HISTORICAL REALISTIC FICTION is a story that can actually happen and is true to life but also either takes place in a historical setting or attaches itself to an event in history.
•May be based upon dates, people, or events that really happened.
• Major historical event may be an essential.
• Accuracy of the historical detail is evident.
• May include author notes on research.
• Categories of historical fiction are based upon the time period or historical era.
• Characters and time periods are lifelike.
• Conflict allows children to compare the past with the present in order to better understand our world.
♦Lois Lowry ♦Joyce Hansen
♦Christopher Paul Curtis
♦Eugene Yelchin ♦Ruth White
♦Mary Ann Rodman ♦Nathan Hale
♦Rosemary Wells
♦Carolyn Meyer
♦Joan Wolf ♦Elizabeth Winthrop
♦Lea Wait ♦Jacqueline Woodson
Counting on Grace by 
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales by 
The Mighty Miss Malone by 
Inside Out and Back Again by 
Jimmy's Stars by 
Little Audrey by 
Dad, Jackie, and Me by 
Joining the Boston Tea Party by 
The Butterfly by 
⇒Go to library homepage http://library.uttyler.edu
⇒Scroll down and click on LIBRARY CATALOG
⇒Scroll down to the limit list and select the area you want to limit to: CML Easy Fiction (PreK-2nd grade), CML Juvenile Fiction (3rd -5th grade), CML Adolescent Fiction ( 6th-8th grade), CML Young Adult Fiction (9th-12th grade)
⇒Now select search.
⇒Write down the call number, title, and location (i.e. CML EZ, JUV, ADOL, YA or Dewey)