# Realistic Fiction books about history

**9** realistic fiction books that explore history, drawn from the US-school assigned-reading canon. Sourced from Common Core exemplars, AP, IB, Cambridge, and 50 state ELA curricula.

**Genre:** Realistic Fiction  ·  **Theme:** history
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**Primary source — Common Core ELA exemplars:** https://www.nysed.gov/sites/default/files/programs/standards-instruction/appendix-b-text-exemplars-and-sample-performance-tasks.pdf

## Realistic Fiction history reading list

- [Armageddon Summer](https://readinglist.school/book/armageddon-summer) by Jane Yolen _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1998)_
- [Boy at War](https://readinglist.school/book/boy-at-war) by Harry Mazer _(Grades 4–6 · pub 2001)_
- [Here Comes the Garbage Barge](https://readinglist.school/book/here-comes-the-garbage-barge) by Jonah Winter _(Grades 2–8 · pub 2010)_
- [Prisoner B-3087](https://readinglist.school/book/prisoner-b-3087) by Alan Gratz _(Grades 3–8 · pub 2013)_
- [The Butterfly](https://readinglist.school/book/the-butterfly) by Patricia Polacco _(Grades 3–6 · pub 1972)_
- [The Diary of Anne Frank](https://readinglist.school/book/the-diary-of-anne-frank) by Frances Goodrich _(Grades 6–8 · pub 1956)_
- [Ties That Bind, Ties That Break](https://readinglist.school/book/ties-that-bind-ties-that-break) by Lensey Namioka _(Grades 9–12 · pub 1999)_
- [Tucky Jo and Little Heart](https://readinglist.school/book/tucky-jo-and-little-heart) by Patricia Polacco _(Grades 3–5 · pub 2015)_
- [Worth](https://readinglist.school/book/worth) by A. LaFaye _(Grades 4–8 · pub 2004)_

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