Here’s a compilation of some of my favorites by subject. Since it’s often hard to find books that appeal to boys, an asterisk means the book would appeal to boys or has a male protagonist. If I have done a review of the book, you can click on the title to go to my review. Enjoy!
Historical Fiction
Shakespeare's Stealer by Gary Blackwood (Elizabethan England)*
Will Sparrow by Karen Cushman (Elizabethan England)*
Curiosity by Gary Blackwood (1835 America)*
May B by Caroline Starr Rose (a novel-in-verse about pioneer life)
The Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen (American Revolutionary War)
The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis (1901 Canada)*
Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse (Jewish Russian immigrant 1919)
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred Taylor (racism in 1930s South)
Stella by Starlight by Sharon Draper (racism in 1930s)
Odin's Promise by Sandy Brehl (Norway—Nazi occupation)
The Orphan and the Mouse by Martha Freeman (1940s)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis*Glory Be by Augusta Scattergood (1960s South)
Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine (1960s integration)
Books about Kids with Disabilities
Paperboy by Vince Vawter (stuttering)*
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (cerebral palsy)
My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt (main characters’ parents are “slow”)
All Four Stars by Tara Daimon
The Year of the Book by Andrea Cheng
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
Blue Like Friday by Siobhan Parkinson (Irish author)
Second Fiddle: Or How to Tell a Blackbird from a Sausage by Siobhan Parkinson (Irish author)
Wild Wings by Gill Lewis* (Scottish author)
Violet Raines Almost Got Struck by Lightening by Danette Haworth
The Secret Hum of a Daisy by Tracy Holzcer
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Mysteries
A Hitch at the Fairmont by Jim Averbeck*
Under the Egg by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile by Marcia Wells*
The Case of the Missing Moonstone (The Wollenstone Craft Detective Agency, Book 1) by Jordan Stratford
The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: The Interrupted Tale by Maryrose Wood (whole series)
A Whole Nother Story series by Cuthbert Soup*
The Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Fantasy and Fairy Tales
The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
My Very Unfairy Tale Life by Anna Staniszewski
The Castle Behind Thorns by Merrie Haskell
Maddie West and the Tongue Taker by Bryan Falkner
The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
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