Here are some of our favorite historical fiction titles to earn your American History Badge for summer reading!
OverDrive
Offers ebooks and audiobooks to borrow with your library card number. Borrowing limit: any 10 titles at one time. Instructions
- Spy Runner | Eugene Yelchin | 4th-6th grade
- Stella by Starlight | Sharon M. Draper | 4th-6th grade
- Lions of Little Rock | Kristin Levine | 4th-6th grade
- Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare | 4th-6th grade
- Sarah Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan | 2nd-6th grade
Hoopla
Access to ebooks, audiobooks & more with your New Canaan Library card. Borrowing limit: 8 titles per month. Instructions
- Rodzina | Karen Cushman | 4th-6th grade
- Bull Run | Paul Fleishman | 4th-6th grade
- Give Me Liberty | L.M. Elliot | 4th-6th grade
- A Lion to Guard Us | Clyde Robert Bulla
- Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie | Connie Roop
- Midnight Without a Moon | Linda Williams Jackson | 4th-6th grade
- Dave at Night | Gail Carson Levine | 4th-6th grade
JE- For Beginning Readers
These historical fiction books are in our print collection. Place holds through the catalog by following the title links
- Billy and the Rebel | Deborah Hopkinson | K – 3rd grade
- Aaron and the Green Mountain Boys | Patricia Lee Gauch | K – 3rd grade
- Wagon Wheels | Barbara Brenner | K – 3rd grade
- Dinosaur Hunter | Elaine Alphin | K – 3rd grade
- George the Drummer Boy | Nathaniel Benchley | K – 3rd grade
JFiction- Chapter Books
These historical fiction books are in our print collection. Place holds through the catalog by following the title links
- Dear America Series | miscellaneous authors | 2nd-6th grade
- My Name is America | miscellaneous authors | 2nd-6th grade
- Totally True Adventures Series | miscellaneous authors | 2nd-6th grade
- Will at the Battle of Gettysburg | Laurie Calkhoven | 2nd-6th grade
- Daniel at the Siege of Boston | Laurie Calkhoven | 2nd-6th grade
- My Brother Sam is Dead | James Lincoln Collier | 4th-6th grade
- Out of the Dust | Karen Hesse | 4th-6th grade
- Fever 1793 | Laurie Halse Anderson | 4th-6th grade
- Seeds of Liberty Trilogy: Chains, Forge, Ashes | Laurie Halse Anderson | 4th-6th grade
- The Sixties Trilogy: Countdown, Revolution, Anthem | Deborah Wiles | 4th-6th grade
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and others | Mildred D. Taylor | 4th-6th grade
- Willow Run and others | Patricia Reilly Giff | 2nd-6th grade
