Childrens Historical Fiction Books
Jefferson Cup Award
Quality childrens historical fiction books can be awarded the Jefferson Cup Award. Childrens historical fiction is a great way to learn about history painlessly!The Jefferson Cup Award focuses on books that are biographies, historical fiction, or American history. It has been awarded annually since 1983 by the Virginia Library Association's Children's and Young Adult Round Table. The award is designed to encourage reading about America's past, writing U.S. history, biography and historical fiction for young people. These tend to be for older readers. You can also find other great childrens historical fiction books that have received other book awards.
The Jefferson Cup Winners
2008 Birmingham, 1963 - by Carole Boston Weatherford. Told through the voice of a fictional eyewitness, the tragic events of the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963 by the Ku Klux Klan and its effects on the Civil Rights Movement is presented to middle readers through poetic verse and archival photographs.
2007Childrens historical fiction books winner Blood on the River: James Town, 1607 - by Elisa Carbone. Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like he imagined. The lush Virginia shore where they establish the colony of James Town is both beautiful and forbidding, and it's hard to know who's a friend or foe. As he learns the language of the Algonquian Indians and observes Captain Smith's wise diplomacy, Samuel begins to see that he can be whomever he wants to be in this new land.2006 Sweetgrass Basket by Marlene Carvell.
2005 A House of Tailors - by Patricia Reilly Giff. When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her uncle's family in Brooklyn, she turns her back on sewing. Never again! But looking for a job leads her right back to the sewing machine. Why did she ever leave home? Here she is, still with a needle and thread—and homesick to boot. 2004 Grape Thief - by Kristine Franklin.
2003 Mississippi Trial, 1955 - by Chris Crowe. At first Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer, and Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place." When Emmett's tortured dead body is found floating in a river, Hiram is determined to find out who could do such a thing. But what will it cost him to know? Mississippi Trial, 1955 is a gripping read, based on true events that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement.
2002 Childrens historical fiction books winner Storm Warriors - by Elisa Carbone. Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of the 19th century is far from quiet. The other island residents include the surfmen--the African American crew of the nearby U.S. Life-Saving Station--and soon Nathan is lending an extra hand to these men as they rescue sailors from sinking ships. Working and learning alongside the courageous surfmen, Nathan begins to dream of becoming one himself. But the reality of post-Civil War racism starts to show itself as he gradually realizes the futility of his dream. And then another dream begins to take shape, one that Nathan refuses to let anyone take from him.
2001 Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America by Jim Murphy. Childrens historical fiction books - In this riveting account of the Great Blizzard of 1888, Murphy blends fact, science, and testimonies of survivors and victims to tell the harrowing story of the blizzard that crippled New York City in March, 1888.
2000 Preacher's Boy - by Katherine Paterson. It's 1899 in a small town in Vermont, and the turn of the century is coming fast. According to certain members of the church where Robbie's father is the preacher, the end of the century might even mean the end of the world. But Robbie has more pressing worries. He's sure his father loves his simple-minded brother, Elliot, better than him, and he can no longer endure the tiresome restrictions of Christianity. He decides to leave the fold and become an "apeist" and, just in case the church whisperers are right, resolves to live life to the fullest. His high-spirited and often hot-headed behavior does nothing to improve his father's opinion of him, nor does it improve the congregation's flagging opinion of his father. Not until the consequences of his actions hurt others does Robbie put a stop to the snowballing chain of events he has set off and begin to realize his father might love him despite his wayward tendencies. Enjoy browsing through the Jefferson Cup Award books, great examples of childrens historical fiction books. You are sure to find a book that will be interesting to your child or grandchild.
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