-out" at
you! This story is about Mary Tudor, daughter of King Henry
VIII, who tells the story of her troubled childhood. Each page seems
to carry its own feeling because one page might make you laugh when the other
one might make you cry. This book is really recommended, even to
someone who really wants to know about the "medieval" times.
This story of a princess really got my attention, so I hope that you will
get into it too!
Reviewed by a local teen, entered 6-2002
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Mary of Plymouth by James
Otis
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Mary of Plymouth is about a girl living in
Plymouth. She endures many hardships. They meet Squanto and Samoset.
After they live in Plymouth other towns start coming. I highly recommend
this book because it explains a lot about how the Pilgrims lived and everything
that happens to them, good or bad.
Reviewed by a local teen, entered 7-2002
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Perfect Family by Jerrie
Oughton
Rating:and
a half
Setting- a small town in 1955- the kind of
place where rumors spread like wildfire. Main Character- Welcome Marie
O'Neal. This story is about a young woman's struggle with pregnancy at age
15. The book was good, the feelings were genuine. The ending
was not what you would expect, but it had a good plot and I enjoyed it.
Reviewed by local teen, entered
7-2002
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A Year Down Yonder by Richard
Peck
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A Year Down Yonder is about a girl of
fifteen who comes to live with her Grandmother, a senior with a rough
outrageous personality. The girl gets to spend school in a one room
schoolhouse, and no one except a scrawny humbly girl. She sleeps in
a bedroom which is below freezing, and only a few residents live in the
town, which includes a girl who tried to beat her up. Oh, yah,
the town's short of boys. But somehow she likes it better than Chicago.
Reviewed by Erin Middlemas, entered
6-2002
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Grace's Letter to Lincoln by
Petrand Connie Roop
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In this book Grace Bedell, a young
girl living during the time of slavery, wants so much to do something to
save slaves from slavery and to help Abraham Lincoln become President.
But, because she is so young she can't do anything. Then one day
Grace decides that Old Abe would look better with whiskers. Grace writes
Abe a letter saying that if he grew a beard that he might get more votes.
In return Grace receives a letter from Old Abe and he grows a beard. Grace feels
good about herself and learns that little kids can do big things too.
Reviewed by a local teen, entered
7-2002
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American Girls: Meet Kirsten
by Janet Shaw
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Meet Kirsten is about a Swedish 9 year old
girl who moves from Sweden to America. Along the way Kirsten gets lost in
the busy streets of New York, her best friend Marta dies, and she
must leave behind her rag doll Sari which she loves very much. Although
these hardships occurred she is relieved to finally see her Uncle Olav,
Aunt Inger, Cousin Lisbeth, and Cousin Anna who moved to America 6
years ago.
Reviewed by local teen, entered
8-2002
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