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Historical Fiction

• Characteristics– Good story– Accurate historical setting– Re-creation of the past: events occurred or

could have possibly occurred– Plot deals with themes: loyalty, revenge, love,

hate, good, evil, life, death, honorable causes– Characters portray the impact of the time

period on their lives– Often main character is a young person

involved in a cause related to that time period and faces challenges similar to those faced by young people today

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What to look for!

• Excellent research• Genuine historical information• An interesting story with an accurate

description of what it was like to live during that time period

• Authentic descriptions of clothing, food, transportation, customs, language, manners

• Reader should develop a sense of history

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Bud Not Buddy

• Newbery Award winning historical fiction

• Christopher Paul Curtis-also wrote The Watsons go to Birmingham

• Set at the height of the Great Depression

• 1930s

• Orphan searching for his father

• Rules for survival

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• Johnny Tremain -Esther Forbes– Setting Boston 1773-1775– Apprentice to silversmith-seriously injured– Becomes a heroic revolutionary– Paul Revere, John Adams, John Hancock

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The Challenges of Historical Fiction

• Reading Rockets

• http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/avi/

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Titles/Authors

• Number the Stars –Lois Lowry (Holocaust, WWII• Little House in the Big Woods- Laura Ingalls

Wilder (Pioneer Life)• A Family Apart -Joan Lowery Nixon (Orphan

Trains-Late 1800s)• Crispin: The Cross of Lead- Avi (Middle Ages)


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